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by **LOLtron** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:38 am

Marvel Preview: Deadpool #3, Hawkeye #5, Punisher War Zone #2

Courtesy of Marvel Comics, we've got previews of Deadpool #3, Hawkeye #5, and Punisher: War Zone #2!

DEADPOOL #3
GERRY DUGGAN & BRIAN POSEHN (W) • TONY MOORE (A)
Cover by GEOF DARROW
Variant cover by DANIEL ACUÑA
• Deadpool vs. Dead Presidents…this time, TRICKY DICK NIXON!
• Can even Doctor Strange help the M w/the M?
• This is the Deadpool series you will marry someday!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99

HAWKEYE #5
MATT FRACTION (W) • JAVIER PULIDO (A)
Cover by DAVID AJA
• THE TAPE CONCLUDES!
• Someone has a deadly secret will change the course of Hawkeye’s relationship with the Avengers.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

PUNISHER: WAR ZONE #2
GREG RUCKA (W) • MARCO CHECCHETTO (A/C)
• Kings take Castle. Now its his move!
• It takes more than bullets to take out the Avengers’ biggest guns.
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$2.99

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by **Victorian Squid** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:08 am

Based on previews, I can't see what's so great about Hawkeye to the level of "best book Marvel is publishing right now" I keep hearing about it. Maybe instead of Hawkeye really stepping forward in quality, the rest of the line all stepped back a pace instead. Or, the previews don't reveal its greatness.

It reads like episodic television, maybe that's the appeal after years of relentlessly self-indulgent Bendisisms. Bendis's comics read more like extremely long, student-directed high school plays with dialogue to make you laugh derisively at all the wrong places.

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:08 am

Based on previews, I can't see what's so great about Hawkeye to the level of "best book Marvel is publishing right now" I keep hearing about it. Maybe instead of Hawkeye really stepping forward in quality, the rest of the line all stepped back a pace instead. Or, the previews don't reveal its greatness.

by **IvCNuB4** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:23 pm

Black Widow and Hawkeye are becoming the new Wolverines of Marvel. They're frickin' everywhere because of the movie

by **Punchy** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:36 pm

Black Jumbo wrote:Based on previews, I can't see what's so great about Hawkeye to the level of "best book Marvel is publishing right now" I keep hearing about it. Maybe instead of Hawkeye really stepping forward in quality, the rest of the line all stepped back a pace instead. Or, the previews don't reveal its greatness.

It reads like episodic television, maybe that's the appeal after years of relentlessly self-indulgent Bendisisms. Bendis's comics read more like extremely long, student-directed high school plays with dialogue to make you laugh derisively at all the wrong places.

Hawkeye is awesome mostly because of Aja's artwork, I wasn't feeling #4 nearly as much, no offense to Pulido, who is good, but I just love Aja, as my avatar will attest to.

It's still enjoyable, but I still think Daredevil is Marvel's best book.

And Bendis is awesome! Have you been reading All-New X-Men?

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:43 pm

Punchy wrote:
Hawkeye is awesome mostly because of Aja's artwork, I wasn't feeling #4 nearly as much, no offense to Pulido, who is good, but I just love Aja, as my avatar will attest to.

It's still enjoyable, but I still think Daredevil is Marvel's best book.

And Bendis is awesome! Have you been reading All-New X-Men?

David Aja is quite talented, and brings an added level of well-considered design lacking in many modern superhero comics to the covers and panels I've seen from Hawkeye, that's true. I'd like to read the books and have a more fully informed opinion of them, but not for that much cash money. Especially not after this week of feeling burned or just plain let down by weekly comics.

And no way! to reading any more Bendis. I like the guy, he seems funny and nice, his tweets usually serve to highlight others in the industry rather than his own work, I have nothing against him except how his writing style has developed over the last 5 years.

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:45 pm

I think my favorite Bendis run is still Avengers Disassembled, actually. I still have them despite selling most of his later comics I bought. They are just so balls out crazy. Stuff happens so fast and out of the blue. Everything in spirit that Secret Invasion should have been.