Or, in other words, what is the purpose of this blog?
Being Carter Hall is not a depository of knowledge. I don't think I am knowledgeable enough about Hawkman and his kin to be an "answer man" at this time. Sure, I know a lot about the character, but I don't posit myself as a superior expert or anything like that.
No, instead my mission here is to document my journey into Hawk Fandom. In the past few years, as I have found myself becoming more and more of a DC Comics fan, I have regularly found myself drawn to Hawkman as a character. So as I "take the plunge," so to speak, into full-on fan and collector status, I want to share it with all of you. Everyone who reads or collects comic books will probably have a similar story at some point -- those heady days of the "honeymoon" when every story is new and interesting, that day you find a discount bin just absolutely jammed full of a character's title, alternating through the peaks and valleys as a publisher tries to find the right voice for your hero's title, and the day you find that rare Silver Age issue at a Con that you thought you'd never own.
I hope that you will enjoy this little odyssey of mine. It promises to take us from the hallowed days of Egyptian antiquity, to the far-flung star Polaris and its planet Thanagar, to the present day, and beyond.
We're about to take flight.
Image: Hawkman Trade Paperback, 1989, Joe Kubert.
2 comments:
Damon @ The Tiny Titan blog might have gnashed his teeth at this turn, had he not fallen off the face of the Earth. Good show, sir! I like Hawkman myself, and used to own the trade you picture here.
I think we all know what happened to our friend at The Tiny Titan. He's stuck somewhere in a tiny rainforest fighting giant frogs and what-not.
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