Dark Reign: Hawkeye #4 - Marvel

Ok . . not so much what I was expecting, but . . it turns out this whole scheme to drive Bullseye crazy . . to try to pin murders and such on him, was actually all set up by an NSA agent that goes by the name of Kingmaker. He's the guy who runs the NSA black-ops unit, and he also created and ran the terror organization the PTSF. But we already found out last issue that organization was just a cover for the NSA so that they could infiltrate other terror groups. What we didn't know is that Kingmaker is actually Lester's father. He burnt him up pretty bad in the Bullseye: Greatest Hits mini-series. So now he wants revenge. Plus, since Lester pretty much destroyed his body . . he wants to perform a brain transplant and move his brain into Lesters. During the ambush they end up getting the drop on Bullseye and when he comes to he's lying on a table being paralyzed by a machine that blocks his nerve signals from his brain. That's when he's told this whole story about Kingmaker, and he finds out that the guy who took him down was Solo. Anyways, they're ready to perform the surgery when Bullseye tells them . . "You're gonna need a Vibranium scalpel. One, my skull is laced with Adamantium . . and two, the Adamantium's blocking your neural inhibitor." As he sits up he says . . "BOO!" Andy Diggle writes this book. I think he's a fantastic writer. Plus it's got to be so much fun to write a character like Bullseye. He's just so far out there that you just don't have to follow the conventional path with him. Plus, I'd think it would be easier to write a 'bad' guy than a 'good' one. There aren't as many rules to follow. Also, Tom Raney does a great job with the art. I'm glad he stuck around for the whole series this time. All in all I've had a lot of fun with this one. To bad there's only one issue to go.