Three more #1's folks! This week has been choc-full of new-comic goodness and we've got some doozies here for you today! The hotly anticipated Hawkeye and First X-Men as well as IDW's new offering. Enjoy!
- Always-helpful Akshay
Hawkeye #1
(Marvel)
Story : Matt Fraction
Art : David Aja (linework), Matt
Holingsworth (colors)
(Reviewed by Anubhav Dasgupta)
Marvel is winning.
I can’t believe I typed that. I’m a
harcore DC guy and I typed “Marvel is winning.”
Now, I don’t know a lot about Hawkeye
beyond what I’ve read since the Heroic Age. I wasn’t really a fan
until I read last year’s Hawkeye & Mockingbird by
Jim McCann, which was amazing fun. But this one… it’s
textbook. It’s brilliant. It’s so good that it makes making
brilliant comics look easy.
This comic doesn’t have any epic
fights between super-powered heroes or alien invasions or another
stupid plot involving the Phoenix, rather it’s a human story. It’s
what happens when Hawkeye isn’t 'Avengering'. It’s what Clint
Barton does when he isn’t hanging around with Tony Stark or Steve
Rogers.
