Book: The Savage Hawkman volume #1: The Darkness Rising (issues #1-8) by Tony Daniel with illustrations by Philip Tan (issues #1-6 and 8) and Cliff Richards (issue #7)
Edition: I'm reading the single issues
Rating: 3 stars
Review:
Prior to reading this, I had heard some pretty bad things about this series. I really had expected this to be really awful but the first eight issues turned out to be good. It was times the writing was a bit corny or hokey or something you might hear in one of those 70s cop shows but I did find the stories interesting. There was probably two things that I didn't like, the artwork being one and the constant mention of Nth Metal being the other.
The first story (issues #1-4) had a down on his luck Carter Hall deciding that he wanted to stop being Hawkman. He made the decision to burn the suit but it backfired and the suit somehow became a part of him. Side note: There seems to be a lot of characters in the New 52 that are down on their luck.
Carter became a whole new different Hawkman instead of putting on the suit he now transforms into being Hawkman. A new villain Morphicius was also introduced who many have had some help escaping from his encased prison from Dr. Kane, a scientist and Askana, the scientist's alien shape shifting assistant.
The second story (issues #5-7) had Hawkman trying to stop Gentlemen Ghost who was trying to find the Mortis Orb. He also had to deal with the dead rising but got some help from Static (Virgil Hawkins).
The last story was surprisingly a stand alone piece, it had Hawkman trying to help Askana who said she needed his help however it turned out to be a trap.
In short, I thought this was a good start to the (already canceled) series.
