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YO. HAWKGUY. BRO.
- Thread starter NotTheGuyYouKill
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TerminalDogma
Member
So this thread has convinced me to go and get that trade paper back, and then any back issues after that (if I'm reading correctly theres only 2 more out right now, correct?). I haven't read any comics in awhile (stopped around the end of Siege, I believe, and even during Siege wasn't really reading too much.) I think I'm gonna be picking up the first trade of Saga also. You guys got any other recs? I used to read Fables, is that still any good?
BuddyJoeHooker
Member
The first trade only collects Hawkeye 1-5 only 3 issues to catch up and 9 comes out this Wednesday!
Auron_Kale
Member
Double post
Auron_Kale
Member
Yep. And if you don't want to go the physical route, you can go pick it up off either Comixology or Marvel for digital versions.
Darth Tigris
Member
It IS a great series, a true joy to read.
It defies sense that this and the new Fantastic Four run are written by the same writer, though.
It defies sense that this and the new Fantastic Four run are written by the same writer, though.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Matt Fraction has never written a bad anything.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I don't read a ton of comics, but the one I always recommend without fail is American Vampire by Scott Snyder, published by Vertigo. So good. Great twist on the vampire mythos and its impact on the American frontier from the old West to... well, eventually the present I think. They just went on hiatus for a year so the writer and artist can recharge and they're at the halfway point. Rucka's Punisher is great as well. But that's the best comics I've read in the last little while, I don't read a ton.
I was not a fan of his run on Punisher a few years back. I've mellowed to it in recent years though. I should go back and re-read to see if my feelings have changed. At the time, it started great and then sorta went downhill. Hated the Hatemonger stuff where Frank ends up murdering an innocent or something due to hate rays. Interesting ideas, but... I dunno. It turned me off to his work. Hawkeye is the first work from him I've read since Punisher. I should go back and read his other stuff and give Punisher another shot.
I did love Remender's Punisher run, though. Loved the whole Franken-Castle and In the Blood stuff.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
The Five Fists of Science
Casanova
Immortal Iron Fist
Invincible Iron Man
All gold. If you mellowed on his Punisher run, and love his Hawkeye stuff now, you're going to find a LOT of stuff to love in those titles. I didn't read his run on Uncanny but that's more because I'm just kinda sick of X-Men (although I like Bendis' current run, and Whedon's Astonishing run)
his Image stuff is great, love Casanova
he's always paired with great artists as well
Doublesith
Member
Fear Itself was pretty damn awful.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Maybe he didn't gel well with Frank Castle or we're on two very different wavelengths or something. Sometimes the spark isn't there with the character and the writer. There was some good stuff about it... but some definitely not-good stuff. A lot of that Punisher run ran very contrary to the character itself.
But I'll definitely give those titles a shot.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Hot Coldman
Banned
dat cover art
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NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Bobby Roberts
Banned
You can not count it with me! C'mon! We can free ourselves!
Crystal Skull never happened!
What the fuck is a Prometheus?
Ghostbusters II? C'mon. That's silly. That's like saying there was a fourth Alien movie.
How about those Star Wars sequels finally getting made? Remember when people thought there'd be a trilogy that took place with a young Obi-Wan Kenobi?
Crystal Skull never happened!
What the fuck is a Prometheus?
Ghostbusters II? C'mon. That's silly. That's like saying there was a fourth Alien movie.
How about those Star Wars sequels finally getting made? Remember when people thought there'd be a trilogy that took place with a young Obi-Wan Kenobi?
Hmm, now I'm keen to check these two out.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
You're just tearing my heart up, man. You're just tearing my heart up. I wish... I wish I could join you. But I can't.
I actually liked Crystal Skull and Prometheus and Ghostbusters II. Maybe I've gone mad.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Well... at least I'll check out all the Matt Fraction stuff!
Bobby Roberts
Banned
INDEED!
And if you still don't like it, you get to come back here and thrash me about the ears for steering you wrong.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
INDEED!
And if you still don't like it, you get to come back here and thrash me about the ears for steering you wrong.
You got a deal.
I don't have an adequate Supernatural GIF for this moment. I've run dry.
BuddyJoeHooker
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NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I'm working on that, hold on a sex - uh, sec.You both should be using Hawkguy pics anyway.
shadyspace
Banned
this is like an indie book that stars a big two superhero
beat
Member
Did you ever watch ABC's "The Unusuals"? That guy Renner played had the same kind of vibe as Fraction's Hawkeye.
And BTW, if Immortal Iron Fist had had the Tracksuit Mafia, that would basically have been perfection.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Bro, bro, bro... Oh bro... So glad you found Hawkguy bro... One of my favorite current books. Love the art, and snappy writing
Freezasaurus
Member
I just got into it a few weeks ago myself. A friend of mine kept raving about it, but I ignored him for the most part because I was never a big Hawkeye fan. Of course, he never told me it was about Hawkeye as it relates to his life without the costume. So I picked up the back issues and I've been hooked ever since.
Anticitizen One
Banned
I think it's really lame that he stopped wearing a costume and is now just a regular guy
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Freezasaurus
Member
It actually came out this past Wednesday. Places like Amazon and Barnes & Noble don't usually get new graphic novels until the following week. Comic industry is weird like that.
Auron_Kale
Member
Huh? Why should he wear his costume if he's not doing "Avengers" stuff? He's always been a street-level hero, but I like the current distinction between his "Avengers" hero-ing & his everyday hero-ing just by how he's dressed.
Anticitizen One
Banned
Even in Avengers though he's not wearing a true costume anymore. He looks too similar to Ultimate version now. He needs at least a mask.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Why? Everyone knows who he is.
Auron_Kale
Member
That's such an odd thing to say as his costume now is his true costume.
If anything, his OG costume was just a product of the time it was created since he's an ex-carnie. Now? No sense in using something so gaudy for a street-level hero.
Affeinvasion
Member
Anything that gave us Kid Loki via Journey into Mystery cannot be that bad.
Immortal Iron Fist in particular is amazing.
nah man, faded purple converses, white tee, blue jeans. that's what's up right there.
You'd love Snyder's American Vampire. Fables fell off after issue 75 (the end of the war)
Anticitizen One
Banned
THIS is Hawkeye:
not this
not this
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Yeah, that's when I checked out. I mean, I read about 4 or 5 issues after that, but much like Supernatural can very, VERY safely be abandoned after season 5, Fables can be walked away from after the 12th trade.
Anticitizen One
Banned
http://media.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/12912/HawkeyeIMG_8194.jpg
how he should have looked in the movie
how he should have looked in the movie
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
He looks... Hilarious.
Supernatural's current season is awesome.
Raging Spaniard
If they are Dutch, upright and breathing they are more racist than your favorite player
Peter Bazooka
Banned
That's Bullseye bro.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
So adorable.
lol that's not even Hawkeye, that's Bullseye in disguise