Random Back Issues #98 - Hawkeye #1

I think the reason I never got around to watching Hawkeye was I didn't want to deal with the possibility of watching a bunch of dipshits in tracksuits saying "bro" constantly. And since Disney+ seems to be cracking down on account sharing, I never will. Because I sure as shit ain't shelling out for it myself.

Anyway, first issue of the Fraction/Aja Hawkeye run. What Clint does when he's not being an Avenger. And he's not being an Avenger because he fell off a building and landed on top of a car, breaking a lot of bones.

But he's out now, and somehow happy to be in New York in August, which he describes as being able to catch a whiff of fresh air beneath 'hot garbage, wet pennies and pee.' I know Clint didn't have a happy childhood, but certainly he must remember places with better smells than that? Whatever, after kicking his wheelchair into traffic, then ditching his taxi in more traffic - if Clint's meant to be extolling the virtues of NYC, he's really just convincing me he's had a lot of concussions - he returns to his apartment to find his neighbors being kicked out because the tracksuit guys tripled their rent.

Clint, having come into some money via some method I don't recall, decides to visit a secret casino and pay everyone's rent. Tracksuit Guy doesn't want their rent, he wants them gone to sell the building. Real estate thing. The Kingpin's involved, it ends up being a whole thing. It's why the Sad Clown Killer guy gets involved.

So Clint gets in a fight, gets thrown through a window. One of the tracksuit guys' dog, appreciating the gift of pizza Clint offered earlier, bites his owners hand when the guy shoots Clint, and gets kicked into traffic. Clint's attempt to alert, divert, something the driver of a car by flicking a coin through the his window with a finger, doesn't work and the dog gets hit. Which explains all the cutaway scenes through the issue of Clint bring the dog to a vet.

While Clint waits, Tracksuit Guy shows up, looking for a fight. Should have brought more than two guys, then. Clint's not that bad a fighter, no matter how inept he ends up looking through most of this series. Clint beats them up, stuffs them in a taxi to the airport with over 12.5 million dollars to buy the building outright, and all the problems are solved!

Or not.

[5th longbox, 95th comic, Hawkeye (vol. 4) #1, by Matt Fraction (writer), David Aja (artist), Matt Hollingsworth (colorist), Chris Eliopoulos (letterer)]