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.

[iskander]

He drew the most luscious Hawkgirl ever. Those hips.......................

[tishooo]

And he drew her with a small chest - on purpose, as part of her character design. When I see her with gigantic breasts it looks so wrong - for example the gross covers by Chaykin with the half-melons stuck onto her.

[iskander]

Yup. Let's hear it for the Dancer's/athlete's body !!

[iskander]

Well I think there is some variance from panal to panal but she is supposed to be a "B cup" . Most female characters go right to D and beyond, size wise.

[iskander]

No Milla is a n A cup .

[iskander]

Not really interested in arguing bra sizes. I would just say she she is supposed to have small breast. Weather small is relative to the typical torpedo type many artists draw I up to the individual. The only other characters that spring to mind would be Raven or Kitty Pride.:)

[tishooo]

Actually, I think you are right, those are some pretty big breasts compared to how she was portrayed when she first appeared. I think I was just subconsciously picturing that when I replied and was thinking of comments I had heard Sadowski made after he left the book. I know he wasn't always keen how Bair's inks changed his pencils either so perhaps this could be related.

However, it should be noted that those aren't that big compared to your average comic book portrayal! And a sample of those awful Chaykin covers to illustrate what I meant in my original post:

[iskander]

The book got cancelled right ?

[jaybee3]

Yep. Survived 50 issues with steady sales with Carter/Hawkman as the lead (as a museum curator/adventurer) but then he "disappeared" and in yet another failed One Year Later DC gimmick the book became "Hawkgirl" and sales plummeted quick.

[iskander]

Yeah, I left around 38 I believe.

[geoffsebesta]

sorta what I was thinking there.