Gillen is a capable writer. I enjoyed his recent boy-Loki run in Journey Into Mystery. And Land is a journeyman; his work on Uncanny X-Men, also written by Gillen, was solid. But the current Iron Man narrative, which casts Tony Stark as an intergalactic traveler in service of a huge Disney Star Warsesque production coming to a theater near you in the not-too-distant future, pales compared to the Zeitgeist-defining Invincible Iron Man, written by Matt Fraction with art by Salvador Larocca. (Hopefully when historians study the United States from the 2008 McCain-Obama presidential election campaign to the 2012 Romney-Obama presidential election campaign they will consult the amazing, consistently excellent, four-year Fraction and Larocca run in Invincible Iron Man. A lot would be revealed.)
Working with masterful artist David Aja and colorist Matt Hollingsworth, Fraction once again has one of the best superhero comic books around, Hawkeye. It is at once both forward and backward looking. It taps into that sunny Stan Lee optimism of the middle-1960s but maintains a stylistic edge; afterall, Clint Barton (a.k.a. Hawkeye) lives in Brooklyn! Below are scans of the first four pages of Hawkeye #6:
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