If you can't tell by my glowing reviews of every other volume in Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye run I absolutely adore this series. This is the golden standard of superhero storytelling in my book and its ending is perfection.

Rio Bravo is the culmination of everything preceding it. In this volume, we see Clint, with the help of his Bed Stuy tenants and brother, finally take down the tracksuit mafia. But more importantly, we see him finally learn to accept help from the people who care about him. Seeing the culmination of his arc fulfilled was so satisfying. The integration of flashbacks in this volume was especially great at elevating the pathos of Clint's character. It was an emotional gut-punch and seeing him finally catch a break and beat the bad guys was the ultimate catharsis.

I also need to take one final moment to gush about David Aja's illustrations and Matt Hollingsworth's colours. Aja is a master of visual storytelling and his deceptively simple style is perfectly rendered in every panel. This volume, in particular, relied on its visuals for plot and aesthetic reasons and the clarity of Aja's style was amazing to take in. His action scenes were invigorating and the panelling work was especially brilliant.

Hollingsworth's colours are a perfect match for Aja's style and the restrained colour theming of this series is instrumental to its aesthetic and I needed to take another moment just to celebrate how perfectly done it was.

I love everything about this series and at this point, I've pretty much run out of words to describe its brilliance. Every panel is pure perfection rendered on the page and I love it to bits.