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Young Avengers Vs Batman Vs Hawkeye – Fun Ways To Tell Comic Stories Today

Published Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:00:12 -0500

Last month, Hawkeye #11 gave us one of the most innovative superhero comic book stories, a detective noir story from the point of view of a dog, finding comic book ways to express the way Lucky saw the world around him, and related to it, even his own ideas of what crime was.

Today's issue takes a different tack, with a more mainstream way of setting out a story… but only in comparison with last issue. We see some of those same scenes, now from a human perspective, and the grid set up on the first page with the phone keyboard reflected in a grid system throughout the issue with small panels, without black panel borders. It looks great.

But after Young Avengers' recent architectural diagrammatic portrayal, this week it goes for broke. From the menu of the diner doubling as a credit page…

Exposition and dialogue being rattled off with considerable Pinterest…

And Prodigy becoming the very panels in which the story is told, portraying his wonderful knowledge and awareness of the world, embedding him in the scenes in question.

And if they haven't broken comics enough? Actually breaking the comics?

Kieron Gillen tells me to just wait for issue 8. On the basis of this, I'm expecting a comic book with a pop up centre fold that literally punches me between the eyes.

It's not just Hawkeye Vs Young Avengers fighting over Kate Bishop, however. We also get this twisty turny tale from today's Batman #22.

Makes for quite a twisty turny read on ComiXology…

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics in London. Currently putting up a new exhibition, Cats And Cartoonists. launching with an evening party on Saturday at 7pm.