Fraction's "Hawkeye" Targets the New York Underworld

[CBR News]

Following the events of "Hawkeye" #7, Clint Barton and Kate Bishop face off against several angry New York based crime families. CBR News spoke with writer Matt Fraction about the upcoming direction of the series.


Full article here.

[Mundungus]

This book is so good. Sometimes too cheeky in certain parts, but overall it's such a great love and use of the medium. With Francavilla rotating with Aja you can't go wrong.

Is Javier Pulido off the book?

[Rollo Tomassi]

I love this book. I like that Fraction is tackling the various NYC criminal elements. With guys like Kingpin, Negative, Owl, Silvermane, Tombstone, etc you could almost do an ongoing series with just NYC crime lords crossing and double crossing each other.

The Clown was a member of the cheesy Circus of Crime, but he was turned into a semi legitimate badass in the 1999 M-Tech Deathlok series. Which Fraction probably never read. No need to reinvent the character. Just use that version.

[AnarCHris]

:: 500 words of praise and excitement :::

[infinitEEntropy]

:: 500 words of praise and excitement :::

This.

Also Aja and Francavilla rotating on art? Another 500 words of praise and excitement! I'm so grateful for this book.

[arachne_azure]

I love this book. I like that Fraction is tackling the various NYC criminal elements. With guys like Kingpin, Negative, Owl, Silvermane, Tombstone, etc you could almost do an ongoing series with just NYC crime lords crossing and double crossing each other.

The Clown was a member of the cheesy Circus of Crime, but he was turned into a semi legitimate badass in the 1999 M-Tech Deathlok series. Which Fraction probably never read. No need to reinvent the character. Just use that version.

The Clown was also "dusted" off and used in Joe Casey's Dark Reign Zodiac, (minor spoiler: It was not the original Clown that appeared in Hulk, Ghost Rider, and Deathlok (M-Tek) way back when, {he was a mutated member of the Gamma Corps} but his half brother http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown_(comics) ) I'll be surprised if this Clown has any connections to the ones that went by that alias. Sidenote: Did Joe Casey write M-Tek Deathlok in addition to DR:Zodiac, Defenders, and Vengeance?

[CyberHubbs]

This.

Also Aja and Francavilla rotating on art? Another 500 words of praise and excitement! I'm so grateful for this book.

I can't live in a world where a comic book this perfect exists. It might restore my faith in humanity and we can't have that.

[hawkeyefan]

I am super psyched to see the recurring elements. Kingpin made a big deal about it in issue 2, so I'm happy we didn't have to wait that long for a follow up.

This book has impressed so far and looks like it will continue to do so.

[Mr. Holmes]

I can't live in a world where a comic book this perfect exists. It might restore my faith in humanity and we can't have that.

There's more from where these kind of comics come from in the indies. As a Marvel book it's special though.

[arachne_azure]

There's more from where these kind of comics come from in the indies. As a Marvel book it's special though.

I know, DR:Zodiac, and Vengeance were the most non Marvel Marvel comics I purchased, and I have to salute Joe Casey, because any person that can recruit Eddie Campbell for art work in X-Men, is either a genius, or straight up crazy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Campbell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchus_(comics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell

And this guy went to do 2 issues for X-Men, somebody must have spiked Marvel's water supply (I kid, that is not meant to slight Joe Casey or Eddie Cambell, but at that time X-Men and Marvel in general were conservative {meaning took no risks like having indie type artists illustrate a mainstream comic like X-Men )

[Kieran_Frost]

Check list of epicness:
- Kate Bishop
- "new" villain, the Clown (a reworking of a classic villain)
- Black Widow, Mockingbird AND Spiderwoman
- links to Young Avengers
- Francesco "f-ing" Francavilla joins the crew!!! EPIC!!! Loved his work in Black Panther: Man Without Fear

Our new gorgeous artist work to enjoy!

[CyberHubbs]

There's more from where these kind of comics come from in the indies. As a Marvel book it's special though.

Yeah, I dig the Indies. And not just Image.

[celticguy]

cue the but Hawkeye needs to fight cosmic bad guys and not street level bad guys whines in 5, 4, 3, 2....

[CyberHubbs]

cue the but Hawkeye needs to fight cosmic bad guys and not street level bad guys whines in 5, 4, 3, 2....

Is this a thing?

[lilyinblue]

cue the but Hawkeye needs to fight cosmic bad guys and not street level bad guys whines in 5, 4, 3, 2....

I heard they were going to retcon Thanos as being from Jersey.