New Hawkeye ongoing!

[Twisted Two-Face]

Just announced at C2E2, Matt Fraction will be writing a new Hawkeye ongoing series with art by David Aja and colors by Matt Hollingsworth!!!

The time has come this August to restring the bow and check your fletching when writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja place Clint Barton front and center in the new ongoing HAWKEYE series.

The duo, collaborating for the first time since revitalizing Iron Fist, along with Ed Brubaker, in IMMORTAL IRON FIST, have fallen back into the rhythm almost without a hitch.

“It's great,” asserts Fraction. “[David]'s even nuttier than where we left off, and I remain no bed of roses, so it's been a blast so far. He's just blowing the doors off the joint. He's a monster. He's the best.”

As to as why it took Earth’s Mightiest Marksman to bring them back together, Aja points to a longtime personal favoritism for the sarcastic bowman.

“Hawkeye was one my favorite characters when a kid,” he recalls. “One of first Marvel comics I read was AVENGERS #25, and I [fell] in love with [the] guy; he acted as real person, was a complete jerk, so I suppose I identified with him.”

For Fraction, the archer represents a challenge.

“Never had the chance to write a character like him, or to do a book like this before,” the writer divulges. “And I wanted to chronicle him in an ongoing series because it'd keep me from getting bored. Repetition bores me to death. I had this idea for how to do a book that wasn't like anything else we'd seen him in before, wasn't like anything I'd done before, and couldn't stop thinking about.”

That idea hinges on how the Avenger lives his life when not around his numerous teammates and allies.

“HAWKEYE is more about what inspires Clint Barton,” Fraction explains, “We got Clint in AVENGERS, SECRET AVENGERS, and anywhere else at any given time—but we wanted HAWKEYE to be about what Clint does when he's not at work, about what drives the guy.

“He's got some stuff coming up in [Avengers Vs. X-Men] and afterwards he's in a place where he's gotta figure out what he's doing with himself and why. What moves him, what's meaningful for him.”

Similarly searching for purpose, Kate Bishop, former Young Avenger and the Marvel Universe’s other Hawkeye, will quickly fall in with her namesake.

“She's his junior partner, his apprentice,” says Fraction. “It's a very Avengers relationship—meaning Steed and Peel—and she's as adrift as he is. What the hell are these two doing with their lives? Turns out, helping people is what they have to do to get through the night. In costume, in life, doesn't matter. Good guys don't punch a time card at 5:00.”

Aja plans to tweak his style a touch in order to best capture the two bow wielding searchers and match the book’s tone.

“I’m thinking lately I'm going more iconic, more cartoony. You know, less is more,” he explains.” Your style evolving is the perfect excuse when you are cutting corners.

“Note to self: remember to do lot of black silhouettes and black panels.”

The stripped down art nicely goes along with Fraction’s almost singular focus on the two leads, forgoing the team-ups both have frequently found themselves a part of.

“A few [other heroes appear], but very peripherally,” he admits. “The villains are more important to keep an eye on.”

Asked to elaborate on who those villains might be, the writer opts to play things close to the vest.

“Some old classics, some new relevant street-level guys and maybe like the most wanted man in the world?”

More on Marvel.com: http://marvel.com/news/story/18528/c2e2_2012_hawkeye#ixzz1s3cGhRHg

SO excited for this. I love how Hawkeye's been written lately and who he's becoming, and seeing him off solo is just fantastic. Aja's art looks INCREDIBLE; very happy with the "less is more" design approach. That, and the Kate Bishop drama sounds interesting. Can't wait for this to start.

Edited April 14, 2012 by Twisted Two-Face

[Hawkeye's Junk]

boo-yah! :biggrin:

[karamazov80]

Hawkeye's always been one of my top 2 or 3 Marvel characters. I may pick the TPB up once this is released in that format.

[Mirymate]

Hawkeye's always been one of my top 2 or 3 Marvel characters. I may pick the TPB up once this is released in that format.

Hawkeye's always been one of my top 2 or 3 favorite Marvel characters. I may will pick the TPB up once this is released in that format.

Clint has always been motivate by two things: proving he is the world's greatest archer to the world, and trying to help people. Since leaving the carnival scene behind, he really hasn't had anything resembling a normal life outside the costume. Even his biggest non-Avenger civilian job was to be head ofsecruirty for a SI-knockoff high tech firm as Hawkeye. All the women he's dated, or married, he's met as Hawkeye. I don't think he's even tried to build a "normal life" for himself... ever. So if that's the goal in this title, we are truely in uncharted territory.

Mixed emotions on Kate as sidekick... smacks of GA and the last Speedy and I don't like inviting that much direct comparison.

[Twisted Two-Face]

Hawkeye's always been one of my top 2 or 3 Marvel characters. I may pick the TPB up once this is released in that format.

Hawkeye's always been one of my top 2 or 3 favorite Marvel characters. I may will pick the TPB up once this is released in that format.

Clint has always been motivate by two things: proving he is the world's greatest archer to the world, and trying to help people. Since leaving the carnival scene behind, he really hasn't had anything resembling a normal life outside the costume. Even his biggest non-Avenger civilian job was to be head ofsecruirty for a SI-knockoff high tech firm as Hawkeye. All the women he's dated, or married, he's met as Hawkeye. I don't think he's even tried to build a "normal life" for himself... ever. So if that's the goal in this title, we are truely in uncharted territory.

Mixed emotions on Kate as sidekick... smacks of GA and the last Speedy and I don't like inviting that much direct comparison.

To the last bit i say both are blonde, have/had blonde bombshell wives, the wives were named after a bird, and both have recently donned more tactical gear. Hawkeye and GA are much more similar than Kate and Mia. Plus, Kate is likeable.

I didn't really see it as "sidekick," because Clint isn't really the type. I figured it was more getting them to finally interact ina way like Hawkeye interacted with the team in Hawkeye and Mockingbird.

But yes, i'm really looking forward to seeing things down with the character we have never had before. Should be great really, i trust Fraction.

[Nessex]

Loving the cover art. Marvel seem to be keen to push Hawkeye leading up to the Avengers. I'm trying to cut back on my monthly titles, but thi looks like it might be worth picking up.

[hellpop]

Hawkeye's also my favorite Marvel character, so I'm excited to hear this. I hope a (fairly) high-profile creative team means the book lasts a bit longer then the recent Jim McCann/David Lopez effort, which I thought was quite good.

Aja's art on those two covers looks stunning. Looks like he's taking it to the next level. In his hands, I don't even mind that costume. Sort of.

I like the use of Kate Bishop. I do hope that we get Mockingbird back at some point, and that they can form a dysfunctional family.

[Mirymate]

To the last bit i say both are blonde, have/had blonde bombshell wives, the wives were named after a bird, and both have recently donned more tactical gear. Hawkeye and GA are much more similar than Kate and Mia. Plus, Kate is likeable.

I didn't really see it as "sidekick," because Clint isn't really the type. I figured it was more getting them to finally interact ina way like Hawkeye interacted with the team in Hawkeye and Mockingbird.

But yes, i'm really looking forward to seeing things down with the character we have never had before. Should be great really, i trust Fraction.

But now he's an archer with a blonde hand-to-hand fighting ex-wife with a bird code-name, who recently traded their traditional costumes for tactical gear, spends more time busting his teammates balls as fighting bad guys, and now mentoring a teenage female partner. Nope no similarities there.

On the other hand, Clint does enjoy mentoring people. And I like Kate as a character.