Warning: Accommodates SPOILERS for Avengers: Assemble #5! It appears unthinkable to contemplate that Hawkeye would by no means, beneath any circumstances, abandon its iconic arc. Clint Barton has confirmed time and time once more that he's keen to cost headlong into battle alongside super-soldiers, cosmic powerhouses, and even literal gods in opposition to threats starting from city-wide menaces to villains with the potential to finish the world - and even with the universe. And each time, Hawkeye makes use of his bow. However now, as onerous as it might be to consider, Hawkeye has merely traded in his bow for an additional weapon – and it's admittedly fairly sick.
In Avengers: Assemble #5 by Steve Orlando and José Luís, Hawkeye and the remainder of AVENG.ERS (Avengers Emergency Response Squad) are preventing the Serpent Society. Whereas the Serpent Society are normally small-time villains, the staff has a little bit of a bonus over the Avengers on this case. Not solely are they extra highly effective than ever, however they've additionally managed to deprave the chief of the Avengers, Captain America.
The Serpent Society turned Captain America right into a mutant snake, which not solely turned Cap in opposition to the Avengers, but additionally harm the Avengers' morale to see their chief decreased to one thing like this. Nonetheless, the Avengers continued preventing, together with and particularly Hawkeye, even after he misplaced his bow in the course of the battle. Happily, Evening Thrasher introduced an additional weapon for Hawkeye to make use of to exchange the bow he 'deserted': a slingshot.
Hawkeye trades his bow for a slingshot in Marvel Comics
The slingshot could be an ideal everlasting backup weapon for Hawkeye
Apparently, a slingshot is the proper backup weapon for Hawkeye. It's compact, requires the identical stage of precision as a bow and arrow, and is extremely unpretentious. Nobody will probably be full of worry or dread on the sight of a slingshot on the battlefield, however within the fingers of somebody like Hawkeye, it's as lethal a weapon as another.
Moreover, on this version of Avengers: Assembleproves to be simply the ticket to the Avengers' last victory over the Serpent Society. Hawkeye makes use of the slingshot to hit She-Hulk with a gamma improve that amplified her powers to an insane diploma, and it solely labored as a result of not one of the different members of the Serpent Society noticed it coming. This is a bonus Hawkeye may at all times have in battle if he saved this slingshot as his everlasting secondary weapon - one thing he completely ought to do in future tales.
This slingshot is way from the one secondary weapon Hawkeye has used
Hawkeye has used no scarcity of weapons aside from his bow in Marvel Comics
Whereas seeing Hawkeye swapping out his iconic bow for an additional weapon - slingshot or in any other case - is sort of surprising, that is removed from the primary time he's completed it. Through the years, Hawkeye has confirmed that he's not shackled to the bow, as he has used weapons starting from swords and boomerangs to even Captain America's shieldand confirmed that he's as lethal with them as with the bow and arrow. Hawkeye actually prefers his bow as his important weapon, however he's lethal it doesn't matter what, and his newest outing with a slingshot proves that.
Certain, Hawkeye could also be no stranger to utilizing weapons that aren't his arc in Marvel Comics, however these weapons have at all times been used as a placeholder moderately than being ones that really complement his arc. The slingshot is the proper weapon for Hawkeyenot as a alternative to your bow, however as an addition to your everlasting arsenal - and it undoubtedly wants to stay round.
Avengers: Montage #5 from Marvel Comics is now accessible.