Awful!This is one of the worst titles I've read in the New 52 line-up, and I'm not even that picky!How do I even describe it? Well, the word boring comes to mind. So does the word idiotic. The dialogue was so amateur and stupid that I would love to put them in this review as evidence, but that would require me thumbing through the pages again. I Won't Do It! I wasted the entire day trying to force myself to just finish the thing. I finally got through with it, too. And I'm not going back, baby!

This really is bad. Worse than just being poorly written, it's boring, too. You just can't start a book with the main character torching his famous costume without explaining why he's torching his famous costume. So he hates being Hawkman, but why? I never was able to figure it out. I'd bet good money that Daniel never bothered to figure it out. He just needed a way to give his main character an upgrade. Now the Nth Metal is fused with Hawkman's body! Yay? I don't care, and I don't see why I sho...

Not bad. The first half wasn't very exciting. Hawkman gets his nth metal power and a bad guy is after him because he wants to suck up his energy. We are back to the original Hawkman here too, the human cryptologist, not the alien police enforcer who I've been most familiar with in my reading as a youngster. Anyway, once the first story was over, we suddenly had zombies appear and my interest piqued. Finding the second half of the book much more interesting story wise plus we got to know Carter m...

This book series is not starting off very well, but it shows the potential of picking up in later installments.

You know, I really like old Carter Hall. I just find it kind of funny that in the DC Multiverse, a cryptologist such as Carter is the staunch conservative (although his personal politics were not explored in this trade) and the billionaire industrialists like Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen are the altruistic souls trying to make a difference. Who do we get in our own reality? The nefarious Koch brothers. Yikes. No wonder I read comics! So anyway, this trade...hmmm...had some potential, had some go...

Absolutely worst comic I've read in ages . . . and I like Hawkman. The only thing cool about the book at all was the updated look of our savage main character; everything else was annoying and immediately forgettable.

I was watching paint dry with an intensity the activity doesn’t usually warrant when a thought struck me that someone seeing this might think me odd - that is unless you informed them it was this or read “Savage Hawkman, Vol 1: Darkness Rising”. “So put it aside, pick up something else!” would be the reasonable response to this situation. That I would normally do but a few weeks ago I made the bad decision of purchasing a shed-load of New 52 titles and, because money has changed hands, I feel ob...

Absolutely NOT reader friendly. You’re obviously supposed to have full knowledge of Hawkman’s lore to start with or get lost; Daniel obviously doesn’t care.The plot, if I may call that a plot is as uninteresting as it is obscure and botched in its translation into words and images to boot. What’s happening? Dunno. Do I care? Nope.Art started well but dropped down due to change of artist.Reserved to enraged Hakman fans

This wasn't terrible, but wasn't much to my taste. There's no set-up or backstory or introduction about the heritage of the character; you're just supposed to intuit that it's yet another continuity retcon reboot and that all bets are off. It begins with Carter Hall being tired of being Hawkman and deciding to destroy the costume. (I'm a little tired of superheroes who become tired of themselves and deciding to quit, but okay.) So the costume decides to infuse his body and become a literal part

So this is a weird one, because for a "fresh start/reboot/new status quo" they do a terrible job of letting new readers know “whats up” and just throw you into the deep end, and I feel bad for any new readers who pick this up expecting to get any sort of knowledge on the character. — you won't. And you'll be lost right off the bat.I didn't much care for the first half of this, with the throw away Venom-symbiote-like stuff, and I don't think Tan's art reels you in much either, as it's so dark and...

Phillip Tan's wonderful artwork in the first half of the book isn't enough to redeem this series. Tony Daniel doesn't explain anything about main protagonist, Carter Hall, and the things we infer about him from the story aren't great. He's as dense as a brick, a jerk to anyone who inconveniences him (and even those that don't), and monologues CONSTANTLY. Now place that character in a boring plot about aliens and you have a very bland superhero comic that encompasses everything wrong about edgy c...

The Savage Hawkman left me savagely mumbling "meh". Carter Hall wants to be free of the Nth Metal. But that's not going to happen. Instead the armor bonds to Carter and can now appear when needed. That's cool, since there are several bad guys/alien things that want to get a hold of the Nth metal. So they try to do so throughout this volume. They fail. So there will be a volume 2 and I don't know if that's a positive thing or not. Nothing about this story (art or plot) is terrible. Nothing about

Another example of a New 52 book that had potential that was wasted. The initial set-up and plot were intriguing but then the book never explores those elements. We never learn the background of the character, his powers, his personality - nothing. Time after time characters would know something needed for the story with no explanations given for how they know it. The art wasn't good either, with indistinct faces and muddy coloring. The new costume design was good but poorly explained and utiliz...

3.5 stars

What sets Hawkman apart as a hero isn't his powers (which are run-of-the-mill) nor his personality (macho, politically conservative) or even his weaponry (a flair for the medieval.) It's his ardor and taste for battle. Daniel admirably keeps our hero in a warlike mindset even when not wearing the mask and wings.

2.5 stars. Previously I've been a fan of Hawkman but this New 52 reboot is a disappointment.Some of the artwork is decent. I like Hawkman's look -- his armor and wings -- and overall I thought he looked really menacing. But as for the artwork for the other characters (and even for Carter Hall when he's not in Hawkman form), the facial features weren't sharp and defined enough for my tastes.At the very start Carter Hall has the Hawkman armor and is trying to destroy it. While I don't always mind

This book is a good example of the problem I have with the New 52 event. In Brightest Day, DC took several characters (including Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Martian Manhunter, Deadman, Hawk and Dove, and Green Arrow) and really gave them a new direction. The events surrounding Brightest Day caused these characters to reevaluate their lives and they came away with a new re-dedication to their various causes; it looked like we were in for some really good stories in the titles that dealt with these chara

I've always liked the character of Hawkman. He had a cool costume, cool powers, cool weapons, and despite a backstory that's the second most complicated in the DCU (after Donna Troy), he's a pretty interesting character. This first trade of the New 52 relaunch doesn't use any of that. It is, in a word, awful. The re-drawn costume is terrible - why does every character in the New 52 need armor? Why make the Nth metal part of Hawkman himself, and use that instead of the cool weaponry he used to us...

Maybe it is because I know less about Hawkman, but I found these stories not too bad. I wish Morphicius had been a little more badass and I wish that the gentlemen ghost saga had been fleshed out a bit more, but overall it was decent. I also enjoyed the art, which brought out the Savage part of the title much more than the writing. I might consider reading more if it had not been taken over for the next arc by Rob Liefeld. Ah well.

The first part is pretty slow and not that memorable. When the Hawkman has to go up against ghosts and the dead it does get really good. This title has a lot of potential if it carries on having great stories like that one. A good read.