1. Hawkman Is A Complete And Total Jerkface
In an earlier column, I described Orion’s behavior in Cosmic Odyssey as “approaching peak jerkface levels†but Hawkman’s baseline is peak jerkface. Remember when I mentioned Hawkman voted to WIPE BATMAN’S MIND?! Well he did that! He also got in, like, two fistfights about his right to midwipe people. Hawkman is also the kind of guy who will not shut up ever. He is always right and you are always wrong.
He uses medieval goshdarn weaponry to stop street muggers. I’m not pro crime, but I don’t think purse snatching should be paid back by a screaming musclebound psycho descending from the sky carrying a battle axe. To be fair though, I’m pretty sure that would put an end to crime altogether.
And to be perfectly honest, I kinda like everything about Hawkman anyway. I like his overly convoluted backstory, I like his weirdly stalker-ish tendencies, I like the counterpoint he provides to Green Arrow, and I like his total jerkface personality. Honestly, if you asked me to turn in a list of my favorite things about Hawkman, I’d probably give you the exact same list I just wrote.
Except the stuff about the cartoons.
Those are legit terrible.
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