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Hawkworld (1989) #3
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iamrmanWriter: Timothy Truman
Pencils: Timothy Truman
Inks: Enrique Alcatena
Katar Hol returns from exile and aims to settle matters with the traitorous Byth.
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Hawkworld (1989) #2
Apr. 12th, 2025 03:37 pmiamrmanWriter: Timothy Truman
Pencils: Timothy Truman
Inks: Enrique Alcatena
This mini-series was originally intended to be a new origin story for Hawkman a la Batman: Year One. For whatever reason, DC Editorial shot down that idea and we got a total reboot instead.
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Hawkworld (1989) #1
Apr. 8th, 2025 08:12 pmiamrmanWriter: Timothy Truman
Pencils: Timothy Truman
Inks: Enrique Alcatena
Rookie cop Katar Hol begins to suspect the fascist police state might be the bad guys.
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DC announces it's next Round Robin
Mar. 29th, 2022 08:00 pmTags:
- char: amanda waller,
- char: animal man/buddy baker,
- char: black canary/dinah drake,
- char: cheshire/jade nguyen,
- char: cyborg/vic stone,
- char: darkseid,
- char: deadman/boston brand,
- char: etrigan/jason blood,
- char: firestorm/jason rusch,
- char: firestorm/ronnie raymond,
- char: green arrow/oliver queen,
- char: green lantern/john stewart,
- char: green lantern/sentinel/alan scott,
- char: hawkgirl/shayera hol,
- char: hawkman/katar hol,
- char: john constantine,
- char: madame xanadu/nimue inwudu,
- char: metamorpho/element man/rex mason,
- char: superboy/kon-el/conner kent,
- genre: solicitations,
- ns: news,
- publisher: dc comics
Animal Man: Birds of Prey
Nov. 12th, 2020 08:02 pmalicemacher
"At least as important, and closely intertwined [...] with [the] metafictional concerns [in Animal Man], is Morrison's interest in fractal geometry and holographic scale. Issue 6 [...] introduces this new element and points to one of the series' chief organizing patterns. [...] Rokara Soh, an "art martyr" from [...] Thanagar, has created a doomsday weapon that operates on fractal principles. [...] [A]t certain points, the fractal generates identical shapes at increasingly smaller scales. Animal Man follows a similar structure, in which even the most apparently self-contained stories often feature a plot or detail that reflects the themes or structure of the series of the whole."
--Marc Singer, Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012), 57-58
( 'You're just assuming that a rat's life is somehow less important than a human life. Who's to say that's true?' )
Swamp Thing: Roots
May. 31st, 2018 09:18 pmalicemacher
"Making the Justice League fit into a horror book was largely a problem of approach. What I decided to go for was a more oblique and shadowy representation of the JLA. They appear a little weirder and ominous and more frightening, unknowable entities of immense power that sit up there in space and watch over the affairs of men."
--Alan Moore, The Comics Journal 93 (Sept. 1984), 84.
( 'There is a house above the world, where the over-people gather.' )
Tags:
- char: abigail holland,
- char: aquaman/orin/arthur curry,
- char: firestorm/ronnie raymond,
- char: flash/barry allen,
- char: floronic man/jason woodrue,
- char: green arrow/oliver queen,
- char: green lantern/hal jordan,
- char: hawkman/katar hol,
- char: superman/clark kent,
- char: swamp thing/alec holland,
- char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira,
- char: zatanna zatara,
- creator: alan moore,
- creator: john totleben,
- creator: steve bissette,
- group: justice league of america,
- publisher: dc comics,
- title: swamp thing
Convergence - Nightwing/Oracle #1
Apr. 11th, 2015 02:50 pmicon_ukGail Simone returns to her write her favourite character again in the first part of this story, again set in the pre-Flashpoint Gotham City which is part of the Convergence event. (Art by Jan Duursema and Dan Parsons)
( Oracle's BACK baby! )
( Oracle's BACK baby! )
The JLI vs Manga Khan! Part 7
Apr. 5th, 2015 08:36 pmebailey140From Justice League International (80s version) #20
When we last left our heroes...
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...the JLI Space team had arrived at Apokolips, where Manga Khan has brought Mister Miracle.
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When we last left our heroes...
scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/5199650.html
...the JLI Space team had arrived at Apokolips, where Manga Khan has brought Mister Miracle.
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Tags:
- char: batman/bruce wayne,
- char: big barda/barda free,
- char: blue beetle/ted kord,
- char: booster gold/michael jon carter,
- char: captain atom/nathaniel adam,
- char: fire/beatriz da costa,
- char: granny goodness,
- char: green lantern/g'nort,
- char: green lantern/warrior/guy gardner,
- char: hawkgirl/shayera hol,
- char: hawkman/katar hol,
- char: ice/tora olafsdotter,
- char: lobo,
- char: martian manhunter/j'onn j'onzz,
- char: mister miracle/scott free,
- char: oberon,
- char: rocket red 4/ dimitri pushkin,
- creator: j. m. dematteis,
- creator: keith giffen,
- creator: ty templeton,
- publisher: dc comics,
- title: justice league international
The JLI vs Manga Khan! Part 6
Apr. 1st, 2015 04:54 pmebailey140
From Justice League International (80s version) #19
When we last left our heroes...
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...Manga Khan had sent Lobo to kill the JLI space team, who were pursuing him to free the captured Mister Miracle, who the Cluster is taking to Apokolips. Barda, not wanting to kill their foe, teleported Lobo out of their hair. Unfortunately, where he landed was the JLI headquarters in New York. Even more unfortunately, he hit Guy Gardner on the head on his way in.
The Earth JLI doesn't know this mysterious visitor, just that he looks mean. They realize their problems are even worse when Guy has announced he's reverted to his old, obnoxious, personality.
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Tags:
- char: batman/bruce wayne,
- char: big barda/barda free,
- char: blue beetle/ted kord,
- char: booster gold/michael jon carter,
- char: fire/beatriz da costa,
- char: green lantern/g'nort,
- char: green lantern/warrior/guy gardner,
- char: hawkgirl/shayera hol,
- char: hawkman/katar hol,
- char: ice/tora olafsdotter,
- char: lobo,
- char: martian manhunter/j'onn j'onzz,
- char: maxwell lord,
- char: oberon,
- char: rocket red 4/ dimitri pushkin,
- creator: j. m. dematteis,
- creator: keith giffen,
- creator: kevin maguire,
- publisher: dc comics,
- title: justice league international
ebailey140The League learns a dark secret about the Green Lantern Corps...
Okay, maybe just an embarrassing one.
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Okay, maybe just an embarrassing one.
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Tags:
- char: dr. fate/kent nelson,
- char: green lantern/g'nort,
- char: green lantern/hal jordan,
- char: hawkgirl/shayera hol,
- char: hawkman/katar hol,
- char: martian manhunter/j'onn j'onzz,
- char: superman/clark kent,
- creator: j. m. dematteis,
- creator: keith giffen,
- creator: kevin maguire,
- group: green lantern corps,
- publisher: dc comics,
- title: justice league international
pyrotwilightThe final issue of the Earthplague portion of the Bloodlines annuals introduced the odd super being known as Mongrel.
To say he has anger issues would be an understatement. This issue has a few things that bug me and would throw many off so I'll try to make it as clear as I can. Their are a few times jumps around in the story and perhaps most annoyingly is the effort to try explaining Hawkman's apparent status quo at the time, which well, I have no idea about and am ignoring it as best as I can.
19 pages from a 57 page story.
( This Half Cambodian DC character makes the other one look like a ray of sunshine )
To say he has anger issues would be an understatement. This issue has a few things that bug me and would throw many off so I'll try to make it as clear as I can. Their are a few times jumps around in the story and perhaps most annoyingly is the effort to try explaining Hawkman's apparent status quo at the time, which well, I have no idea about and am ignoring it as best as I can.
19 pages from a 57 page story.
( This Half Cambodian DC character makes the other one look like a ray of sunshine )
SOS Hawkman (Part 2)
Jan. 13th, 2010 09:51 amiskander
So, here is where it all went SO wrong. Extent merges the golden age hawks with Katar Hol/Hawkman of Thanagar. Zero hour...
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A last minute Christmas treat!
Jan. 5th, 2010 11:52 pmicon_ukWell, it's less than 10 minutes (local time) until the 6th of January, Twelfth night, the Feast of Epiphany when it is traditional to take down Christmas decorations, so I just have time to slip this in under the wire. A couple of DC's official invitations to their annual Christmas party.
As you might hope, these are a little more creative than many such invitations
Now who could THAT be holding the "tree" together?
( Merry Saturnalia Judeo-Christian heroes! )
As you might hope, these are a little more creative than many such invitations
Now who could THAT be holding the "tree" together?
( Merry Saturnalia Judeo-Christian heroes! )
Tags:
- char: aquaman/orin/arthur curry,
- char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon,
- char: batman/bruce wayne,
- char: captain marvel/shazam/billy batson,
- char: flash/barry allen,
- char: green lantern/hal jordan,
- char: hawkman/katar hol,
- char: plastic man/patrick o'brian,
- char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson,
- char: supergirl/kara zor-el,
- char: superman/clark kent,
- char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira,
- creator: jack kirby,
- theme: holidays
Alan Moore does the Justice League
Dec. 29th, 2009 09:11 pmlamashtarI remember someone posted the first page on S_D 1.0. So, reposting 7 pages from 21-page Swamp Thing 25, volume two. I suggest first rereading this post, as it leads directly to this one.( Read more... )
Suggested tags: char: swamp thing/alec holland, char: jason woodrue, char: superman/clark kent, char: flash/barry allen, char: wonder woman/diana prince, char: hawkman/katar hol, char: green lantern/hal jordan, char: aquaman/arther curry/orin, char: firestorm/ronald raymond, char: zatanna, char: green arrow/olliver queen, title: swamp thing, publisher: dc, creator: alan moore, creator: stephen bissette, creator: john totleben
Suggested tags: char: swamp thing/alec holland, char: jason woodrue, char: superman/clark kent, char: flash/barry allen, char: wonder woman/diana prince, char: hawkman/katar hol, char: green lantern/hal jordan, char: aquaman/arther curry/orin, char: firestorm/ronald raymond, char: zatanna, char: green arrow/olliver queen, title: swamp thing, publisher: dc, creator: alan moore, creator: stephen bissette, creator: john totleben
Tags:
- char: aquaman/orin/arthur curry,
- char: firestorm/ronnie raymond,
- char: flash/barry allen,
- char: floronic man/jason woodrue,
- char: green arrow/oliver queen,
- char: green lantern/hal jordan,
- char: hawkman/katar hol,
- char: superman/clark kent,
- char: swamp thing/alec holland,
- char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira,
- char: zatanna zatara,
- creator: alan moore,
- creator: john totleben,
- creator: steve bissette,
- publisher: dc comics,
- title: swamp thing
thehefnerGot it just under the wire! For North America, anyway! Nya-ha!
Y'know, back when I was but a wee fanboy, I actually used to wonder if there was any feasible way the JLA could go up against Two-Face. It seems far-fetched to say the least, but I suppose the Joker's done it several times. So imagine my delight when, a couple months ago, I discovered this story existed!
In this two-part JLA story from 1975, our favorite bisected anti-villain teams up with the JLA to save the world from aliens inhabiting statues of Julius Caesar, Ben Franklin, and Napoleon! No, really.
( God, I love the Silver Age )
Some of the most interesting superhero stories occur when characters are taken out of their usual circles. Like, Ra's al Ghul being revealed as the big bad guy in a LEGION OF SUPERHEROES story! Or EMPEROR JOKER! It's a simple, engaging, and underused trope of comics. They're the kind of stories that require a bit of imagination and originality on the writer's part, which is probably why they're not done that often.
Me, I'd love to see more of characters like Two-Face being used outside of Gotham, pitted against characters who aren't part of the Bat-Family. We already got a taste of the possibilities between this and the TEEN TITANS SPOTLIGHT issue where he faced off against Cyborg. For one thing, I'm hoping that JMS actually does the Two-Face/Hawk&Dove issue of THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD that he talked about back in May 2008. That'd be a great start.
Y'know, back when I was but a wee fanboy, I actually used to wonder if there was any feasible way the JLA could go up against Two-Face. It seems far-fetched to say the least, but I suppose the Joker's done it several times. So imagine my delight when, a couple months ago, I discovered this story existed!
In this two-part JLA story from 1975, our favorite bisected anti-villain teams up with the JLA to save the world from aliens inhabiting statues of Julius Caesar, Ben Franklin, and Napoleon! No, really.
( God, I love the Silver Age )
Some of the most interesting superhero stories occur when characters are taken out of their usual circles. Like, Ra's al Ghul being revealed as the big bad guy in a LEGION OF SUPERHEROES story! Or EMPEROR JOKER! It's a simple, engaging, and underused trope of comics. They're the kind of stories that require a bit of imagination and originality on the writer's part, which is probably why they're not done that often.
Me, I'd love to see more of characters like Two-Face being used outside of Gotham, pitted against characters who aren't part of the Bat-Family. We already got a taste of the possibilities between this and the TEEN TITANS SPOTLIGHT issue where he faced off against Cyborg. For one thing, I'm hoping that JMS actually does the Two-Face/Hawk&Dove issue of THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD that he talked about back in May 2008. That'd be a great start.
Start with the good stuff I say! :)
Nov. 15th, 2009 11:22 pmicon_ukSo what better way to launch our new location than some more images from the 1980's DC Style Guide by Garcia-Lopez and Dick Giordano?
Some plain, good old-fashioned loveliness.... Following on from the Wonder Woman one here, and the Batclan one here, here are a few more DC icons in classic form.
( From the days when excellent anatomy was a GIVEN.... )
Some plain, good old-fashioned loveliness.... Following on from the Wonder Woman one here, and the Batclan one here, here are a few more DC icons in classic form.
( From the days when excellent anatomy was a GIVEN.... )
Tags:
- char: aquaman/orin/arthur curry,
- char: captain marvel jr./freddy freeman,
- char: captain marvel/shazam/billy batson,
- char: green arrow/oliver queen,
- char: green lantern/hal jordan,
- char: hawkgirl/shayera hol,
- char: hawkman/katar hol,
- char: mary marvel/mary batson,
- char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson,
- char: supergirl/kara zor-el,
- char: superman/clark kent,
- creator: dick giordano,
- creator: jose luis garcia-lopez,
- medium: model sheets
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dr_hermes.insanejournal.comSome bits from 1961 and 1962 issues of THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD. Script by Gardner Fox, art by Joe Kubert.
One of the most off-beat but underused aspects of the Silver Age Hawkman strip was that Katar and Shayera Hol had prepped for their arrival by using a device called an Absorbascon to transmit all memories and knowledge from the brains of Earth people. (There has to be a limit to the depth and type of information fed into the Hols' brains, I think. Probably they started with intake of language, geography, history, that sort of thing and cut off before they started getting into what size shoes Trotsky wore or how to make haggis. But you never know. The text says "everything" and perhaps the information was stored in compressed form in their brains, sort of like cerebral MP3s.)It was a slightly eerie touch that made our Hawks seem "other," not just everyday humans in costumes. They would sometimes sit in the dark and concentrate to try to bring out just the bit of knowledge they needed. One limitation was that (as I recall) they only did this Absorbascon process once. So if a Mad Scientist invented a reverse evolution ray while the Hols were here, they wouldn't have any information on it. Whether they would know about Green Lantern's weakness or Alfred's collection of antique keys is debatable. On the other hand, they would be great to have around when trying to do the SUNDAY TIMES crossword.
This last page doesn't relate to the Absorbascon, but I wanted to show off some Joe Kubert art. He often drew Hawkman and Hawkgirl at night, making them seem more mysterious and even ominous. Kubert also drew regular human bodies, something of a lost art. Shayera is not Jenna Jameson, Katar is not Lou Ferrigno. They're normal people in good athletic shape and that's enough.
One of the most off-beat but underused aspects of the Silver Age Hawkman strip was that Katar and Shayera Hol had prepped for their arrival by using a device called an Absorbascon to transmit all memories and knowledge from the brains of Earth people. (There has to be a limit to the depth and type of information fed into the Hols' brains, I think. Probably they started with intake of language, geography, history, that sort of thing and cut off before they started getting into what size shoes Trotsky wore or how to make haggis. But you never know. The text says "everything" and perhaps the information was stored in compressed form in their brains, sort of like cerebral MP3s.)It was a slightly eerie touch that made our Hawks seem "other," not just everyday humans in costumes. They would sometimes sit in the dark and concentrate to try to bring out just the bit of knowledge they needed. One limitation was that (as I recall) they only did this Absorbascon process once. So if a Mad Scientist invented a reverse evolution ray while the Hols were here, they wouldn't have any information on it. Whether they would know about Green Lantern's weakness or Alfred's collection of antique keys is debatable. On the other hand, they would be great to have around when trying to do the SUNDAY TIMES crossword.
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This last page doesn't relate to the Absorbascon, but I wanted to show off some Joe Kubert art. He often drew Hawkman and Hawkgirl at night, making them seem more mysterious and even ominous. Kubert also drew regular human bodies, something of a lost art. Shayera is not Jenna Jameson, Katar is not Lou Ferrigno. They're normal people in good athletic shape and that's enough.
Catching up with Thanagar
Aug. 21st, 2009 12:04 amdr_hermes.insanejournal.comA couple of panels from the Hawkman story in THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD# 42, June-July 1962. Art by Joe Kubert, story by Gardner Fox. It's a tradition in science-fiction to use advanced alien civilizations to show how our own progress might go. Let's see how Fox did.
Wellll, we're still not flying around our towns wearing anti-gravity belts and big artificial hawkwings. No "central cooking" delivering meals by pneumatic tubes, either. The closest to that might be if you're residing in a hotel and order room service, but dumbwaiters have almost vanished entirely and instead an employee brings you your order. The "identi-cards" are on target, though. I don't think debit cards existed all in 1962. By the late 1970s, there were such things but not in common usage. (Thanks for the exposition, Katar. Do you explain everything like that everywhere you go? "As you know, after we digest food, we have to eliminate it from our intestines. This is what I intend to do now. Excuse me for five to six minutes.")
Of course, Earthwomen are not interested in fashion and would not want to go shopping for clothes after being away six months. I don't know where Fox got such an idea, except maybe to show how odd Thanagarian culture is. It sure looks to me like Shayera is shopping online; although she might just be watching a show, the caption uses the word shopping in quote marks, so it's ambiguous. Then we see the Hols lounging about and watching the news which was recorded for them. We actually are ahead of this ourselves, what with YouTube and NPR archives. I do like the way Shayera is nibbling on a grape (or whatever) and that they seem to be watching a Mad Scientist.Then there's the Weather Control. This was a popular prediction in old school sci-fi. Nope, we haven't got that yet. The best we're doing is producing global climate change and that wasn't exactly a project we undertook consciously.
Wellll, we're still not flying around our towns wearing anti-gravity belts and big artificial hawkwings. No "central cooking" delivering meals by pneumatic tubes, either. The closest to that might be if you're residing in a hotel and order room service, but dumbwaiters have almost vanished entirely and instead an employee brings you your order. The "identi-cards" are on target, though. I don't think debit cards existed all in 1962. By the late 1970s, there were such things but not in common usage. (Thanks for the exposition, Katar. Do you explain everything like that everywhere you go? "As you know, after we digest food, we have to eliminate it from our intestines. This is what I intend to do now. Excuse me for five to six minutes.")
Of course, Earthwomen are not interested in fashion and would not want to go shopping for clothes after being away six months. I don't know where Fox got such an idea, except maybe to show how odd Thanagarian culture is. It sure looks to me like Shayera is shopping online; although she might just be watching a show, the caption uses the word shopping in quote marks, so it's ambiguous. Then we see the Hols lounging about and watching the news which was recorded for them. We actually are ahead of this ourselves, what with YouTube and NPR archives. I do like the way Shayera is nibbling on a grape (or whatever) and that they seem to be watching a Mad Scientist.Then there's the Weather Control. This was a popular prediction in old school sci-fi. Nope, we haven't got that yet. The best we're doing is producing global climate change and that wasn't exactly a project we undertook consciously.
