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A review by octavia_cade
Hawkeye #4 by Julian Tedesco, Leonardo Romero, Kelly Thompson
3.0
Okay, #4 is where this series starts to lose me. Not enough to drop down to 2 stars - this is still a basically likeable read - but there are elements in it I don't much care for. For one, the antagonist goes from genuinely creepy to honestly kind of stupid. I pretty much lost all interest in him before his sticky end arrived, and the way Kate reduced him in size was just a little bit twee. Secondly, before said sticky end, there was a part where that antagonist, during a police interview, said something to Kate that clearly played into her back story (of which, again, I know nothing).
Part of what stops me from getting into a lot of superhero comics is I always feel there's this giant wedge of back story I'm somehow expected to assimilate. That puts me off a bit, and I was honestly happy going along here, knowing nothing else about Kate Bishop but clearly such is not going to continue. I can't blame Thompson for that - she's obviously working in a wider universe - so the mild disappointment is mine to manage, but still. And to top it all off, that back story would involve Daddy issues, which is possibly the most common and least interesting back story trope ever devised. Honestly, there should be a moratorium.
Part of what stops me from getting into a lot of superhero comics is I always feel there's this giant wedge of back story I'm somehow expected to assimilate. That puts me off a bit, and I was honestly happy going along here, knowing nothing else about Kate Bishop but clearly such is not going to continue. I can't blame Thompson for that - she's obviously working in a wider universe - so the mild disappointment is mine to manage, but still. And to top it all off, that back story would involve Daddy issues, which is possibly the most common and least interesting back story trope ever devised. Honestly, there should be a moratorium.