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Chapter 10: The Best Marvel Comic of the Twenty-First Century

Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye is the best Marvel Comic of the twenty-first century.

Hands down.

Pick up a recent Marvel comic, and odds are it was influenced by this goldmine of a series. The book follows Hawkeye and the Young Avengers' Hawkeye, Kate Bishop (Hawkguy and Hawkeye), as they go about their lives. From Clint’s Bed-Stuy apartment complex to the coast of California, where Kate starts her P.I. business.

This series includes some of the best-ever moments for Hawkguy as a character. The relationship with his brother Barney is perfect; the revelations in The Tape about Clint and his SHIELD work; the line, "I'm great at boats"…It's all there. And of course, the Eisner Award-winning issue Number Eleven, Pizza is My Business, which centers on Lucky the Dog and his view of the world. That issue is a perfect comic book.

Fraction and Aja's Hawkeye is a flawless comic. Hilarious, intense, emotional, so impossibly good. And it cemented Hawkeye – aka Goliath, aka the Golden Archer, aka Ronin, aka Hawkguy, aka Clinton Barton – as one of Marvel's best characters, and certainly the second-best Avenger.

And there you go. If you read through all of that, you should get it. Honestly, just reading that Fraction/Aja book should convince you of how wonderful Hawkeye is. But if none of that worked, well then"¦Honestly, I don't understand you.

Hawkeye is rad as hell.

I can't explain it any better.