New Hawkman comic

[The Toyroom]

Yeah Johns (and Robinson, don't forget him) built upon DC continuity perfectly with the past lives thing...

But apparently no one else since then has been able to do the same...Remember Jim Starlin's weird reboot one-shot from a few years back? DC's solution yet again is to scrap something good just because they don't have the writers stable to pull it off. Johns bent over backward to make Hawkman cool again, it worked, and once he was off the book it was a constant scramble to maintain the series. Heck, it actually became "HawkGIRL"!

[aquatroy]

Agreed! Johns played that up perfectly. Not only does it add a brilliant romantic quality to the character, but it also provides opportunities for "past lives" stories. I loved that characters like Silent Knight were made part of the Hawkman mythos.

[The Toyroom]

1. I don't consider Tony Daniel a writer
2. The reincarnation factor was the coolest thing about all of the Hawkman versions post-Crisis
3. If there is no reincarnation factor then this better be Katar Hol from Thangar...

[johnnystorm]

From Bleeding Cool:

'HawkWatch: Tony Daniel on Savage Hawkman:

“The first thing that I wanted to get rid of is the reincarnation factor, the Egyptian thing and the tragedy of him and Hawkgirl. All that stuff. A lot of convolution there. Is that a word or did I just coin a phrase?”


huh.