'Hawkeye' #11 - Every Dog Has It's Day - Comic Book Quick Review

The Creative Risk Taking Continues in One of the Best Books in Comics

'Hawkeye' #11 (Marvel NOW)

SYNOPSIS:

“Pizza is my Business” …before it’s too late for us. THE breakout character of 2012… becomes the breakout character of 2013... as PIZZA DOG gets his own issue.Literally… the entire issue… it’s all from the dog’s point-of-view.Pizza Dog gets hired to solve a crime -- the grizzly murder that shocked Team Hawkguy -- and the only thing more shocking than THAT… is what happens the end of THIS.Seriously. This is not a joke! Even the coloring. Dog issue. We’re all gettin’ fired. PLEASE READ…

REVIEW:

As stated in Marvel's synopsis, the dog - Pizza Dog - gets an issue all to himself. In inferior hands the premise would seem ham-handed, gimmicky and a little lazy but under Matt Fraction's skilled script the result is nuanced and engaging. Taking the dog's perspective is a big creative risk if it doesn't work but with David Aja's imaginative pencils with facial expressions and symbols it works flawlessly. Hawkeye really is a unique book in the Marvel NOW universe. A hero that rarely is in costume and storylines that are character driven are  unusual to say the least but Fraction and Aja pull it off seamlessly.