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Hawk & Dove #4

We got more of their brawl - and it was awesome.

As always – Spoilers may appear! Read at your own risk, but I’ll try to make them tame. XD

Hawk and Dove #4!

And we’re back with more awesome with Hawk & Dove #4.

It was almost excruciating knowing I had to wait an extra week for it. Especially after having to wait until after I got home to read the issue, but I’ve got it now and it was another good one~

We start out with a good old interrogation of Condor. Dove tries to play ‘Good Cop,’ which works about as well as you think it might. So, Hawk just steps in and plays ‘Bad Cop’ for a while.

Watanabe suggests that it probably won’t work, but Dove is only half listening.

While Hawk beats on Condor, we’re treated to a brief flashback of Dove and Swan’s fight from the last issue. Dove basically beats the living daylights out of Swan and it’s awesome. We also get some references to Dawn’s past life that leave me wanting more info. Of course this leads to…

Swan calling Dove out for fighting back when her avatar is “Peace.” While she’s distracted, Swan stabs her and…something cool happens. I won’t go into too much detail because that would be a spoiler, and also because I’m not sure what happened at the time either. It was a little vague. (But thankfully they DO explain it later–so it makes up for the confusion at the time.)

Poor Watanabe, that's what I think every time I see him. *pats him*

Moving on, we go back to the interrogation room where Condor starts talking. He manages to confuse talk circles around the uninformed Hawk and Dove.

The issue ends with Condor letting them know that he can sense where Deadman is…who happened to be in the room at the time. Before he could leave, Deadman gets captured in a very cool way–you can read it for yourself–and we leave the issue with Dove vowing that she’d get him back no matter what!

And Hawk got blasted by some goons. Poor Hawk. No, seriously. I know the guy has attitude problems, but it seems like in every version of Hawk & Dove I see he’s always getting wailed on. He’s almost at woobie status by this point. XD

Conclusions

Another great issue. I’m really excited for the saving of Deadman in issue number five & in six we get to see Batman and Robin show up. So…awesome all around.

The artwork continues to be fun as well, and they’re using a lot more of that blur effect. It creates a much softer set of lines & colors than the harsher & distinct sketch lines. Looks pretty good.

There’s one panel in particular where Deadman is getting pulled away that’s gorgeous. Wish I could link it, but it’s pretty spoiler heavy. Sorry! XD

And we’ll end with one of my fav non-spoiler shots from the comic:

Don't worry Hank, we don't know what he's talking about, either.

Liliy is a Fangirl #13

To be fair, I put the fangirl post off this week because I knew I would be able to wait a week to fangirl over the movie I was seeing (saw) Saturday.

The Muppets

This movie, The Muppets 2011. Was. Amazing.

No, I loved it. I laughed the entire movie. I loved every cheesy, lampshade hanging, wonderfully timed moment.

And the music was great, too. A whole new set of songs that get stuck in your head and they were all up there with the original Muppet Movie. “Pictures in my Head” and “Party of One” were a couple of my favorites. (My brother’s was unanimously “Muppet of a Man”).

If you like The Muppets – you should see this. That is all. :)

Comics

Okay, so I’m trying to trim down my comics budget. By doing that, I’m going to put myself a month behind on at least one week’s worth of comics so they’re a $1 less each. If I was smart, I would have chosen the week before since that’s the one where I order the most comics, but…I want to read those the second they come out. I’ve just admitted this last week is the one I care the least about. XD So there we go.

However! For Black Friday they did have a ‘Blackest Night’ sale, so I grabbed the Teen Titan 3 Issue Mini Series.

For yes–Hawk and Dove.

I’m happy I don’t know more of the issues they’re in, or I would have hunted down all of them.

Oh well, at least I got to see Dove get mad, and I saw Holly Granger as Hawk for the first time. I like her–she’s basically a female Hank. XD

Also, we got a quick sneak at Don, the original Dove. All this has confirmed is I love all four Hawk & Dove. I think perfection would be Hank & Dawn, and Holly & Don. That would be awesome.

I love them. All of them.

…I love Hawk & Dove.

*runs away*

Liliy is a Fangirl #10

Hey! Mostly Comics today. XD In fact. All Comics today.

Spoilers~ ohhh~

Comics

Action Comics #3: It’s funny, just as Superman starts to grab me, Action Comics starts to lose me. I’m not sure if it’s because Jimmy’s new character design is driving me crazy (I’m not sure what it is–but I can’t stand it) or because it seems kinda boring. I don’t know. Can’t quite put my finger on it.

I have no idea what's going on with her or her 'clone' but I felt for her during this scene. That's what's important. *sage nod*

Static Shock #3: Definitely easier to understand than the last issue – and we’re back to some fun Static action with Virgil working both the school and the local gang trying to kill him. Plus, we’re getting more info on his sister and her ‘clone’ and that side story. Pretty good issue~

Hawk & Dove #3: I want four. Now. *noms Hawk & Dove* I love them. LOVE THEM.

We’re going to get to Swamp Thing – ~~fair warning, this might be a long one~~ [It turned out normal length to avoid grossing people out with details]. And we’ll have a better opinion on Justice League Dark after. XD

Swamp Think #3: I…just don’t know what to do with this one. I literally freaked out reading this comic. There’s this big thing that happens and everything goes to heck and back and for goodness sake they [this would be the spoiler] show the brutal mutilation of three sick kids and a man’s lung pulled out of his chest and hanging out of his mouth. This stuff looked like it belong in a Left 4 Dead game. o_O But it caught me totally off guard and just. Wow. Man. XD

Though this was in the issue, so that makes it worth it. XD

Moving on.

In my sudden urge to own all things Hawk & Dove – I found out that Dove is in Justice League Dark. So guess what I splurged on!? :D

This is the sole reason I picked up Justice League Dark

Justice League Dark #1 & #2: I bought this solely for Dove, but it turns out it was actually really, really good. The book-end narrative (“I looked into the future.”) with Xanadu was really well put together and the first issue was gorgeous. It’s a dark, serious, magic piece and it works really well. The second issue was quite good as well and had a nice focus on the relationship between Dove and Deadman which helps fill in some of the troubles they’re experiencing over in Hawk & Dove (and was also hilarious – oh Deadman, you just don’t understand women, do you? Try possessing Hank and see what that does. XD).

Future?

I’ll probably be picking up the Birds of Prey Series that had Hawk and Dove because I’m a tad obsessed. *cough*

Hawk & Dove #3

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

Hawk & Dove #1 and #2

Well, when I picked up my weekly comics on Comixoloy today, I wasn’t expecting to come out with a new favorite series. In fact, I think this just blew the rest out of the water by the sheer fangirl-ness it brought out. I’ve read both issues three times today and I was sure nothing was going to kick Supergirl out of the lead spot. (You can tell because I’m writing about it today in a full post instead of the little Fangirl blurb on Friday.)

What comic would this be? Why it’s in the title and below:

Hawk & Dove Written by Sterling Gates & Art by Rob Liefeld (Colors by Matt Yackey)

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