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by **Eli Katz** » Tue May 01, 2012 7:56 pm

Should this make me excited or outraged?

“If I could put the Stephen J. Cannell logo at the end of every issue I would be happy, and David Aja recently sent me this amazing piece of music. He said, ‘Here’s the soundtrack to our first issue.’ It’s Dizzy Gillespie and Lalo Schifrin from a record they did together called ‘Free Ride’ and it is great. The whole record is full of car chase music. So this series is very William Friedkin and early Brian Depalma. Rockford Files. It’s an early ’70s urban grit story. You almost expect Hawkeye to come around the corner and bump into Power Man and Iron Fist from 30 years ago.”

“Rather than try to define what Hawkeye’s role is in the Avengers, I wanted to define what is Clint Barton’s role in Hawkeye — who is he and what drives him and why is he our lead? I could close my eyes and see this Aja drawing of him with a Band-Aid across the bridge of his nose, and I got it. That’s our guy. He’s the Marvel Universe’s Jim Rockford.”

– writer Matt Fraction, in interviews with Comic Book Resources and USA Today, name-checking
the 1970s James Garner crime drama in discussions of his upcoming Hawkeye ongoing series for Marvel.

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/20 ... -rockford/

by **BubbaKanoosh** » Tue May 01, 2012 8:22 pm

Fuck.

I can't watch my Rockford DVDs anymore.

They just killed the character for me.

by **avengingtitan** » Tue May 01, 2012 8:29 pm

Yea I can see that.

by **bkthomson** » Tue May 01, 2012 8:39 pm

BubbaKanoosh wrote:Fuck.

I can't watch my Rockford DVDs anymore.

They just killed the character for me.

, sorry I know it is not polite to laugh.

by **Cat-Scratch** » Tue May 01, 2012 8:43 pm

Bubba's hate knows no bounds.

by **Eli Katz** » Wed May 02, 2012 1:24 am

BubbaKanoosh wrote:Fuck.

I can't watch my Rockford DVDs anymore.

They just killed the character for me.

Your love of Jim should be greater than loathing of Clint.

by **Dragavon** » Wed May 02, 2012 1:28 am

Eli Katz wrote:Your love of Jim should be greater than loathing of Clint.

You understand this is the guy who disowned his own mother because she likes Hawkeye. :lol:

by **nietoperz** » Wed May 02, 2012 4:17 am

That's the pitch that ensured I added this book to my pull list.

by **Zero** » Wed May 02, 2012 4:36 am

nietoperz wrote:That's the pitch that ensured I added this book to my pull list.

The pitch could promise me steak and cupcakes but I k ow that with Fraction writing then they'll both taste like sawdust and used anal beads.

by **bkthomson** » Wed May 02, 2012 12:11 pm

Zero wrote:
The pitch could promise me steak and cupcakes but I k ow that with Fraction writing then they'll both taste like sawdust and used anal beads.

I just have to ask?

How do you know what used anal beads task like. Sawdust I can understand..... :razz: