I’ve seen the
future of comic books and his name is Aja! Daniel Aja is to Hawkeye as Jim
Steranko was to Nick Fury in the 1960s. Aja experiments with panels, uses
stylized shadowing and 1950 and 60s pop art to craft one of the most visually
stunning works I’ve seen in nearly 20 years! A great example is in issue 2,
when Aja breaks down Hawkeye’s apprentice’s words to a panel-by-panel
millisecond pause contrasting with the bowman’s lightning fast reflexes.
Helping with
this process is series scribe, Matt Fraction, who has crafted an fantastic
collection of stories that paint the Arrow Avenger not in a shining light, but
one whose shine has tarnished thanks to numerous bad decisions.
This is an
amazing series that must be read to capture the full experience. My descriptions
cannot do it justice. The duo of Fraction and Aja are the real superheroes in a
book about heroes without powers and at times, morals.
Worth Consuming.
Rating 10 out of
10 stars.
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