Hawkeye, Issue #1 focuses on Kate Bishop. The other Hawkeye, Clint Barton, has been MIA since killing the Hulk except for a brief appearance in Mockingbird, the comic about his ex-wife. The comic opens up on Venice Beach, where Hawkeye is working as a private detective when she comes across a bank robbery. Fortunately she has her suit and bow and arrows. The comic then moves on to the more private-detective aspect of the story. A blogger is being harassed online, and she hires Kate Bishop the find the person who's harassing her.
I was a big fan of Chelsea Cain's Mockingbird, and the harassment she suffered around the end of that series is a black eye for all comics fans. More to the point, that series was canceled before they could even see how many copies the trade paperbacks sold. I do think that there is room in the comics world for comics about adult women, and perhaps Hawkeye can take up the mantle for Mockingbird.
I did find it a little contrived that there happened to be a bank robbery right at the start of the series. The comic needed a little action, and we needed to see Hawkeye in her get-up, so I don't take too much umbrage with the fact that the robbery happened at that time. Overall it's a fun comic with an interesting twist, and I'm looking forward to reading it next month or whenever it comes out.
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