Jeff Lemire is coming to Hawkeye in March. Two things come to mind
immediately:
First, what happened to Matt Fraction? This is a great
series. It’s special. Marvel has given Fraction a ton of leeway to write a
regular Marvel character in new and innovative ways and with a series of
superstar indie artists who are producing a special book monthly-ish. Hawkeye
is awesome. Fraction is clearly on the outs with Marvel generally if he’s
leaving this book specifically. One had to think that was the case after the
bungling of the Inhumanity cross-over, but this is the final piece of the puzzle.
It appears that Fraction will be exclusively doing indie books from now on, not
the worst thing given how well Image is doing, but I feel bad for us fans who
loved some of the main Marvel work he’s done (hellllllo, Iron Fist).
Second, hooray, Jeff Lemire. HE’S GETTING OUT OF DC! It’s
like if one of your friends got released from prison. Lemire has struggled on
the main DC books he’s written, even as he’s improved them from their state of
craptasticness. Putting Kinsberg (of the Arrow TV show) on Green Arrow resulted
in displacing Lemire, which I’ve bemoaned as a pretty serious loss for DC’s
books. He’s among their best writers, clearly in the top three. But, Lemire
will be a more than adequate replacement for Fraction. I consider them roughly
parallel. Seeing Lemire head to Marvel could be great. I think tonally a lot of
Marvel character will be good fit for
him and the Bullpen has seen a lot more success at moving creative indie
writers into regular ongoing series than has DC. This is great news for Jeff
and Marvel.
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