NEW AVENGERS ANNUAL #3
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Size: pages
Price: 4.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
This annual is nothing especially original, but I found it to be reasonably entertaining. Most of the point of this story seems to be an attempt to establish Hawkeye as the Avengers’ main hothead, which is an improvement over the way he has been portrayed in the past when he really didn’t seem to have much personality at all. Hawkeye has mainly been an archetypal archer character. By the way, it was never established why Hawkeye was affected by the “anti-powers” bomb used in “New Avengers” a while back, but years ago there was speculation, either in an Avengers comic or in a Hawkeye miniseries (I can’t remember which) that Hawkeye’s uncanny aim was due to his being a mutant. I don’t know whether that idea was dismissed or confirmed. It would make better sense than to believe that Clint Barton is just an average guy with really good aim. After all, the Ultimate universe Hawkeye has technologically enhanced vision to explain his capabilities.
Lots of fans seem to have a reflexive dislike of the photorealistic style of art used by Mike Mayhew in this annual, but I like the style because it can make the characters seem warmer, sexier and, well, more real. I’ve liked a lot of Mayhew’s covers, and I like his work in this issue where the character faces usually do convey real emotion. I know he has been using celebrity photos as models for the characters, although I don’t necessarily think that is a bad thing. Clint Barton, Norman Osborn and Steve Rogers all look vaguely familiar in this comic, although I can’t quite place who the models might be. I’m pretty sure Mayhew used Australian singer Kylie Minogue as the model for Ms. Marvel.
Art: 4 - Very Good
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