Disney, with the Marvel and Star Wars franchises in its hip pocket, might as well have a license to print money. With content this good, they will certainly keep taking mine.

Hawkeye is the latest miniseries from Disney+, following after the successful -- and significantly different from each other -- series WandaVision, Loki and Falcon & the Winter Soldier. And, once again, Hawkeye is nothing like the others ... although it ties neatly to Marvel offerings including Black Widow and various Avengers films.

Hawkeye is the archer Clint Barton. And, among the mighty Avengers, Hawkeye seemed out of place. He had no super powers -- a trait he shared with Black Widow, but she stood out for being A) the only woman on the team, and B) Scarlett Johansson -- and he tended to fade into the background. His only marketable talent was archery, which seems like small potatoes compared to the technological arsenal of Iron Man's suit, the brute force of the Hulk, the all-around physical enhancements and leadership abilities of Captain America, or the godly gifts of Thor.

His character might be seen as something of a joke -- in the comics, back when I used to read them, he was a poor man's Green Arrow, dressed in a ridiculous purple outfit, carrying a bow and shooting outlandish trick arrows to nab the bad guys. But Marvel, on both the big and little screens, has a knack for converting four-color comic-book characters into believable cinematic gems.

The eponymous hero of this six-episode series makes it work for him here. Perhaps his real superpowers are stubbornness and a general idea of what's right. He simply refuses to give up, no matter the odds. Along the way, he gets battered and bruised more than your usual hero, but he takes his lumps and he keeps on going.

Hawkeye is, of course, played by Jeremy Renner, who introduced the character very briefly in Thor and has become a major, ongoing feature of the Marvel franchise. In the series he meets Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), whose chance encounter with a blackmarket Ronin suit (Hawkeye's costume during the Blip, when he went rogue and homicidal against gangs) puts her in the sights of the slightly comical but still dangerous Tracksuit Mafia. Meanwhile, Kate -- whose life was saved by Hawkeye during the alien invasion of New York in the first Avengers movie -- is suspicious of her mother's (Vera Farmiga) new fiancee (Tony Dalton) and his possible involvement in the murder of his uncle Armand III (Simon Callow). Also meanwhile, Black Widow's sister Yelena (Florence Pugh) is out for revenge, and gang members Maya (Alaqua Cox) and Kazi (Fra Fee) are seeking vengeance for entirely different reasons. On top of that, it's very nearly Christmas, and it's looking unlikely that Barton will make it home for the holiday with his wife Laura (Linda Cardellini) and children (Cade Woodward, Ava Russo and Ben Sakamoto). Oh, and the Kingpin (Vincent D'Onofrio), last seen in the Netflix series Daredevil, seems to be nosing around. And then there's this musical version of the first Avengers movie on Broadway....

There's a lot going on in this series, and one wishes it had more than six episodes to tell the various stories. Front and center throughout, however, are Hawkeye and ... Lady Hawkeye? Hawkette?

And they're great. Together, their chemistry (NOT romantic, mind you) simply sizzles. Kate Bishop mixes hero worship, unflagging self-confidence and a whole lot of exceptional but untested combat abilities with a general lack of experience and a few lapses in good judgment. Clint Barton, on the other hand, is simply good at what he does, and he won't stop until it's done.

Of course, it's best if viewers don't think too hard about the logic of fighting armed gangs with a bow and arrows. Like, there's a scene at Rockefeller Center where these bad guys just keep running onto the ice, when maybe they could have stood back for a second and pulled out a bunch of handguns....

Overall, this series is a lot of fun to watch. I hope the Marvel franchise keeps pumping out content this good ... and I also hope Clint Barton and Kate Bishop return for another season.