Hawkeye: Little Hits, Vol. 2 Author: Visit Amazon's Matt Fraction Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0785165630 | Format: EPUB
Hawkeye: Little Hits, Vol. 2 Description
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In one of the most critically acclaimed series of 2012, Fraction and Aja continue their success in this wisecracking, minimalistic, and surprisingly emotional collection. Chronicling what Clint Barton (aka Hawkeye) does when he’s not saving the world as an Avenger, Fraction and Aja follow the titular character as he mentors the female Hawkeye, Kate Bishop; bails out New York during Hurricane Sandy; and loses a close friend in what is one of the saddest nonsuperhero comic-book deaths of the year. Fraction’s writing is superb, but it’s Eisner-winning Aja’s wildly creative page layouts that have matured into something truly unique and demanding of critical attention. A favorite on many pull lists, Hawkeye has everything you want in a trade paperback, but the real star is a bright, evocative, and stupidly funny silent issue featuring none other than Clint’s best friend, Pizza Dog, in “Pizza Is My Business.” Draw a couple bucks out of your quiver, sit back, and enjoy the show. --Ben Spanner
- Paperback: 136 pages
- Publisher: Marvel; First Edition edition (July 30, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0785165630
- ISBN-13: 978-0785165637
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.5 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
If you would have told me Hawkeye having his own solo series and being one of the best comics out on the stands before writer Matt Fraction took over, I think myself and most people would have thought of that as a joke. No offense to Hawkeye because I've always liked the character, but he's never been one to do well on a solo series. But after given this series new spin on Clint Barton, I was blown away at how fun, different, and unique Hawkeye is from most of the competition. And judging from the rest of the comic world, I think readers felt the same way.
Now that the whole comic world knows about Matt Fractions Hawkeye gaining critical success and sales (and I'm sure so has Marvel), it appears the series has even more freedom and experimentation about it then ever before. But does that it mean it has lost it's charm and become overblown from volume 1? Thankfully, no, because volume 2 of Hawk"guy" and his companion Hawk"eye" Kate Bishop is still a must read book.
HAWKEYE VOL.2: LITTLE HITS collects issues #6-11 and continues the life and story of Clint Barton during his down time/off hours from working with the Avengers. After having saved a fellow building attendant during the real life event of Hurricane Sandy, all of the trouble Clint got into from volume 1 is finally catching up to him. The tracksuit Russian mob wants vengeance from Clint driving away from their business, the mysterious red head comes back to Clint for a favor, and all of New York's mob bosses and super villains hire a killer clown to take out Clint--permanently. Oh, and every women Clint's ever been involved with hates his guts, including Kate. Yeah, this looks bad...
Fraction continues to make a stellar offbeat, crazy, and yet emotional comic unlike anything on the market.
Hawkeye is an amazing comic, pure and simple. It might be THE Marvel comic to be reading at the moment over other current greats like Mark Waid's Daredevil, Jason Aaron's Wolverine and the X-Men, and Brian Michael Bendis' All-New X-Men. And it's about Hawkeye of all characters - Hawkeye!
Well, it's about 2 Hawkeyes actually, Clint Barton and Kate Bishop. Both are kinda human car crashes. Clint can't seem to get his life together, has all sortsa women troubles (including his protégé, Kate), as well as self-confidence issues, while Kate is a headstrong young woman trying to find her own identity despite also being called Hawkeye and wielding a bow and arrows in her team the Young Avengers. And it's also about Pizza Dog aka Lucky - but more on him later.
The structure of the series is episodic so nearly every issue is self-contained like a sitcom and might be why the book is called Little Hits. However things happen towards the end of this book that splits the story from New York to California, and one of the new characters gets iced by a clown killer, so longer plot threads do emerge and take shape. Also - and this is to the comics' credit - the stories tend to have very little resembling usual Marvel superhero comics.
Issue #7 for example is set during Hurricane Sandy, the natural disaster that laid waste to America's East Coast last year, as Hawkeye helps his buddy Grills out at his elderly father's place in Queens, preparing for the flood. Meanwhile Kate does the only real superhero-ing by setting out in the midst of the storm to get medicine from a nearby pharmacy only to see it being looted.
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