DCU Comic Book Reviews

HAWKGIRL #62

Death Hawk!

May 2007

Written by Walter Simonson

Pencils by Renato Arlem

Inks by Renato Arlem

Cover by Howard Chaykin

Synopsis

A rogue weapon of Apokolips, lost on Earth for millennia, has been reactivated.  It has used Kendra Saunders (aka Hawkgirl) as a template to create a giant robotic killing machine.  The Female Furies have come to Earth to find the gizmoid and decide they need to stop it before it destroys Earth.  Meanwhile, Kendra also wants to help, but she lost her wings.  Suddenly, she starts to transform, her body turning into armor and a pair of wings grow out of her back!  Hawkgirl then goes to join the Female Furies and working together they are able to defeat the gizmoid.  Afterwards, the Furies retrieve the gizmoid and head back to Apokolips. Later, Kendra researches Hath-Set’s canopic jar and traces it back to Gotham...

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

“So damn it all, Hawkgirl is going to kick some serious ass!”

What a goofy, charming, wacky, issue.  If Simonson could write more of these types of issues I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Hawkgirl consistently in the top 10 of the sales charts.  Or maybe not.  For as much as I loved the over-the-top elements (a giant robotic Hawkgirl!  I mean think about that:  a giant robotic Hawkgirl!), I can easily see how some readers would be turned off by it, especially in this day and age.  This issue definitely encompasses a lot of the love of those goofy Silver Age stories, so if that is what you like, then this is probably the story.  Simonson injects the story with witty banter between the Furies and Hawkgirl and Arlem’s art presents the action in a clear, concise manner.  Beyond that, there really isn’t that much to the issue, but then you’ve got a giant robotic Hawkgirl; what else more can there be?

 

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