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Tales of Suspense: Hawkeye & the Winter Soldier by Matthew Rosenberg, Travel Foreman
3.5

I really liked this a lot... for the first three issues. Then it got a bit iffy for me. This takes place after the death of Natasha Romanoff and follows Clint and Bucky as they investigate suspicious murders that seem like the work of their dead ex-girlfriend. Clint is convinced she's alive, Bucky is convinced there's a copycat. 

The stuff I just outlined in that description? All that stuff is fantastic. Clint and Bucky are such a fun pairing to have and Rosenberg is so good at writing both of them, plus their dynamics with each other and Natasha. The first three issues is more or less just the investigation portion as the two boys try to figure out what's going up with these murders while also nearly getting killed several times themselves. 

But then the last two issues start providing answers and that's where I completely lost interest. It's too much exposition and too action oriented, which sound like two things that are impossible to have together but apparently not. I also think the art suffers in the last two issues. Travel Foreman's style works really well for the spy thriller vibe the first three issues have going on, but I don't think the action was drawn especially well and as I said, that's a lot of the last chunk of this comic. 

I would still recommend, if just for the brilliant duo that is Bucky and Clint, though I doubt I'll ever reread this.