Old br'er Hawkeye worked better as a hero than a villain, I feel.

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Hawkeye was my choice too but in a different way. At the risk of getting shot down, whilst I really liked the old purple costumed Clint, his reinvention by Matt Fraction (and more recently others) with Kate Bishop as his sidekick has, for me, taken the character to anotherlevel and one of the few good things that has come out of Marvel in recent years.

I have enjoyed the progression of Kree soldier to Mar-Vell/Rick Jones.

It had to happen, I feel. The first dozen or so issues feature the Kree soldier battling alien threats, rogue elements within the Kree, etc. It's enjoyable, but when the change came to the Nega-Bands/Rick Jones stuff, it's been welcomed by me.

I hope there's a second volume. 

Thanks for the heads up!  I checked this out a couple of days ago at the comic shop.  I'm glad you're enjoying it (and I couldn't tell from a quick look--maybe the story is amazing), but this is the "old guy in a hood" from the 90's, not the dashing 70's guy in the amazing Neal Adams-designed archer's suit with the Robin Hood hat.  Still, it was nice to see Mike Grell covers...BUT also annoying!  I believe that Grell was the force behind GA going the "baggy tunic and unwieldy hood" route in the first place--EVEN THOUGH he was the only one (besides Adams himself) who could really draw the Adams suit well!  (OK, I liked Dick Dillin's version too!)

Maybe storywise this IS the same character (they've invalidated the last three reboots, right?)--good old Ollie Queen: clean-shaven in his 20's, bearded & dashing in his 30's, and hooded and baggy in his 40's--but, if you're going to right the ship, why not right the ship all the way?