It could be in order to help promote Marvels upcoming
Avengers film or maybe it's due to his increasing popularity over the years. Regardless, this October will find longtime fan favorite Hawkeye flying solo in
The Avengers:Solo. However, the 5 issue series will not be the purple archers first solo run. Back in the 80's he also starred in
Solo Avengers. Series writer Jen Van Meter told NEWSaRAMA that there would also be a background story featuring another unnamed member of
The Avengers. Van Meter also had quite a bit to say about Hawkeye's new role as detective in the upcoming series and what makes him such an interesting character to so many..
"I don't really want to surround him with people he already knows. I'd kind of like to drop him into a situation where he really is isolated in a community of people he's got to deal with fresh for the first time."
"I've never seen him cast as the detective, and that's never seemed really his strong suit, but I have always enjoyed watching him respond on the fly to stuff that he doesn't expect. It's a little bit like seeing someone you're very fond of excel at something they didn't know they could do."
"I am very drawn to his role as one of the people who are on the Avengers with no powers, because I think it takes a particular kind of confidence, and a particular kind of drive to be willing to be there when it would be so easy to say 'You've got Thor, you don't need me.' I'm sort of fascinated by that interesting combination of courage and ego and ambition and confidence that have to be in place."
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