Jonathan Lau

I have to admit I approached this comic rather cautiously. I truly enjoy Hitman games but it is rather difficult to make comic about a professional hitman who during all of the games maybe uttered full 4 pages of text.

But I have to admit it thry truly managed to write the origin story for both 47 and his to-be handler Diana. We follow them from their teens to the time where their paths cross and they start to work for notorious ICA.

We follow them as they fight their inner daemons and tragedies and finally emerge as a cold-blooded assassin (47) and highly manipulative controller (Diana). They are both people that suffered a lot at hands of others and finally found freedom of sorts.

Art is good, sometimes proportions seem to be slightly off but in general art is very clear with both wide-shots and action scenes.

Recommended to fans of thriller and espionage stories.… (mer)

An entertaining read with a nice campy pulp feel to it. Readers who may have liked things like the 60's Batman TV show, or The Green Hornet of that era, may enjoy this as well. It keeps that campy feel with some modern sensitivity. This is a comic where the children of the heroes take over the mantles of their parents, and they do so pretty well. The Black Hornet takes on the role of the megalomaniacal villain pretty well. Ok, so the typewriter thing is a bit cheesy, but that is part of the charm. Overall, an amusing comic. It probably would have made a better movie than the recent pap that was recently in theaters.… (mer)