Hawk and Dove!!!! <3
Happiness. *ahem* Moving on. Spoilers follow and so forth–you know the drill.
Hawk & Dove #3
Yeah, I made the same face when I saw what he was looking at. o_O
This issue can be summed up by: Fight scene where Deadman sees something really freaky and Condor bites off some dude’s head. Still lots of fun though.
But the long version, is we’re finally introduced to Condor and Swan who seem to be way more on the ball with this whole Avatar thing than Hawk & Dove.
“You’re a joke in the circle, and you and Hawk will be as long as you stay in the dark.” -Swan, Hawk & Dove #3
Of course, Hawk doesn’t care at all and continues to brawl with Condor in good old fashioned angry-man style.
There’s a bit where some guards try and stop the fight, but that tends to end badly every time they attempt it (a guy gets his head bit off–what more do you need to know?), but I do love that both Hawk and Condor told them quite plainly they should leave, as neither was up for listening.
It’s bluntness like that, that makes it all fun.
Boys will be boys - loving it. XD
So they fight and make puns at each other. In the meantime, Swan and Dove are having their own little fight, but it’s a lot more psychological with Swan’s “Swan Song” and Dove trying to reiterate it’s not working. Sadly, we never see how that fight ends–but Dove promises she’ll tell us later! I’m holding her to that.
I would have gladly paid another dollar to get 10 more pages of their cat fight.
Deadman drops in for a bit to try and help Hawk, obviously for Dove’s benefit, and ends up with an eyeful when he tries to invade Condor. Freaky thing in there, freaky thing. o_O
So, Deadman proves useless and Dove shows up to save the day. Yay Dove.
And we end with the tag ending that makes us all want to grab issue #4.
Thoughts
I love Hawk. I really do–especially when he leaps in head first and gets turned into the “damsel” – it could just be loving him tied to a chair from the first few issues of the 1988 Hawk & Dove series, but there’s something fun about him being at someone’s mercy.
Or maybe I have issues.
Either way–lots of fun.
I can’t wait to find more about the Avatars, or how Condor and Swan got their information – and even what the deal was with what Deadman saw inside Condor’s head. Because I have no clue what it was–if this was something from the earlier continuity, I might be in trouble.
Art
This issue did some fun things with the fight scenes -particularly blurring out portions of the background to create a depth of field.
Shown: Depth of Field
It’s something I usually associate with cameras and video footage, so it was almost a little shocking to see it in a comic.
The effect isn’t bad – but it did draw attention to itself, mostly because I can’t remember seeing it in earlier issues. I hope it sticks around, though, it’s a nice effect and gives some depth to the pages creating sort of a three dimensional effect without getting too obvious about it.
Ending Thoughts
Still loving this series way more than I should. And I really, really, really, want Comixology to start posting the other series – especially the rest of Hawk & Dove Vol. 2 from the 80’s/90’s. I really, really want to read it and get all that continuity. <3
