SOS Hawkman...( part 1)

[iskander]

Poor Hawkman. Few character have been through the ringer like he has. Carter hall/Katar Hol has been crushed by crossovers, bad retcons and just really,really bad editorial desicions.

This is his big return. After the "hawk-god avatar" version bottomed out in the summer 1996 and the series ended witha merged Katar Hol, struggling with the spirits of the other Hawk Avatars, being banished to the realm of the Hawk God or some such mystical nonsense. The upshot was, both Hawkmen were gone, and it didn't look like they were coming back anytime soon.

In fact, DC editorial was of the opinion that the character had been revised and redone and rethought so much that he had become incomprehensible, and declared the character radioactive,forbidding his use as a guest-star or any attempts to revive him for several years. Around this time came the absolute low point for poor Hawkman: when Warner Brothers licensed him out for a humiliating Baby Ruth candy-bar commercial, which showed Katar flying into windows like a parakeet until he got the necessary burst of energy from a delicious Baby Ruth.

Now Five years later Hawkman returns to the JSA.

Comments

[tishooo]

Love sadowski's pencils. I wish he got more DCU work.

[kainnived.livejournal.com]

And now they're both dead, again.

[autumn_lily]

OoOoOoOO...Baby Ruth! Yum!

[galateus]

a humiliating Baby Ruth candy-bar commercial

That sounds hilarious. *searches*

Ah, here we go! Can you copy/paste this into the entry?

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[silverzeo]

So not only do they pick Hawkman of all people for a commercial, but stuck with his 80s outfit, with mullet and ninja start armband, but they also mention Lion-Mane, a character that nobody but hard core comic nerds and furries would know about? Wow.... this commercial is more faithful to Hawkman than that Dragonball Evolution movie was for Goku.

[anewchallenger]

I've never understood the appeal of Hawkamn (or, by extension, Hawkgirl) because at the end of the day, he's a guy who flies and hits thing hard.

Half of the heroes in the DCU can do this, and then some.