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Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon av Matt Fraction

Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon collects Hawkeye (2012) #1-5 and Young Avengers Presents (2008) #6.

In this volume, Hawkeye deals with a rent increase, steals from thieves who steal from thieves, and has to do some work to get an incriminating tape back. There's also a flashback to Kate Bishop as Hawkeye trying to prove herself to the real Hawkeye.

I used to read a lot of Mavel and DC comics, but that was decades ago. I haven't even been keeping up with the Marvel movies very well. I don't think I've ever read or watched anything with Kate Bishop in it. Basically, I'm probably not the best person to be reviewing this. That said, I think I picked this up because I read somewhere that that Matt Fraction's writing was good and that this was a decent starting place for Hawkeye comics newbies mostly familiar with the Marvel movie universe.

I enjoyed the volume's flashes of humor, and I particularly liked David Aja's artwork. I felt a bit lost in terms of the timeline (the volume's events were shuffled some and I didn't immediately realize this), character relationships, and situation. There was no context/explanation given for the period of time that Kate apparently spent pretending to be Hawkeye. And who was Eli?

Hawkeye spent a good chunk of this volume getting beaten up as he reminded readers that he has no superpowers, just skill (and some trick arrows). Still, he managed to get himself back up and functional pretty well considering some of what he went through. I appreciated the bit about the dog he desperately tried to save after it helped him.

The front and back covers include a guide telling readers which volumes to read after this one. I don't feel particularly compelled to continue on, but I appreciate the existence of the guide all the same.

(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)… (mer)

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Familiar_Diversions | 64 andra recensioner | Mar 3, 2024 |

Hawkeye av Matt Fraction

Highly-recommended mainstream comics always end up being underwhelming for me. This was readable, which is better than most superhero comics (boring as fuuuuck; somehow both fractally complicated and also you can't get too invested in any of the details because they get trashed the instant an author gets bored), but nothing fascinating and definitely not worth the hype.

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caedocyon | 64 andra recensioner | Feb 23, 2024 |

Excalibur Visionaries: Alan Davis - Volume 2 av Alan Davis

Un volume un peu disparate, alternant des épisodes dans la lignée des précédentes folies dans le multivers et ses personnages truculents, et d'autres vraiment dispensables alignant une galerie d'artistes invités pour des histoires ultra-courtes. Cela manque cruellement d'unité. Les épisodes #55 et 56, dramatiques et enlevés, sont de loin les plus intéressants, mais le cross-over final avec les X-Men ajoute quelques petites pépites de dialogues.

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Arpenteur | Feb 18, 2024 |

D. R. and Quinch's Totally Awesome Guide to Life av Alan Moore

It should be noted that Moore's work here was heavily "inspired" by Ted Mann and Tod Carroll's "O.C. and Stiggs" pieces in National Lampoon (particularly the longform The Utterly Monstrous, Mind-Roasting Summer of O.C. and Stiggs, which took over the magazine's October 1982 issue). "D.R. and Quinch" handles the material better than Robert Altman's (!!) O.C. and Stiggs movie adaptation, but the original NatLamp source material outclasses it all.

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LazloNibble | 3 andra recensioner | Feb 5, 2024 |

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