Over the course of Hawkeye’s 50+ years of existence, he’s probably had some high points in terms of his popularity and importance to the comic book universe. With my limited comic knowledge, I can’t say for certain what those points were or if they ever really happened. To me, Hawkeye was the purple Robin Hood-like guy in the Spider-Man arcade game, and who would choose Hawkeye in a game where you could play as Spider-Man? Many years later, he was mostly just a guy in the background of the Avengers movie. Maybe I’ve been looking at him the wrong way, or others who haven’t framed him in the right context, but based on the first 11 issues of Hawkeye as depicted by Matt Fraction and David Aja, I think they’ve got it.

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