Released in late 2014, by which time Hawkeye was barely showing up (3 issues in the last year of its run), the book is, despite the title, more of a team-up between the Merc with a Mouth and both Hawkeyes. The dead guy above had a list of every SHIELD agent, and realizing this was dangerous information, tried giving it to Clint. Who was in a bad mood because everyone (including Deadpool, out trick-or-treating with his daughter and Agent Preston's family) was complaining about him not handing out full-size candy bars and blew the guy off.
Duggan makes a few nods to each characters current status quo. Deadpool having a daughter and a couple of SHIELD agents for friends (and that Preston is inhabiting an Life Model Decoy of herself). Clint owning a building, having a hearing aid and knowing sign language. There's one two-page sequence where Duggan and Lolli mock the Pizza Dog issue of Hawkeye with a bunch of bubble panels showing symbols representing the hunt for clues. Except Deadpool's banging on one of them asking what the hell is going on while a couple of old ladies discuss what being in the "Revengers" did to that poor man.
It does feel more like a Deadpool story that happens to involve both the Hawkeyes. So we get gags about Deadpool using the "Ooper" app to get around town and making unreasonable demands. He pulls Clint's old sky-cycle (and one of his old costumes) out of mothballs to do an airborne drive-by. He gets to be a bad influence on Kate by handing her a rocket launcher and encouraging her to commit acts of domestic terrorism. Relax, it was for a good cause. America needs to be reminded of the weaknesses in its critical infrastructure! No, wait, that was Timothy Olyphant's argument in the 4th Die Hard movie.
In the third issue (which is issue #2 because Marvel started with issue 0 for some reason), Jacopo Camagni joins Matteo Lolli as artist on the series. I can't tell there's any real pattern to when one of them draws. Camagni's work is looser, more exaggerated than Lolli's but it's similar enough (and Peter's colors maintain a consistent feel) there's no whiplash when it shifts.
I'm honestly surprised this is still in my collection, considering the villain is the Black Cat during her "Queenpin" phase. She's employing a scientist using mind control on people that makes them commit suicide if they're about to be captured. She employs Typhoid Mary, she kills a few people herself. It's stupid, because the villain could be Madame Masque, or Typhoid could be the boss, or whatever. There's nothing about the evil scheme that uniquely requires the Black Cat, so why use her? The story says nothing about her character. But that's true of that entire phase for her character. Cast aside everything interesting about the character in favor of generic superhero comic mob boss bullshit.
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