Unlike a lot of the Marvel lineup, where the art tends to be pretty typical of comics (big-breasted damsels/heroines, chisel-jawed heroes, far too much spandex, and an overwrought colour palette), Hawkeye goes in totally the opposite direction with its simple lines, drastically reduced colour range, and minimalist colour design - which I thought I was just imagining, but they actually admitted that they did this on purpose in the added content for this book. As per usual, Hawkeye is busy defending his neighbourhood pals from the Russian mob, and it looks like the beat down he gave them isn't really sticking so this is clearly going to be one of the major story arcs for the series.īesides the high octane plot, what I enjoy most about this series is its drastically different design aesthetic. ( )Īw man, why did that wretched red-head who got Clint into so much trouble have to come back? She's clearly not as helpless as she passes herself off to be, since she held her own against Clint's super-spy friend (not sure if this is supposed to be Black Window, but it could very well be considering that the style of illustration for this series is radically different than any of the other Marvel comics) and seems to have terrible timing for coming back into Clint's life. I'm definitely on board, and I've totally taken off the whole part where I think about this as a superhero title under that title and expectation. I'm hoping in the next trade we'll revisit Kate and Clint's conversation, the way the Villain-Hero double play issue rolled out. That was genius and interesting, and gave us so much more information about the tenants of the building than we'd ever seen before.
I love, love, love the Pizza Dog issue this ends on. I love how much Kate know Clint and won't let him pull his normal crap. I loved the way the second to last issue went back at step and brought us to the villain in the end of the issue, matching the one before it where we saw how Clint got to that moment. I love that Fraction has started playing around with timelines and appearances, giving himself a little more slack to be amazing with timelines and approaches. This one definitely takes you off with a bang, and I'm utterly in love with all the interaction of Kate & Clint and Clint & Natasha & Ex-Wife & Jessica. I think it might have a hardcore 4.5, or even 4.8.
1, that I rated a deserved 4, but this isn't quite up there with the most stellar things every written, drawn and plotted in the comics universe.
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