Lately,
I’ve been gravitating toward superheroes everyone picks on. First, Aquaman and
now Hawkeye. I picked up Hawkeye Vol 1.: My Life as a Living Weapon during my
comic shop’s black Friday bonanza. I definitely enjoyed hearing the stories of
a hero with no powers who doesn’t get a lot of love.
I didn’t
realize Maria Hill’s character went deeper into the world of Marvel but I’d
like to get to know her better. I suspect the stories I’m reading tie into the
Marvel movies they’re currently airing and filming. They dealt with SHEILD
being rebuilt from the ground up with Samuel Jackson’s Nick Fury and finding
moles. They’re also talking about Captain America in the past tense. I don’t
know exactly what happens but I get the feeling this all ties together.
Hawkeye
doesn’t strike me as a complicated hero. He knows who he cares about and what
matters to him. The job goes from there. I’d be curious to see more of his
adventures, especially since I hear one of them is told from his dog’s point of
view.
At the
end of this trade there was an issue from Kate Bishop’s series of young heroes.
This is another one of those moments where my lack of context bothers me. I
made total sense of it and enjoyed the story but I only knew 2 of the
characters. I barely understood the premise of this world and how it connected
to the other stories in the trade. It’s why I tend to shy away from superheroes
in general. There’s so much frakking stories that it’s nigh impossible to get
every story line to make sense on its own.
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