A review by thecommonswings
Hawkeye: Avenging Archer by Manuel García, Jim McCann, Paco Diaz Luque, Duane Swierczynski, David López

4.0

Because Hawkeye and Mockingbird are two of the few Marvel heroes to not actually have super powers, this steers closer to the spy caper end of Marvel (albeit one brushing up against undead ghost cowboys and the like). As such it’s good campy fun, but never feels remotely revelatory like the Matt Fraction stories which manage to find untold new stories to tell through grounded reality and adventurous story telling. The art is very variable too, which is horrifying when you consider the sheer wealth of artists who Marvel could employ. There’s a particularly egregious issue of the arc involving Black Widow and her ex husband where none of the anatomy works and the artist’s desire to draw the heroines in increasingly impossible
buxom poses become more and more redolent of Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant strips