not what i was expecting, at all. kate takes the title of manhunter (i don't know how she learns the moves, but hey) by kind of stealing the costume from the police evidence lockers, and then blackmailing a dude she put away into fixing her stuff. did i mention she's a lawyer? a chain-smoking, no-nonsense, actually-will-kill-you lawyer?yeah, this was new. definitely not your average DCU main title character. the thing was, i liked it, but i didn't love it. and i didn't find myself wanting to car...

The closest thing I can compare this book to is Bendis' "Alias", with Kate Spencer's mess of a life as a protagonist who isn't conventionally likable - except that I enjoy Manhunter more. Kate's sass is entertaining in a way Jessica Jones's personality isn't (in the comics - the show is funny). Where "Alias" sort of dragged on with little character, "Manhunter" steadily chugs along. This is a refreshing take on a flawed superhero, with less sexualization and more attitude. And it works!

Aside from some really traditional sexist cover art, Manhunter is pretty decent. It has a Jessica Jones / Alias vibe to it thanks to Kate's dark wit and awkward social interactions, as well as the frequent cameo appearances by famous characters (JLA, Batman, Joker, etc). Manhunter isn't going to set the world ablaze or anything, but it's a quick and entertaining read

Whoa, Manhunter is way better than I expected. So it's all about a prosecutorwho has just had enough with criminals getting away with shit. Think Daredevil but she's a lot meaner, and also kills mofos who deserve it. With that she hunters her first victim and deals with him and the next couple of issues are her dealing with trying to be a superhero while taking care of her kid, and showing what type of "hero" she really is. I like complex heroes. Ones that don't follow the rule. The thing with t...

The main character, lawyer Kate Spencer, has just gotten into punishing criminals using a cool constume, but she does so outside the law. It's a conflicting time for her, but the results speak for themselves and she sees a future in it. Her family life is already down the drains, so she tries to do some good in the world another way, even if she attracts the interest of superheroes and villains alike.Copperhead gets a not guilty verdict when he is put on trial for killing and eating several doze...

Heard this was a sleeper hit, and it totally is! It follows a lawyer who prosecuted super-criminals, and after one of them gets off after a heinous crime, she sneaks into an evidence locker and takes justice into her own hands. It seems like we enter the story after Kate has done this a few times, but isn’t a bonified superhero yet. She doesn’t have any powers, just some gear (presumably) from locked up villains, including a blaster-staff-thing. She’s sharp, a fighter, a self-loathing, chain-smo...

Criminal prosecutor by day, vigilante by night, been there done that before, except not. Manhunter may sound as a knock-of of material like Daredevil and Vigilante, but what Marc Andreyko and Jesus Saiz does is giving us a fleshed out character that happens to take justice by her hands. Even time after, material like kick-ass could not crack the formula like this comic did. Is a hidden gem lacking of the necessary reprints for othe people to appreciate. Product of a time in which DC was taking l...

"Not to split hairs, but isn't killing a conflict of interest with your day job?" -- Dylan, tech wizard"I like to think of it as overtime." -- Kate 'Manhunter' Spencer, costumed vigilanteKate Spencer is a hard-nosed federal prosecutor based in Los Angeles. A chain-smoking workaholic with a few strained relationships (an ex-husband and a son), her personal and professional lives have both seen better days. Extremely dissatisfied with lenient sentences being handed down to super-powered criminals,...

An interesting start! I like Kate as a character. In the foreword, Andreyko talks about how he never thought DC would allow for a character like Kate Spencer to get a solo book. Mostly because, as he puts it, "she doesn't wear a metal bra, stripper heels or a T-back thong while fighting crime". Instead, she's a famous L.A. lawyer that chainsmokes, maybe isn't the most attentive parent and talks like a sailor (at least, as close as you can get in a DC comic). Andreyko's right: most female charact...

3.5 stars. The DC Universe, with its costumed vigilante heroes and metahumans, moves to Los Angeles in this series about Kate Spencer, a federal prosecutor whose day job is putting super-villains behind bars. When she loses a case, and "Copperhead" escapes to kill again, she takes matters into her own hands by raiding confiscated metahuman technology from an evidence locker and donning the secret identity of Manhunter. This first trade paperback volume collects issues #1-5.The California setting...

Prosecutor Kate Spencer gets fed up with super criminals and takes the law into her own hands as... The Manhunter!I'd been hearing about this series for half a decade before I finally plunked down some coin and picked it up. Did it live up to the hype?Sort of. Regular people taking the law into their own hands is nothing new in comics. What is new is Kate Spencer. She's not hot. She smokes. She's divorced with a young son. Her ex-husband is a douche. Intrigued yet? What if I told you Kate took s...

It's really hard to build a story around an intentionally unlikeable character and keep it a compelling read. And in Manhunter, Andreyko nailed it. The lead and title character is Kate Spencer. A top prosecutor, she reacts to losing yet another supervillain case by stealing high tech goodies from evidence lockers and turning vigilante herself. Kate is no selfless wonder herself. Her vigilante turn seems to be inspired as much by an inability to accept defeat as by any thoughts of justice. Her pe...

Though Manhunter is a revisionist superhero comic (the heroine is a chain-smoking divorcee and a poor mother) it doesn't sucessfully break from other vigilante justice comics in terms of style and content. This heroine has anger issues, is mostly friendless, and pretends that she is motivated by high ideals rather than a love of violence. In terms of craft, the story is well done, but if you're looking for something fresh in the superhero genre, as I was, this will probably dissapoint.

I bought this on a spontaneous trip to my comic book store. Manhunter was something I noticed on the shelf that I thought I would enjoy. It seems Manhunter is an anti-hero who is similar to a female version of Daredevil. I had never previously heard of Manhunter which made this comic more intriguing to me. Kate Spencer is an attorney by day who smokes her cigarettes and argues with her ex-husband about custody of their child. As she is prosecuting a meta human named Copperhead, she is angered to...

Volume 1 collects issues 1 - 5. Los Angeles federal prosecutor Kate Spencer is divorced with a young 6-year son. She is tired of seeing criminals get off. When villian / metahuman Copperhead gets off after killing multiple people, Kate takes justice into her own hands. She takes a weapons suit from custody and becomes a vigilante who has no problem killing villains. Appearances by Copperhead, Carl Sands/The Shadow Thief, JLA members J'onn J'ones the Martian Manhunter, Vixen, Green Lantern John S...

as someone with a legal background, I really appreciated a female lawyer and part time super hero. I love that the character is not only intelligent, but also strong. I hope she will one day get her own TV show or film.

Four stars. Barely. Kate is a lawyer who, frustrated with the justice system, decides to just started killing off super-powered bad-guys. Which is kind of nice. The "no killing" rule a lot of superheroes have makes me roll my eyes after a while. Oh, the Joker broke out and is murdering people again? We'll just lock him back up, surely he'll stay locked up this time and not escape again leading to more innocents dying! Anyways. Kate is kind of flawed. She smokes. A lot. Her superhero gear is basi...

I think had I read Manhunter at its inception, I would have enjoyed it more. Now I see Kate as very one-note, and the way she takes the disgusting verbal abuse from her ex--and agrees with him--feels less like a woman conflicted by society's messages about who she should be versus who she is as a man writing a little outside of his experiences. That one note is "bitch" and, while it never feels misogynistic, it never feels real or personal either. Just...there, always moving forward. Like I will...

I first read these issues about 15 years ago and was curious to see if they still held up. They do!Federal Prosecutor Kate Spencer is tired of superhuman criminals getting off on technicalities, so she does the only reasonable thing she can think of: raid the evidence locker for old bits of superhero tech, put together a costume, and put the bad guys down herself...permanently. Good story, good art, and a good character all in one five issue trade.

I really wanted to like this, because I've picked up more recent issues in the series, and found them a lot of fun. However, aside from the great art by Jesus Saiz, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Steve Buccellato (pencils, inks, and colors respectively) I didn't find a lot to love in this book.Kate Spencer is a prosecutor of 'metahuman crimes,' who apparently flips her gourd when a defendant is found not guilty, by reason of supernatural powers or something -- and then turned loose on the street? I don't