Review by C.J. Bunce
Matt Fraction and David Aja’s new Hawkeye series is one of the best Green Arrow stories I’ve read in a good while. It’s a strange thing, as I had no idea these guys could be interchangeable. Sure, they both use bow and arrow as their chief weapon. Green Arrow has been around since the 1930s and Hawkeye the 1960s so I must admit I looked at Hawkeye as a Green Arrow knockoff, nothing more. After his supporting role as a good guy converted to bad in this year’s Avengers movie I figured I’d relegate him to the hundreds of other characters that don’t make it to my reading pile. I was pretty underwhelmed despite some nice trick arrow moves in that film. So I had no intention of checking out the Marvel Comics new Hawkeye solo series. But a very Cliff Chiang-inspired set of covers to Issues #1 and #2 this week at the local comic hangout caused me to look closer, and Matt Fraction’s name caused me to flip through Issue #1.
