Jesse Hamm (–2021)

I am veryyyy close to giving this volume and the first volume 5 stars because they're incredibly well done and I love the characters! (The main one, anyways) Clint and Kate make such a fantastic duo and reading their adventures is a blast. I thought moments of the narrative were kind of fractured, however; for instance, we never get to get a final answer on what was up with Cherry and that safe, and the clown dude story is also left hanging? But other than that stuff, everything from the dialogue, the artwork, the panels- all SO GOOD. I think the minimalistic style and color schemes are especially notable in these issues and really emphasize the story well. And lastly, that issue with Lucky was refreshingly nice, although slightly heartwrenching at the end.
Can't wait to keep reading!… (mer)

I'm so on the cuff with my grade there. It's leaps and bound better than Vol. 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. I think it might have a hardcore 4.5, or even 4.8.

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 love that Fraction has started playing around with timelines and appearances, giving himself a little more slack to be amazing with timelines and approaches.

I loved the comic book covers tribute. 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 how much Kate know Clint and won't let him pull his normal crap.

I love, love, love the Pizza Dog issue this ends on. 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'm hoping in the next trade we'll revisit Kate and Clint's conversation, the way the Villain-Hero double play issue rolled out. 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.… (mer)