Comments on: Avenging Spider-Man #4 Review and FREE CODE GIVEAWAY

By: davê

davê — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:05:13 +0000

i always thought hawkeye was ill-fitted and weak, but this issue makes me like him more. glad to have it on ma list.

By: Sarcasmic

Sarcasmic — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:04:53 +0000

Yeah, he kinda addressed it in Blindshot mini awhile back (where His brother came back), but I do rather like this take on the character more, if this hadn’t been so outta the blue or came out when Hawk wasn’t so popular, could be some good mid-life crisis or something.

By: Hobo-Goblin

Hobo-Goblin — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:08:01 +0000

Sarcasmic, I assume you aren’t that familiar with Hawkeye. Because Zeb Wells clearly isn’t either.

The Clint Barton that appears in this issue is the Clint Barton of the 60s and early 70s. Before he led the Avengers and the T-Bolts. Before he bested his mentor Trickshot. Before he got married, lost his wife, and got her back, then lost her again. Before he died and came back.

Hawkeye got over being “that guy with the arrows” a LONG, LONG time ago. In fact, he related his previous anxieties to both Echo and Girl Hawkeye on separate occasions in recent history and how he got past them.

The Hawkeye of today is smug and a jerk on occasions, but he’d never be so fragile as to be crushed if he missed a shot.

This also doesn’t jibe with his recent taking over leadership of the Secret Avengers, where he’s making an honest effort to maintain stealth and subtlety in appropriate situations.

By: Sarcasmic

Sarcasmic — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:30:49 +0000

Also great idea…

By: Sarcasmic

Sarcasmic — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:20:00 +0000

I gotta disagree with you on this one….
I felt like this was a brutally honest and almost tragic look at Hawkeye’s psyche that he tries to keep buried by being a smug ass and the issue goes out of its way to show you that, making the two pivotal scenes all the stronger. It gives way for great moments for Clint & Peter, and I felt Greg Land’s distortion of Hawkeye’s face in moments of anger worked really damn well. Better than Mad would of been able to do for sure.

Also sad you didn’t mention the introduction page, Hawkeye’s origin had me laughing my ass off.