Time for a switcharoo
Amazing what a difference a new artist makes, right?
I thought Blackhawks #1 was a pile of dog mess. Don't get me wrong the writing was interesting, and I feel that it would have been a much, much better comic if it was illustrated by Graham Nolan and Trevor McCarthy from the outset. The character designs are clear and distinct, the panel work is perfect. I just don't think that Ken Lashley was a good fit for the series. This isn't a slight against him as an artist, because, he is still good and still getting paid and seen in the world of comics, I just didn't think a straight up Military/Black-Ops book is the way to go for him.
So, after the obligatory introduction issue which was last month, we get this issue. Straight up into the stuff. This reads, as Bleedingcool stated, a bit like it was an Ellis comic. Which is a helluva bloody compliment. While it doesn't have the same stylistic flair and blatant disregard for everything that an Ellis comic has, this is a softer and nicer version of what is essentially people shooting other people in the head and then legging it.
I'm giving this a three and a half out of five because it was actually interesting, it was actually something beyond a daft little pastich of MASH or whatever it was last issue. This gave me some meat, some lovely designs and something that can hopefully blur the lines between Army stuff and Superhuman stuff without turning it into that horrible Chuck Austen book about Fire-Fighters which quickly turned out to be the comic book equivalent of getting punched in the colon.
Looking forward to the next issue.
