Hawk and Dove #4

[iamrman]

Writers: Barbara and Karl Kesel

Pencils: Rob Liefeld

Inks: Karl Kesel

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Kestrel empowers a street punk to kill Hawk and Dove.

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Next: Incredible Hulk 162.

Comments

[icon_uk]

I did like that the three Dove candidates all had names which sounded plausible clues without seeming strained: Dawn and Donna both sounding like Don, and Ren sounding like wren, another bird.

[huntleyhaverstock]

I always loved that Hank is a big ol' dummy, and that his attempts at detective work in this series always fail miserably.

For me, the series worked because of its solid grasp of longform storytelling. The Kesels would set up plots and start dropping hints months in advance, making their storyline an ongoing mystery to be solved. Hank and Dawn developed a genuinely warm friendship (booooo on future writers for shoehorning them into a romance), and their supporting cast got built out with more and more fun characters for them to bounce off.

And they DID sort of have an enigmatic mentor figure in Barter, the morally gray guy with the mysterious multidimensional curio shop (which had some fun cameo items on the shelves), who can never give, but only trade.