When you get down to it, Clint Barton really is kind of a lifer in the superhero business. While it’s not an origin story in any traditional way, Fraction maps out the mission statement of the book very well in that opening chapter, particularly when we get a glimpse of Clint’s “to-do” list, which focuses very much on the little details which are to small for a super team to handle.
This is as entry level as it gets for a character who has been around for almost fifty years. Instead, Fraction and friends (which honestly does sound like a brilliant superhero team in its own right), bring Hawkeye down to the ground, where he takes on corrupt landlords, snarky neighbors, and his own aches and pains. What’s more, it might have made a certain amount of sense to try and match the excitement and spectacle of Hawkeye’s cinematic counterpart, and maybe even load the book up with a few of his more high-profile teammates and their foes. Given the runaway success of the Avengers movie, a new title starring Hawkeye probably would have sold fairly well out of the gate regardless of the creative team. Timing, as they say, is everything, and Clint Barton’s prominent role in last summer’s Avengers flick certainly felt timely with him getting his own book and all.
Haven’t we all been guilty (sometimes every Wednesday), of trusting a fictional character more than the flesh-and-blood creators who make the book? It’s a darn good thing that the assembled roster of talent in Hawkeye Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon (which reprints the first five issues of the current Hawkeye ongoing, as well as Young Avengers Presents #6) is simply impossible to ignore. Far too many of us, even though we don’t want to admit it, are loyal to the characters more than the creator. My inability to process this seemingly self-evident truth helps to expose one of the quirks about the comic fan/collector mentality. It’s sometimes hard for me to accept that Hawkeye is one of the best superhero books on the market.
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