The current Hawkeye series is just so wonderfully consistent and coherent in what it delivers, I admit it's hard to add anything new here that I haven't already pointed out in earlier reviews. But why not just repeat praise where it's due?
You probably won't find a comic that's better looking than this one, where Ramon Perez art is so amazingly in concert with Jeff Lemire's narrative (and if you do, please let me know, OK?). Clint's and Kate' relationship is so extraordinarily humane and honest, without ever being kitsch or stereotypical. And Lemire never makes the mistake of taking sides in the still underlying conflict of responsibility and guilt between the two Hawkeyes, letting the reader decide who's right and who's wrong (if there even is such a thing here).
Some of the comic's twist come a bit too easy, and little Kate is too wisecracking for her age at times, but these are only minor flaws in a series that never takes a step back, maintaining its superb quality throughout. Absolutely essential.
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