Reasons to love Clint Barton:•he's a mess and he knows it but he's trying•he's a genuinely good person who wants to help other people•he's funny•he's a great shot•he loves animals•he saved Lucky•"can I pet your dog?"•he called Simone and her kids over to watch cartoons with him•he let Kate keep his bow•he bought an entire apartment building to protect the tenants•he has no superpowers but he's still a kickass Avenger•he believes in young people•he just wants coffee and a nap, let him have it•he

Top notch stuff! I'm fairly certain this is the first time I ever read Matt Fraction and I gotta say it blew me away. Also a a great selection of artists for this first collection. Its gritty and real, while still playing with story and page structure. I was never one for Hawkeye. When I was a kid he was always just the guy who shot trick arrows and that was about it. This run and the recent movies have given him new life, and I'm loving it. I can't wait to read the next hardcover.Now as per my

I read the trades over 2 years ago. Loved it so much I bought the deluxe hardcovers. Now with the Hawkeye show about to drop on Disney+, what a perfect time to crack them open for a reread. Story still holds up. Aja’s artwork is great and the story was still just as fun, crazy and awesome as I remember it. There was an action sequence that I forget about and with this reread I realized it was in the Hawkeye trailer for the upcoming show. Awesome! See the trades for my initial thoughts.

this friggin comic is friggin best bro. haha see what I did there bro anyways I don't even like hawkeye or marvel really for that matter but this is an amazing read you won't like the art at first but by the end you will love it, this is probably one of my favorite books ever

Fraction and Aja's Hawkeye (or Hawkguy) has come to herald the coming of sublime comic books from unexpected characters. Comic book readers had Charles Soule's She-Hulk, Nick Spencer's Superior Foes of Spider-Man, and Tom King's Vision; critically beloved comics that coexist with blockbusters like Infinity and Secret Wars. Hawkeye was a right blend of thrilling storytelling and innovative art. It was easy to see why fans and critics loved it. This is the first oversized hardcover to collect the

5 joyous, perfect stars. I actually can’t talk about this book in too much detail because it just hits the mark on every single level, with a perfect union between Matt Fraction’s witty heartbreaking empathetic writing (that addresses Clint as exactly the funny everyman disaster he should be, as the least ~*super*~ member of the Avengers); David Aja’s wonderful sparse noirish art; and also Matt Hollingsworth’s work as colourist — which is not normally something I notice or even think about in co...

3.5 stars Hawkeye has always been one of the avengers that I have been curious about, and this comic is (what I could make of it) about his time when he's not an avenger. Which basically is Clint/Hawkeye fighting with bad guys and being knocked out (many, many times). I think that this comic just scrapped the surface of Clint's character and I want to read more and get to see more of him. It would be interesting to see him with the other avengers too. ^^

First half was a fun action superhero comedy with extremely great bottle chapters of Clint Bartons ever day life outside of the costume. Adored it. Second half really faltered to incoherence with the mob after him and getting into details of his past loves. Some really good supporting characters but, I've read better superhero books. Fraction annoyed me with some of his "hip" dialogue and how the entire mob kept saying bro. It stopped being funny after two pages of hearing that word. Aja is a ta...

good stuff ...Fraction : marvelous scriptAja : gorgeous retro artHollingsworth : fitting, minimalistic coloring.Minor points : The quality suffers a bit when Fraction teams up with Pulido (issues #4 & 5) I wish they wouldn't have added the terrible Young Avengers comic which couldn't be more different from everything that went before in this collection.

Clint Barton is Hawkeye, a fantastic archer and a member of the Avengers. Aside from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I don't know much about his character, but I liked where they went with him in Age of Ultron. I'd heard so many good things about this new story that I really wanted to check it out. And, as it turns out, the action is so much fun and the sense of humor is right on target. I loved that, for the most part, each issue started out with some variation of: "Okay, this looks bad." Follow...

I wrote a pretty fanboy-y review of the first soft cover a few years ago, and upon re-reading the hardcover, there's not many more ways I can put 'this is a good book and worth your time and money'.This collects the first 11 issues and a 1 shot Fraction did with Davis a few years before (he did a Young Avengers comic heavily focused on Kate and featuring Clint and would then go on to write a very highly acclaimed run featuring the duo. Planned? Who knows)The slight problem this volume has is tha...

Update Nov. 23, 2013:So, like I've said, I've gotten rid of the trade and went for the over-sized hardcover... will be re-reading the whole thing from the start this evening and coming back to review.**************I hesitated before I purchased this trade, after all, Hawkeye had never been one of those "great" super-heroes, and even when I read a story with him in the Avengers, his snarky attitude always put me off. Here's one guy, I always thought, that does not have his place amongst the great...

This was fun! I've never been the biggest Hawkeye fan, the MCU version of him is pretty low ranked among my favourite Avengers. But comic Clint? Cool dude, I like him. I mainly read this because my library had it (and then I remembered I paid 50 bucks for a Marvel Unlimited subscription and should probably just use that...also the German translation is iffy)...and I may or may not have seen pictures of Hailee Steinfeld in the new Hawkeye show on TikTok (you read that right) and decided that this...

I'm well behind the hype on this one, as this series has been coming out for over a year, so I read this after just about every one of my comic-reader friends told me it was the best book out there. Needless to say, my expectations were high going in. But here's the other thing: I didn't really know what to expect. So, I think that helped, because the amount of love and creativity Fraction has poured into this thing is beyond what I ever imagined it would be.I've read a lot of Fraction's work: I...

Like a lot of readers, I'd give this six stars out of five if I could. This is the most fun thing I've read lately. This is Clint Barton, the World's Greatest Marksman, ordinary guy, champion of the oppressed (especially one particular apartment building in Brooklyn), and enemy of Bros everywhere, bro. (Read the book and you'll get the joke). With his loyal sidekick/protege Kate Bishop and his loyal sidekick/adopted dog Pizza Dog, he fights for truth, justice and potluck barbecues. I highly reco...

Hawkeye Vol. 1 collects Marvel Comics issues Hawkeye 1-11 and Young Avengers Presents 6 written by Matt Fraction with art by David Aja, Javier Pulido, Steve Lieber, Jesse Hamm, Fransesco Francavilla, Annie Wu, and Alan Davis.What does Hawkeye do while he isn't an Avenger? He defends his apartment complex from Russian gangsters, trains his protege Kate Bishop, eats dinner with his neighbors, adopts a dog, becomes a landlord, and mainly just gets into increasingly deeper trouble. I had read the fi...

i love david aja’s art to the point i almost got bored with the issues he didn’t do. either way, fraction’s hawkeye is my favorite hawkeye.

Significantly more than I could have possibly asked for in a Hawkeye comic. It is rare to find a piece of fiction with this much ability to delight while also pulling at my heartstrings. 100% recommend it. I am suddenly compelled to get my hands on everything Matt Fraction has ever written.

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.Fitting in is a challenge that not everyone can or want to do. It’s even more complicated when everyone has a particular trait that explains their belonging to a group while you stick out like a sore thumb, trying to justify your presence among these people. How do you deal with that when you also have your own problems to tackle? That’s what the life of the very mortal Clint Barton, also known as Hawkeye, is like as his stubbornness, arrogance,...

I completely get all the praise. From the writing, the graphics, and the coloring to the writing, dialogue and nonlinear structure - I totally and utterly adore this book. The only thing I hate was the ending. As in not the ending itself, but the fact that it ended at all. I could've easily kept reading and continued to love every minute of it. Definitely getting my hands on the next volume.