Jeff Lemire’s script for Black Hammer follows an increasingly familiar trope, taking characters based in comic book history and applying a subtle naturalism. Unlike Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen which is an early example of the fashion, Lemire and artist Dean Ormston avoid exaggerated violence and melodrama for an offbeat, and downbeat, story of what happens to superheroes after their greatest battle and enforced retirement.
The energy of the narrative comes from the interaction of the...
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