[Return to the Starman/Stargirl Message Board] [Post A Reply]

SPOILERS ABOVE ... oops :(

Posted by Solar Samurai on 2/2/2007, 1:16 pm, in reply to "posted this on the DC message board to get more attention"
70.53.0.67

--Previous Message-- : : But I guess I should share it here too. I : gotta admit a peek at the recent sales : figures continues to bode not well for : Hawkgirl's future. But people need to be : reading this title. It's cool! : : : : : Alright, so I'll confess that I haven't been : a loyal fan keeping track of every : appearance or incarnation though their 66 : years of on off published history, but at : the very least I've read the Wikipedia entry : on the Hawks' origin, and I've been reading : the title kind of off and on (usually off on : account of some pretty atrocious writing, : sadly), but Simonson seems to be tackling : the one thing that never made sense to me : about the Hawk characters: how they're : dealing with the curse of Hath Set. : : What I could NEVER understand was how, IF : Hawkman and Hawkgirl have been cursed to be : killed and resurrected if they ever : "got together," WHY they didn't : spend their every waking moment of : reincarnation trying to end the curse? When : you're cursed, you don't sit back and accept : it. When you're cursed, you get pissed off : and you do something about it, right? Well, : that's what Hawkgirl does in this issue. She : has a vision and then knows what's the deal, : and then Hawkman shows up, and like a dude : wants to just get with her, despite the fact : that THIS IS THE CURSE. You CAN'T be : together. You get together you die. Am I : just not getting it or something? It seems : pretty simple. It's simple story telling too : that it always seemed like no one ever got. : You don't tell the story of someone who has : no impact. Who would care? Like why Star : Wars was about Luke Skywalker: because of : all the Jedis who have ever been, HE is the : one who DOES something. HE beats the Emperor : and takes care of the Sith and whatever (not : the biggest Star Wars fan either here ... I : guess I'm kind of killing my fanboy ethos : ...) : : So what I'm wondering is, that since we're : reading about this particular pair of Hawk : people, it sort of stands to reason that : they're the ones who DO something (seeing as : how they're still being resurrected, meaning : every other incarnation had to de facto end : in failure). So I guess what I'm saying is : that though I realize any self respecting : Hawk fan is boycotting Hawkgirl on principle : that it's not HawkMAN, it's looking like : Simonson is going to open up a pretty huge : can of worms. Just saying that at the very : least, Hawk fans should read these upcoming : issues at the store without buying them. : Because if you don't check it out you'll be : missing something pretty huge. : : But then again no one cared about Simonson : and Chaykin's opening story about the Maw. : Which was some pretty CLASSIC stuff even if : it didn't recreate the Hawkgirl mythos or : whatever that means. It was A plus all the : way. But I respect boycotting on principle. : I do it myself on occasion. :

---

Message Thread posted this on the DC message board to get more attention - Solar Samurai 2/2/2007, 1:08 pm SPOILERS ABOVE ... oops :( - Solar Samurai 2/2/2007, 1:16 pm Re: SPOILERS ABOVE ... oops :( - Irn12 2/4/2007, 12:07 am Re: SPOILERS ABOVE ... oops :( - Solar Samurai 2/5/2007, 1:36 pm « Back to index

---

Post a Response