Hawkeye (Clint Barton)

Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye, launched in 2012 This is the book that taught Marvel a superhero comic could be about the hero's days off. Fraction and Aja give Clint Barton an apartment building to defend from a gang of tracksuited crooks, and Aja's flat color, tight grids and diagram-like pages were imitated for years afterwards. Hawkeye #11, told from the point of view of Clint's dog, won the 2014 Eisner for Best Single Issue, and Aja took Best Cover Artist that year. You need no Avengers knowledge at all: start with the first collection, My Life as a Weapon.