All throughout April, we’re crowdsourcing a coronavirus comics reading list. Each weekday for a month, we’ll post a new recommendation from someone in the comics industry to help folks get through the quarantine. It’ll be a crowdsourced list of recommended reading from writers, artists, letterers, editors, comics journalists, publicists, and more…all paired with a local shop that’s currently selling the books via mail order.

Today’s selection comes from writer Sean Lewis…enjoy!

Everything I wanted to recommend was really dark. I wanted to say run out and read The Green River Killer by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case. Or Bad Weekend by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. I have a huge soft spot for American Virgin by Steven T. Seagle and Becky Cloonan. But they are all pretty dark books. I had to rack my brain…what about some hope! Some lightness. Giant Days is great if you’ve never read it. And All Star Superman for your hero fix. But I wanted to use the time allotted for HAWKEYE: MY LIFE AS A WEAPON. Matt Fraction and David Aja are great in this. Fraction makes you cry over a saved dog. He presents a really shitty New York City. People who really have little going for them, except this hero. This hero who also knows things suck. And yet, he keeps being a hero. It makes me laugh. It is fun entertainment. But it also looks like a world I know. Finally, an honorable mention…SHAZAM: POWER OF HOPE if you have a kid at home, and also feel free to read all the other ones I cheated into this. -Sean Lewis

Sean Lewis’ next work is BLISS with artist Cait Yarsky, currently scheduled for June 2020 from Image Comics.

Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon
Writer: Matt Fraction
Artist: David Aja
Colorist: Matt Hollingsworth
Letterer: Chris Eliopoulos
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Fraction. Aja. Hawkeye. Kate Bishop. Cars. Guns. And videotape. The breakout star of this summer's blockbuster Avengers film, Clint Barton - a.k.a. the self-made hero Hawkeye - fights for justice...and good rooftop BBQs! And with ex-Young Avenger Kate Bishop by his side, he's out to get some downtime from being one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes! (IMMORTAL IRON FIST) reunite to tell the ongoing tales of the Arrow-Avenger. Barton and Bishop mean double the Hawkeye and double the trouble! Plus: Relive Kate's first meeting with Clint, as she learns wanting something can be miles away from actually earning it.

Buy It Here: Earth 2 Comics in Sherman Oaks, Calif., is currently taking mail orders via its Facebook page!

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