This is a handsome poster ad for the original Hawkeye limited. Back then it seemed almost every other Marvel character was getting a limited, but Hawkeye was well deserving of one, and adding Mockingbird to the mix was inspired. The ending with them getting married was a real surprise and added real heft to one of Marvel's most interesting heroes.
His outfit never looked quite like this one in the comics, but I love this particular design by Mark Gruenwald and it looks very slick under Brett Breeding's inks.
By now it's probably not a spoiler that Hawkeye shows up briefly in the Thor movie, but I was totally unaware of it, and frankly was very pleased. We got very little of him, and I'm eager to see more next summer.
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I was disappointed with the Hawkeye cameo because he didn't actually do anything, he never even shot an arrow.
ReplyDeleteI did like his attitude when he said something like "let me take the shot, I'm starting to root for this guy"
However making him a soldier ruins the character. Hawkeye uses bow and arrows because it's what he's good at, he was a circus performer and it's all he ever learned. If you make him a soldier and proficient at various weapons then he kind of seems like a moron for taking a bow and arrow over a gun doesn't he?