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According to Fraction, he sees a lot of parallels between ASL and comics, stating they are both “visual languages.” Later in the series, the villain Clown stabbed Clint in his ears and once again ruptures his eardrums.įraction said it was important to bring back Hawkeye’s deafness, something fans have also been asking to happen in the MCU, because “he has friends in the hard of hearing and deaf community who had never really seen themselves or their language, ASL, represented in comics.” Fraction has a unique relationship to ASL, saying that he taught his children to sign before they could speak. In Fraction’s run, Clint wasn’t originally born deaf but was deafened as a child. It wasn’t until Fraction and artist David Aja’s Hawkeye did the character lose his hearing again, this time through a retcon. After dying and coming back, Clink Barton’s hearing was restored. Hawkeye remained deaf within the continuity up until around 1998. In the issue, Hawkeye, as Fraction describes it, “is so in his own head that he doesn’t enjoy himself.” That moment really stuck with Fraction because unlike a lot of the other Avengers, “Hawkeye is a regular guy who got to be an Avenger but is still dealing with regular guy problems.” The idea that inaccessibility can force you to miss out on major things. Anyone with a disability knows this fear, including myself.

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During the issue, Clint begs producers to give him the questions ahead of time and worries that Letterman might improvise. As we talked, he recalled reading The Avengers #239, where the Avengers met David Letterman. I got the chance to sit down with Fraction at Heroes Con 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina. According to Matt Fraction, the writer of the critically acclaimed Hawkeye (2012), “it was the first time I saw disability like that in a comic” and he remembers the shock of understanding that this injury was permanent. In 1983 during Mark Gruenwald’s four-part mini-series Hawkeye, Hawkeye, Clint Barton, Hawkeye was rendered 80% deaf by an injury he sustained.

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