Hit-Girl #6 Review: Cold Fever Dreams

Writer: Jeff Lemire / Artist: Eduardo Risso  / Image “We’re hunting a twelve-year old girl in a mask.” The Great White North is no place for a trash-talking tween from New York City…or is it? The second issue of the second arc in Millarworld’s “Hit-Girl” revival is one part hypothermic fever dream and two parts Fargo meets Punisher. When a old hermit living in the woods helps Mindy after she is caught in a bear trap, the tween vigilante must silence her own violent ego in order protect them both from the retaliation of her killed target’s father.

Northern Exposure What was supposed to be an easy trip up North to whack a drug dealer named Baker turned into a trap…literally.  After Mindy takes her out her target, she accidentally steps into a bear trap hidden in the snow. Clearly out of her element, Mindy is almost eaten by the very bear for whom the trap was intended.  She is saved in the last moment by a haggard hermit hunter. Equal parts stubborn and self-assured, Mindy tries to refuse the man’s help, but nearly collapses and loses consciousness. The man takes Mindy into his cabin, allowing her time to sleep and heal. Mindy, alternating between reality and her own fever dream, receives advice from her personal Obi-wan, Big Daddy.  Projecting her own desires of father-daughter reconciliation and connection, Mindy believes that she sees another girl about her age in the cabin of the old man.  She assumes the girl is his daughter, but when she mentions it to the old man, h…