DCU Comic Book Reviews

HAWKMAN #19

Hunting For History

November 2003

Written by Geoff Johns

Pencils by Scott Eaton

Inks by Ray Kryssing

Cover by John Watson

Synopsis

Danny Evans and Carter Hall (aka Hawkman) have been invited to Khandaq to participate in an archeological dig.  At the site, Carter is able to determine that the site was the tomb of a woman and her children, all possibly royalty.  In fact it seems familiar to Carter.  Just then they are attacked by a creature with a human body but with wings and a bird’s head.  Hawkman grabs his gear and flies up to fight it, but Black Adam appears to stop the battle.  Black Adam tells Hawkman the site is the tomb of his family who were murdered when he left the country to help others.  Hawkman agrees to leave.  Black Adam then asks if Hawkman will join him in the fight to protect innocents.  Hawkman says he is with the Justice Society.  Black Adam blames the inaction of the Society and the Society will understand that.  Elsewhere, someone with a voodoo doll of Hawkman believes that all of St. Roch’s secrets will soon be his. 

Review

This was a very average issue with an ending that I think saved it from being bad.  I like the way the ending was set-up in bits and pieces throughout the entire book.  A slight pain here and worrisome jolt here, but nothing that seemed really bad and if it did, we were likely to assume it is related to the archeological dig rather than anything else.  But the ending put it all into perspective and in the process creates an ominous touch to Hawkman’s return to St. Roch.  Plus, there is the mystery to the identity of the voodoo man.  The teaser at the end promises this villain to be on par with Joker and Luthor, but we will have to see where this goes. 

I am curious to see if Black Adam is in any way related to the voodoo.  If not, then essentially this issue was pretty much filler to set up the next story arc.  As filler, however, it was not all that bad.  We get to see a little bit of Carter doing his other job as well as a nice character bit as he admits he is getting used to using technology.  And we get a little bit of Black Adam, although to be honest this is more of a continuation of the JSA story (as well as future JSA story) than it does a Hawkman story, although the presence of Northwind (a character that I am not completely familiar with, although there is a nod in the direction of Kingdom Come) obviously gives it more of Hawkman connection.  Hmmm, I smell a crossover coming.  This is not a bad thing, especially since Johns write both this series as well as JSA.  It will be interesting to see where this goes. 

Where is Hawkgirl?-- MRB

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