DCU Comic Book Reviews

HAWKMAN #38

Farewell My Enemy, part 2

May 2005

Written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray

Pencils by Dale Eaglesham

Inks by Wade von Grawbadger & Lary Stucker

Cover by Joe Bennett & Ruy Jose

Synopsis

Hawkman has just been saved by the Golden Eagle, although he is still riddled by the drugs the Fadeaway Man gave him.  While he recuperates at the Ethon Tower med center, Hawkman hallucinates.  He sees some of his past lives in battle on Thanagar.  His past lives impart some words of wisdom in the form of a riddle before he awakens.  Charles Parker (aka Golden Eagle) tells Hawkman there is much to discuss, but they will do so later at a party he is hosting.  Elsewhere in a secret lab, Satana and her partner Tex continue to create a half-man, half-animal army.  Later that night at the Ethon Tower, Charles Parker reveals to the public that he is the Golden Eagle and he would like to officially become the protector of St. Roch.  He then flies away, but is immediately smacked back down by the appearance of Fadeaway Man and his cohorts standing on the roof.  They then drop a bomb into the building seconds before it detonates.  

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Personally, and this just may be me, if I were the Mayor when the Golden Eagle offered to protect the city of St. Roch, I would’ve slapped him upside the head and asked where he got the gall to think he was better than police.  Imagine the nerve of some people.  Of course, I say this after getting significantly annoyed at Detective Grubs’ antics of attempting to arrest the hawks at every opportunity.  But I do think that there is a difference between helping out when you can like the hawks to thinking you can do the job when no one else can like Golden Eagle.  I also find the Eagle’s offer interesting in that there really is no officially sanctioned super hero in the DCU.  Both Batman and Superman, regardless of how they are perceived by the public or accepted by the police, are considered vigilantes.  I think this idea is interesting and I would like to see how this would work in reality, but unfortunately I don’t this is the story that Palmiotti and Gray have in mind.  Strangely at this point I am not sure what they have mind.  At the moment I would suggest that Golden Eagle was brought back simply to kill him off or (based on the issue title) they brought him back as the ultimate mastermind behind the Fadeaway Man and gang.  You know, the bitter sidekick turns evil in order to lash out against the hero.  You might recognize this plot as the Incredibles.  Syndrome meet the Golden Eagle. 

It may be my sense of humor but there were two parts that I found hysterical.  The first was the scene in the secret lab in which Tex is trying to create different types of animal man creations and each suggestion is smacked down by Satana.  The second was the moment when Gold en Eagle offers to be the protector of St. Roch and then immediately gets smacked around.  Yeah, that’ll impress the bosses: “Look, I’m a hero!  Oh, help me!”  Sad part is that I don’t think this was meant for laughs. 

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