THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN #2

Review by: dix

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Written by TONY S. DANIEL
Art and cover by PHILIP TAN

Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99

I want to like THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN. I do. I just can’t. Not much.

Let’s start with the good: the art can be good. I really like the way this book looks in its early pages, which picks up the battle between Hawkman and Morphicius that began last issue. That bit looks really good. And I really like Morphicius’s design. He’s settled into that demonic bird-like form and I think it looks cool at the best of times. Then again, sometimes it looks kind of asinine, like on the cover.

The rest of this…not much good I can say, alas. The writing holds together better than #1’s for a while, but by the end things just start coming apart. There’s way too many characters in the mix, and they act with such strange inconsistency – Carter in particular – that there’s nothing to latch on to. Moreover, this book is just working with too much baggage; the premise that Carter has been Hawkman for a while, but tried to get rid of the armor, and now the armor is somehow IN him…it’s just too much, too soon. And I cringe every time somebody says “Nth metal.”

The art, later in the book, also falters. When there isn’t any superheroing going on I feel like it sometimes gets…sketchy. Maybe this is an attempt at a stylized look, but to me, anyway, it just comes off looking a bit unpolished.

Oh, also, there’s a lot of new characters and they seem to be at least one kind of alien, but there’s some double-crossing, and…look, nevermind. Go read something else.

Story: 1 - Poor
Art: 3 - Good

Comments

  1. Streamlining down a Hawkman series is such a great idea. Why can no one do it? Daniel may have dropped all the historical baggage, but what the hell is all this alien crap? Why introduce and entire alien race and then kill them off in the same issue?

    • When some of the details of this reboot were first announced, I was hoping it’d really play up Carter’s linguistics background; I’d not be the first to suggest something like a Da Vinci Code with superpowers. Given the current state of things, I think that’d be an even better idea: not only would it give the series a much-needed narrative thrust, it’d be a bit different from what the rest of the line was offering (which can’t be said of the current direction).

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