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Hawkeye #9: Review

Apr 2013
Matt Fraction, David Aja

Story Name:

Girls

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Rating:
4 stars

Hawkeye #9 Review by (July 16, 2022)
Clint Barton and Bobbi Morse met in his 1st mini-series and were married very soon after. They spent married life in the West Coast Avengers but she 'died' at the end of the series. Later it was revealed that it was a Skrull replacement who died, and Mockingbird returned at the end of Secret Invasion. The duo tried to renew their relationship but it had always been rocky. In fact before she got Skrulled they had been about to divorce. So now it seems they're making it official.

Jessica Drew and Clint got together during Fear Itself, but this really is where the relationship breaks up. However her next 4 apps will still be in this series (next #13).

Black Widow and Mockingbird will also hang around for #13 and more.

The mysterious Cherry/Penny will be back in #21-22.

The assassin at the end is known as the Clown, and he's obviously been hired by the boss of the Tracksuit Draculas last issue. His origin story next issue will precede his app here, until it repeats Grills' death scene.

Grills we hardly knew ya. He was just 1 of the apartment block crowd in #1 and #4. He had a bit part in #6. But he was virtually a co-star in #7. (However that was the Hurricane Sandy issue shoe-horned in to the schedule.)

If I untangle the continuity here I think that after the opening replay the 1st scene chronologically is the 3 women meeting Kate Bishop. Then Black Widow goes off on her own bit hunting down Cherry. Meanwhile Kate's bit plays out, then Jessica's and then Bobbi's. Grills' death follows all of them.





 

Synopsis / Summary / Plot

Hawkeye #9 Synopsis by Rob Johnson
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. He's about to send her away when Clint Barton (with a playing card stuck to his forehead) invites Cherry in. She kisses him (and he loses the card) which brings us to the scene from last issue where Black Widow, Mockingbird and Spider-Woman (with playing cards on *their* heads) interrupt them.

Last issue followed Clint and Cherry, with a bit of help from Kate Bishop, getting a safe from the Tracksuit Draculas gang, supposedly to save Cherry's life. But then they couldn't open it. Now we get to see what the women in Clint's life think about all this.

Natasha Romanoff (here dubbed the work wife) investigates Cherry online (probably official criminal databases) and discovers that she's really a parolee named Darlene Penelope Wright. Then she intercepts her boarding a train under her real name, and catches her after a brief chase. Cherry says she's on the run from some bad people, and now they'll be after Clint too (as we saw at the end of last issue). Black Widow lets her go.

Now it's Bobbi Morse's turn (the ex-wife). She comes round to Clint's apartment to get him to sign divorce papers but has to wake him up. Clint says he's only been asleep 45 mins, and then he spots a suspicious van in the street (but apparently he's been over-paranoid about such things lately). Mockingbird goes down and approaches 2 Draculas who complain about dangerous women and start shooting at her. She beats them up but gets drenched by a fire hydrant that is collateral damage. She dries herself off while Barton vaguely tells her what's going on. He bought the apartment block which has annoyed some villains who wanted to evict everyone. (He claims he got the money from his brother, which we know isn't true.) He checks his answering machine and gets a message from Kate Bishop.

Kate Bishop (the other Hawkeye) wakes to find Natasha, Bobbi and Jessica Drew in her bedroom. They want to know where Clint lives, because the last address he filed with the Avengers was in Chicago. They also want to know who the mystery woman is and what Clint's been doing with her. As far as they can tell he may be an accessory to a murder. (Actually I believe nobody's dead, and Cherry/Penny did it all by herself.) Kate tells them what she knows and heads off in her purple Hawkeye outfit on a purple scooter to Clint's place. On the way she leaves him a heads up on his answering machine. She sees the van outside Clint's apartment. The 2 occupants attack her and she beats them up, including nutting 1 with her purple scooter helmet. But she sees Jessica Drew getting to Clint's before her.

Jessica Drew (dubbed the friend-girl) wakes him up and slaps his face for sleeping with Cherry. She says he always lets down the people who care for him, and when Kate enters she warns her to stop hanging around with him before he messes her up too. Kate quips that she doesn't hang around with him, *he* hangs around with *her*. Jessica leaves. Kate commiserates with him, saying he's a bad boyfriend but not a bad person. Clint goes back to bed to wallow in pity as she says she got somewhere to be tonight.

Much later Barton is on the roof with his friend and neighbour Grills (barbecuing something as usual, but he seems to have a puppy now). Clint has just unloaded his feelings, and Grills suggests if he wants the woman (we presume Jessica) back he should write it all down in a letter for her. Hawkguy dashes off to do that, not hearing Grills remind him that he now knows (since #7) that his name's really Gil. And then Gil is interrupted by a man in white-face makeup (with a black tear from 1 eye). Gil asks where *he* came from but the man shoots him dead before answering "I told you. I came from Hell.".



David Aja
Matt Hollingsworth
David Aja (Cover Penciler)
David Aja (Cover Inker)
David Aja (Cover Colorist)
Letterer: Chris Eliopoulos.
Editor: Steve Wacker. Editor-in-chief: Axel Alonso.

Characters

Listed in Alphabetical Order.

Black Widow
Black Widow

(Natasha Romanoff)
Hawkeye
Hawkeye

(Kate Bishop)
Hawkeye
Hawkeye

(Clint Barton)
Jarvis
Jarvis

(Edwin Jarvis)
Spider-Woman
Spider-Woman

(Jessica Drew)

Plus: Clown (Kazimierz Kazimierczak).

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