Reviews

Avengers: Solo by Roger Robinson, Jen Van Meter, Jim McCann

taleisin's review against another edition

3.0

A solid Hawkeye adventure.

witchofthemountains's review against another edition

2.0

I might be a little spoiled by Matt Fraction's Hawkeye, but I found Van Meter's Hawkeye to be flat and overly aggressive. He didn't seem to sit well with the other iterations of Hawkeye that I knew and at times seemed to try and be both the smart-ass who can out-snark Iron Man as well as the angry soldier. It was not a well-wrought combination and left me feeling like the writer didn't really know Hawkeye at all and was, instead, trying to blend together Captain America and Tony Stark.

I might come back to this after I finish Fraction's run, but I don't think Van Meter's Hawkeye will ever really be for me.

rogue_runner's review against another edition

1.0

Really not a good book. Messy plot, art wasn't as nice as normal (and changed every double page spread, at some parts), side-story didn't relate... just a whole mess that needed a lot more finesse.

bookdragon_jess's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

rach's review

2.0

I've been loving Matt Fraction's Hawkeye, so I thought I'd read up on some classic Hawkeye. Unfortunately, this "solo" collection was intermixed with an Avengers Academy storyline that had nothing to do with Hawkeye. The Hawkeye storyline itself wasn't that interesting, and had Hawkeye agreeing to keep secrets from the other Avengers, which just made me sad.

All in all, I'd rather stick to Fraction's version.

writerlibrarian's review

3.0

This is a dual adventures offer. In the first one we have Hawkeye doing his solo thing, investigating a rogue super soldier serum outfit and the second, a Young Avengers story is inserted in between every chapter of the Hawkeye story. Which was kinda of annoying.

The Hawkeye story is a good one, the Young Avengers, not so much since I have no idea how they are, etc.