I want it to be known up front: I only read this on a dare. Some GoodReads compadres (the fun kind) got it in their head that we should read the shallowest comics we can find as a group read, thus a modern take (and horribly reviewed) Book by The Rob was an obvious if horrific choice. This sucker took me a full week to get through - page count be damned, if this was a classic Bendis book it would've been done in one night. As for this, it became harder and harder to keep picking this up like the...

Wildly inconsistent and mercifully cancelled.

Also reviewed for Shallow Comic Readers. Hawkman.Because there simply aren't enough superheroes with hairy shoulders...So. Besides needing to bathe in hair remover, what's wrong with The Savage Hawkman?Lots.His speech, for one."The arena turned up a goose egg, but I was able to book us passage on a freighter."Do all Thanagarians sound like senior citizens, or just Grandpa Hawkman?Or saying shit like, my armor has suitors, instead of saying...oh, I don't know...People are trying to steal my fucki...

Fame is fleeting. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the world of comics.Consider Frank Miller: renowned for his run on Daredevil, Sin City, Ronin, and The Dark Knight Returns. Sadly, he struck out with All-Star Batman and Robin and that horrid "Spirit" movie. Consider Chris Claremont, renowned for his long run on X-Men, but who struck out with his "X-Men Forever" line. And now consider Rob Liefeld, renowned for his work on Youngblood, X-Force, and Deadpool, but who strikes out with Hawkman.T...

This book is riddled with bad inner dialogue, hairy, veiny arms, and a wannabe Deadpool with a talking wannabe Star Wars scout bike. What more could a guy want in a comic book? Well, pretty much anything else...

Dissapointment. R.I.P.

Art is really enjoyable. Bennett's Hawkman is a new and improved model; the fights (and there are lots and lots of them) are well constructed and flow; and the layouts surprise in more good ways than bad.The story is the downfall of the book. While better than volume one by a huge margin, Liefeld's story is like a time warp to early 1990s comics, where plots were as thin as the paper they were printed on. Here every chapter is a slugfest where Hawkman's past is changed without any real explanati...

I didn’t think anything could have been worse than the previous volume and clearly I was wrong. Miserable dialogue, forgettable antagonists, and 3 different origin stories for the *SAME* lead character. That’s what awaits you in this book. Spend your money elsewhere, this series is a mess.

This was a really long volume. DC (and Marvel for that matter), usually put six or seven issues in a volume, occasionally a little less (especially Marvel) and sometimes a little more. This volume contains 14 issues, or two books worth. They really should have split it.Sometimes with episodic literature read as a collection, I feel like I am missing out on some of the anxiety and apprehension inherent in waiting for the next issue to arrive and relieve the pressure caused by a month of waiting.

I want to make it very clear that I didn't read this of my own free will. It's not like I said to myself, "You know what would be awesome? Hawkman! Written by Liefeld!" No, this was a suicide pact I made with some friends. Sort of a mutual hazing, or a group triple dog dare. Anne, Mike, Sam, and Kat have already posted their reviews. The good news? Nothing we read after this will ever seem that bad.Because this is really bad. I don't think I can even explain how bad it is, or in how many differe...

Bullet Review:That was absolutely hilarious!! So bad, it's AWESOME!! I almost want to give 5 stars for the sheer entertainment value.Full Review:Savage Hawkman is not a character I am remotely interested in, nor is it one I would ever follow after reading this. To be perfectly honest, I'm not quite sure why this character ever became a superhero - in the pages of this trade, about the only saving he does is of his hide and his Damsel in Distress (who occasionally holds a gun to prove that she's

There’s a lot I don’t understand about Savage Hawkman, Volume 2: Wanted. How it got to a volume 2, for example - who was reading this drek up ‘til #20? I don’t understand how Carter Hall, or Katar Hol which sounds like a Middle-Eastern airline, goes from wearing like a suit in one panel to suddenly wearing green trousers and no top, ready for the Nth metal armour to surround him in the next. I don’t understand how I was able to read half of this book before I realised it wasn’t worth it and bega...

Any chance this book series even remotely had of continuing was completely destroyed with this final installment.

I want to give this a higher score, because I liked the Thanagarian arc. But the final arc where Hawkman calls in the entire JLA to fight Mr. Hyde like monsters is dull.The volume gives us a New 52 origin for Hawkman, twice, with them not entirely connecting. I guess we could say that's the history of Hawkman...and those origins do not really connect to the pre-New 52 origin either.My other problem is books like JLA, the Throne of Atlantis and the Pandora story arc make him seem like he is a gia...

More mess.

If you enjoy that dull bombastic storytelling of the 80s-90s here's your ticket. Each issue is an outline in dumb. Fight. Talk about fighting. Fight more. Big yawn.

I wanted to love it I really did. Then, I wanted to like it and I did until I got to DeFalco's stories. The dialogue was poor throughout but the plot was okay. Until I got to DeFalco's stories. I think Tom was stuck in late 70's early 80's writing mode. Also, why the change in origin from one writer to the next? Liefeld's plot was decent and entertaining. Joe Bennett gave it his all here trying to make a good story. I enjoyed his art especially the stuff with Art Thibert inking.

In a rare move for me, couldn't finish this one. Blerg.

This volume was much better than the last one. The art team does a pretty good job throughout. I was trying to figure out why this is better than the last. I think it has to do with less involvement by Rob Leifeld with each issue. I remember the first volume being almost unreadable with how poorly it was written and its terrible dialogue. On this volume, I noticed that Liefeld has plot credits and is often being helped by someone else on the script. Progressing through each issue there is a tran...

When DC Comics launched their New 52 line, surely they couldn’t have expected every book to do gangbusters and sell a million copies a month. When a few of their books started to flounder after only a few months, they made a strategic move, at the time, that eventually ended up backfiring on them. The books were GRIFTER, DEATHSTROKE and THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN. How do you take these three action-oriented characters and make their books compete with the likes of JUSTICE LEAGUE, ACTION COMICS and BATMA...