DJ's Comics Blog

  This title was written by Jason Aaron and Torunn Gronbekk, with artwork by Mattia Iulis and Erica D'Urso.   There are simply just some writers that are more suited to certain characters than they are to others. For seven or eight years of his career with Marvel Comics, Jason Aaron was the main writer for the Thor/Might Thor title, putting in one of the most seminal runs in the history of that character, while also writing the likes of Wolverine and Punisher at some other points. It is safe to see that the majority of his Thor run will be remembered fondly by most fans (perhaps War of the Realms notwithstanding, even though it was fun, if a little long), with the things he introduced to that mythos likely to be mentioned in the same breath as Straczynski, Simonson, Lee and Kirby. On the other end of the scale, with things he is not suited to, would be this current run of his on the Avengers title. Now, that has been a tumultuous title for pretty much sixty years, but Aaron...

 This issue was written by Danny Fingeroth, Dan Abnett, and Kyle Higgins; with artwork from Mike Manley, Andrea Di Vito, and Juanan Ramirez.   As is often the case with a title such as this, I went into it with quite low expectations, as the concept and character of Darkhawk was always intriguing to me, but the stories that I have read did not exactly live up to that intrigue, often being quite boring, and too focused on the exact same things over and over again, to varying degrees of severity. It is therefore safe to say that this collection of three stories blew me away, with three excellent tales from the life of Chris Powell, as he navigates the realm of the super heroes. Accompanying these previously untold adventures (because they literally didn’t happen until now), were visuals which perfectly encapsulated the eras that each story was taking place within, helped by the fact that two out of the three illustrators happened to have been drawing the character at that time...