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Flint, Michigan – The Kind Of Deep Waters Hawkeye Will Be Wading Into

Clint meet Flint.

Occupy Avengers is the new Marvel comic starring Hawkeye, legally exonerated of the murder of Bruce Banner (you know, despite actually doing it).

But writer David Walker has plans to take Hawkeye across the country. In a PR-arranged interview with CBR to promote the comic, he says.

He begins to form a team that's tackling what we'd call, for lack of a better term, everyday issues.

I use that term hesitantly because sometimes everyday issues are critical life-and-death issues. You live in Michigan, and I was just reading about the court decision in the Flint water fiasco. That should not be an everyday issue. Those are the sorts of things that Hawkeye — or Clint Barton, I should say, because he's really more Clint than Hawkeye at this point — finds himself getting caught up in. He's representing and protecting the underdog. Or, for lack of a better term, that 99 percentile that is sort of synonymous with the Occupy movement; the people who are often trod upon, can't protect themselves, and don't feel like they're being protected because of things like corporate interests or political corruption.

The situation in Flint saw government underspending and incompetence lead to significant lead poisoning in the water for years, eventually after media coverage, leading to lawsuits, resignation of officials, criminal indictments and a state of emergency.

This is the kind of issue that superhero comic books have shied away from, unless they are rather about superheroes. The Hawkeye series by Fraction, Aja and Wu, however, covered similar territory – but this time Marvel are taking it on the road. With Hawkeye, Red Wolf and no Terrigen mist.

There are no super-powered beings on the "Occupy Avengers" team. They are highly skilled and highly dedicated people, but there are no gods, goddesses, mutants, Inhumans or anything like that on the team. So that also plays into the Occupy movement which was about everyday people. It's the 99 percent who aren't rich, who can't buy they're way out of some of the problems that they have. America is often a country that's built upon ingenuity and necessity. Those concepts are often dictated by the poorest and most oppressed people.

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