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HAWKMAN #46

Sins Of The Past, Present, and Future

January 2006

Written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray

Pencils by Ron Randall and Art Thibert

Inks by Ron Randall and Walden Wong

Cover by Adam Kubert

Synopsis

In St. Roch, Hawkman and Hakwgirl are battling Satana’s mutant zoo army when Detective Grubs turns into an OMAC and attacks the hawks.  The duo are able to subdue him and fly him to Dr. Mid-Nite’s lab where he can be treated and cured.  Several weeks ago...Ray Palmer (aka The Atom), after learning his wife killed Sue Dibny, tells Hawkman that he is disappearing for awhile and no one should attempt to locate him.  In Space...Adam Strange hops on a ride on the Zeta Beam to find allies on Earth in the war between Rann and Thanagar.  In St. Roch...Hawkman receives a mysterious package.  When he opens it, a flaming bird flies out into the city and the hawks go after it, allowing the Fadeaway Man to retrieve the Cloak of Cagliostro.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Amazingly, for all of 2005, the Hawkman title managed to avoid the whirlwind of Crisis-related events that managed to suck in all of the other DC titles.  In one sense this is a good thing as it allowed Gray and Palmiotti the time and freedom to actually tell their Golden Eagle story without having to hijack the plot to service the mega-crossover.  In another sense this is a bad thing as both Hawkman and Hawkgirl have appeared in the JLA and JSA respectively but also in the Rann/Thanagar War ini-series and it was hard to reconcile how they could be in space and on Earth at the same time.  Thus, I am sure is the reason this issue was born.  It connects all of the recent events creating a timeline that can be easily followed:  the Golden Eagle story, followed by the events in the OMAC Project, followed by a flashback to Identity Crisis (and the resultant JLA Crisis in Conscience), and followed by the Rann/Thanager War.  In theory, this is a good idea.  In practice, what we got is an entire issue of exposition with dialogue that is stitled worse than a pair of stilts.  Everything is forced, nothing seems natural.  This could’ve been explained in a “previous events...” type of paragraph rather than wasting our time with this.  Ah, well.  At least I was amused to see Detective Grubs become an OMAC (and the use of the term OMACtivated). 

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