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Mundiquest (part 2) Tempus fugit
Last issue began Hardcase's search for the elusive villain Rex Mundi who he believes is behind all his woes, starting from the robot NM-E who killed his teammates in the Squad (as recounted in #1 and the Death Of The Squad mini-series). But his quest was immediately derailed when he met with Ultra mercenary Trouble in a bar who agreed to tell him about Mundi, because Trouble died of a broken neck and there was no-one near him but Hardcase. (But we saw that Rex was there and his telekinetic female assassin Trauma did the job.)But 1st we look in on Loki in Vahdala floating above the Godwheel. Since getting stranded in the Ultraverse (in Godwheel #3) he's acquired the Roc's Egg (in Lord Pumpkin/Necromantra #1) which can teleport him anywhere. He's just got to find a good destination. He's using a scrying pool to find other items of power when he detects that the Infinity Gems from his native 616 universe have landed on Ultra-Earth (courtesy of Rune in the Rune/Silver Surfer 1-shot). And he tells the Egg to take him to that planet.Now a San Bernardino, California police detective grills Tom Hawke about the case. No-one in the bar actually saw him break Trouble's neck but he's their only suspect. He has motive because the villain destroyed his house and tried to kill him. But Hawke believes that Rex Mundi paid him (and his fellow Omega Team mercs) to do it, and Mundi had him silenced. The cop says they haven't got enough to arrest him but don't leave town.But Hardcase does drive out into the desert to think in the armoured RV he bought last issue. He remembers that his love Choice (Amy Tran Kwitny) told him she was pregnant when they met on the Godwheel (#20), but she's staying there for a while to finish helping some folks and he plans to ask her to marry him when she gets back. He also recalls that Choice's powers come from having a transplant of a portion of the brain of his comatose previous love Starburst (Linda Warren) of the Squad. And he wishes that he could go back in time to save the Squad from NM-E (he has survivor's guilt).In the midst of his agonised introspection he sees a meteorite land nearby. He finds that it's a small orange gem which compels him to put it on his brow. He sees a rabbit bound past and is again compelled to think about 'rewinding', and sees the rabbit run past him is reverse. And he realises that the gem allows him to control time. (Ie he's found the Time Gem of the Infinity Gems.)Of course he decides to use it to go back (to 1992) to when NM-E destroyed the Squad. But instead of trying to save them he uses the Gem again to follow the robot back to it's source, which he expects to be Rex Mundi. He sees it get 'encased' in a bubble and 'sink' into the ocean. But then it continues sinking into the ocean floor where he can't follow it. So he resorts to plan B.He appears at a party given by Carlos Jimenez (Forsa of the Squad) to celebrate his new house. The rest of the Squad are there including Tom Hawke. He then has to persuade them that he is Tom from the future come to warn them about their upcoming demise. (And showing them his now heavily-scarred face isn't necessarily going to prove his identity.)But he succeeds and when NM-E arrives to fight them they're ready for it. Forsa's telekinesis and DJ Blast's remote detonation bring it crashing to the ground in flames. The 2 Hawke's super-punch it and DJB and flying Starburst fire blasts at it. The Hawke's hold it down while Forsa buries it in derelict cars from a nearby crushing place. Everybody escapes while Blast detonates it from afar. Just before time-jumping away Hardcase warns them to specify cremation in case they die, to stop anyone experimenting with their corpses (as Starburst's brain was used to empower Choice).When he gets to the present he begins to discover that some things have changed. His face is no longer scarred, which suggests that NM-E is truly gone. (He got the scars fighting the robot in #16-18.) However he still has the costume he acquired in the Godwheel event, even though it turns out his secretary Celia Brady hasn't seen it before. hHe asks about Linda (his previous love) and is distraught to learn that they and the rest of the Squad still died (this time in an explosion at Forsa's house-warming party). He was the sole survivor again. And his Malibu house has also still been destroyed. And he still went looking for someone called Rex Mundi who he held responsible.He realises that Rex Mundi just modified his plans. But Mundi also targeted Choice (his new love) so he asks about her and learn she's still doing commercials for the Choice Corporation. He rushes over there and bursts into a boardroom meeting where he sees a woman in a somewhat-similar Choice costume and looking quite like Amy. But she denies the name and doesn't know him. The boss Bob Dixon threatens to have him arrested.However Loki materialises in a cloud of smoke claiming that HC has stolen his Time Gem and demands it back. Choice powers up to attack him and Tom thinks that *she* has been given the powers from Linda's brain. Serial liar Loki denies this, but also modifies his thievery claim to say that someone else took it from him (as God Of Time) in cosmic battle but if it's returned to him he can put Hawke's universe back to what it should be. He cites knowing what happened as proof that he is who he says he is.Tom desperately trusts him and hands over the Gem. Loki immediately goes into laughing megavillain gloat mode and leaves without changing Tom's world. He says Rex will be amused. Hardcase swears to kill Mundi. We see that villain, naked as usual, watching through his omniscient screens and saying "Not if I kill you first".


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Till Death Do Us Part
Hawkeye and Mockingbird awaken as
captives, tied to a rack in a mortuary. The mastermind enters and
introduces himself: Crossfire, ex-CIA agent turned mercenary bent on
eliminating all costumed heroes. His current plan is to kill Hawkeye
and his company will be hired to arrange the funeral. With all of the
superheroes in attendance, Crossfire will activate his new
mind-control device and send them into a rage, killing one another.
Why me? Hawkeye asks. Because he is the weakest most vulnerable of
the heroes and so easiest to kill. Ouch. Crossfire orders Oddball and
Bombshell to take the two into the White Room where they will be
guinea pigs for the mind-control weapon. Realizing there is no way
out, H and M share a tender moment and a kiss—and then Crossfire
turns on the machine. They try to resist but quickly begin battling
one another and Hawkeye is clearly outclassed without his bow. After
Hawks takes a real beating, Crossfire turns off the machine just to
see how long it takes them to recover. While he has his wits, Hawkeye
realizes he has some special arrowheads concealed on his person; he
selects a hypersonic head and pops it into his mouth. When the
machine is switched on again the arrowhead cancels out the ultrasound
device. In his right mind, Hawks uses his brute strength to knock
Mockingbird out—and then he fakes passing out. Crossfire sends
Oddball and Bombshell to bring the heroes out of the White Room and
Hawkeye, although mostly deaf from the sonics, conks the two henchmen
on the head and heads off to confront the Big Bad. Hawks enters to
find Crossfire aiming his own bow at him—but the villain isn't
strong enough to pull the bow and he drops the explosive arrow,
knocking himself out. Recovering his bow and quiver, Hawkeye, fearing
he's killed Mockingbird weeps over her but she awakens and they kiss.
After the police have picked up the baddies, Mockingbird suggests to
Hawkeye that they become a team—and a couple. Hawkeye, unwilling to
let her know he is deaf, says “See you around” and walks off,
confusing her....
Epilogue: Later we see Clint and Bobbi
in a honeymoon cottage in the Poconos, glad that she ran after him
and demanded a real answer. And for now they are going to live
happily ever after....


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Beating the Odds
Villains Oddball and Bombshell keep an
eye on Mockingbird's apartment building: they have planted a bomb
inside to kill her and Hawkeye when they return. The heroes arrive on
the roof and head downstairs; seconds later an explosion destroys the
top floors. Oddball rejoices—until Bombshell spots Hawkeye and
Mockingbird among the crowd of spectators. [It is revealed that they
spotted footprints in the dust outside the door so Hawks shot an
arrow into the room from a safe distance.] Later, they assess the
damage and the apartment is a total loss, along with Hawkeye's
sky-mobile which was parked on the roof. Mockingbird flirts but
Hawkeye brushes her off. H and M deduce that Cross Technological
Enterprises is sending more hit men after them. With their limited
funds, Hawkeye purchases more arrows and they take the subway to the
address on the shipping list they took from CTE; on the train they
run into Steve Rogers (Captain America!) who offers his help in
whatever they have going on but Hawkeye declines, fearing being
sidelined again as he was in the Avengers....
Walking through Grand Central Station,
they spot Oddball who is clearly leading them into a trap. As Hawkeye
pursues the villain, Mockingbird is zapped by Bombshell, disguised as
a nun. This leads to a fight between the ladies and Mockingbird
loses. Meanwhile, Hawkeye has cornered his foe and they exchange
projectiles, throwing balls vs arrows. The baddie ducks into a
departing train, leading Hawkeye to leap on the back and pursue him
through the cars. At the next station, Oddball ducks out and climbs
into the building's rafters; Hawks finally manages to trap his foe on
a high girder when Bombshell arrives and knocks Hawkeye out with a
small explosive, catching him as he drops. She tells her partner that
the boss has changed his mind and he wants the two heroes alive for
some kind of experiment....


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Point Blank!
In an abandoned railroad tunnel,
Hawkeye, still wearing the outfit that was torn up last issue, has
been practicing his archery for the last 42 hours and has yet to hit
a bulls-eye. He collapses from exhaustion and his depression over
what happened last time; a gang of punks discover him, recognize him
and plan to torture and kill him. His instincts kick in and he fights
back, clobbering them and heading off. He returns to his apartment
and finds that, having lost his job as security chief for Cross
Technological Enterprises, he has forfeited the company-owned
apartment and all of his stuff was removed. Mockingbird meets him
there and takes him back to her loft where he asks who she is. She
tells her tale: Barbara “Bobbi” Morse, science student, SHIELD
Agent, tracked down Ka-Zar, investigated corruption in SHIELD under
the code-name Huntress, changed her name to Mockingbird, got shot,
recovered, went free-lance. Clint falls asleep, Bobbi runs some
errands, a Cross hitman called Silencer (black outfit with shiny
metal eyes) enters to assassinate Clint. Feeling a gun barrel to his
head wakes him up and there is a fight but Hawkeye is at a
disadvantage since the bad guy makes no noise at all; it's Bobbi who
saves the day and clouts the villain who dives out the window and
flees. Clint deduces that the baddie had a sound dampener in his suit
(“Great gimmick”). Clint dons the costume Mockingbird repaired
for him and they visit scientist Jorge Latham who can brief them on
the changes in security made since Cross fired Clint....
The two heroes break into CTE's
administration building where they search the top secret files for
evidence on the mind-control project. They are interrupted by
Silencer; Hawkeye takes him on while Mockingbird continues the
search. The two enemies scuffle silently for several pages (“Weird
character. I'm used to baddies who can't shut up”) and go crashing
through the window to land on Hawk's sky-mobile was hovering outside.
The fight continues on the moving craft and ends with Hawkeye
dropping Silencer into a smokestack. He returns to the office where
Mockingbird joins him, having found the info they were looking
for—and she doesn't mention the eight guards she took down in the
process....


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Listen to the Mockingbird
Hawkeye, now security chief of Cross
Technological Enterprises on Long Island, is taking his new rocket
sled on a test drive through the sky. He spots a trio of interlopers
on CTE's roof and goes down to investigate: he fires three arrows
simultaneously, containing a bolo, a net, and some glue and traps all
three. Then we learn that the “baddies” are the sky-mobile's
creator Jorge Latham and two colleagues, helping Hawkeye test his new
toy. The firm's publicity director Sheila Danning arrives and she and
Hawkeye go off on their date. Back at his apartment, Clint showers
and changes, then, in response to her question, he recounts his
history: Clint Barton, orphan with brother, joined circus, taught
archery by his mentor the Swordsman, discovered mentor was crook,
nearly killed for his trouble, inspired by Iron Man he decided to
become a superhero, was mistaken for a villain and fought Iron Man,
omits mention of Black Widow. Then Clint's emergency beeper goes off
and he insists on going off to investigate. At the CTE warehouse he
encounters a costumed lady adventurer called Mockingbird; they takes
turns getting the drop on each other while she tells him that Cross
is creating some sort of mind control device—and then the guards
arrive and Hawkeye hands her over....
Returning home, Clint finds Sheila
asleep and wakes her—but something is still bothering him and he
returns to the warehouse. There he is surrounded by twenty guards
intent on taking him prisoner; he shoots out the lights and takes
several of them down in the dark until they reveal they have Sheila
prisoner. Hawkeye surrenders and drop him into a storage tank with
Mockingbird; he asks if Sheila is safe and then Sheila reveals that
she is working with the baddies and her part was to keep him
distracted—and then they start filling the tank with liquid
industrial waste. Hawkeye sinks into a depression while Mockingbird
nags him into trying to escape; with a cord and a rocket arrow-tip he
summons his sky-mobile, snags it and they are pulled to safety.
Dropping Mockingbird off, he crashes the sled into Sheila's office
window; he threatens her but can't bring himself to hurt her. He just
takes his bow and arrows and departs; as he goes by Mockingbird jumps
aboard. The rest of the ride is quiet....


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Rage
Hawkeye and Rover are in the Amazon jungle, assaulting the
Secret Empire base where they are performing experiments on animals to create
monster soldiers. The two cut their way through various guards and an alert
comes to Viper; Trick Shot and Javelynn volunteer to take on Hawkeye but Viper
decides to test their new bio-constructs. Soon, Hawkeye and Rover detect an
unusual smell and they spot agents setting up videorecording equipment; then
they are attacked by a werewolf-like creature, a larger meaner version of
Rover. They flee through the woods with more of the monsters on their tail as
some of them kill the Empire agents filming their performance. Clint and his
furry sidekick are trapped on a bridge by the beasts; their weight makes the
bridge collapse, sending the monsters down into the ravine. Hawkeye and Rover
hold on as the last monster reaches down for them—but Trick Shot, disgusted
with Viper’s treatment of the hero who he knows deserves better, kills the
creature then takes Hawkeye into a cave for refuge. Trick Shot reminds Hawk
that Mockingbird would not have wanted him to become a loner then distracts the
pursuers, allowing Hawkeye and Rover to reach the base. The archer blows up the
helicopters with exploding arrows, takes down Javelynn, and is attacked by
Viper wearing battle armor. She flies after the heroes firing her weapons;
Rover jumps on her (protected) face, spinning her around so Clint can fire an
incendiary arrow into her jet pack then flee before the big explosion. Later in
the jungle, Hawkeye decides to return to civilization and says goodbye to
Rover—and he is almost run down by a truck. So he decides to stay in the jungle
a bit longer.


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Masters of the Game
Hawkeye rushes the
wounded creature to the nearby town of Dunroman where the local physician and
veterinarian work to save its life. They do and Hawkeye names it Rover; soon
they find Secret Empire copters flying overhead searching for the hero and the
creature. Rover draws pictures to tell Hawkeye and the doctors that he was
being held captive and experimented on before he escaped. Hawkeye and Rover
return to the installation where the Secret Empire is packing up their
equipment for departure. They sneak into the ventilation system and locate
Viper, Trick Shot, and Javelynn. Clint sees Viper execute a subordinate for
arguing with her. Rover then finds the room he escaped from with the rest of
his pack/tribe locked up in cages; they watch in horror as two guards enter and
shoot down all of the caged creatures. Rover attacks the guards and he and
Hawkeye fight their way out. They return to Dunroman to discover that the Secret
Empire has destroyed the town and killed everyone in it. Hawkeye vows
retaliation….


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Run of the Arrow
War Machine shows up in answer to Hawkeye’s summons for
help. The two are bitter about their time in the Avengers and their
conversation guarded; Hawkeye shows him Rover as the third member of the team.
Rhodey takes Clint to the barn/lab of his tech guy Mack Mendelson who agrees to
make Hawkeye a new bow and arrows….
Aboard the Secret Empire ship, Viper outlines her plans to
recreate the experiment to Trick Shot and Javelynn while threatening the former
if he should betray her for his old student Hawkeye….
Hawkeye’s new costume and gear are finished as well as a new
sky-cycle. Mendelson has also pinpointed the Secret Empire’s new location, an
island near Baja. Hawkeye, Rover, and War Machine assault the place, battle a
bunch of guards, learn from transmission data that the real Secret Empire base
is in the Amazon jungle, and get out seconds before the place self-destructs.
Rhodey offers to join him for the next step but Clint has to go it alone and
the two heroes part….
At the Amazonian lair, Viper is shown the latest successful
project: an animal-man much larger and scarier than Rover….


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Shafted
To get away from the Avengers, Hawkeye has moved to the
Canadian Rockies near the Arctic Circle. He comes upon three hunters chasing a
caribou from snowmobiles; he fires a few well-placed arrows to disable the
snowmobiles, forcing the men to walk the thirty miles back to the road with his
warning ringing in their ears. Hawkeye then pursues the wounded caribou to put
it out of its misery but he finds the beast dead, killed by an animal that fed
on it. Clint does not recognize the animal that killed it and he pursues his unseen
quarry through the woods until he stumbles upon a secret installation. When the
sun rises he recognizes the building’s guards as Secret Empire. That night, as
he plans to sneak into the place, the alarms go off and the searchlights come
up: there is a big hunt for an escaping creature that Hawkeye cannot make out
in the dark. The searchers are headed by Trick Shot and Javelynn; the former
spots Hawkeye watching from the hills and fires an explosive arrow which Hawk
manages to shoot out of the air. But that was only a distraction for Javelynn
to attack him up close. Hawk escapes her and pursues the helicopter firing on
the mysterious quarry; he finds the wounded creature is some sort of dog-man
and he shoots down the copter with a shot into its motor. Clint takes the
wounded creature to the nearest town of Dunroman….
Back at the installation, Trick Shot and Javelynn report to
the Council of Ten where they are roundly chewed out by the leader, Viper….


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Then came Barney
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. He begs bike messenger Aimee for some change but she ignores him. Then he tries 2 guys in a van opposite but they are 2 of the Tracksuit Draculas (the 2 who were cruel to Lucky the Pizza Dog before Hawkeye rescued him from them in #1). They promise him 5 dollars if he lets them hit in the face, which they do repeatedly. Lucky comes to his rescue and the TDs reconise him as their old dog Arrow. While they're distracted Barney escapes with his bag.Now we get a flashback to Clint and Barney's childhood. Barney tries to teach his younger brother how to flip a coin at a bottle fast enough to break it. Clint's aim is true but he's not strong enough. Their father is abusive to them and their mother. At dinner that evening Clint loses his temper and attacks his pa, but just gets a black eye. That night Barney teaches Clint how to punch successfully, taking the blows and calling for more.In the present the TDs return with more Draculas in the evening and find Barney sleeping in an alley. They offer him a roll of 100s to let them all beat him up for 2 minutes. He takes the blows until the 2 mins are up. Then we realise he's conned them. He expertly beats *them* up until they run away to the van. But then he pulls a bow out of his bag and shoots out 1 of their tires as they drive away, causing them to crash into a lamppost. He takes the roll of money and leaves them with the reminder that they still owe him 5 dollars. He  goes to a liquor store and breaks 1 of the 100 dollar bills for a bottle of booze and a quarter for the phone. He rings Clint again and asks if he meant 9 in the morning or in the evening.Another flashback shows the boys being informed by a cop that their parents have been killed in a car crash. Clint is glad.Now Barney finds Clint and Lucky waiting for him. The brothers embrace.


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Rio Bravo
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. But they rallied their neighbours in the apartment block to defend it against the Tracksuit Draculas gang who are trying to drive them out so the whole area can be torn down for a new mall.Now Clint shows Barney holdalls full of money in the basement. He admits that some of it is Barney's (that Clint was given by Baron Zemo in the Hawkeye: Blind Spot mini-series) but the rest was taken from bad guys (in our #2). But he tells his older brother that if it all goes wrong he can take the money and escape.As the tenants prepare for a siege Clint gets a visit from ex-girlfriend Avenger Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman) who he called at the end of #19. Clint apologises for pushing her away like he does to everyone who cares about him. He apologises for hurting her (sleeping with Cherry/Penny) and she apologises for hitting him (#9). They almost kiss but then she gets an alarm call from the Avengers. He tells her to go, they don't need *him*. But she assures him they do as she leaves. And we see Cherry/Penny arriving by plane in New York.Barney urges Simone to take her kids out of here. He promises to join her at the harbour in 24 hours after he's helped defeat the bad guys. But Clint drags him and his wheelchair up the stairs to the roof where he'll be safe. Grills' dad is there with a couple of barbecue braziers aflame. Clint shouts to Deke and Aimee the bike messenger out front to go. Deke goes inside and Aimee pedals off, seemingly to safety.5 vans full of Draculas led by their old boss Ivan Banionis draw up. They know that Barton is on the top floor with the safe they're after. Deke panics as some of them enter and shuts his door. Then flaming coals rain down on those still outside, and Clint gets more of them with arrows from a fire escape. (He's still not wearing his Hawkeye duds but he's put on a suit and tie for the occasion.) Ivan urges his remaining men on, some via the entrance door and some up the fire escape. And hanging back the Clown loads a shotgun.Deke has joined a neighbour known as Tito. They climb up through a hole in a ceiling and Clint drops down to replace them. Meanwhile Ivan and the TDs have discovered a load of furniture blocking access to a higher floor. And Aimee stops her cycling and takes out Clint's car keys. Next we see his Dodge Challenger barrelling into the Dracula's still outside and then blocking the entranceway. Clint has crept up to the TDs at the barricade and takes aim with 2 arrows at once. But the Clown approaches from behind and shoots him through the thigh. Clint dives back into the room he came from, getting Clown in the shoulder with an arrow on the way. The villain enters the room to find that Barton has already escaped back up through the hole to the next floor. But as he limps away he gets repeatedly hit by a baseball bat wielded by the old lady tenant shouting "You hurt my boy".He feels himself being dragged up stairs and when he returns to his senses he's on the roof with Ivan, the Clown and some TDs. Barney is there in his wheelchair, hands tied behind him. They are hitting him and seem to be saying something about a safe. Then Ivan and Clown head back downstairs. Still unable to move Clint sees Barney work his hands free and he knows that his brother is going to take on the 3 remaining Draculas. He's doing well (and obviously didn't need his wheelchair as much as it seemed) and puts 2 of them down. But then as Clint forces himself to his feet the 3rd pulls out a knife and stabs Barney in the back. Clint decks the 3rd guy and cradles his dead(?) brother in his arms.And then Lucky the Pizza Dog shows up with an arrow between his teeth.


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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. She blagged a job house-sitting a beach trailer (and a cat) and also managed to get a cheap bow and arrows.But she's still broke (but she still somehow has a laptop) so she designs an ad claiming to be a super hero/private eye for hire. She goes to a nearby trailer and persuades the occupants to let her print some flyers off. They are an African-American gay couple Marcus and Finch planning to get married. But Marcus is angry because someone's stolen the orchids from a flower shop he ordered them from. She persuades them to let her get the orchids back, and if they're satisfied maybe they'll pay her.She cycles to Shoreside Floral and finds it burned down with the owner sitting outside nursing a black eye. He claims the villain Flynt Ward wanted to buy all the orchids. When the florist Gary refused he did all this and took them anyway. Gary daren't go to the cops because Ward is a major bad guy. Next stop is the cops where Kate talks to Detective Caudle. He tells her they know it was arson but unless the florist is willing to testify there's nothing the police can do. Then he throws her out of the station. She reports back to the wedding couple and says she's going to confront Ward. But 1st she has get some tinned food for the cat, who will only eat 1 specific type which she can't find. A helpful stranger locates 1 can hidden among some others.Bishop tries Plan A - the direct approach. She knocks on Ward's door and claims to be rich and looking to buy some orchids. She's been told he's the man to see. But he turns her away because she doesn't dress rich and he saw her arrive on a bicycle. So that night it's Plan B the stealth approach, complete with bow and arrows. She breaks in to a greenhouse and sees a single orchid in a pot. But then she sees goons attired in bellhop uniforms (like those working for Madame Masque in the Annual). They pull guns. She hits 1 in the shoulder with an arrow. They shoot at her and she runs away ... straight into the chest of a burly goon accompanied by Ward. This time she's *really* thrown out.Next scene she's back at the supermarket relating her story to the friendly stranger. He advises her that breaking and entering makes her a villain like her foes. She needs to be better than them. So she follows Ward around town on her bike taking photos of him selling drugs. However he spots her 1 time and runs her down with his car. Injured she still gets photos of him leaving the scene. And Caudle has him arrested for hit and run. He has a license to sell the drugs, but his gun will get him extra time in jail. But the detective warns this is *not* the start of a working relationship with her like they do on TV.Injured Kate returns to her neighbours with the single orchid. (I don't know how she got it or whether they pay her.) She meets the supermarket guy again who congratulates her and buys her some files and index cards - vital for a real PI. Then he disappears. The checkout girl claims CCTV shows there was no-one else in the store. Ward uses his phone call to contact Madame Masque from jail. She has all the other orchids strewn as petals in her bath water. They talk about Kate.


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Six days in the life of
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.On Thursday Dec 13th Hawkeye, Spider-Man and Wolverine take down some AIM troops and hand them over to SHIELD. Clint Barton gets knocked out (again). Spidey suggests he give himself a holiday and he says he's got the latest season of Dog Cops on a DVR to watch.On Friday evening Dec 14th Clint's up on the roof with the neighbours celebrating Kwanzaa. Grills gives him a DVR with the Dog Cops season on it. Clint tries to stop him calling him Hawkguy (Grills says like on MASH). The tracksuit Draculas (from #1 and #3) turn up to harass him. He goes down to meet them on the street and they beat him with baseball bats. (A stray arrow hits a cable dish on a fire escape.) Then they kidnap him ....... and as midnight takes us into Saturday Dec 15th they deliver him to their boss (higher up than Ivan who we met in #1). He says he doesn't mind about Barton helping Ivan's wife (who Clint knows as Cherry) to escape (#3). But he does mind that he stole the apartment building from them (by forcing them to sell it to him in #1). This has annoyed the higher ups that the whole gang work for. Barton has 24 hours to quit the building or they'll come and kill him and everyone else. Then they dump him back outside the apartment block.Back in his apartment Clint figures it's time to give in. He calls on bike messenger neighbour Aimee and asks her to deliver something to Kate Bishop.But Kate turns up at his apartment that day to return the bow and demand to know what's up. He explains that he's leaving or the Draculas will kill everyone in the building. Kate tells him to stand up to them (but seemingly doesn't stop to help as the other Hawkeye). So Clint hangs around and then when the time ticks over into Sunday the 16th he goes outside. A Dracula is there in a van. He points a gun finger and then drives off. Hawkeye waits.On Monday Dec 17th Clint decides to make his apartment his home by actually unpacking all his boxes. He finds stuff he'd forgotten he had like a Bladerunner laser disc. Neighbour Simone comes round to complain (because Barton owns the apartment block) that her cable doesn't work and her kids need to watch their favourite show's Christmas Special in a couple of days. The maintenance guy refuses to fix it because the dish is on a rickety fire escape and it was damaged by an arrow so it's Hawkeye's problem.On Tuesday Dec 18th Clint has called on Tony Stark to help sort out his audio-visual equipment. But the wires are in such a tangle that they resort to cutting them. Tony suggests they throw out Clint's whole outdated setup and go buy some better new equipment and then he can watch Dog Days. He offers to pay as a Christmas present. Hawkeye says he's got money himself now but is reluctant say where he got it (liberated from Ringmaster and a load of mob bosses in #2). And he doesn't want new stuff because he's emotionally invested in what he's got.Clint's got his apartment sorted out including his audio-visual equipment mounted on a wall. But he can't remember/figure out how it works. Then there's a knock on the door. It's neighbour Simone who's brought her kids round to watch their favourite TV show because her cable still isn't working. Clint says they can watch as much as they want if they can figure out how to make the controls work.


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Fun and games
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.Now we go back to where Bobbi Morse is visiting Clint in his apartment which he's currently sharing with brother Barney Barton. He's having trouble with his trousers because his belt broke and he can't get an alternative string to tie. She's been investigating the Draculas via the Internet including their strip club base (that Clint and Cherry/Penny invaded in #8). She's traced its ownership through shell companies to Ivan Banionis, who she points out Clint got deported (#1). And those companies own all the buildings around except Barton's apartment block, which is owned by Clint. Which probably annoys someone. In the present the Draculas are still telling Clint to get in the van but he's asking them to say the magic word "Barney". They do but he makes them shout it louder. And a dustbin lid hits 1 of them in the back of the neck. Followed by Barney with fists and elbows. The brothers put the Draculas down. And Clint can finally pull up his trousers. In another flashback Clint (with his pants tied up) and Barney meet Natasha Romanoff in a diner. The brothers keep looking around for enemies because they think she's arranged an undercover meeting, but Black Widow protests that this is just a normal diner. She hands over a dossier of her findings. 18 killings in the Tri-State area where the killer left the same symbol as was found at Grills' murder (#9). The victims were all in the Tracksuits' way, and no-one knows who the hitman is. We know he's Kazimierz Kazimierczak (who someone may call the Clown before this series is over). Anyway in yet another flashback we see Kazu being congratulated on his work by a bunch of businessmen who are discussing the 'luxury shopping destination' they intend to erect on the area around Clint's apartment. That apartment block is the only 1 they've failed to buy. The building is officially owned by Ivan Banionis, but attempts to contact it are met by Barton claiming to be 'interim superintendant and owner'. Kazu says he'll deal with it. Then we see Hawkeye outside his apartment building still trying to tie is pants up. The Draculas catch him by surprise and relieve him of his bow and arrows. They tell him to put his hands up and his trousers fall down. Which is where we came in. Then we have a scene where KK in his Clown whiteface and black tear meets with the Draculas' boss. He says that he now knows that Hawkeye is occupying the building illegally. So they can abandon their earlier cautious tactic (which only seemed to involve killing Grills as a warning) and go in hard, because Barton can't appeal to the police. Which seems to be what has been going on in the 'present' scenes. But now we pick up after the Bartons' fight with the TDs, and from now on it's linear storytelling. Clint retrieves his weapons. But then they hear an upstairs scream from neighbour Simone (see #6 and #17). Clint rushes in and up the stairs while Barney takes the fire escape. Hawkeye takes down with arrows 2 guards outside her apartment. He finds 2 more Draculas inside, 1 of them holding 1 of her children hostage. But then Barney reaches in through the window and pulls both TDs through it to throw them off the fire escape. Later Simone and her 2 kids are in Clint's apartment. He's called in fellow Avenger and ex-girlfriend Jessica Drew and he explains the situation. But she tells him the Avengers can't intervene in this because legally he's in the wrong. However he still believes he's doing the right thing. Barney interrupts to ask how the Draculas got in the building. Clint has the neighbours mobilised guarding the entrances. So someone must have *let* them in (we see the little old lady from #11 opening a fire exit for them). Clint rushes out of the apartment and downstairs (I don't know why) followed by Barney and then Jess. We see the Clown pick up 2 of Hawkeye's arrows. He stabs Clint with 1 and then Barney with the other. He leaves the building before Jessica gets there to find the 2 men dying.


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Lucky: a Clint Barton/Hawkeye adventure
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. He fires a grappling hook arrow and swings on the line to collide with the wall and then falls quite a way to land on his back on the roof of a car. Then we see him in traction in hospital with multiple severe injuries. 6 weeks later he's wheeled off the hospital premises in the insurance-mandated wheelchair, still with several bandages and sticking plasters. Then he gets out of the chair and kicks it into oncoming traffic.That's not the 2 timeframes, this is. Clint's looking the worse for wear again in a vet's asking them to fix a heavily-injured dog. They try to persuade him to let them euthanase the animal but he insists they make it better.In the 1st timeline the hospital orderly says Barton owes them $200 for the wheelchair, and Hawkeye hopes the Avengers insurance will pay for it. Then he grabs a cab to the Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone where he occupies the top floor, but traffic's bad so he gets out and walks. When he gets there he finds the landlord Ivan and his tracksuit mafia evicting Simone and her 2 kids because she can't pay the rent he's just tripled. Barton insists on checking the lease and there's nothing they can do about it. Ivan says they're all going to suffer the same fate. That night the residents have their regular summertime barbecue on the roof. They're all complaining about the rent and Clint says he doesn't care about the money, he just doesn't want to move. But the other tenants don't have his choice.Next day he goes to a Chinese restaurant where 2 of the 'mafia' and a dog are standing guard. Clint gives the dog some pizza and shows the men a bag full of money. They let him into the illegal gambling den in the back. He locates Ivan and dumps the bag in front of him saying it's enough to cover the rent for everybody. But Ivan doesn't want it because he wants the building empty so he can sell it for loads *more* money.Clint's been idly shuffling a pack of cards. Now he hurls a card to hit 1 goon in the throat and jabs an elbow in another jaw. Both their guns go off hitting others. He uses the ensuing chaos to clobber more of them but he gets thrown out of another window (but this 1's at ground level). The 2 guards pull guns and Barton runs away. A bullet grazes his arm but the dog attacks the shooter. Clint turns back to help and sees the dog kicked into traffic. He KO's the guys and sees an oblivious motorist about to run the mutt down. The expert marksman sends a coin through the driver's side window, alerting him into braking. But not enough to stop knocking the dog down.Meanwhile we've seen Clint asleep in a chair at the vet's when Ivan and 2 guys track him down. They call him out but he seizes the initiative and decks the minions before beating on Ivan who he calls a tracksuit Dracula. Then he offers him another large amount of money to *buy* the building off him. Ivan sort of accepts and Barton calls him a cab to take him to JFK airport to leave the country.Then the vet takes Clint to see the dog. He says he's lost an eye but he'll recover from his other injuries with someone to look after him. They find a collar with the name Arrow, but Clint says he'll think of a better 1.


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The stuff what don't get spoke
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. And we learn that he was also temporarily deafened as a child and had to learn sign language and lip-reading. But dejected Clint now refuses to use those abilities.Meanwhile the Tracksuit Dracula's ex-boss Ivan Banionis returns to the US. The TDs take him to meet the Clown who has a gun. Ivan thinks this is the end, but Clown hands the gun over and tells him to kill Hawkeye to get the apartment building back which stands in the way of a major development project.Back at the apartment Clint is still being stubborn and refusing all help, refusing to even speak to anyone. The brothers go up to the roof, Clint having to drag the wheelchair and Barney up the stairs. Barney forces him to read his lips to remind him that he's deaf not mute. Clint finally responds by saying that "they took everything". Barney punches him in the jaw and says it's not over yet.Clint remembers how his older brother used equal tough love after their father beat Clint again. He got Clint to fight back and advised him to learn to use everything as a weapon to hit with, and hit back until he makes them stop. Clint sign-protested that they couldn't make their father stop or go away. So Barney suggested they just *outlast* him. Now Barney tells Clint that he can get his lip-reading and signing skills back, and he can still do whatever he wants.Later Barney is telling a 'bedtime story' to neighbour Simone's kids when Clint signs him to gather everybody on the rooftop in 5 minutes. He tells them that he's now deaf and needs to practice his sign language. So he'll sign the rest of his speech and Barney will translate for them. He presumably reminds them how the Draculas (and the businessmen and mobsters above them) want this apartment block (and all the surrounding buildings they already own) to tear down and build an up-market shopping mall, but Clint 'bought' the building from Ivan and now he and the other tenants are refusing to move. Now the bad guys are coming for them but Clint stirs his friends up to fight for their homes. And then Clint phones his ex-girlfriend Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman) for her help and that of the other Avengers.While he was rallying the troops we saw images of the Barton brothers attacking Draculas and destroying their base and vehicles. I think this all happened before the speech because he tells Jess that they "went out and found a little trouble tonight" as a voiceover for part of that action.


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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. The brothers defeated the foes but Barney was stabbed, apparently fatally. Then Lucky the Pizza Dog showed up with an arrow in his mouth.1st we see that Clown and Ivan have gone to the Bartons' apartment where Cherry/Penny greets them with the safe from #8. She's opened it for them (despite having forgotten the combination in #8). They want the documents she stole revealing the illegalities behind the real-estate deal that requires the building to be emptied of tenants. She tells them she only wants her passport and some cash, but then pulls a gun out and says she's taking the incriminating evidence too. But then an arrow followed by Clint crashing through a window interrupts the standoff. Clown reloads his shotgun but Lucky runs in and savages Ivan. Cherry and Clint now have the upper hand.10 minutes ago Kate Bishop (the other Hawkeye) and Lucky turned up outside (having driven here from Los Angeles (#20)) and surveyed the mayhem. She made sure that Aimee was alright (last issue she crashed Clint's car into the Draculas at the front of the building). Then she entered the building and found some TDs dismantling the blockade of furniture leading up to a higher floor. A blast arrow took them out, and she sent Lucky upstairs with a spare arrow.Now Kate joins the tableau in Clint's apartment. Clint calls Lucky off the Russian. Kate shoots the gun out of Cherry's hand. Lucky leaps towards the Clown but he shoots him. Barton barrels into Clown and they fight as Kate cradles their injured dog. They take the fight out of the room. Cherry and Ivan eye the gun on the floor but Kate gets it and holds them off. The men's fight continues until Clint separates Clown from his shotgun and menaces the villain with an arrow. But he hesitates to kill and the foe reveals a concealed pistol in his sleeve and shoots the hero, but only in the shoulder (in revenge for getting an arrow in *his* shoulder last issue?).The other tenants round up injured Draculas. Cherry tells Kate she only wants her passport out of the safe, Clint can have the documents to save the building. Ivan dares Kate to shoot him because his men will hunt both women down. Kate admits  she's not a killer and tosses the gun towards Ivan. But as he reaches for him she puts an arrow through his wrist - for Lucky. And then she produces some handcuffs. Clown has Clint at his mercy with his pistol. But Kate bursts in and deflects his aim. Clown mercilessly beats her and reclaims his pistol. But Clint pulls the shotgun round(?) out of his wound and snap-flicks it into the villain's eye. And then he knees him, headbutts him and beats him unconscious. And goes to get some cables from the AV system to tie him up with.Later police are on hand to take over. Even later Clint and Kate are on the roof with Grills' dad and others. It seems that after Clint went downstairs Barney followed. Grills' dad figured he went to help. But Clint suddenly remembers all the money in the basement that he told Barney about last issue. The 2 Hawkeyes go down there to discover it all gone. Later still Bobbi Morse, Jessica Drew and Natasha Romanoff are round helping tidy up Clint's apartment. Lucky is alive and bandaged up. Clint's hands are bandaged too (and he's got a sling and a crutch) so Bobbi's forging his signature on some documents (probably making his ownership of the apartment building legal). Cherry/Penny leaves again, and later we see her on the same plane as the Tracksuit Draculas' old man boss and the apartment woman who was mother of 1 of the TDs.Then we see a meeting of some villains we saw in #8 (Kingpin, Madame Masque, Hammerhead, Owl, Tombstone, Mr Negative, Ringmaster and his aide Swordsman), this time joined by Silvermane and Kate's dad Derek Bishop. They're angry (again) at their plans being thwarted and agree that both Hawkeyes must die. Even Mr Bishop agrees that his daughter must be killed.Even later Clint's practising his archery and we see that he's got a hearing aid (again). (Clint was rendered deaf (again) last issue.) He gets a call from Barney on a yacht with Simone and her kids, and he's going to enjoy all that money. Then once-again-partner Kate joins him for practise.


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Cherry
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. But this time the whole story is going to be intercut.The story starts with the 2 Hawkeye's at Clint's apartment. Lucky the dog has lost his bandages and is fine. Kate is in a new superheroine outfit, basically an asymmetrical purple unitard with cutouts. (Purple has been the basic colour for Hawkeye costumes since forever, but it's also the dominant colour in this title.) Clint wants to sort out his trick arrows. Kate has his net arrow with the netting hanging out. Clint shows her the boomerang arrow and she asks why anyone would *want* an arrow that comes back to you. He goes out to buy some tape to label the nocks (the notched back ends of the arrows). He takes his bow and arrows with him in a long bag slung over his shoulder.In the car chase Clint fires an arrow which turns out to be a bola arrow. It entangles a gun but doesn't stop the man firing it. Clint tells Kate he wanted an acid arrow, but she can't tell them apart in his quiver because he *didn't label them*.Clint's having trouble finding tape. But he does see a 1970 Dodge Challenger with a pretty woman putting some bags in the boot. He says he always wanted 1 of those and she offers to sell it to him for cash. He tells her he's got loads of money, but 1st can she drive him to a store that sells tape.He finally gets an acid arrow and fires it into the grill of car #4 causing it to fall out of the chase. Then we learn that the woman is in the back seat tied up with tape over her mouth. We also learn the the chasers are the 'tracksuit Dracula mafia' from #1. Clint asks her if they're angry with *her* as well as him, but of course she can't reply.The early part of the story has skipped some scenes. Clint and the woman drove to his bank where he withdrew the agreed amount of cash. Then they found an office supply shop where he bought his tape. Then they had sex at her place. Now they're getting dressed except Clint's too busy asking questions he should have asked before like what trouble is she in to be selling her car for airfare to escape. He notices 4 identical (except for the numbers) cars parked outside before handing her the promised money. Then the Draculas break in shooting and grab the girl. Clint fights them naked (with an old-style Hawkeye mask drawn to censor his privates, which will become a running joke in this series) until he gets KO'd by a rifle butt.He wakes up and calls Kate at his place while dressing and asks her to come pick him up in his car so they can rescue this girl who's been kidnapped in *her* car. He explains that they can track her because his stuff is in her car including a tracer arrow. When Kate rolls up in his (purple) VW Beetle, Clint is outside finishing getting dressed. She jumps to the obvious correct conclusion.The Dracula mafia guy driving the Challenger with the woman in it lets us know that she stole the car from his boss, and tells her it better not be scratched. Then Katie rams the Beetle into the side, annoying Clint because it's *his* car now. He drags the bad guy out of the car and the Hawk-duo take his place. Before they drive off he sticks the Dracula to the ground with a putty arrow. But then the 4 Mini Coopers arrive and give chase. Which is where we started.We now continue after Clint-Hawk took out car 4. A sonic arrow doesn't do much good. Kate hands him another random shaft and its explosive tip turns car 3 over. She doesn't have a chance to use the Dodge's extra power to get away. But a cable arrow attached to a truck in another lane slices the roof off car 2, and a smoke bomb arrow stops its occupants from doing anything more. A rocket arrow causes an explosion but nothing else. Then as car 1 draws level Clint climbs onto their car's roof and gets purchase with a suction-tip arrow. Then he swings out to land on the other car and jab the driver with an electro-arrow. But the passenger has also reached out to grab Kate's steering-wheel. And both cars crash together.Clint wakes (again) to a Mexican stand-off. The Dracula passenger wants to swap his life for the woman's but Kate isn't ready to deal. Clint tells her to 'loose' her arrow, so she fires it in the air. He'd recognised it as his boomerang arrow which doubles back and hits the back of the bad guy's head.Later at the airport the woman offers to give Clint his money back because the Challenger's now a mess (but it seems he refuses the money and keeps the car). Then they kiss goodbye.


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The vagabond code: a Clint Barton/Kate Bishop/Hawkeye adventure
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. He's still got bandages from last issue. His thoughts tell us that she took over from him as Hawkeye for a while. She's a gifted bowman but young (early 20's) and a spoiled rich girl. (But if she was ever a spoiled brat I don't think she is now.) He tells her that he's just got a promotion in the Avengers. And demonstrates firing 3 arrows at once to hit 3 target areas, but Kate claims the Roman Emperor Domitian could do 4 arrows.Kate asks him why he's collecting newspaper clippings and a selection of photos. The photos show vagabond code that he learned about in his carnival days which is now springing up all over town. It warns hobos to get out of town before the police crackdown that will follow a big crime that's going to happen. And the clippings are Clint trying to second-guess what it might be.1 that caught his eye is the world's 1st 6-star hotel, the giant-size Metropol, which has been erected by Bernard Gunn in New York. It's opening will be a Cirque Du Nuit performance. Kate uses her connections to get them tickets. Bernie Gunn's an old family friend, but Clint says he's a major crook - as are most of the guests. We see Owl, Hammerhead, Tombstone, Madame Masque and Kingpin (plus an unidentified female).The master of ceremonies is the Ringmaster (of the Circus Of Crime), Maynard Tiboldt, but our duo have come prepared with special glasses to resist his hypnotic top hat. But 1st they are treated to a knife-throwing act. Barton recognises the style of his old (now dead) mentor (in Clint's carnie days) Swordsman (Jacques Duquesne), and the man unmasks as his spitting image.Then the real show starts as Tiboldt hypnotises the crowd and minions move amongst them relieving them of their valuables. Meanwhile others raid the safes in their hotel rooms, safe in the knowledge that these bad guys won't call the cops afterwards. The Hawkeye's split up - Clint goes after the safe robbers while Kate explores backstage. Clint battles long odds and goes down for the count. Kate invades the dressing room of a female performer and during a scuffle clocks her with a fire extinguisher. And that performer just happens to have a bow plus arrows stuck in a purple wig.Clint awakens in front of the Swordsman's other protégé with a fake French accent. He tells his men to take him out into the ocean, shoot him and drop him in. But there's a female hanging around carrying a bow with arrows stuck in her purple wig. As 'Swordsman' leaves she shoots some of the goons (non-lethally). Clint breaks free of the guys holding him with his hands tied behind his back. He leaps into the air and brings his bound hands under his feet and holds them up for Kate to split the tie with an arrow so he can join in the fight. Ringmaster runs in with 2 gunmen. Kate runs to Clint who picks her up and they crash through a glass wall, Kate shooting back at the bad guys all the while. They're exiting a room suspended over a pool, which is where we came in.They climb out of the pool and Kate fires 5 arrows simultaneously (1 up on Domitian). She hits Tiboldt and his 2 gunnies in the eyes (the arrowheads are blunt so they won't die, just may be severely blinded). 'Swordsman' returns with 2 swords claiming Barton has broken the carnie code. Clint takes the bow and fires an arrow which just misses the baddy's ear, but then rebounds off a wall to stick in the back of his neck, rendering him conscious but immobile.The duo leave the bow behind and hijack the boat which (presumably) the thieves were going to escape in, taking the loot with them. Kingpin tells all the other assembled crooks that the Avenger Hawkeye has just robbed them all, so they should think about how to remedy the situation.Later Clint rings Kate at home and asks her to become his partner. She shoots down all the reasons he gives including that she's rich (but now so is he). Another reason is that he doesn't want to sleep with her, because that messed up his previous female partnerships. She's happy with that because he's too old for her. Finally he says it's because he thinks she's driven to right wrongs like he is, but then he ruins that by suggesting she'd be safer doing that stuff with *him*. But still in the end she agrees.And we see he's got a wall map covered with crime cuttings, from all over the world.And we see he's still got the injured dog he rescued last issue, which he now calls Lucky.


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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.".


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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.It begins with a replay of an event from last issue as Lucky hears the argument between Clint Barton and Kate Bishop and slinks off. He passes loads of other apartment doors, identifying the occupants by smells and sounds but noting that Grills isn't there. He hears another dog barking and meets a puppy we saw on the roof with Grills last issue. The puppy leads Lucky up to the roof where they find Grills shot dead. Lucky detects by smell that Grills was having a barbecue and then some drinks with Clint. And then a stranger shot him and exited down the fire escape before driving off.Now we're in #12. Lucky heads to the apartment's garbage bins and scoffs some discarded pizza. He see some of his old masters the Tracksuit Draculas beating up a vagrant. He tries to warn them off, detecting a similarity between Clint and the hobo. But they recognise him as the dog they abused so he slinks away.The next scenes are from #13 as Lucky watches cops interview Barton about the death of Grills. And then Clint and Kate leave for Grills' funeral. While they're away Lucky and the puppy have a good time. But Lucky detects 2 TDs (his abusers) climbing the fire escape and follows them to the roof where they have a meeting with the assassin. He bites the assassin's wrist and 1 Dracula's leg and then plunges off the roof with the other 1. But they seemingly survive except the TD loses a sneaker. Next the assassin and the TDs are being bandaged up by 1 of the neighbours, with Lucky and puppy in attendance. But Lucky senses his current master returning and races off to meet him outside where they find the missing shoe.Then from #14 Kate quits the Hawkeye partnership and heads for Los Angeles, taking Lucky with her.


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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. Jessica Drew isn't talking to him. Mockingbird enters with a call for him from Kate Bishop to tell him Grills has been found murdered (at the end of #9). He rushes back to the apartment block and is consoled by Kate. But he believes his friend was killed by the Tracksuit Draculas to get back at *him*.Later he's asleep when he gets a call from his brother Barney Barton (#11) asking for money. Clint agrees to meet him 9:00 the next day. Then 2 cops come to ask him some questions. He admits to being the 'owner and superintendent' of the building, and they know he's Hawkeye and he was paged by them. The only corroboration he has for what he was doing before that is his phone call to his ex-wife.Some time after that he goes to Far Rockaway to offer his commiserations to Grills' dad (from #7).Then it's the day of the funeral and Kate makes sure Clint looks presentable. In the car to the funeral she tries to repair their partnership. She's here for him now as she knows he would be here for *her*. They both make each other a better person. But Clint has fallen asleep and dreams of dead Grills and his father's flooded basement (from #7). Grills' dad and many from the apartment block attend the funeral. So in the background do some Tracksuit Draculas and their boss. Meanwhile some other TDs meet Kaz/Clown on the roof of the block (as seen in #11). When Clint gets home he sees a sneaker on the pavement (explained in #11).Inside he gets another call from Barney who thought Clint meant 9:00 this *morning*. (See last issue for his adventures then.) Clint and Lucky the Pizza Dog go outside to wait for him, and we get the reunion from the end of last issue.Barney is sitting on the loo when we hear the conversation from the end of #11 where Kate quits the Hawkeye partnership and heads for Los Angeles with Lucky.Later the block hold a wake for Grills on the roof. His dad takes over his usual job of manning the barbecue. Clint introduces Barney to them, and they welcome him to the 'family'.


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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.Kazimierz Kazimierczak and his younger brother Janek lived in their family's circus in Poland until all but they 2 are killed by soldiers in a war. They run away and try to loot stuff they can sell to buy their way across the border, but are caught by some more soldiers. However they are saved by another guy who kills the soldiers. (This guy is dressed like the goons we know as the Tracksuit Draculas.)Kate describes how New York has been heavily modified over the last 2 centuries. She says she loves the place.Kaz and Janek do a semi-mime act in an underground station. (Kaz already has white-face makeup.) Then something explodes and Janek is killed.The man at the party remarks that New York has buried its past, unlike European cities. He asks his companion what she's doing in this dead party. She finally tells him her name's Kate and it's her dad's party.In the flashbacks an older Kaz dons white-face makeup plus the tear and does his 1st assassination job.In the present Kaz (we've guessed it's him) tells Kate he lost his family in the war, and now he only loves his work. And he's lucky because he can do his job anywhere. Kate is equally vague about what *she* does. She says she loves the idea of her job but her sort-of boss is a human car-crash and it's depressing watching him mess up over and over again. So she comes to parties like this to get away from him. Kaz says he likes *his* job but it's where he came from that was a hellhole. He could make money doing what he does and that let him escape from Hell.We see a collage of assassinations, ending with 1 booked by a Tracksuit Dracula. Then the boss of the TDs offers him a big job.Kate and Kaz are the only ones left as staff clear up after the party. He tells her how to pronounce his full name, but then shortens it to Kazi. She asks where he's from and he says "I told you. I came from Hell." Then he leaves with a "Be seeing you." But she catches up with him to regain control of the situation and kisses him goodbye.Later he's watching Clint Barton's apartment block while donning his clown face. He sees Kate enter (in civvies, not the scooter outfit from last issue, but still with a purple top). She finds Clint practising his archery very badly. He ignores her so she joins in the arrow firing to get his attention. He yells at her because he's mad at himself. She does the splitting an arrow with another arrow trick and then walks out. Lucky the Pizza Dog has been watching it all.Then we get a replay of the final scene from last issue where Grills (with his puppy) told Clint to write his feeling down in a letter. And after Barton left Kaz killed Grills, repeating "I told you. I came from Hell."


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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. Clint Barton is driving Grills from their Brooklyn apartment block to Grills' father in Far Rockaway to help him weather the storm despite Pa hating him. They get there OK and find lots of other residents driving *out* of the area. But Grills senior is ignoring the problem. Clint tries to erect a sandbag defence while Grills starts ferrying stuff up from the basement.But then Barton sees a wall of water rushing up the street and dashes inside to warn the other 2 to get upstairs. They hustle the old man up the stairs as the wave smashes the front door in. Clint wades out to see his car being washed away. He returns to find the father in his bedroom but no sign of the son, whose real name he belatedly realises he doesn't know. Grills has gone down to the basement to rescue a box of his mother's memories. Clint finds him near drowning and saves him but not the box. Father and son console each other over the loss.The old man says he's got a rowboat in the attic, and Barton starts to row them to safety. On the way he learns that Grills' real name is Gil, short for Gilbert. He tells them that a friend is attending a wedding today in Jersey.Now we flashback to earlier in the day where Clint is taping up a box of canned goods to take to Grills' father. Kate Bishop is visiting, dressed up for an engagement party (not a wedding, but it *is* in New Jersey). We get a cameo of Lucky the Pizza Dog while they argue the merits of Jersey vs Brooklyn, and Bruce Springsteen vs Bruce Kulick, which ends with Kate throwing Clint out of his own apartment.Later at the party in the Stabile hotel Kate watches the hurricane hit as the manager assures her the place is perfectly safe. Then the lights go out.Next day the storm has passed but the occupants of the hotel are still trapped. A friend tells Kate that her mother has run out of meds she desperately needs, and Kate decides it's time for Hawkeye to save the day. She rips off the hem of her expensive dress and discards her equally expensive shoes in favour of the manager's boots. She heads down to the basement car park and finds it flooded. She swims to her car and retrieves her bow and arrows. Thus equipped she heads out as Hawkeye (well her dress *is* their trademark purple).She passes people dealing with the storm damage, and then finds that the pharmacy/convenience store has been broken into. She surprises 2 hooded looters who pour scorn on her weaponry. Before she can show them the error of their thinking a 3rd looter hits her head from behind with a can of beans. She's not out long because when she recovers she sees that locals with makeshift weapons have surrounded the looters outside. The cops arrive to take them away and the store-owners give her the meds for free.The 2 Hawkeye's meet up outside Clint's apartment building where damage is also being repaired. Kate asks to crash for the night and they argue over who gets the couch.


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The tape: 2 of 2
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. He somersaults to exit chair 1st, and that's where we saw him smashing out many stories high.But we cut to another hotel room where Kate Bishop is watching a video of Clint (Hawkeye) assassinating terrorist Du Ke Feng, which officially had been done by Navy Seals. She had 'won' the tape last issue at an underworld auction posing as Madame Masque with an AmEx Black credit card that SHIELD had given Clint. (The scene we see from the tape is the 1 that was the opening page of last issue.) Then security guards demand entrance to the hotel suite and discover the real Masque tied up in the bedroom. As they menace Kate we see Clint and chair hurtling past her window ...... closely followed by the ninjas. Then Maria Hill of SHIELD swoops down on a hoverflier and scoops him up. The collision breaks him free of the chair (and somehow breaks all his bonds too). But the ninjas land on the flier with him. Hill gives a warning shout for Barton to hold on and then tips the craft over so 4 of the ninjas fall off. The last ninja grabs on to Barton's leg. Clint reaches down and offers to help him up but it would be against the ninja code to surrender so #5 lets go and falls to his death taking Clint's shoe with him.Back with Kate, Madame Masque has taken her costume back, and the security guards obviously graciously allowed Kate to put her own clothes back on before frogmarching her along with them. MM now has the tape and is threatening dire punishment for Kate as they enter the auction room. Kingpin and Madame Hydra greet Masque and express their condolences for what she's been through. But then Kate's hopes rise ...... as she sees Clint and Maria on the hoverflier outside. Hill has obviously retrieved Clint's bow and arrows (or thoughtfully brought spares with her) because he shatters the big plate glass window with an explosive arrow. Then Barton athletically leaps into the room ... and starts hopping around as 1 shoeless foot contacts the floor full of glass shards. Kate helps him to get clear of the debris and then they face a small horde of more ninjas plus AIM, Hydra and Maggia goons and the lone Agence Byzantine agent. Discretion being the better part of valour they kick the auction room doors open and run away.But then Kate remembers the tape is still in Masque's suite and they have to turn round and start punching and kicking their way through the mob. Which they do and reach the suite and the tape. And Clint realises it was *Kate* as Masque who retrieved the AmEx card from his butt last issue, which they won't mention ever again. As she helps him limp away in victory Madame Masque catches up with them and tries to shoot Kate, but Clint takes it on the chest. Kate drags him into an open elevator and they get away. And she discovers that he had a kevlar vest on.Later she, Maria Hill and Nick Fury Jr visit Clint in a hospital bed. And Kate is told that it was all part of an elaborate SHIELD scheme. The Du Ke Feng assassination really was done by Navy Seals, but a mole was trying to discover their identities. SHIELD had 3 suspects so they created 3 fake tapes with Captain America, Hawkeye or Wolverine doing the deed and fed them to the 3 suspects, with the heroes' consent. Hawkeye's tape went to the real mole, but then they had to get it back.


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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).But this issue starts with a flashback to a man playing music and another man overseeing recording of it.46 years later the same man old and bearded is wandering down the passing lane of the 405 Freeway, annoying lots of motorists, when Kate cycles past and stops to help him. He keeps saying someone's stolen something from him so she offers to get it back for him, and asks if she might pay him.She somehow gets him to the trailer of 2 neighbours Finch and Marcus who we met in #14. They recognise him as Will Bryson. In the 60s he and his brother Grey were the Bryson Brothers who were the California Sound before that was invented. Then they disappeared into mental illness and weirdness, trying to complete the album Wish which was to be Will's masterwork. Will says it's that which was stolen. Parts of it have been leaked on the Internet, and he blames his brother. But Finch has checked a medical bracelet worn by Will, and called the number. A doctor and 2 burly orderlies come and take him away.Kate smells a case so she researches the Brothers on the Internet in the library. The library's security settings won't let her 'illegally' download stuff so she asks the librarian if she can give her extra permissions. The librarian has her arrested and she's taken to Det Caudle (who we also met in #14). He dismisses the 'case' she's working on and again tells her to leave town, but he lets her go.Next she takes an open-top-bus celebrity-spotting tour past the millionaire Brysons' house. She jumps off the bus and into the estate in full Hawkeye gear. The very old house still has a very old security system so she easily breaks in. But the orderlies spot her so she has to leap back out again. She spots Will topping up the swimming pool and he invites her into his studio, There's a very expensive grand piano sitting in the middle of a wading pool. The piano is Will's but he can't remember where the pool came from. He shows her a wall rack full of vinyl records which he says hold all the sessions where he attempted to record the perfect version of Wish, and it's some of these which have been 'stolen'/leaked. Kate notes that the labels are all blank, but Will says he *knows* what's on each of them.Then the 2 orderlies find them and 'ask' Kate to leave. She refuses and a fight ensues. She breaks 1's jaw but loses her quiver of arrows. So she tries to hit the other bruiser with her bow but he takes it off her. They both start beating on her. Will Bryson tries to stop them but Kate is soon unconscious.She wakes to find herself held up by the orderlies in front of Grey Bryson who's in a hospital bed dying. He freely admits to leaking the recordings to the Internet. Will made him waste his life recording all the attempts at Wish, and now he wants the world to know what a failure his brother was. Presumably they then throw her out.Much later when her injuries have healed she's in the supermarket where she meets her mystery friend again. She tells him about it and admits that she just left the brothers to it. So she never got paid and she's beginning to think she makes a useless PI. But she thinks it might be LA that's the problem. But he lifts her mood by showing her a flyer advertising a single performance of Wish by Will Bryson at a local club.Kate attends with Finch and Marcus. Will is cleaned up (but he plays the piano with his feet in a paddling pool). He dedicates a song to his late brother and his favourite superhero in purple. Kate thinks he means her but it turns to be the Hulk. But the performance is beautiful. Only marred by a female whispering in her ear "Found you". She turns but can't see who it was.


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My bad penny
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.The issue opens with images of Cherry from #3 with the old leader of the Tracksuit Draculas 'mafia' from #1,3,6. They are in his office and she shoots a Dracula holding a small safe, and then runs out.Now she's come to see Hawkeye (Clint Barton) in Avengers Mansion. She kisses him and asks for his help because her life is in danger. The scene is interrupted by 3 women with playing cards in their hair (don't ask because you won't get an answer):- ex-girlfriend Black Widow, ex-wife Mockingbird and current girlfriend Spider-Woman. (Nobody's wearing their supertogs, Clint's not even wearing much purple. But he does have some obligatory bandages.) Jessica Drew is understandably angry and Natasha Romanoff is suspicious as Cherry says she may have killed someone. Clint tries to pass her off as just the woman he bought his car from (#3), and hustles her out. Bobbi Morse shrugs it off as just the same old Clint Barton.The 2nd internal cover is from Mystery Girl showing Cherry as a teen runaway from her abusive father in a stolen car.Back at Clint's apartment a small stack of comics with the Mystery Girl issue on top has arrived by post. Cherry says she sent them to him but she asks him not to read them. She explains that she shot her ex-husband in self-defence. She can't tell the cops because it would be a parole violation. Her husband was 1 of the Tracksuit Draculas who have a small safe. She needs what's inside the safe to keep them from killing her. Barton asks if she's telling the truth and she replies that he'll just have to trust her, and not to ask her what's in the safe.She proposes a straight robbery. Hawkeye will cause a distraction while she sneaks in for the safe. Clint doesn't really want to antagonise that gang more but Cherry seduces him into agreeing. Then she tells him the target is Bolvany Town in the Russian enclave Little Irkutsk. He recognises it as the name of a strip joint.Cover 3: A Girl Like You with Cherry as a waitress with pole dancers in the background.Cherry and Clint are in the back of Kate Bishop's Volkswagen Beetle. They go over the plan. Clint will cause mayhem while Cherry sneaks in wearing her pole-dancing outfit. Kate will be the getaway driver. But she says she's not hanging around to get arrested with the 2 of them, and she drives off.Clint punches the Tracksuit doorman through the door and then has to fight more armed Dracula's inside. Panicked girls run away and Cherry runs the other way to the boss's office where she is relieved to find the safe. But the ancient boss walks in with a gun.Cover 4: Love Crimes with Cherry searching through financial stuff full of discrepancies.Cherry and the boss chat and we learn stuff. The ex she shot was his son, but he's not dead. She says neither of them will kill *her* because they need her to open the safe. Then Clint arrives and KO's him with 1 punch. But the cops arrive and arrest Clint while Cherry slips away with the safe.After a night in jail and (unseen) lectures on un-Avenger behaviour from Tony Stark and Captain America, Clint returns home. Cherry is there and angry that he read her comics (though I don't know when he had the time). They were just 20 comics she bought for the issue numbers. The order of the stack displayed the code for the safe, but now Barton's jumbled them up. The safe allows you 3 attempts but then shuts forever and destroys its contents. It's useless to her now and so is he, so she leaves.Cover 5: Love Fugitive with Cherry being sought by the Tracksuit Draculas.This part is all about a meeting of mobsters angry at Hawkeye for disrupting their business. It's chaired by Kingpin with Typhoid Mary as his enforcer. He and Madame Masque are annoyed with Barton over events in #2 and #4-5. Hammerhead, Owl, Tombstone and Ringmaster with his Swordsman were also in #2. I don't know what in particular Mister Negative has got against the archer. The Tracksuit Dracula boss offers to arrange for Hawkeye's death for a consideration. After some haggling they agree.


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The tape: 1 of 2
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. He's also trying not to let his neighbours know he's Hawkeye and an Avenger, but a SHIELD helicarrier ruins that when Agents descend and whisk him up and away. (But the neighbours really already knew anyway.)Barton is brought before Captain America and Maria Hill. They tell him that the videotape of Operation: Eucritta is in the hands of bad guys and will be auctioned in Madripoor in 72 hours. This is bad news for Hawkeye, the Avengers, SHIELD, the US military and the President. SHIELD will give Barton an AmEx Black card to use to win the auction.That night he sneaks into his own apartment via the fire escape and finds Kate waiting for him. She was worried when he was 'kidnapped' earlier. He can't tell her what's going on but advises her to stay clear of the place for a week or so, and don't go out Hawkeye-ing. He takes the case with his bow and arrows in and exits the way he came.30 hours later he's in Madripoor airport where he's hustled away by 3 armed guards. But he's the 1 who walks out of the interrogation room, and then out of the airport. He grabs a cab and asks to be taken where the action is. Then he falls asleep in the back seat and the driver tries to steal his wallet. Clint foils that attempt but 2 opportunistic thieves lean in to take the prize and 1 of them gets away with it. He bemoans the loss of his cash, credit cards and Avengers ID, but his passport and the AmEx Black are still safe. So he takes the cab and picks up some cash as a cabbie despite having no idea where anywhere is. Then he has lunch (I think at a cabbie haunt) and finds out how to get to where he's really supposed to be ...... the Madripoor Pearl hotel where he's severely underdressed and is immediately grabbed by more goons and taken to another interrogation room which he's not going to waltz out of. They've got his passport and his weapons from the cab (but not the AmEx Black). They're about to kill him when Madame Masque walks in and takes the passport and tells them to knock him out and take him up to her room.When he wakes up he's still tied to a chair and MM has his bow. He strangely tells them that he's here for the same reason she is, to bid for the tape which shows an Avenger assassinating the world's most wanted terrorist, and he's got a SHIELD AmEx Black to do it with. Masque asks him where he's hidden it and he grins. But he loses the grin when she performs a rectal examination and retrieves the object. She's going to take it to the auction and meanwhile Barton is taken to 'his' room and left tied to the chair but lying on a bed. He falls asleep and 5 ninjas creep in.In the auction room MM's goons have checked that the AmEx card is legit. Kingpin demands to know why the auction is late. The auctioneer says they're missing a bidder (ie Barton) but Wilson Fisk overrules him. The auctioneer tells the room the Hawkeye is the assassin on the tape. He starts the bidding at 100 million Euros which an Agence Byzantine agent takes on. Then the Maggia, Kingpin for the Hand, the Mandarin, Crimson Cowl raise the bidding until Madame Hydra reaches 350 mill. But then Madame Masque silences the room with 1 billion Euros and wins the auction.She asks Hotel security to guard her room and then enters it. She takes off her mask and we see it's Kate-Hawk. And the real Madame Masque is bound and gagged in her underwear (but conveniently with another of her golden masks on to hide her terribly scarred face). And Kate prepares to watch the tape.


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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.We see lots of Kate PI's loser clients. She seems to be using the coffee shop as an office now. Then she tells her friend Marcus that she's found a car to get her back to New York to save Clint from the bad guys. But she asks for a loan of 2 grand. Then MM rings her up in the middle of the night just to annoy her. She seems to be sleeping on Marcus and Finch's couch. Then the police come to arrest her.She's taken in to Det Caudle where she's told that she's under arrest for the murder of Harold H Harold (#18) because 1 of her arrows was found in his chest. She asks for her phone call and is given it. But she uses it talk privately to Caudle at his desk to remind him that she has an alibi. Traffic cams have her (with Marcus and Finch in their car) chasing the bad guys who abducted Harold at the airport, and then driving to the police station where they were until Caudle got the call about Harold's body. The someone posts her bail so he has to let her go.Marcus and Finch are waiting for her outside with the man who paid her bail. It's Harold alive and well. He explains that Masque has a racket provide new bodies for rich folk. It's based on pirated SHIELD Life Model Decoy tech, but presumably with an extra bit about transferring your consciousness into the LMD. Masque has given *him* a new body so she can kill him all over again (as apparently she's been doing for the 20 years he claims to have been trapped in LA).Marcus and Finch take Kate to see Gary the florist (from #14). It seems that he sells exotic plants now to a wealthy client Whitney Frost. She uses them in weird parties where men dine of the body of a naked girl. But Kate knows that Frost is Madame Masque and she's the power behind Flynt Ward who burned Gary's shop down (#14). So now he agrees to help her bring Frost's empire down.Kate is the next naked girl covered in edibles. Masque is there but gets called away urgently because Harold wants to talk to her. Kate then leaves the disappointed diners as she changes into her Hawkeye costume complete with bow and arrows and goes looking for incriminating evidence. She downloads lots of stuff from a terminal into a USB arrow (1 of Clint's ideas). And 1 of the things she notices is that her father Derek Bishop is 1 of Frost's clients.Then MM's squad of 'bellhops' find her. She initiates her prepared escape plan, firing an arrow line through a window. But the goons are too many and too fast for her and she takes lots of knocks before managing to slide down the escape line with her bow. Outside she uses a fire arrow to set the building alight. But the  bellhops come after her even though *their* LMD bodies are melting, and they beat her up some more. Masque is about to shoot her when SHIELD troops abseil down from a helicarrier.Heavily beaten up Kate is being processed and asking for her phone call (again). But she gets interrogated by Maria Hill and Phil Coulson of SHIELD and tells them (and us) all about her involvement with Madame Masque (all the way back to #4). She suggests that Masque has provided LMD bodies for *herself* after her several apparent deaths. They take her evidence away and she asks to call her father. Derek Bishop, on his yacht with his new wife Heather, gets a call from his daughter Kate to say that she's in jail but she knows what he did and she's coming to get him.Afterwards Kate meets Harold in their usual supermarket venue. He admits that he manipulated her into bringing Masque down so he could escape from her and LA. Kate is angry that SHIELD is hushing it all up and they're probably going to let Masque and her father (Count Nefaria) go free. Then she says goodbye Marcus and Finch (who've obviously lent her the money to buy the car). She moans that her whole LA PI stint was a waste of time. But they remind her that she saved their wedding and tell her to now go save her friend. And she drives away with Lucky the Pizza Dog.