writerlibrarian's review
3.0
This is not Fraction's Hawkeye but it's a good one. McCann's wrote a believable story around the consequences of the end of the Hawkeye and Mockingbird arc.
I like Hawkeye solo better than the duo with Mockingbird.
I like Hawkeye solo better than the duo with Mockingbird.
discocrow's review
4.0
Such a solid story.
Blindspot, like [b: Old Man Hawkeye|37903946|Old Man Hawkeye #1|Ethan Sacks|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1515595931l/37903946._SY75_.jpg|59609574], sees the unthinkable happening to Clint Barton. He's going blind. Unlike in Old Man Hawkeye, however, the problem is in his occipital lobe itself. Distances, noises, and hallucinations abound and soon enough Clint begins to realize that what's going on in his life is as scattered and strange as his sense of sight now is. People from his past are returning, and some of them have long been presumed dead.
This is a valuable volume for any Hawkeye fan. While he isn't as endearing as he is in Fraction's run of the character, he's certainly more true to how he's generally written.. in all of the maddening ways that implies. He's a less mature Hawkeye, more hotheaded, still running off on his own. Honestly, his interactions with Captain America alone make this book worth reading.
And, well, there's Barney...
The second story in this volume is a reprint of a classic era comic that sees Hawkeye versus Batroc the leaper. Hilarious? Oh, you bet. It's a fun little read though, and it certainly drives home the necessity of trick arrows in every quiver.
Blindspot, like [b: Old Man Hawkeye|37903946|Old Man Hawkeye #1|Ethan Sacks|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1515595931l/37903946._SY75_.jpg|59609574], sees the unthinkable happening to Clint Barton. He's going blind. Unlike in Old Man Hawkeye, however, the problem is in his occipital lobe itself. Distances, noises, and hallucinations abound and soon enough Clint begins to realize that what's going on in his life is as scattered and strange as his sense of sight now is. People from his past are returning, and some of them have long been presumed dead.
This is a valuable volume for any Hawkeye fan. While he isn't as endearing as he is in Fraction's run of the character, he's certainly more true to how he's generally written.. in all of the maddening ways that implies. He's a less mature Hawkeye, more hotheaded, still running off on his own. Honestly, his interactions with Captain America alone make this book worth reading.
And, well, there's Barney...
The second story in this volume is a reprint of a classic era comic that sees Hawkeye versus Batroc the leaper. Hilarious? Oh, you bet. It's a fun little read though, and it certainly drives home the necessity of trick arrows in every quiver.
yurana's review
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.
glitch's review
5.0
flashbacks!! not as exciting as the Fraction arc (let's be real -- what could be?) but still very solid.
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