Reviews - Hawkeye: The Saga of Barton and Bishop

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Hawkeye: The Saga of Barton and Bishop

Matt Fraction and David Aja work together seamlessly to create this utterly unique Marvel Comics experience. It feels like an indie book, but it isn’t. It follows Clint Barton and Kate Bishop as Clint defends his apartment building from Russian Gangsters and Kate becomes a private eye. This almost slice of life superheroics gives the book a unique tone that wasn’t in mainstream comics at the time. It really paved the way for books like King’s Mister Miracle. The book also features two well executed experimental issues. One told entirely through ASL and the other being told entirely through a dog’s perspective.The art in this book by David Aja is some of the most impressive art I’ve seen in a comic(Might be my personal favorite). Aja’s storytelling, paneling and line work is top notch. The coloring from Matt Hollingsworth on Aja’s pencils is also very impressive. Each issue has a rigid color scheme that compliments the tone of the book perfectly. If any book is a modern classic, it’s Hawkeye.

samanthaa_32's review against another edition

2.0

I feel like the only person who just didn’t enjoy this as much as much as I thought I would. The art and the dog were great, but I just wasn’t too invested in the story.

lcush98's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

diyashasen's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mschlat's review against another edition

4.0

[Re-read while watching the Hawkeye TV series to see how much it used the Fraction run.]

This is an amazing series, although at times quite disjoint. Fraction, perhaps due to Aja's lack of speed as an illustrator, is telling two stories: Clint Barton's (with Aja) and Kate Bishop's (with Annie Wu and Javier Pulido). So you have two Hawkeyes with stories sometimes overlapping (and famously issues printed out of order due to Aja's slowness). Add to this Fraction's love of non-linear storytelling (you can see this series as a precursor to the November series), and you get a challenging read.

But it's very, very worth it. Great characterization (Fraction gets the Clint-as-just-barely-loveable-loser appeal) and fun action scenes.