The boilerplate for the least remarkable superhero story is always: hero fights gangsters because crime bad. And that’s the essence of this new Hit-Girl series. First she went to Colombia to stop faceless gangsters from criming; now she’s doing the same but in the snowy Canadian north. The question is: when is it meant to be interesting??
I thought a new creative team – writer Jeff Lemire and artist Eduardo Risso – might be able to do better with this character than Mark Millar and Ricardo Lopez Ortiz managed with the first book but no such luck. Hit-Girl in Canada is still more boring, mindless rubbish.
She gets hurt but she’s still as invincible as ever which makes for a tension-free read. Lemire fills out his unimaginative story with bland, forgettable one-note characters like the generic mob boss, clichéd stereotypes like corrupt cops and politicians and even deploys the gobsmackingly corny trope of the dead girl ghost only seen by the protagonist. Who was the girl, asks Hit-Girl to the Grizzly Adams character, she your daughter? Grizzly Adams looks up: My daughter’s been dead these past ten years…
Faceplant. And the scene where she’s somehow hidden in the back of the police car was so sloppily executed. She’s not invisible or has the Speed Force, guys, they would’ve seen her! Risso’s art didn’t do anything for me – I don’t think he draws kids very well and his Hit-Girl looked very strange. Lemire’s plot is predictable as hell and the action was unexciting.
Hit-Girl remains an unengaging series despite the change of creative teams, showing the limitations of this increasingly played-out character.
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