6. ...And Has Featured In Some Of Hawkeye's Best Comics
Marvel Comics/David Aja
Although the lack of attention paid to Hawkeye on the big screen would denote a lack of interest off it, that couldn't further from the truth. Since 2012, the character has featured in some of Marvel's best and brightest works, with Matt Fraction and David Aja teaming up to tell arguably the best superhero book of the decade in the book's fourth volume.
Any series would do well to take the bulk of its inspiration from that comic. It cuts to the core of Barton's character and poses one very compelling question: what does Clint get up to when he's not an Avenger?
Turns out the answer's quite a lot. He adopts a pizza-loving dog, called Lucky, fends off mispronouncing mobsters after his apartment block and spends the rest of his hours being a hopeless divorcee. Meanwhile Kate, by this point an equal to Clint, tries to help him get his s**t together as best she can.
Bishop remained a staple of the series even after Fraction and Aja departed, becoming the lead in Kelly Thompson's stint on the character. All have been charming in their own way, and though she's not always taken a place centre stage, she's been a fundamental part of each comic's success.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
