Originally Posted by
Nomads1
I always loved Roy Thomas run on WCA, especially after David Ross came on board as penciller. In fact, of the tree long runs in WCA (Englehart, Byrne and Thomas), Thomas was my favorite, of an already favorite book. That said, he really wasn't very respectful in his treatment of Hawkeye. I don't agree with most of OP's evaluations of the rest of the team's actions and motivations, such as Jan and Hank "hating" each other, and ignoring the fact that the whole team ressented the Agent being forced down their throats by the US Government and that he was not someone they'd have invited into the team otherwise. However, when it came to Hawkeye, yes, Clint was 100% a jerk. Ever since his first issue, Thomas seemed to make it clear that he was going back to writing Clint as the hot-headed emotional child full-time trouble-maker of the Avengers, exactly as he was when Roy was writing him in the first 100 or so issues of Avengers. He went on to completely ignore all the character development that Stern and, mostly, Englehart had put into making Hawkeye a mature and competent leader in his own right. A regression that Byrne had already started, kicking Clint to the side and pushing a very Reed Richards-like Hank Pym into the center stage. Thomas kicked this regression into full over-drive, showing Hawk to really be completly unfit for leadership when he takes over the team after Iron Man "dies" and falls apart soon after. Suddenly Wanda, who was never shown having a single leadership bone in her whole body, was being shown to being more level-headed and a better leader than he was. Sadly, Hawkeye only went on to recover his great leadership skills under Busiek and, later, Nicieza in Thunderbolts.
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