At its centre lies the plight of a battered mongrel which Barton fed pizza to in order to win the dog over. It dashes frantically, nay recklessly, backwards and forwards in time with little-to-no hand-holding, as Clint watches yet another badly laid plan precipitate a cycle of ill-aimed, flailing thuggery.

Its a first-person narrative with a grin-inducing degree of critical, objective detachment.

So when those who have taken him in the neighbours he shares communal barbeques with on hot summer nights on the roof of their tenement building fall under threat of mass eviction, Clint cant help but act on impulse, and you just know its going to go horribly, horribly wrong. But for all his sins, this totally blonde bowman and relative outsider has a heart of gold and a social conscience to boot. The man with the hair-trigger temper and mouth to match has a long history of knee-jerk reactions. Before Clints sex-drive got him into the coolest comic car chase I can recall, complete with some old trick arrows he really should have found time to label before dipping his wick.īy his own admission Clint Barton can be more than a little juvenile. Heres some of what I wrote of the first issue before the spying, the lying and the videotapes arrived. Think I have quite enough of your baggage already, thanks. Tell you what, if I die, you can have the case.

Thank goodness for Kate Bishop, then the younger, female Hawkeye whos smarter, sassier and infinitely more savvy, so pulling Clints occasionally naked ass out of the fire The one quoted above then proceeds to count down through each of Clints increasingly idiotic ideas until hes left in a mess worthy of Oliver Hardy. At least three of these stories kick off in the middle, at the height of yet another monumental disaster. Heres a Daily Bugle headline instead:įractions timing is immaculate. In one instance a newspaper clipping smuggles in the creator credits in another the only mask in this entire series so far makes for a belly-laugh moment you may have heard whisper of. Theres a charming use of flesh and purple tones, and a thrilling deployment of stark black and white with plenty of wide-open space. Partly because its not even a superhero book its a comedy of manners - but mostly its Ajas design, and this is all four volumes in one. Every idea you have is terrible.Ĭomedy crime with an eye for design so sharp that this is the only superhero book we have ever allowed in our window or made ComicbookOf The Month. ∻ut believe it or not, its only the third most-terrible idea Ive had today and today I have had exactly nine terrible ideas.

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