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A review by rakoerose
Hawkeye, Volume 4: Rio Bravo by Matt Fraction
5.0
Something about this volume, this volume specifically just hit different. I loved it so much.
Whatever happens to me tonight? However bad it gets?
I had it comin’.
I attribute my deep enjoyment of this volume to two main things:
The first is seeing a huge portion of Clint’s backstory and also his brother coming into this picture. I adore sibling dynamics and they both are messy, complicated, and funny human beings. Barney is one I hope we get to see a bit more of in the coming volumes - and I’m glad he gets something nice out of all this ugly.
The second has to be the representation of deafness and Deaf culture. The frames of Clint struggling to hear put in text form? That’s genuinely what it feels like (speaking from my own hard of hearing perspective). Confusion and trying to lip read and still needing to guess at words with context. It’s draining and difficult and tiring, which you can see in Clint’s demeanor. The signing drawings are so well made and I actually understood them with my very rudimentary vocabulary. It’s all so elegantly portrayed on the page and ugh. It is very clear that they put a lot of time and effort here and I appreciated it immensely.
Also now he’s in the aids and I... there’s something about seeing characters like you, there really is.
Whatever happens to me tonight? However bad it gets?
I had it comin’.
I attribute my deep enjoyment of this volume to two main things:
The first is seeing a huge portion of Clint’s backstory and also his brother coming into this picture. I adore sibling dynamics and they both are messy, complicated, and funny human beings. Barney is one I hope we get to see a bit more of in the coming volumes - and I’m glad he gets something nice out of all this ugly.
The second has to be the representation of deafness and Deaf culture. The frames of Clint struggling to hear put in text form? That’s genuinely what it feels like (speaking from my own hard of hearing perspective). Confusion and trying to lip read and still needing to guess at words with context. It’s draining and difficult and tiring, which you can see in Clint’s demeanor. The signing drawings are so well made and I actually understood them with my very rudimentary vocabulary. It’s all so elegantly portrayed on the page and ugh. It is very clear that they put a lot of time and effort here and I appreciated it immensely.
Also now he’s in the aids and I... there’s something about seeing characters like you, there really is.