Hawkeye vol. 2: Little Hits

Aww, Clint. If life seemed hard in the first trade, it's nothing compared to how bad things are about to get. The tracksuit mafia is in a rush to settle their score with him, which means bringing in even more dangerous help from the outside. Help that isn't overly concerned about things like

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"collateral damage." And did we mention the hurricane barreling down on New York?

And then there's "Pizza Is My Business," the final installment of the trade. You'd think having an entire issue narrated by a dog would be funny--even gimmicky at the worst. But the story is full of unexpected emotional impact and might well be the best individual issue of the run.

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Clint Barton (aka Avengers' Hawkeye) saves a friend during Hurricane Sandy, argues with Tony Stark about electronics, battles the tracksuit mafia, and gets himself in trouble with the various women in his life. I actually like this volume a little more than the first one, mainly because it feels

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the stakes are higher - for everyone - and because Clown (Kazimierz Kazimierczak) is a very creepy villain. The only shame is that David Aja is not doing all the art. For all of that, though, the absolute best part of this volume, though, is Pizza Dog's story “Pizza Is My Business” - Lucky is a great character.

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Interesting downtime stories about Hawkeye, loved the story from the dog's perspective using symbols for his thoughts.

This was decent, but I found it a lot more confusing than the last volume and was starting to wonder if it was overhyped the way some movies are when people don't understand them and don't want to admit it.

I am still loving this series. The two Hawkeye's deal with hurricanes and the mob. I was very sorry to see Grills outcome, but I loved the interaction between all the girls. Even the dog issue was a different kind of experiment. I am still adoring the art style on this one, and was very excited to

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see the blurb by Hollingsworth at the end where he talks about how he colors it. I definitely plan on continuing the series.

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I am still loving this series. The two Hawkeye's deal with hurricanes and the mob. I was very sorry to see Grills outcome, but I loved the interaction between all the girls. Even the dog issue was a different kind of experiment. I am still adoring the art style on this one, and was very excited to

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see the blurb by Hollingsworth at the end where he talks about how he colors it. I definitely plan on continuing the series.

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I am still loving this series. The two Hawkeye's deal with hurricanes and the mob. I was very sorry to see Grills outcome, but I loved the interaction between all the girls. Even the dog issue was a different kind of experiment. I am still adoring the art style on this one, and was very excited to

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see the blurb by Hollingsworth at the end where he talks about how he colors it. I definitely plan on continuing the series.

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I am still loving this series. The two Hawkeye's deal with hurricanes and the mob. I was very sorry to see Grills outcome, but I loved the interaction between all the girls. Even the dog issue was a different kind of experiment. I am still adoring the art style on this one, and was very excited to

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see the blurb by Hollingsworth at the end where he talks about how he colors it. I definitely plan on continuing the series.

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I don't understand why Hawkeye is an Avenger, given how deeply underpowered he is compared to the other members of the team. His own title doesn't make him seem any more competent--in this trade he can barely lift someone out of the water. He charges into a fight with some non-powered thugs (they

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don't even have guns, just baseball bats) and gets the snot kicked out of him. A hot chick is being chased by the mob, so he cheats on his girlfriend with her, commits armed robbery with her, THEN gets out of the charges by telling the police "I'm an Avenger." I wish J Jonah Jameson would turn his wrath upon Hawkeye--he is an incompetent loser who deserves every iota of scorn that can be heaped upon him.

What's weird is that the narrative seems to think Clint is a loveable rogue with a heart of gold. We can tell he's secretly OK because (after accidentally hitting the cable dish with an arrow) he lets a family in his building watch tv at his place. ...Sure!

The art would have been a great change from normal superhero art, except that it's so loose and scrawled that the characters look different in every panel, such that I literally couldn't even tell which person was which, sometimes.

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Enjoying this series; the issue from the dog's point of view is priceless.

Okay, I started out liking this one.

Then we got into this whole recursive bit where we see the same story again from a different point of view.

Then there's this bit with a clown assassin why says he comes from hell. And I reread stretches of that a few times, and I'm still not sure just what all

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that was about.

Then there's this bit from Pizza Dog's point of view that should be really cute except kind of major things happen in this bit, and really, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED, and I have now crossed the line into irritated.

Still love the characters, but I'm very glad I requested this at the library and didn't buy my own copy.

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I Love the art & character, but this vol was hard for me to follow.

Hawkeye's out-of-hours adventures. Humorous and well-drawn. Hawkeye and Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) continue to quietly work for good in their neighbourhood while getting into scrapes with the local Russian criminal organisation.

Little Hits is the second volume in Matt Fraction's run as the writer for Hawkeye, and as such, it continues pretty much all of the themes introduced in the first volume in the series. The story is still focused on how Clint Barton, a man without any actual super powers, manages to keep up with his

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compatriots. Or, more accurately, the story details how Barton often falls short of keeping up and the incredible toll even trying to do so takes upon him. This presages a significant tonal shift from the first volume: While My Life as a Weapon featured Hawkeye working at the edge of his capabilities and managing to get through scrapes by the skin of his teeth, in Little Hits, as the title implies, Hawkeye suffers a series of losses in this one ranging from relationship disasters to the murder of those close to him. While the first book showed Barton getting injured on the job, this volume highlights the even more painful losses that his life engenders.

[More forthcoming]

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This and the first volume actually got me to read a superhero comic. Which is something I've not done in many, many years. I should probably give them 5 stars just for that. Fantastic series.

I'm so on the cuff with my grade there. It's leaps and bound better than Vol. 1, that I rated a deserved 4, but this isn't quite up there with the most stellar things every written, drawn and plotted in the comics universe. I think it might have a hardcore 4.5, or even 4.8.

This one definitely

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takes you off with a bang, and I'm utterly in love with all the interaction of Kate & Clint and Clint & Natasha & Ex-Wife & Jessica. I love that Fraction has started playing around with timelines and appearances, giving himself a little more slack to be amazing with timelines and approaches.

I loved the comic book covers tribute. I loved the way the second to last issue went back at step and brought us to the villain in the end of the issue, matching the one before it where we saw how Clint got to that moment. I love how much Kate know Clint and won't let him pull his normal crap.

I love, love, love the Pizza Dog issue this ends on. That was genius and interesting, and gave us so much more information about the tenants of the building than we'd ever seen before. I'm hoping in the next trade we'll revisit Kate and Clint's conversation, the way the Villain-Hero double play issue rolled out. I'm definitely on board, and I've totally taken off the whole part where I think about this as a superhero title under that title and expectation.

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