Hitman Hitman (edició 1997)

Sometimes you read something that leaves you scratching your head. I think this is one of those books. Either that or I need to change shampoo.

Garth Ennis' Hitman is an interesting tale, almost something you would expect from a different publishing house to DC Comics. Tommy Monaghan is a freelance hitman working in Gotham city when he is bitten by a demon and picks up the ability to hear people's thoughts, see through walls and wear sunglasses at night without looking like a douchebag. With his new abilities he makes the move into killing supercriminals. And since he works in Gotham, Tommy is soon confronting Batman. Well, Garth Ennis' version of Batman....

I'm a huge fan of Garth Ennis' work. He combines interesting story lines with humour and irreverence, simultaneously embracing and satirising whatever genre he is writing in. The Boys would have to be one of my favourite series, and Garth's run in Punisher Max is legendary. It is these two series that leave me scratching my head about Hitman. There are a lot of similarities between Hitman and Punisher, and the main character of Tommy bears no small resemblance to Butcher from The Boys. So for me, having read Punisher and The Boys first, Hitman feels like a pale imitation - despite coming first.

So despite this being at times confusing (a poetic demon who inhabits a human discusses stuff with himself... oookaaay...) and unpolished versions of the above mentioned series, I did enjoy reading about Tommy killing people in Gotham. ( )

I hate Garth Ennis.
I hate comics about dudes who shoot people.

And yet, I really liked this comic. There's a sense of humor and humanity about it that's missing from the other "gritty" comics. ( )

LIDO!

Not my kind of comic - funny charachters, but repetitive action, and the artwork is simply too simplistic for my liking. ( )