That series remains the only superhero comic which has ever allowed into our window, largely because it wasn't really a superhero comic but - in its true, theatrical sense - a comedy of manners so contemporarily designed by Aja. She has no license, she has dubious investigative skills, but what she does have on her side is a certain chutzpah and the ability to improvise swiftly.Īlthough living up to her previous appearances in Fraction's and Aja's HAWKEYE would be an impossible act, this still kept me mightily amused to start to finish. Speaking of business, YOUNG AVENGERS' Kate Bishop is setting up shop as a private detective in California around Los Angeles' Venice Beach. In righting wrongs, master-archer Kate Bishop will take care of business meticulously, efficiently and without warning whilst wearing purple and counting abs. What she sees with her hawk-eyed, instantaneous intuition-vision is presented by Romero and Bellaire in shutter-speed, potential purple targets which Thompson wittily designates as 'Innocent Bystander', a car's 'Poorly Covered Plate', 'Security Alarm', 'Smoke Detector', 'Glass Jaw' and 'More Hot Abs'. It is refreshingly free from clutter and it clatters on at a right old clop with all the attention span that you'd expect from a teenage narrator who won't be distracted from her singular mission by anything other than abs. Too many of us take our Royal Mail maestros for granted, including myself until I typed both those sentences which have no bearing whatsoever on this comic.

This is a truth, for which I apologise to all our loyal postmen and postwomen (in a trade rather than evolutionary sense) while truly appreciating all your pre-dawn delivery diligence.

Hawkeye by Kelly Thompson