As a one-shot, The Avengers #60 is nearly perfectly written. It captures the heart of Hawkeye to perfection and offers a bit of humor and lightheartedness that high-stakes event comics tend to forget are necessary for making a story relatable and fun. Read Full Review

Final Thoughts:Given that Marvel is firing on all pistons in the Disney, Cinematic, and Comic worlds, the many versions of Clint are all pretty solid. However, make mine the comic version. Hes a flawed character with great logic. His dry humor and his skill set make him more achievable for every man and woman to identify with! This is a great stand-alone issue that compliments the Judgement Day story but adds a lot more to Clints character! Read Full Review

Writer Mark Russell takes the premise of Marvel's latest crossover and does wonders with it, resulting in a charming story that makes for a great stand-alone read. No prior knowledge of Avengers or Judgment Day required! Read Full Review

The Avengers drops its ongoing plot to check in on Hawkeye during the events of Judgment Day as the team's greatest marksman is judged by a Celestial. The initial set-up framed by guest creators on the series is fun as Hawkeye stumbles through a conversation with a god making small talk and chowing down on cheeseburgers. Read Full Review

It's actually amazing how Mark Russell is able to nail Clint Barton's personality in a single issue while Jeff Lemire couldn't do that during a complete run.

I thoroughly enjoyed this one. I thought the writer absolutely nailed Hawkeye's dialogue and thought it was an absolute blast to read. I'd like to see him write a Hawkeye book after reading this because it was just such a fun read

a) Shouldn't this be a Thunderbolts issue? Or, even better, an AXE: Hawkeye one-shot?

b) Do you think Mark Russel digested even as much as 50 words describing the premise of the event?

That snark aside, what we've got here is a cute, fluffy little morality play. It's got some good jokes and some sound (not deep) thinking about right and wrong. It exists in *such* a bubble, though (and it *is* still drawn by Greg Land), that it really doesn't have a prayer of being taken as seriously as it hopes to be.

Nice tie-in that tries to expand on the progenitor's frame of mind through Hawkeye's eyes as he goes about his day. It's not bad but feels like we are talking about a different progenitor here because this doesn't align with what Gillen is doing. Land actually was good on art duty with some good stuff and his usual similar exaggerated faces on all characters was toned down a lot.

I dont know what to think of this issue. For starters I only read this because is a tie in of the main event. But I actually found it very interesting and worth reading. Problem is I don't like the feel that the progenitor is giving a moral lesson or advice when his decision making is arbitrary at best (at least to me), even if he rationalizes that is not.

Russell writes a... competent Hawkeye story that feels completely off base from what the main series established in terms of the severity of the situation and the way in which the Progenitor acts. It feels disconnected, especially its ending. And beyond that, I don't really think the message is all that good either. The whole point is that morality and what's right and wrong is fluid and subjective, as opposed to objective. Which is true. But I have no idea why the comic acts like it's plainly impossible to know what's right and wrong. Like, it's some higher question for mankind to ponder. Especially for a superhero, like Hawkeye. Everyone has certain axioms upon which they base what's good and what's not good. But the comic never really spends time dissecting the general different modes of thought in regards to morality. And for a Mark Russell comic (which is frequently composed of such things) to just sort of gloss over everything, never reaching a point beyond re-establishing the premise... It's disappointing. He's got a character both sides-ing deontological ethics and consequentialism, as if it's just so hard to know which could possibly be more valid since everyone's such a blank slate for this interminable moral struggle.

Oh and for the record, the answer to the question is consequentialism. Like, obviously. Intent means nothing compared to the outcomes. more

Maybe this is a decent story on its own merits, but it has that big A.X.E. logo on the cover and is a tie-in to that event, and on that level it fails. It's normal for tie-ins to be inconsequential to the main event, but this one doesn't even appear to be happening in the same universe. It's a red-sky Crisis tie-in without the red skies or Crisis.