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Round 2
Who was more massacred by canon (Character assassination/flanderization, bad adaptation, bigoted treatment by writers etc.)?
Matthew Leibowicz
Jenny Humphrey
Matthew Leibowicz submission
Jenny Humphrey submission
Do you know this Jewish character?
Matt Hawk/Leibowicz (Two-Gun Kid) from Marvel Universe (franchise)
I know them
I've heard of them
I don't know them
I know them but didn't know they were Jewish
Submitted by @cosmiccowboycomics
Matt Hawk/Leibowitz Reading List
I've made a list like this before, but the blog I made it on got shadowbanned or something and none of my original posts are showing in the tags.
Matt Hawk/Matt Leibowitz is a gunslinger from 1873 who is also a defense lawyer. He's best known for his gay little situationship with Hawkeye/Clint Barton, but he's an interesting, fascinating, layered character in his own right.
This list, specifically, is aimed at people who just want to know what to read if they want to know more about Matt. My other list examines every single appearance of Matt's, while this one will only list issues I considered at least decent or are essential to understand his history. (accounting for period-typical nonsense). This list doesn't include content warnings, and some of the issues I list here go into some heavy topics, so if you need content warnings, check out my more in depth list here (x)
Issues marked with * are issues that are bare-bones necessary to understand his basic history, ! marks my personal favorites. Italicized entries are one where Matt only appears in a couple pages.
This list is in roughly chronological order.
*Two-Gun Kid #60
Two-Gun Kid #61A, 62
Two-Gun Kid #63-64, 65D, 68, 69
Rawhide Kid #40
Two-Gun Kid #70-71, 73-74, 76
*Kid Colt #125
Two-Gun Kid #77, 81, 84
!Two-Gun Kid #85
Two-Gun Kid #87A, 88A, 90
Rawhide Kid #66B
Two-Gun Kid #103A
*Avengers Forever #4, 6
*Avengers Vol 1: 142-144, 147 (hawkeye)
Marvel Tales Vol 1: 100B (hawkeye)
!Ghost Rider Vol 2: 27 (hawkeye)
*Avengers 168, 175 (hawkeye)
!Indestructible Hulk Vol 1 12
Hulked Out Heroes 1
!*Marvel Fanfare Vol 1 49B
*West Coast Avengers 18-19, 20-21, 22, 23 (hawkeye)
Thor Corps Vol 1: 3
!Black Panther Vol 3: 46-47
!*Two-Gun Kid: The Sunset Riders
!*Blaze of Glory
*She-Hulk Vol 2: 3, 5,
*Marvels Project Vol 1: 1, 8
Who was more massacred by canon (Character assassination/flanderization, bad adaptation, bigoted treatment by writers etc.)?
Liontari
Matthew Leibowicz
Duke Crocker
Liontari submission
Matthew Leibowicz submission
Duke Crocker submission
Preliminary Poll
Matthew Leibowicz/Two-Gun Kid
Submission reason:
"Matt Hawk (real name Leibowitz), when introduced, was a jewish defense lawyer from 1873 who firmly believed in the right of EVERYONE, even a guilty man, to a trial. While he also moonlights as the cowboy masked adventurer Two-Gun Kid to protect the town of Tombstone, he takes on defense cases even for criminals he knows are guilty because they still have that right to a defense, guilty or not. This is a foundational trait of his character seen over and over again in multiple stories (and he predates Daredevil by a year and a half) But ever since Steve Englehart got ahold of him, people have been sanding that aspect of him away. Even the Very Gay scenes with Hawkeye don't make up for the fact that he's been reduced to ""teehee cowboy man stuck in the future!"" removing all of the strong moral compass that made him stand out from the other Kids (I've already submitted my essay on Colt but Matt is a close second) Dan Slott completely wiping away his ability to practice law and reducing him to a ""Man of Action"" when his action has ALWAYS Been fuelled by his moral compass while also trapping Matt in the future in such a way that he could NEVER GO HOME AND SEE HIS LOVED ONES AGAIN was bad enough ESPECIALLY when he proceeded to treat TG as a joke for most of the run when there was actually a lot of REALLY INTERESTING legal shit going on that Matt SHOULD HAVE HAD OPINIONS ON.... then Ed Brubaker decided to add insult to injury by saying ""OH tee hee no Two-Gun can go back to the past actually! But only when ALL HIS LOVED ONES ARE DEAD and he's not allowed to stay in the future where he built a life! No! All he can do is waste away in a nursing home as an old man with no one he loves left alive BUT IT IS OK BC HE GETS TO SEE THE AGE OF HEROES BEGIN!!!"" BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT HE IS STILL ALIVE IN 616 HE IS LEADING THE DESERT STARS EXCEPT NO ONE CARES ABOUT HIM MARVEL FIX THIS HE DESERVES A BETTER ENDING!!!!"
Matt, for the vast majority of his appearances, is a principled defense lawyer because he is a firm believer that everyone is entitled to legal representation in court, guilty or not. He takes on guilty clients, he takes on clients for FREE. He has a second identity as the masked vigilante the Two-Gun Kid, but as the Two-Gun Kid, he does not kill- though he specifically keeps the two identities seperate to protect himself and his loved ones. There's a lot of time travel bullshit that happens with Matt, wherein he goes to the future, gets to be cowboys with Hawkeye for a while, then goes back to the past before being permanently trapped in the present time as a sentence for illegal time travel. (this is relevant later) He's not allowed to practice law anymore, and with it all of Matt's eloquence and thoughtfulness is stripped away. He's just a cowboy, and the part of Matt that made him so principled and so concerned about justice is gone- he's a comic relief character that gets shoved into a love triangle and never seems to miss the people back in his own time (Because he has AT LEAST FIVE BEST FRIENDS) or he's used as background cameos when Marvel needs superheros to get trapped in earthquake rubble. To add insult to injury, ED BRUBAKER decided to write a book about the Golden Age heroes, realized he needed someone to die of old age to inspire the new Golden Age. He decides that, instead of letting Matt settle peacefully into a life in the future with new friends and new family (and Hawkeye, probably) he's going to amend Matt's sentence so that when he's old and all of his friends are dead- and that is explicitly stated in the text- he HAS to go to the past and die alone and among strangers. But it's OK! Matt gets to see the Golden Age of Heroes!!!!! Anyway Marvel also can't decide if he's alive or dead in present 616 canon even tho tha'ts his canonical end, can someone PLEASE Get the Cowboy Lore Straight And Put His Characterization Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me-
Look what they did to Matthew Leibowicz/Two-Gun Kid!
He was fucked over!
I'm fine with his treatment by the writers
I don't know him
Neutral
Actually, I don't think I've made a post specifically about this yet, but it's evil that the ONLY comic to actually engage with Matt Hawk being Jewish (after it was established in the 90s in Two-Gun Kid: Sunset Riders) is the fucking Rawhide Kid Sensational Seven comic. Which. Making Matt a wimp who isn't actually a good marksman is bad enough, but making not one but TWO "greedy Jewish Lawyer" jokes when the source material with Matt repeatedly goes OUT OF ITS WAY to show Matt not only working pro bono but ALSO that he is operating out of deeply held convictions is just so.... I hate it. I hate it here.
[Image ID: Text box from Marvels Project #8 reading, "And back home in New York, I knew that the era Old Matt Hawkins had told me about had finally arrived..." End ID]
Man they didn't even bother to get his name right.... I'm sure this is a great title for the fans of the Golden Age but it really fucking sucks for Matt.
What is the status of the Two-Gun Kid (Matthew Leibowicz) in present-day 616 canon as of now?
He died in Fear Itself: Youth In Revolt #4
Leading the Desert Stars (under the table... disbandment order whomst?)
Working for Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Holliway as a bounty hunter
He went back to law school
Law school was too easy, so he went to Rabbinical school
He's somewhere out west living the Cowboy Life
Waiting for Hawkeye to return his calls
IDK who this is. (Results)
