By: Matt Fraction (story), David Aja (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors)
The Story: Hawkeye learns that having too many irons in the fire is worse than not having any.
The Review: To continue off my observations about women’s fictional love lives in Fairest #14, I’ve noticed that usually, if they find love hard to come by, it’s because they have the bad luck to fall for the worst specimens of manhood possible. They can’t find Mr. Right because more often than not they’re getting involved with Mr. Broke, Mr. Cheater, Mr. Jag., or Mr. Already Married. In other words, market forces are against them.
In contrast, when it comes to the fictional love lives of men, it’s usually a problem with the man himself. Either he’s a commitment-phobe or his failings are too ingrained for any relationship to work. I don’t know what this says about our notions of gender in modern romance, but there you have it. At any rate, Fraction seems inclined to place Clint in that same mold, and who can blame him? You can’t exactly have a hero down on his luck to be simultaneously lucky in love.
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