Tag: okay this looks bad

Look: I’ve never had a job. Not a real job. Not a job my dad didn’t get me… but I’ve worked hard. I’ve worked hard for things. Harder than you’d ever believe. But I never needed a job because I never needed money until now. Look, we’re all adults here; we’ve all seen the “Welcome to the Jungle” video. I cowboyed out to Los Angeles and in the span of forty-eight hours got taken for everything I had. It’s an old story, and maybe I should’ve known better. Rookie mistake, right? But I am telling you now: I might be young, but I am good. I work hard, and I’m a good person. I know what’s right. I know what’s wrong. And if you give me this chance — if you just give me one shot to show you how good I can be, how hard I work, how much I believe in doing the right thing — I won’t let you down.

I promise.

philcoulson:

“FIX. THIS. DOG.”

Yeah. So when Captain Applejack was a puppy I found him under a car. And he was so sick and so little and uh… so mangy I didn’t know if he was very young and very sick or very old and about to die. He was wrinkly. So I gave him to Hawkeye. I gave him this beat up mutt who was neglected and ignored. And as I started to kind of write and give him this kind of emotional thing he was connected to, like, the character’s anima appeared. That was it, it wasn’t a hawk it was a dog. And then I got the book. I understood what the book was. I knew what happens. I knew what it was about. And if I couldn’t save Captain Applejack, Hawkeye could save Lucky.

Spoilers, the dog lives.

So I wrote it in a single day. I wrote it… it was a very bad, very sad day, but I wrote it in a day. And it comes out, and the response is impossible to ignore. And I do my very, very best to ignore response at all, at all costs. But a fandom roared, or barked as the case may be, and like we started to immediately get fan art and crafts. While Hawkeye might not have the best sales in the world I’ve met literally everyone reading the book and they were dressed. Uh, but it’s he’s just wearing pants so it’s super easy, it’s pants and bandages. My editor said “People love the dog” so it’s the dog. And this entire corner in my career was turned.

If I said ‘miraculous’ it would actually insult real miracles but I don’t know what else to say. I was on my way out the door but it turned out the door was revolving and I was right back in and my entire life turned around. And everything in my career exploded off of this book. I tried to save my dog, and he saved me. – Matt Fraction re: Hawkeye #1