Hi all, this piece is now up up for sale on @threadless as a Men’s and Women’s Tee - get yours here! This is the first design I’ve ever had printed by Threadless, and it is quite surreal to have my art on a licensed piece of Marvel merch! Very exciting!
HAWKEYE VOL. 2 HC Written by MATT FRACTION Penciled by DAVID AJA, FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA, ANNIE WU, CHRIS ELIOPOULOS & JAVIER PULIDO Cover by DAVID AJA Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Eisner Award-winning reinvention of the arrowed Avenger concludes! Kate Bishop heads to Los Angeles to get away from New York and Clint Barton — but she can’t escape trouble, because Madame Masque is hanging out poolside! As Kate helps a reclusive artist find his lost masterpiece, Madame Masque finds Kate. By which we mean tries to kill her again. Meanwhile, back in New York, Hawkeye is reeling from recent events. And just when Clint’s rock bottom couldn’t arrive fast enough, his brother shows up. After a lifetime of bad decisions, Clint and Barney Barton realize they’ll have to save one another — if they don’t kill each other first. And when Clown and the Tracksuit Draculas lay siege to their building, it doesn’t go well! Read this book, bro! Collecting HAWKEYE (2012) #12-22 and ANNUAL #1. 280 PGS./Rated T+ …$34.99 ISBN: 978-0-7851-5461-7 Trim size: oversized
This David Aja cover is INCREDIBLE. Love the optical illusion of Wanda’s face in the landscape shot (island is eye, red border is headdress, mountain is lips, helicopter is nostril)
In retrospect, Hawkeye and the Winter Soldier should have been a thing. It should have been it’s own show.
I say this as someone who loves Anthony Mackie and I get the idea that he and Sebastian Stan had chemistry and we’re making shows, so they should have a show. (Never mind that the “chemistry” is Anthony Mackie’s charisma and media training, much as I love Sebastian Stan as an actor, this is important to acknowledge.)
Sam should have had a chance to be the sole focus. Even now that they’ve announced a Cap 4 movie, I have this feeling that he’s been short-changed as a character. Or going to be further short-changed. Short-changed again.
Watching Hawkeye I have the same feeling that I had with TFATWS and Loki. That is, 6 episodes is much shorter than you think. The potential to play this differently is maybe just a sticky feeling that we can’t escape. Certainly introduction Kate Bishop is a noble pursuit.
Maybe there’s just always other ways to do things. Thank goodness for Ao3. Or more likely there are still persistent forces in corporate media that deprive us of more meaningful stories in the pursuit of money.
Thor #600, April 2009, written and penciled by Chris Giarrusso, written by J. Michael Straczynski and Stan Lee, penciled by Olivier Coipel, Marko Djurdjevic, and David Aja
Reading a series and finding a David Aja issue is a marvelous treasure. He is just a genius. This page is perfect; track the way your eyes scan to every element, and how they float across Arnim Zola’s panel after Cap identifies him. There are several other postable pages from this amazing issue, but I particularly like the way Aja draws Zola, one of Marvel’s top two dumbest-looking villains.
Secret Avengers#18, October 2011. w: Warren Ellis. a: David Aja / Raul Allen.
