Comic Book: Hawkeye (2012 series)

Hawkeye #1

October 2012
"Lucky: a Clint Barton/Hawkeye adventure"
Script: Matt Fraction
This series has a lot of non-linear storytelling. This issue starts out easy with just 2 timeframes run  in parallel, which I'll simplify a lot.Hawkeye (Clint Barton) in his recent Avengers costume falls backwards out of a window many floors up. [...]

Hawkeye #2

November 2012
"The vagabond code: a Clint Barton/Kate Bishop/Hawkeye adventure"
Script: Matt Fraction
This issue's non-linearity is just the standard 'open with a page from the middle of the story' thing. We see Clint Barton in a tuxedo diving into an indoor swimming pool with a bow-carrying female to escape a hail of bullets.Now we start at the beginning with Kate Bishop visiting Clint at home. [...]

Hawkeye #3

December 2012
"Cherry"
Script: Matt Fraction
This issue also starts with an action page from the middle of the story. This time Kate Bishop is driving a Dodge Challenger at high speed while Clint Barton leans out of the passenger window and fires arrows back at 4 (numbered) Mini Coopers which contain gunmen. [...]

Hawkeye #4

January 2013
"The tape: 1 of 2"
Script: Matt Fraction
The issue begins with a video frame of Hawkeye (Clint Barton) killing someone with arrows to the eyes.Then we're at 1 of Clint's apartment building's regular rooftop barbecues, and Kate Bishop is asking him if he's ever killed anyone. He doesn't actually deny it. [...]

Hawkeye #5

February 2013
"The tape: 2 of 2"
Script: Matt Fraction
The 1st page of this issue is again a flashforward, but only to the end of the 2nd page. Clint Barton is tied to a chair lying on a hotel bed when he's attacked by 5 sword-wielding (Hand?) ninjas. He contrives to get 1 of them to cut the tape binding his ankles and makes a run for the window. [...]

Hawkeye #6

February 2013
"Six days in the life of"
Script: Matt Fraction
This issue has events in 13-17th of December (not necessarily in order) scattered through current action on 18-19th of December. The individual sections are all dated. I'm going to describe it all in the proper sequence. [...]

Hawkeye #7

March 2013
"(no title given)"
Script: Matt Fraction
This issue is given the dates 29-30th October and was written in response to Hurricane Sandy which travelled up the east coast and hit New York on 29th Oct 2012.It only contains 1 time fracture and so is easily described in page order.On the evening of the 29th the rain has already begun. [...]

Hawkeye #8

April 2013
"My bad penny"
Script: Matt Fraction
This issue is scattered through with old-style comics 'covers'. The 1 on page 1 is called Doomed Love and shows Clint Barton's head surrounded by images of Kate Bishop and the 4 women in the following 2 paragraphs. [...]

Hawkeye #9

June 2013
"Girls"
Script: Matt Fraction
This issue has some tricky sequencing. It starts by backtracking to just before (nearly) the start of last issue. Edwin Jarvis opens the Avengers Mansion door to see a young woman asking for Clint Barton. [...]

Hawkeye #10

July 2013
"(no title given)"
Script: Matt Fraction
Kate Bishop is at 1 of her father's posh parties when she spots an interesting guy. The issue intersperses their conversation with the man's actual history. [...]

Hawkeye #11

August 2013
"Pizza is my business"
Script: Matt Fraction
This issue is told from the POV of Lucky the Pizza Dog, and so only certain words of human conversations register. It covers parts of last issue and several following ones we haven't seen yet. [...]

Hawkeye #12

September 2013
"Then came Barney"
Script: Matt Fraction
By the end of the issue it'll be confirmed that the vagrant is Barney Barton so I'll use the name throughout.Barney uses a payphone to ring his brother Clint Barton and arrange to meet at his apartment block at 9:00 tomorrow.Next morning Barney rings Clint's buzzer but gets no answer. [...]

Hawkeye #13

December 2013
"The U in funeral"
Script: Matt Fraction
Clint Barton leaves a voicemail for Bobbi Morse asking her how to spell 'incorrigible" because he doesn't have Internet to look it up. Then he gets a page from the Avengers to come out to play as Hawkeye. Next we see him, Black Widow and Spider-Woman nursing their wounds. [...]

Hawkeye #14

January 2014
"LA woman"
Script: Matt Fraction
In the Annual Kate Bishop left her New York Hawkeye partnership (with Clint Barton) and moved to Los Angeles with Lucky the dog. Unfortunately her enemy Madame Masque caused her to lose all her stuff and cut off her credit card. [...]

Hawkeye #15

April 2014
"Fun and games"
Script: Matt Fraction
The scenes in this issue are described in order.We start in media res with Clint Barton with his trousers down round his ankles being ordered into a van by some of the Tracksuit Draculas gang with guns. He asks them if they want to see a magic trick. [...]

Hawkeye #16

March 2014
"(no title given)"
Script: Matt Fraction
Another 1-off case for Kate Bishop trying to be a Private Investigator (without a license) in Los Angeles. She and Lucky the Pizza Dog are still house-sitting a beach-side trailer and cat for 2 old hippie ladies (who seem to have been away at a festival for a looong time). [...]

Hawkeye #17

May 2014
"The MBC Wintertime Winter Friends Winter Fun Special"
Script: Matt Fraction
This issue continues directly from #6 where neighbour Simone and her 2 kids came to Clint Barton's apartment to watch a cartoon special. Clint had agreed to it because he was responsible for wrecking her cable connection.The bulk of the issue is a version of that cartoon show. [...]

Hawkeye #18

May 2014
"(no title given)"
Script: Matt Fraction
Kate Bishop is still not doing a very good job of being a Private Investigator in Los Angeles. This evening she cycles over to the supermarket and runs into her mysterious friend who always seems to be there. Last time he persuaded her to stay in LA. But now he says *he*'s leaving. [...]

Hawkeye #19

September 2014
"The stuff what don't get spoke"
Script: Matt Fraction
In Clint Barton's chronologically previous issue (way back in #15) the assassin Clown stabbed him and his brother Barney Barton with 2 of Clint's own arrows. Barney was seriously wounded but the villain only had time to stab Clint in both ears. Now Barney is in a wheelchair and Clint is deaf. [...]

Hawkeye #20

November 2014
"(no title given)"
Script: Matt Fraction
This is another issue I'll try to unscramble and tell in chronological order.Last issue (#18) Kate Bishop in LA discovered that her enemy Madame Masque was part of a gang coming after the other Hawkeye (Clint Barton) in NY. And then Masque had the beach trailer she was living in burnt down. [...]

Hawkeye #21

April 2015
"Rio Bravo"
Script: Matt Fraction
In the last Clint Barton issue (#19) Clint lost his hearing (again) and brother Barney Barton got stuck in a wheelchair. Clint is getting by with the sign language and lip-reading he learned the previous time(s) he was deaf. [...]

Hawkeye #22

September 2015
"(no title given)"
Script: Matt Fraction
Last issue the Clown and the Tracksuit Draculas gang invaded the apartment building that Clint Barton (Hawkeye) 'owns' (but not legally). The tenants fought back. Clown and the TD leader Ivan Banionis left Clint and brother Barney Barton injured on the rooftop with 3 of the Draculas. [...]