Posts Tagged ‘ Hawkeye ’

Over the course of SDCC, Marvel has been revealing pre-production art of the Avengers – and they fit together…

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Black Widow, Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Nick Fury, Maria Hill and Agent Coulson all look pretty damn good here – and honestly, I’m getting a little excited by next year’s movie especially after the post-credits bit on Captain America…

Oh, and if the Skrulls are in the movie as rumored, I’d say the chances of Coulson being one are pretty damn high, no?

From the stage at SDCC2010 – the cast of the Avengers movie – (L-R) Robert Downey Jr (Tony Stark/Iron Man), Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America), Samuel L Jackson (Nick Fury), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner), Joss Whedon (Director), Kevin Feige (Marvel Studios).

Do I have my concerns about this? A few.

But right now?

I’m just pretty damn excited about it.

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Ain’t it Cool is reporting that The Hurt Locker‘s Jeremy Renner may be signing on to the Avengers movie as Hawkeye.

Not a bad bit of casting; this rumor surfaced months ago but was debunked. However, AICN seems to think that that rumor was regarding negotiations, while this rumor is about actually signing up.

Sadly, I suspect that Hawkeye is less likely to be wearing his traditional purple togs, and more likely to be wearing something along these lines instead:

In other casting news, last week Bleeding Cool ran a story about Nathan Fillion being a lock for Hank Pym – which would be nice, but if I want any Whedon alum playing the Avenger’s batshit crazy scientist I’d rather it be Alan Tudyk.

But then, it is Bleeding Cool…

…Echo?

Echo – at one point an integral part of New Avengers – hasn’t been seen since Secret Invasion. In fact, she hasn’t even been mentioned since Secret Invasion and this is the gal that was at the heart of the woman-in-man-suit Ronin storyline and had taken steps towards a romance with Clint Barton prior to Mockingbird’s return.

I’d finally grown to like her, and she vanishes without a trace. What’s up with that?

…that door?

Back in New Avengers #26, ol’ Clint Barton went looking for the Scarlet Witch and found her living a tranquil life unaware of her past. Clint being Clint, he ended up sleeping with her and the next day went to investigate a door in her house behind which her Aunt Agatha (presumably longtime witchy-nanny to the stars Agatha Harkness) was supposedly sleeping. Instead he remembered Dr Strange’s warning about looking for things that would make things worse, so he leaves it be.

Now since the last time we saw Agatha Harkness she was dead as a doornail and had apparently been so since her last return to life way back in West Coast Avengers the question remains – what was behind the door?

And why does Clint Barton look like Simon Pegg?

…Tigra’s unborn Skrullbaby?

During the time that a Skrull (well, multiple Skrulls) were masquerading as Hank Pym, he was knocking boots with Tigra. Well, unfortunately, that Skrullsperm’s mighty adaptable and Tigra is currently with child. So what happened to it?

Actually, writer Christos Gage has told me to check out Avengers: The Initiative #35. I just wanted to write Skrullsperm. Twice.

It seems to me that Marvel are screwing with me.

I’ve dropped X-Men in favor of trades, something that would have been unthinkable to me a few years ago and, with the end of Siege and the dawning of the Heroic Age, I was going to jump ship on all the Avengers books too – again, in favor of trades.

While I’m still planning to do this, Marvel seem intent on luring me back to the comic store week to week. It started with Ben Grimm.

The Thing – probably my second favorite Marvel character (or at least Marvel superhero) is on the Avengers, a team that has always been one of my favorites. I enjoyed his (very) brief stint on the West Coast Avengers (yet another firm favorite) back in the early days of that team, loved Marvel Two-In-One and his solo series – so having him on this team is one hell of a way to make me want to carry on picking up the New Avengers.

But no, that wasn’t enough.

They also announced Young Allies by Sean McKeever. Normally this wouldn’t be a huge deal for me, but two of the members are former member of the New Warriors Firestar (favorite team book ever, just in case you missed that) and Gravity (McKeever’s Gravity mini-series made me a fan of the character for life).

Anything else?

Oh yes, the bastards.

Jim McCann has a Hawkeye & Mockingbird ongoing coming March. So that would be my third favorite Marvel hero and his wife.

Goddammit.

What else have you got up your sleeve, Marvel?

A New Warriors relaunch?

The return of Marvel Team-Up?

A back-in-continuity Power Pack?

An ongoing Cloak & Dagger?

What, Marvel, what?

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The reason for the girly noise was, of course, the echo of this:

Like father, like daughter!

Bullseye calls Osborn on being a lunatic and his hair?

When did Bullseye become the voice of reason in any team?

Just read a preview for next week’s New Avengers #50 which got nicely into the heads of some of the current team roster – but the bit I really liked was this:

Seems like Bendis has finally gotten ahold of Clint Barton’s smart-ass self rather than the kind of introspective whiner he’s been since he came back.

Did I say it was nice to have HawkeyeRonin and Mockingbird back together again?

Because it is!

That’s…that’s some outfit. I guess Mock got taken after she ditched the long pants, eh?

I am looking forward to this (and someone I know convinced me that it the whole hell/Legion of the Unliving stuff can be explained away) – but that’s some outfit.

Sidebar: I don’t so much mind if Clint keeps getting called Ronin, but could we lose the ugly costume sometime soon?

Please?

Second sidebar: I’m quietly hoping that Mock got replaced towards the end of the AWC series, and not before she showed back up in the book in Byrne’s run.

…not Mockingbird sacrificing herself to save her husband and teammates?

…well, okay then…

Sigh. I’m such a softy.

But I really wanted Clint to answer ‘Donna Karan’.

I wonder – could Clint reclaim ‘Hawkeye’ and Echo reclaim the ‘Ronin’ identity?

Please?