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A review by tshepiso
Hawkeye, Volume 5: All-New Hawkeye by Ramón Pérez, Ian Herring, Joe Sabino, Jeff Lemire
4.5
4.5 stars
I'll admit I've been hesitant to read Jeff Lemire's All-New Hawkeye. Matt Fraction's Hawkeye run is one of my absolute favourite comics and I feared comparison becoming a thief of joy for this story. Luckily for me, Lemire's storytelling is just as good at capturing what I love about these characters as Fraction's.
The plot is simple but effective. In it we see Kate and Clint rescue children experimented on by Hydra. The familiar Hawkeye and Hawkeye dynamic is captured perfectly. The action is kinetic and fast-paced as always and that classic Hawkeye wry humour is present and accounted for.
The jewel of this comic is the way Lemire with artist Ramón Pérez integrates flashbacks with the narrative. Perez's watercolour illustrations are used to represent Clint's childhood and that stylistic choice was brilliant. It captured the hazy nostalgia of memory beautifully but also conveyed violence starkly. I adored how the flashbacks were contrasted on-page with the present timeline with panels often going back and forth between past and present brilliantly.
For anyone as hesitant as I was to read Hawkeye under a new writer-artist team be assured Jeff Lemire and Ramón Pérez's work is just as good as their predecessors.
I'll admit I've been hesitant to read Jeff Lemire's All-New Hawkeye. Matt Fraction's Hawkeye run is one of my absolute favourite comics and I feared comparison becoming a thief of joy for this story. Luckily for me, Lemire's storytelling is just as good at capturing what I love about these characters as Fraction's.
The plot is simple but effective. In it we see Kate and Clint rescue children experimented on by Hydra. The familiar Hawkeye and Hawkeye dynamic is captured perfectly. The action is kinetic and fast-paced as always and that classic Hawkeye wry humour is present and accounted for.
The jewel of this comic is the way Lemire with artist Ramón Pérez integrates flashbacks with the narrative. Perez's watercolour illustrations are used to represent Clint's childhood and that stylistic choice was brilliant. It captured the hazy nostalgia of memory beautifully but also conveyed violence starkly. I adored how the flashbacks were contrasted on-page with the present timeline with panels often going back and forth between past and present brilliantly.
For anyone as hesitant as I was to read Hawkeye under a new writer-artist team be assured Jeff Lemire and Ramón Pérez's work is just as good as their predecessors.