[ SECRET POST #2111 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2111 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 124 secrets from Secret Submission Post #301.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[truxillogical]

I dunno, there have been some comics worth picking up. Brubaker's run on Captain America (and Cap & Bucky) is pretty stellar stuff, from what I've read. Also, there is Chris Samnee art, which is always a plus (I've never read a bad book with his art).

If you're mostly familiar with the movies, I can't rec Fraction/Aja's new Hawkeye series enough--it's very fun, nicely paced, beautiful art, and continuity-light for those of us who aren't familiar with every crazy thing that's happened to every crazy character in Marvel's history.

[intrigueing]

Fraction

OMG did the moon fall out of the sky yesterday?

I haven't read his Hawkeye series or heard anything about it at all, but I despise Fraction with every fiber of my being for his ability to utterly destroy characters and put them through a very generic and distinctive patented Douchebaggifier (to steal a term from yesterday's AvX secret), so I'm utterly boggled at this news. Seriously? He actually wrote something good? I need to hear how this was accomplished.

[truxillogical]

Hey, if the guy who wrote an excellent book with a sensitive, gender-and-racially balanced team like Generation X can turn around and give us (*sigh*) Red Hood And The Outlaws, surely the reverse can happen, right?

Okay, I'm not actually that familiar with Fraction's work prior to this, so I don't have much of an opinion on him. Everyone was hyped about him, but I picked it up to see what the deal was with Clint.

And I love it.

It's only two issues in, I'll grant you, so it's early days yet. But each of those two issues is its own self-contained story (something I wish happened more often in superhero comics). Clint kind of reminds me of Harry Dresden (which may or may not be your cuppa, but every time I finish a Dresden Files book, I feel like I just had coffee and an eight-hour catch-up with an old buddy), just in his dialogue and motivations.

And then there's David Aja's art.

I could write sonnets.

Aja has such an amazing graphic sense, just this perfect ability to draw exactly what tells the story and conveys the character. I'm a sucker for artists who use precise spot-blacks over "billions of lines everywhere!" I'm a sucker for good flat coloring in comics too, over the "everything's SHINY!"

So far, it's a fresh, quiet, simple book about this guy who's...just this guy, y'know. And also Kate. Who is nifty. And there's a dog.

YMMV, of course, but if you can get part your loathing of Fraction (and I know the feeling. I still haven't read/watched Walking Dead because when it was getting popular I was still mad at Kirkman for Ultimate X-men), I highly recommend picking up the first issue and giving it a shot (ba-dum tsshh!). The only other mainstream book I'm enjoying this much these days is Daredevil (see above: Samnee can do no wrong).

[intrigueing]

Your description of the art alone sold me on it, and I'll trust your taste on the writing since I've never read The Dresden Files *adds to list*

Oh you know, I've actually been meaning to check out Daredevil for a while now because of the things I've heard, so I think I'll add that too ;)

[insanenoodlyguy]

I'm wiht truxillogical here. I know Fraction has done some SHIT before, but New Hawkeye, out of nowhere, he got right.