Hawkeye MAX Vol 1 2


 * Publication Date: October 2012


 * Previous Issue: Hawkeye MAX Vol 1 1

Appearances
Clinton Barton (Earth 199916) Natasha Romanov (Earth 199916) first appearance
 * Heroes:

gangs of New York and criminals
 * Villains:

New York City
 * Locations:

SHIELD Tech
 * Items:

Synopsis
Clint Barton arrives in New York City with only the clothes on his back and a duffle bag stuffed with his carnival costume and his bow and arrows. He walks the city streets with what little money he has to try to buy an apartment, but now, he is homeless. He passes a comic book shop where he sees a copy of Captain America Comics #1 from the 1940's in the window, and he thinks about crime fighting himself, but dismisses this idea.

He eventually enters a bar, despite being only 20, and buys a bottle of whiskey. But, the whiskey makes him think of his abusive father. Right then, a drunk man starts taunting Clint, from the other side of the bar, about being homeless. Then, Clint throws the bottle of whiskey at the man and it hits his jaw with pin-point accuracy. Stunned at Clint's accuracy, the man's drunken friends attack him. Clint is able to fight them off using skills he picked up from Trick Shot, his old mentor, but he does not kill any of them. He exits the bar, now covered in unconscious men, and walks away, mildly injured.

Clint finds somewhere to sleep for the night, in an alley, which reminds him of when he would sleep outside the carnival years ago. Then, he goes to sleep.

When Clint wakes up, he hopes he sees another person offering him a new life, but it is a man attempting to steal his money. Clint fights this man and chases him away. But, the man soon comes back with more men, and they are part of a gang, and they plan to kill Clint. Clint starts to fight these gangsters, but they outnumber and defeat him. One of them pulls out a gun when Clint is rescued by a mysterious red-haired woman in black, who kills all the gangsters, and leaves one for Clint to kill, and he does.

The woman is Natasha Romanov, who claims to be a spy from Russia who has been hired to steal technology from SHIELD, a shadowy American government black ops agency, and she offers to let Clint stay at her apartment.

At Natasha's apartment, her and Clint have sex. While they are having sex, she convinces him to help her infiltrate SHIELD. When they are finished having sex, Natasha says that Clint needs a disguise, and he shows her his old carnival costume, which she calls "gay", and he'll need a new costume, but she likes the name: Hawkeye.