actuallyclintbarton:

evilkneazle:

actuallyclintbarton:

queenspritzee:

bobbimorses:

_{HAWKEYE #19}

_{MATT FRACTION • DAVID AJA (A/C)}

_{“Rio Bravo” – PART 4}

_{• The sense-shattering fallout of the Clint vs. the Clown — Clint Barton has been deafened!}

_{• With the Barton Brothers this battered and bloodied, surely they’ll make easy pickins for the Bros, right? Bro? Seriously?}

_{• If we do our jobs right THIS time, this issue will be the Dog Issue of Sign Language issues}

This is so important. This is so damn important.

Not only is Fraction undoing the retcon of other writers who took away Clint’s disability, but he’s taking that disability back to his childhood before it originally started in classic canon. 

This is so important because Fraction is refusing to let Clint’s disability be overwritten anymore so long as he has hold of the tenure.

YES THIS.

I have been upset that they ~magically fixed~ Clint’s hearing since I found out he was ever deaf, and the idea that he’s been hard of hearing since a childhood “accident” (aka – you know it was his dad, I am sure it was his dad) that was unable to heal fully because y’know HIS EARDRUMS WERE DAMAGED is just.  Yes good.  Especially since Fraction said he’s been writing Clint as if he’s been hard of hearing since he was a kid, and getting “fixed” only took him back to the level he was at before the sonic arrow incident.

This is so important to me for reasons I can’t even entirely express and basically this is the best thing and I’m going to cry while I read it.  

This explanation that he’s been hard of hearing all along would also make me feel better about the “Spanish-sounding stuff” that turns out to be Russian (probably), as if Clint Barton wouldn’t recognize Spanish (living in BedStuy? Please.) or Russian (working closely with a Russian ex-pat and also an intelligence agency employee).

Fraction has explicitly said that’s what was intended by those captions/speech bubbles/whatever you want to call them.  I wish it’d been more explicit in the comics themselves, but that was what he was going for.