Hawkman gone Wolverine?

[nightauditguy]

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[thanekos]

He's going to SNIKT us.. with the planet!

[superboyprime]

Well, Geoff Johns did once describe Hawkman as "Conan w/wings."

[proteus_lives]

But I've never seen Hawkman trod the jeweled thrones of the earth beneath his sandeled feet....

[mrstatham]

Crom laughs at Kal-El's four winds.

[jlbarnett]

that seems like a very inefficient way to hold an ax unless you're going to be chopping veggies with it.

[goattoucher]

I thought the same thing. The entire point to having a long handle is to increase leverage. It's the same with Sin's hammer grip in Fear Itself.

[ardat_lili]

It's almost like they were designed by people who haven't done a lot of hard physical labor.

[jlbarnett]

and don't know how to find pictures of people doing hard physical labor either?

[ardat_lili]

I mean, you could mistake how a maul works from just pictures, where people often "choke up" before sliding the hands down during the strike, and certainly it's easier to just carry an ax around by gripping that far up, if not to use it. I find people who haven't had to use hand tools often don't understand the way they use force, same as people who draw fancy backhand grips for swordfighting without knowing how little power you get out of them. It's probably hard to feel how effective these things are without trying them, not that that's really an excuse for not doing the homework.
Maybe it's just my country roots, but I just want to go, sugarpie, haven't you ever had to chop firewood? Or drive a stake? Or, I don't know, you know?

[star_of_airdrie]

I LOVE YOU!

sorry, that was wildly inappropriate... but it had to be said

[ardat_lili]

I'm so glad I broke down and started commenting on things! I've been a scans_daily lurker for, like, years.

[icon_uk]

One of us, one of us! Gooble gobble! Gooble gobble!

[icon_uk]

Wouldn't it be more use in a close combat with that grip? (Which may well be the case if both attackers can fly and are likely to grapple in mid air).

If he were attacking something stationary then yes, the lower handle would make more sense for leverage, but in close brawling you don't have room to swing, so a "handbalde" would be a lot more useful.

[silicondream]

I think it's a safety thing. If he held it at the bottom, he might accidentally tilt it too far towards him and impale himself on all of its random backwards-pointing spikes.

Really, he needs one of those extending-claw toys so he can wield it at a comfortable distance.

[keeva]

I think he got those weapons from a boss drop in WoW somewhere.

That's not how you use an Axe

[blue_bolt]

Having fought with quite a few blades over the years (I've never used an Axe outside of improvisation - twas me that killed the Bear - I can tell you that there's not only no point in having the bottom handle if you're going to hold the Axe like that, but that the handle would actually get in the way. Also the handle he's using at the top would half his ability to build up force. The only way his weapon makes sense is if he intends to use it to punch and block strikes.

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[blue_bolt]

Also in regards to the bear I killed, it was trying to eat a small child so I really had very little choice but to split its skull with my firewood axe - and I still nearly lost part of my arm.

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[icon_uk]

I think I am slightly in awe of you right now!

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[minyandu]

Me too!

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[greenmask]

You actually literally saved a child from a bear, with an axe?

[retro_nouveau]

So cool.

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[kenwyn89]

Wow.

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[apexpredator]

....And in exchange? You took a level in badass. Have a Clooney Brew. Its ice cold and tastes like success.

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[aeolos_sakya]

Sorry, it had to be said, but... TV TROPES LINK!
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

[star_of_airdrie]

Also, it looks like his hand is wrapped (okay, that's good) but INSIDE the handle, leading to all sorts of injuries directly and indirect (e.g. vibration).

[q99]

The looks a bit different but the idea isn't *that* far from the Hawkman I'm used to.

Mod Note

[angelophile]

Hi.

The maximum size for pre-cut images is 400x300 pixels. Could you please either resize the image or place it under a cut.

Thank you.

[strangerdan]

What they really need to do with the reboot is have Golden Age Hawkman and Silver Age Hawkman be two separate guys instead of one guy who changes his origin story between the two every month. It worked for Flash, it worked for Green Lantern, now just do it to Hawkman.