Sensory Diegetic Images in Daredevil Issue #1

I have chosen to do my blog post on the first issue of Zip Zdarsky's  Daredevil. One of the important facts about Daredevil is that he is blind. Since readers of a comic assume that they are viewing the images as if they are in the main character's point of view, it is interesting how we process that we are seeing what the main character cannot. On this post I am going to relate this to Randy Duncan and Matthew Smith's theory on sensory diegetic images.

In this example, the character Matt Murdock is narrating about his radar sense. The third panel on the page, the color pallet changes to red and blacks with the exception of his hand. This is showing us that we are now being brought into the perspective of our main character as we get a visual on what the narration is referencing. The comic is using sensory diegetic images to show the senses of the character, (Duncan & Smith, 155). To be specific, this is known as non-visual sensory since the reader is getting information on what the character hears and feels rather than what he sees. (Duncan & Smith, 155).

Another example appears later in the comic as Daredevil is intervening a robbery. Here we see both visual and non-visual sensory diegetic images. The visual being the movement of Daredevil from the top panel to the bottom panel implying that he has descended from the original position he was in on the first panel. The non-visual being the radar images coming from his head implying that he hears a gun about to fire.

There are plenty of these moments through issue #1, these were just some that I found interesting.