I finally saw one of those Cybertrucks in the wild a couple weekends ago. I only got a quick glimpse because we were going opposite directions on a divided highway, but I had to do a double-take to be sure of what I was seeing.
Then I burst out laughing. It's just so bizarre, and ugly, it's hard to believe anyone would want to drive one, let alone pay 100 grand for the privilege.
In the present day, Hawkeye's not dying of poison, because the symbiote saved him. But it's presence is lingering, amplifying Hawkeye's inferiority complex. Probably in an attempt to get him killed and out of Natasha's life, symbiotes being greedy tar monsters. So Hawkeye tries to set up a meeting with Damon Dran - I've been flipping through my issues of Marvel Fanfare in preparation for that entry in Sunday Splash Page, so at least I know where Phillips got this dope and Snapdragon from - to bargain himself to save Natasha. Except, of course, Dran doesn't want Clint, so he's just turned himself into effective bait.
This mini-series, the present day portions at least, are not exactly doing Hawkeye any favors. It's him being mostly inept and incompetent so the Widow can keep saving him. Yes, the flashback sequences are about Clint storming the Russian Embassy to rescue the Black Widow, but even there, we see Natasha taking advantage of the confusion to free herself. Present Day Clint Barton is a hapless dope with apparently no peripheral awareness.
At least in the flashback we get to see him get Iron Man with an exploding arrow in the flashback sequence. That's after Stark calls Hawkeye "kid", and says it's better they let the Russians have Natasha, even though he agrees they'll kill her. Iron Man: Always ready to let someone else get it in the neck!
But seriously, there's one issue to go, and we haven't received an answer for how or why Hawkeye committed the murder. Or, in the likely event he's innocent - and sure I hope he is, I'm so fucking tired of stories about Hawkeye killing, and especially when it's somehow only a problem when he does it, while the X-Men are killing people willy-nilly like Garth Ennis is writing their book - how everybody got fooled. Or, how are he and Damon in contact in the first place?
Phillips has 20 pages left to work with, and presumably we also need some sort of conclusion to the flashback, but Phillips is not giving me a lot of confidence she can pull one of those off satisfactorily, let alone both.
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