November 2012 Hawk Solicits!

The new solicitations for November are up!  Well, most of them, anyway, including the Justice League group, which is the group which conveniently contains the solicits we are looking for here on Being Carter Hall!  Let's get right to it, shall we?

THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN #14
Plotted by ROB LIEFELD
Scripted by ROB LIEFELD and MARK POULTON
Art and cover by JOE BENNETT and ART THIBERT
On sale NOVEMBER 28 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
• The "HAWKMAN: WANTED" epic explodes in this issue!
• Continues in this month's GREEN ARROW #14 as Hawkman and Green Arrow meet for the first time in The New 52!
• LADYHAWKE, princess of Thanagar, wants Hawkman dead—and she's accused him of the murder of her father and brother!

So Princess Shayera finally gets a codename in the from of Ladyhawke!  All of this Thanagar talk makes me wonder just what Carter's deal is -- almost seems to me like a Dances With Wolves situation where he is a human who was made "one of the tribe" (so to speak) and became part of Thanagarian society.  SO perhaps he is Carter Hall and Katar Hol at the same time.  And with the Thanagarians now hunting him, our hero truly is a Wanted man, between the Church, whomever hired Pike, and now these guys!

Plus!  The first meeting of Hawkman and Green Arrow in the new universe!  I can't imagine that is going to go well!

GREEN ARROW #14
Written by ANN NOCENTI
Art by FREDDIE E. WILLIAMS II and ROB HUNTER
Cover by AARON LOPRESTI
On sale NOVEMBER 7 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
• A "HAWKMAN: WANTED" tie-in issue!
• Green Arrow doesn't take kindly to winged threats on his turf and literally jumps into the fight against a team of Thanagarian cops as they chase Hawkman through the skies over Seattle.
• When the Warhawks capture Emma, Hawkman and Green Arrow team up to kick them out of Seattle for good!

The timing on this one is a little odd.  Savage Hawkman says it is their first meeting, but this issue comes out several weeks earlier... ah well, I get all of my comics in a big box once a month so no big deal for me.

Seems the guys I have been calling the Wingmen have a new name as well, the Warhawks.  Makes sense, although I find it funny that we have these Warhawks a few months after the reintroduction of the DCAU character Warhawk over in the Batman Beyond strip. Is it too much to hope that the Wingmen will still be the police force on Thanagar and maybe the Warhawks are the soldiery?  I suspect that the team-up of Hawkman and That Formerly Goateed Moron will be a lot like their first team up in Volume 4, which is to say: not exactly smooth sailing.

EARTH 2 #6
Written by JAMES ROBINSON
Art by NICOLA SCOTT and TREVOR SCOTT
Cover by IVAN REIS and JOE PRADO
1:25 B&W Variant cover by IVAN REIS
On sale NOVEMBER 7 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
• The Green vs. The Grey! Who will decide the fate of this dying Earth: Green Lantern or Grundy?
• Will the new wonders of Earth band together to form the first super team since the death of the Trinity?
• Does super-genius Sloan really know what's best for this world?

To answer the second question, I would imagine that it seems likely that they would, but Robinson will probably swerve us and have Green Lantern turn them down or something.  After all the book is not titled "Justice Society of America."  

I was listening to the excellent podcast Hey Kids! Comics! this morning and they were discussing the New 52 Swamp Thing title, including The Green, The Red, and The Rot.  So where does The Grey fit in?  If The Rot is the legion of the Deadworld, is The Grey the ancient world, perhaps?  Grundy has been around (presumably) for a long time buried underground.  

And is it me or does the idea of Terry Sloane being a bad guy really sound like Ozymandius from Watchmen?

You can check out all of the Justice League group covers right here!

So what do you folks think about these solicits?  Do they get you excited for the upcoming storylines in these titles?  Are you looking forward to seeing Hawkman and Green Arrow team up?  Or meeting the new Shayera?  Or perhaps seeing Earth 2's Hawkgirl in action?  Post a comment and start the conversation!