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A review by yurana
Hawkeye: Blindspot by Jim McCann, Paco Diaz Luque
1.0
Hawkeye goes blind because he got a blow to the head and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Seriously? Seriously!
I have several big problems with this, so let's make a list!
1. In a universe where heroes endure unbelievable amounts of physical trauma, I just don't buy this. It's not a problem for me that even those heroes without super strength and endurance usually walk away from things that should kill them or at least confine them to a hospital bed for months, that's just how comics work. But when you suddenly introduce real world consequences it becomes rather jarring.
2. No one can help him? Hawkeye is buddies with Dr. Strange, Reed Richards and Hank Pym and he doesn't even ask any of them for help? He was brought back from the dead by magic not so long a ago, so I just don't believe that nothing can be done.
3. You somehow cure this by stem cell transplant? WHAT? My knowledge about medicine is fairly limited, but I'm sure that's not how that works. Any kind of magic phlebtonium / technobabble explanation would have been better.
4. And worst of all: the story isn't even about his going blind. That's entirely incidental. It's actually about some half baked revenge plot that is so by the numbers and boring I don't even care anymore. Even the blow that started the whole going blind thing happens in another book.
Add to all this bad writing and bad art, where every character has the same face and and characters are randomly changing positions in the room they're in from panel to panel (especially bad in a story about a character who has just lost sight and relies on memories of people's positions in said room to fight them).
All this makes for a very disappointing book about one of my favorite Avengers.
I have several big problems with this, so let's make a list!
1. In a universe where heroes endure unbelievable amounts of physical trauma, I just don't buy this. It's not a problem for me that even those heroes without super strength and endurance usually walk away from things that should kill them or at least confine them to a hospital bed for months, that's just how comics work. But when you suddenly introduce real world consequences it becomes rather jarring.
2. No one can help him? Hawkeye is buddies with Dr. Strange, Reed Richards and Hank Pym and he doesn't even ask any of them for help? He was brought back from the dead by magic not so long a ago, so I just don't believe that nothing can be done.
3. You somehow cure this by stem cell transplant? WHAT? My knowledge about medicine is fairly limited, but I'm sure that's not how that works. Any kind of magic phlebtonium / technobabble explanation would have been better.
4. And worst of all: the story isn't even about his going blind. That's entirely incidental. It's actually about some half baked revenge plot that is so by the numbers and boring I don't even care anymore. Even the blow that started the whole going blind thing happens in another book.
Add to all this bad writing and bad art, where every character has the same face and and characters are randomly changing positions in the room they're in from panel to panel (especially bad in a story about a character who has just lost sight and relies on memories of people's positions in said room to fight them).
All this makes for a very disappointing book about one of my favorite Avengers.