The Untold Truth Of Marvel's Kate Bishop

Kate Bishop has participated in her fair share of "realistic" derring-do, but she's also traveled across the threshold of observable space and time, and rampaged across impossible alien landscapes. Not every superhero can manage the street-level combat as well as the space opera fare, but Hawkeye seems to do just spiffy. 

In the 2013 Young Avengers series, the gang avails themselves of Miss America's teleportation powers to chase a monster that looks like, but obviously isn't, their former teammate Patriot as he hops from dimension to dimension to dimension. The pursuit lasts for at least five months. During this period, the Young Avengers come to a version of Earth occupied by hostile anthropomorphic hawk monsters with heads all resembling Bishop's. Not long after, they stumble into the best Korean barbecue restaurant in the entire multiverse. It's that kind of trip.

In the leadup to Young Avengers hitting the market, writer Kieron Gillen took to Tumblr and shed some light on how he went about selecting the team. His post on Hawkeye offers some provocative observations about how we talk about superheroes without superpowers. 

"With Young Avengers, we're firing everything about being 18-20 through a superheroic filter." wrote Gillen. "As such, powers tend to come across as potential, talent, ability or whatever. And as amazing as Kate is, as hard as she's worked... She looks around the room and knows that she lacks in a way that all her hard work can never overcome."