Welcome to the 912th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our third legend, see how Matt Fraction’s original approach to Hawkeye was very different than what was eventually published. One of the most influential Marvel runs of the past couple of decades was definitely Matt Fraction and David Aja’s brilliant Hawkeye series (colored by Matt Hollingsowrth and lettered by Chris Eliopoulos – and notable issues drawn by Javier Pulido, Steve Lieber Jesse Hamm, Francesco Francavilla, Annie Wu and Eliopoulos – Jordie Bellaire colored Eliopoulos’ issue), which launched in 2012. I’ve written about it before, but just to recap, the conceit of the Hawkeye series was that the series would show us what Clint “Hawkeye” Barton did in his time off from the Avengers. The guys who owned the building where he lived (dubbed “The Tracksuit Mafia”) were driving Clint’s neighbors out by tripling their rent, so Clint offers to pay all of their rent. This was not taken well by the Tracksuit Mafia’s boss. Meanwhile, two of their goons had a dog. Clint was nice to the dog and fed it pizza. Since its owners were abusive jerks, when Clint was nearly shot by the goons, the dog attacked its own owners to save Clint. The dog was then thrown into traffic and hit by a car. Clint rushed it to a vet clinic, and then forced the head of the Tracksuit Mafia to allow Clint to just purchase the building outright.So the status quo of the comic was now Clint having to deal with the Tracksuit Mafia, who are now naturally mad at him, and so Clint has to protect the building and his now tenants. Meanwhile, he has struck up a sort of mentor/mentee partnership with Kate Bishop, a young hero also known as Hawkeye. In the second issue of the series, you can see that David Aja was putting SO MUCH DETAIL into the art for the series…
Welcome to the 912th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our third legend, see how Matt Fraction’s original approach to Hawkeye was very different than what was eventually published.
One of the most influential Marvel runs of the past couple of decades was definitely Matt Fraction and David Aja’s brilliant Hawkeye series (colored by Matt Hollingsowrth and lettered by Chris Eliopoulos – and notable issues drawn by Javier Pulido, Steve Lieber Jesse Hamm, Francesco Francavilla, Annie Wu and Eliopoulos – Jordie Bellaire colored Eliopoulos’ issue), which launched in 2012. I’ve written about it before, but just to recap, the conceit of the Hawkeye series was that the series would show us what Clint “Hawkeye” Barton did in his time off from the Avengers. The guys who owned the building where he lived (dubbed “The Tracksuit Mafia”) were driving Clint’s neighbors out by tripling their rent, so Clint offers to pay all of their rent. This was not taken well by the Tracksuit Mafia’s boss. Meanwhile, two of their goons had a dog. Clint was nice to the dog and fed it pizza. Since its owners were abusive jerks, when Clint was nearly shot by the goons, the dog attacked its own owners to save Clint. The dog was then thrown into traffic and hit by a car. Clint rushed it to a vet clinic, and then forced the head of the Tracksuit Mafia to allow Clint to just purchase the building outright.
So the status quo of the comic was now Clint having to deal with the Tracksuit Mafia, who are now naturally mad at him, and so Clint has to protect the building and his now tenants. Meanwhile, he has struck up a sort of mentor/mentee partnership with Kate Bishop, a young hero also known as Hawkeye. In the second issue of the series, you can see that David Aja was putting SO MUCH DETAIL into the art for the series…
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