HAWKEYE - Clint Barton & Kate Bishop
All-New Hawkeye (2016) #4
Variant cover by Michael Cho
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Thoughts on all-new hawkeye 2015 & 2016. I'm going to treat them as a unit because like...it reads as one book and not two? IDK I'm sure there's some behind the scenes stuff I'm missing for why it's two books and not a single series but whatever.
Anyways. It was like...fine?
One of the first things I noticed was that despite being billed as, well. All-New, (part of the All-New All-Different Marvel launch which (to the best of my knowledge), was meant to spotlight women and minority legacy heroes), it's about Clint. Which, like, fine, whatever, it has Clint on the cover, and the last three issues are about Kate and we see some flashes to her childhood, but, uh.
Well.
I don't know if Lemire came up with this, or Kelly Thompson in her Kate solo that was being published at the same time, but the idea that Kate looked up to and idolized Clint as a child is bad, especially considering that Kate already had her own motivations and backstory for wanting to be a hero.
Kate Bishop, as originally written, claims to have learned martial arts and self-defense because of multiple kidnapping attempts and a desire to protect herself.
While that is probably to some extent true*, she also later tells Jessica Jones that, at some point prior to canon, she had been assaulted and raped, and that was, if not the only reason she wanted to be a superhero, definitely a big motivator.
*Watsonian line of thought, not Doylist-- given later writing, I think Kate was fudging the truth a little bit, because she states this in either her first or second meeting with the other YA members. She also tells Jessica Jones that only three or four people know about this.
So then to just ignore that and be like, "yeah, actually, her entire motivation stems around a man" feels super fucking gross LOL.
Tangentially related but I think making Kate's dad have supervillain ties was unnecessary. Like, we know he's a shit person. You could have just stuck to him buying out apartments and evicting people en masse so he can gentrify their neighborhoods. It could even have tied back to how that's the exact same shit Clint was trying to fight in Fraction Hawkeye, but nooo we have to show he's shitty by having him team up with the fucking Matador of all people.
Anyways. Those are my thoughts.
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HAWKEYE - Kate Bishop
All-New Hawkeye (2016) #1
Variant Cover by Siya Oum
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What is!!! Your favorite Royai fanfic????
Hello! Excellent question! I have a couple all time favorites, which you may have already read since they’re some iconic pieces of Royai history imo ;)
delicate by @lantur (ao3): A wonderful, long, in depth riza character study, with some lovely royai on the side. My unofficial canon, because of how perfect the characterization and writing is.
We That Are Young by Stoplight Delight (fanfiction.net): a super old fanfic I read when I first joined the fandom that I still love :) it’s a sort of canon divergent sort of canon compliant account of Roy and Riza’s lives, spanning from when they were children to the start of the anime.
Buried Alive by @rizahawkaye (ao3): another one I read when first joining the fandom. Riza fakes her own death to infiltrate a terrorist organization. The storytelling is incredible and there’s lots of great twists and turns (as well as some delicious royai drama ofc)
And lastly Cessation- also by @rizahawkaye (fanfiction.net): a haunting little oneshot that has always stuck with me, about riza and roy reuniting one last time before roy is executed for his crimes in ishval.
Thank you for the ask! (Love your art btw!) :)
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I know this is not a new thought in the MASH fandom, but it is funny that the very first person BJ "all American family man archetype" Hunnicutt meets in Korea is Hawkeye "I have sex with men and bottom specifically" Pierce. How do you even recover
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