COMIC OF THE WEEK: Hawkeye Freefall #1 is a fun start to an action mystery book

By d. emerson eddy — Matthew Rosenberg has been doing some great work, contributing to some wonderful tales of Marvel's street-level heroes for a while now. His work on The Punisher with Guiu Vilanova, Stefano Landini, and Szymon Kudranski has reintegrated Frank Castle into the framework of a shared universe with superheroes and shown a flair for humor and understanding of those street-level heroes. Likewise, Rosenberg's Tales of Suspense mini-series with Travel Foreman that essentially turned Hawkeye and Winter Soldier into a buddy comedy duo. It was wonderful. So, it's quite nice to see him continue that here in Hawkeye: Freefall #1 as he adds Falcon to the mix as we take a somewhat jaded, cynical view of Hawkeye's capabilities.

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COMIC OF THE WEEK: In Lucifer #15, John Constantine tracks down Lucifer to talk weirdness

By d. emerson eddy — For more than year now, Lucifer has quietly been one of the best horror comics, arguably one of the best comics period, available on the stands. Overall, I think it's probably fair to say that all of the rebooted series in The Sandman Universe have been spinning high quality yarns that go relatively unheralded. Which is a bit of a shame, because they really are damn good. The line got a shot in the arm a little better than a month ago with John Constantine coming home, kind of, and him popping in on the former Vertigo side of things has been a bit of a running theme lately.

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