Old Man Hawkeye#10

“Blood from a Stone”

Writer:  Ethan Sacks

Artist:  Marco Checchetto

Cover art:  Marco Checchetto

This week’s comic of the week is perhaps one of the best series of this past year.  Old Man Hawkeye has been a wonderful tale of a future of the Marvel Universe where Clint Barton is traveling around the world in search of the former members of the Thunderbolts to kill because they betrayed him which led to the death of many of Hawkeye’s friends.

Old Man Hawkeye#10 finally arrives to Moonstone.  And there are some Sentinels along the way.

This series has been wonderful so far, bringing us a future possible story and showing us how some of these characters could end up.  Clint Barton is slowly going blind, which is a tough thing for an archer to deal with.  Kate Bishop has joined him on his path and Marshal Bullseye (yes, that Bullseye) is hot on his trail.

It also looks like a showdown with Baron Zemo is on the horizon.

Old Man Hawkeye is a twelve-issue series and it has never failed to be anything but engaging and unbelievably entertaining.  Marco Checchetto’s art is beautiful, as it reminds one of paintings and his creative ways he has envisioned the characters such as the new look of Moonstone is truly breath taking.

I have loved Old Man Hawkeye this year and it is in the running for my favorite comic of 2018.

Issue #10 continues that trend.

Moon Knight#200

Writer:  Max Bemis

Artist: Paul Davidson

Guest Artists:  Jacen Burrows, Jeff Lemire, Bill Sienkiewicz

Cover Art:  Becky Cloonan

Moon Knight#200 looks to be the final issue of the current Moon Knight run, which has been pretty messy for me.  I have not been a huge fan of the way the character has been taken since his return. There were some tremendous Moon Knight issues prior to this latest run, but it never really caught the same vibe of those issues.

This issues was so heavy with exposition that it never got any real momentum moving forward.  I did like the sections with Marc Spector’s daughter and the whole “Moon Girl” stuff, but the rest of the comic was over written and contained too much explanation.

The issue’s cover is a beautiful shot of the Moon Knight, though it could be the cover of any issue.

I look forward to the return of Marc Spector to the Marvel Universe in the future, but for now, this send off is underwhelming.

If you are not a hardcore Moon Knight fan, this issue is not for you.

The first comic I want to use in the brand new Comics This Week section of the EYG website is Marvel Zombie#1.

Writer:  W. Maxwell Prince

Artist:  Steffano Raffaele

Color Artist:  Rachelle Rosenberg

Cover Art:  Juan Ferreyra

Marvel returns to the world of horror with their zombie titles that were big a few years ago, except this is a different world than that one.  And the “Marvel Zombie” is one zombie in particular.  His name is Simon Garth and he is a previous Marvel character that was called the Zombie.

Here we see Simon befriend a young boy named Donny, who is with the few remaining heroes, the Defenders, which includes Falcon, Spider-man, Black Widow, Kate Bishop, Moon Girl, Misty Knight, Daredevil.

Part that I really enjoyed was the interaction between the remaining Marvel heroes who clashed over philosophy.  There was a very intriguing argument between Natasha Romanoff and Peter Parker that seems to truly fit their characters.  I liked how, despite the world around them, these characters and their ideological ideas remain constant.

There is also an interesting new connection between Simon and Donny and that relationship leads to some unfortunate results.

It looks that this series is a one-shot comic for the Halloween time, but I have to say that I enjoyed this enough to wish that it could continue on as a regular series.  I enjoyed the relationship between  Simon and Donny and I loved the heroes.  We also get to see many of the heroes/villains turned to zombies and what they look like now (hey there Doc Ock!)

This is a new category topic here at EYG and it will be picking one comic book and reviewing it/telling about it each week.  The goal would be to start catching up on my comic reading, which I have fallen way behind in.

So I will post this once a week, some time from Wednesday to Sunday, which is where i will receive the new comics available.

I will also say that this will almost exclusively be a Marvel comic since that is what I collect.  It is very rare when i purchase something from one of the other companies.  No judgements on them, but I just am a Marvel guy.

So…what will we start with?