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Hitman is, and probably always going to be, my favorite ongoing series AND my favorite Ennis / McCrea work.
There's a lot of later stuff that's probably better in terms of craft, for both creators, but you can't beat young love: this will remain my platonic ideal of a comic-book
There's a lot of later stuff that's probably better in terms of craft, for both creators, but you can't beat young love: this will remain my platonic ideal of a comic-book
Thinking about issue #28, the depression issue, which is good in a very dark way - it's basically both protagonist dealing with the events of the last story by basically being very depressed and pondering their place in the hierarchy of life.
There's 'plot' and even 'jokes' - but it's mostly a pretty stark look at depression; and worse than that - the realization that you might actually have it coming; you suffer because of shit YOU DID.
and this one always hits hard; because it's true.
and this is another punch: not just because it goes at the absurdity of the premise (the 'good' killer) but because it goes back to the reader as well - how much of lines you set for yourself are just comfortable lies?
it ends with the same nightmare - because simply confronting the truth isn't going to make you feel better; because sometimes the truth is you are a piece of shit.
A lot has been said (including by me) about how Punisher is Ennis doing the Judge Dredd run he fumbled at the first time around - this big critique of American violence writ large.
But Hitman has some elements of a successful Judge Dredd story as well
But Hitman has some elements of a successful Judge Dredd story as well
Namely - Tommy realizing he is a 'bad man' and then... failing to change anything meaningful about himself, throwing himself deeper into 'justified' violence to feel better.
Because acknowledging your problems is the first step - but often also the last.
Because acknowledging your problems is the first step - but often also the last.
