Hawkeye #1

Hawkeye #1

How many times can they release a Hawkeye #1 you ask? Well Marvel have another rung to add to that ladder. This time our Hawkeye is the Kate Bishop version. From Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye (aka Hawk-Guy, try to keep up, please) you’ll remember Kate as being the competent one when compared to Clint Barton (and Lucky of course, who could forget Lucky!).

In this first issue (penned by Kelly Thompson[this her first Marvel series from issue #1 I believe], art by Romero) Hawkeye is in beautiful California tailing a hot surfer gentleman by the name of “Brad” when she comes across a bothersome bank robbery. Being a total heroine she foils the robbery with sass (and trick arrows) and goes about her day after losing track of Brad.

In this first issue we’re introduced to Ramone, the not-as-clutsy-as-Hawkeye surf shop owner in Venice Beach. Ramone does what any good friend does upon first meeting, she makes fun of Kate’s crappy drawing the tells her to move her car. I’m 99.95% sure that Ramone will show up again...

Next we meet our first victim, I mean client, of the Kate Bishop. Hawkeye. PI Agency. Thing. Her name is Mikka and she is facing online harassment. Well Mikka, welcome to the internet, a more villainous hive of scum and villainy you will not find in this galaxy. Kate does some investigating and finds the culprit, job well done! But all is not quite as it seems… issue #2 is out this week in your friendly local comic store.