Hawkeye #19 Review

Writer: Matt “The Gawd Body” Fraction / Art: David “The Excellence of Execution” Aja FRACTION BACK! FRACTION BACK! I SAID FRACTION BACK! That Hawkeye #19 dropped and it felt like”TIME TO DUMP ARROWS! ARROWS! ARROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWS!!!!!!” Lawd knows we been waiting for this to come back into the fold. Delays on delays on delays but finally Hawkguy Clint Barton is back in the quiver. Yet this isn’t the same Clint. We’ve seen Clint down on his luck before but after the attack that left Barney in a wheel chair, we find out that Clint was deafened. Fraction shows us that a situation liked this happened before when Clint was younger. Barney has been signing to Clint (YES WE GOT THAT ASL UP IN THIS ISSUE FOLKS) but Clint is not having it. The beautiful thing of Fraction’s storytelling is he can take Clint’s low to an all time new low. I am loving this portrayal of Clint down, bested and feeling defeated… which got Barney FED THE FUCK UP! Also, let’s talk about Barney Barton for God Damn minute. What a complete 180 we’ve seen Fraction take with his character from how we’ve known him in all previous incarnations (villainous older brother that’s a villain cause… who even knows why). Barney went from basically the reverse Hawkeye to a character all in his own right. At first it seemed so far fetched cause …you know.. they been at odds and trying to kill each other a times. This however is the best brotherly relationship I’ve seen in the Marvel Universe. Barney went from the down a…