More a 3.5 but I decided to round up.
I have some mixed feelings about parts of this run under Lemire, but this volume was much better than the last. There were some pieces here and there I wasn't crazy about. Plus, I'm STILL not sure whether the timeline 30 years in the future was just a "this could have happened" or a "this DID happen", and that's confusing. But I love Kate and Clint so much, and I enjoyed the exploration of their relationship in this volume. ( )

3.5 stars
This comic used to be funnier.
Maybe they should have brought back the thugs that call everyone 'bro".
On second thought, I was really sick of those guys, so maybe not.
The person I'm not sick of is Kate Bishop, even if she was pretty surly in this volume. It was good to get some of her backstory, read about the first time she met Clint, and to learn what led her to become Hawkeye too. It was a little painful to get there, but once the rescue mission was in full swing, the book got pretty good. And the "Hail Hawkeye" lines made me laugh.
There was important resolution in this story, and I'm hoping that paves the way for the next one to have more camaraderie and laughs. ( )

With the coming of a new writer and artist comes my disinclination to continue reading this series… The story is just fine in a technical sense, but Lemire’s Hawkeye just doesn’t have the same appeal as Fraction’s. Clint Barton is still a brooding cynic, but Lemire has shifted the focus from Hawkeye’s emotional development and personal interactions (which was really the selling point for me, and what set this series apart from the majority of Marvel’s other lines) to action & adventure plot points.The art has also changed back to what I expect from superhero comics (good in a technical sense again, but little original style), and that really just kills the entire feeling of the comics for me. I guess I’m back to relying on Vertigo, IDW, and independent publishers for my graphic novel fix... ( )

A dull book about mopey superheroes set in the present and (unnecessarily) the future. The title of the volume just makes me wonder again why we need more than one superhero named Hawkeye. Couldn't one of them change their name to Hawkwing or Nighteye or something equally ludicrous but available for trademark? ( )

This one... was not as good as the others I don't think. It was an interesting book, but this one felt a little too heavy. I prefer the light, witty banter of my Hawkeyes, and I miss it. I'm sad that it's over. I want to go back and read the whole thing from the beginning just to feel that again. I get that it had to happen this way. That doesn't mean I have to like it ;) ( )