I've read the other Hawkeye volumes and loved them. The art, the plot, the characters, just everything. So I was super excited for volume three to come wandering into my life--and by that, I mean I saw it on the processing cart at work and had them rush it through.At first, I wasn't too sure about the lineart of this volume. It seems a bit different, but as I got further into it, I absolutely loved it. It still has the flat coloring that the previous volumes had and this lineart goes along with that really well.This volume focuses on Kate Bishop, the Other Hawkeye, who has had enough with Clint's shenanigans and decides that she's going to go to L.A. to do who knows what. And she takes Pizza Dog. Well, she winds up getting into her own shenanigans which includes: getting kidnapped by Madame Masque, who she had run into in previous issues; cat-sitting for some hippie lesbians; getting arrested; and so much more. Most of these wind up being inter-connected in some fashion, which throws curveballs and chaos into the mix.My favorite ordeal that she gets herself into is when she decides to be a P.I. and find out who burned down this flower shop so this gay couple can have the perfect wedding (the orchids were part of a vision, dammit!). They wind up being wrangled into her antics, like sidekicks almost. They also have a really, really sweet page of panels dedicated to the moments before their wedding and it is so great.Stuff gets pretty crazy and Kate deals with it as a Young Avenger / "other Hawkeye" should--with awesomeness and a little bit of kickass.I highly recommend this volume, along with the others.Oh, also, between Volume 2 & Volume 3, it looks like there are issues missing, but those "missing issues" are going to be in Hawkeye Volume 4 because they follow Clint while every issue in this volume follows Kate.This also completed a few Reading Challenges from treesofreverie's readathon.Finish an entire book in ONE dayFinish a book in a series you’ve not yet completedRead a graphic novel or mangaRead a book with an LGBTQ+ characterWrite a book review for one of the books you readPick up a book that looks like a fun/light read This one was a little bit of a letdown after the awesome vols 1 and 2, especially considering it was all about KATE who I love! But I wasn't really interested in the mask lady from volume 1 trying to get revenge on Kate, or the way Fraction tried to pull of a noir thing (hard with an orange color palette), and the middle-aged gay black sidekicks were more than a little stereotypical. Even Kate having her own army of bellhops trying to get her (a la Clint's tracksuit vampires) didn't make this awesome. Maybe it's just that David Aja's art really carried the first two, and he's not the artist here. I still love Kate Bishop but this was a little too silly.
What do You think about Hawkeye, Vol. 3: L.A. Woman (2014)?
I effing love how Annie Wu draws Kate Bishop.
—katie
