Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon Author: Visit Amazon's Matt Fraction Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0785165622 | Format: PDF
Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon Description
- Series: Hawkeye (Book 1)
- Paperback: 136 pages
- Publisher: Marvel (March 19, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0785165622
- ISBN-13: 978-0785165620
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.6 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Read. This. Comic.
No really, buy this right now and read it. It's great.
You want to go to Disney World, put that on hold. This comic is better than that. (Disclaimer, this may or may not actually be better than Disney World, but, boy, is it great either way!)
This comic has Hawkeye. No, wait, this comic has TWO Hawkeyes, both of whom are equally amazing.
First off, this compilation is nice, quality is good, its bound nicely, and it contains issues 1-5 plus Young Avengers Presents #6. So that is nice.
Now, the art. It is simply gorgeous. It is smooth, the characters look realistic, both artists show some of the best expressions, the panel layout is amazing (there is one page with 22 small face shots and 2 larger shots of the characters), the coloring is a beautiful muted pallet with lots of purple, and the whole art just flows together.
Next up would be the writing. Every character is perfect. All of the characters we know and love are in character and plenty of side characters feel real.
Some of my personal favorite things. Kate Bishop. She is a strong female character who spends more time saving Clint than he spends helping her as Clint put is "Did I ever tell you why I love Kate Bishop? I mean, look at her. She's perfect." And she really is. This comic does a great job at showing how Clint is just a great guy, sure he may help save the whole world, but he's just as willing to put his life on the line for a couple of guy's reputation. He just a guy who can't help, but help people. He is a standout character of his own even if he's on the same team as Captain America and Thor.
If you are on the fence about this comic read the reviews- they don't lie. This comic just keeps getting better and better.
Bro, that's right: I'm Team Hawkguy, bro.
Matt Fraction and David Aja, who had previously teamed on the terribly underrated IMMORTAL IRON FIST, are once again collaborating to create magic again, and this time, they're taking the most underrated and under-appreciated Avenger that there ever was in its almost-five-decade existence: Clint Barton aka Hawkeye.
The basic premise that puncutates the beginning of each issue is that this is what Clint Barton does when he's not being a superhero. And while it may not be superheroic, it's much smarter and more entertaining than any other superhero comic from Marvel that's out right now. One of the myriad of things that makes the book work as well as it does is that we are given really our first glimpse into the private life of Clint Barton, and see him as the regular Joe of the extremely powerful Marvel heroes. You can probably count on one hand the number of heroes in the Marvel world that don't have some kind of superpower, or supertechnology. Just look at his fellow Avengers: One's a super-soldier and a living legend, another's a God from another world, one's a brilliant billionaire and engineer, another one's a brilliant scientist that turns into the most powerful being on the planet, another is a deadly master assassin whose been active throughout the decades via mind control... well, you get the idea. And then there's Barton; a former carnival performer, who very briefly led a life of crime, and then became an Avenger. He's not the master assassin that THE AVENGERS film would have you believe, but he's certainly no slouch with his bow and arrow. When he was briefly dead (don't ask; it's complicated), a smart, beautiful and privledged young woman named Kate Bishop took up his moniker as one of the Young Avengers.
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