Hawkeye #21Review

Writer: Matt Fraciton / Artist: David Aja / Publisher: Marvel I don’t even know where to begin with the level of excitement for this issue. This is the issue the cyber streets been wanting for MONTHS. Matt Fraction has laid out a story for us with multiple angles from different character perspectives. It all culminates into part one of the highly anticipated conclusion to the series and my….fucking…gaaaaawd it goes so hard. You need a song in the back to read through this issue. I went with letting Fiasco’s “Mural” knock. When I was finished reading I realized that Matt Fraction and David Aja have given us the comic book version of the Detox Album.

Is Clint here? Is Barney here? Is Brooklyn here? Well fuck lets get it then. My god, Matt Fraction gives us the set up to the battle we been waiting for. This is Fraction at his best as we now see Clint Barton getting his arrows right, bow right, ready for fuck boys. This issue revolves around Barton choosing to fight back against the “Tracksuit Draculas” that have been giving his community grief. We got Barton getting his house in order and realizing it time to right some wrongs before this all plays out.

The way got Fraction and Aja working in unison to show conversations from Clint’s perspective with him filing in the gaps for what people are saying is incredible. It’s such a small detail but the execution in expressing the hardness of this deafness with Clint now is such an incredible feeling as we see him make amends …