Quote from the Kingpin: *Clint Barton of the Avengers has just **robbed us all**. I suggest we begin workshopping **solutions**.* The bold works a bit better on the page. ---- Sudden casual sex. ---- All the uses of "bro" by villains and Clint is just the right side of cute. ---- There are lots of imaginative uses of comic conventions. One I particularly like is "" in a speech bubble where Clint isn't following what someone else is really saying or doesn't understand. ---- It also has a thuggish antagonist who is also strangely sympathetic; a Russian mafia slumlord who wants to sell his property and get rich. He points out the that *he* has broken no laws while Hawkeye has assaulted him and his men and forces him to sell his building. There's a beautiful ironic playing with the American love of violence. ---- The first story focuses on Clint Barton as he recovers from major injuries. This is a story of a man rather than a superhero. A man who is saved by a dog and who then saves a dog. ---- Hawkeye has always been the most tedious of Avengers, indeed perhaps the most tedious of superheroes. Compared to the Green Arrow he's probably the worst of the Robin Hood clones. *My life as a weapon* is good though, significantly good. Even if the first issue acknowledges the essentially lameness of the non-superpowered archer.