Saturday, January 31, 2015

Hawkeye by Matt Fraction

Matt Fraction and David Aja continue their critically acclaimed series from 2012 in this New volume of Hawkeye. Matt Fraction showcases his inventive and simplistic writing that allows new readers to pick up and enjoy this book regardless of the previous continuity. David Aja makes his minimalistic art stand out and enhance the story. Each issue collected in the volume has a unique episode system where the reader gets to float through the story in increments that are days. The story begins out from the Christmas eve where Clint Barton aka Hawkeye helps his friend Grills move out from his fathers place. This is also the time when hurricane Sandy stroke the US. The hurricane is featured in the story causing troubles for Clint and Kate Bishop aka Hawkgirl. Besides struggling with the hurricane and helping out his friend Grills, Clint has issues concerning his DVR and asks Tony Starks assistance who then insists Clint to take a brief break from his ongoing vigilante missions that he tasks himself with when he is not being an avenger. Alongside his problems with getting his life together, Clint also comes across the mysterious girl named Cherry he met in the previous issues which then causes him to cross the Russian tracksuit mafia, for real this time. After wronging the Russians, the mafia combine forces with other underworld organizations including Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin. The combined organizations decide to kill Clint Barton and start planning while a new villain named the Clown Killer makes an appearance. The final chapter of the volume is a very interesting creation being from the point of view of pizza dog which is a creative method that engages the readers even more in this already compelling story.

Yasin Mergen

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