From: [c--ve--n] at [cae.wisc.edu] (Michael Blakeman Cleveland)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: ZERO HOUR SUMMARIES: 5/6: HAWKMAN #13
Date: 23 Jul 1994 22:15:35 GMT


Minor spoiler review:  Everything relevant to Zero Hour that
happens in this book is represented (although not repeated as
with the scenes in Batman 511) in Zero Hour #3.  For Zero Hour's
purposes, this book essentially expands on Hawkman's big scene 
in ZH #3.  However, from Hawkman's perspective, it's the conclusion
(part five) of the Godspawn storyline.

This is the first time I've really had a problem with the continuity
between ZH and its satellite books.  However, I'll explain in the
spoilers below.

Not recommended for ZH readers (except the completist fanatics) who
don't already get Hawkman.  Part five just isn't a good jumping-on
point, and you really do get all the relevant information in ZH #3.

Summary w/ spoilers:







































What has gone before:  (Some of this may be a little off.  I haven't had the
time to read back through the whole arc, and it hasn't captured my
attention enough so that I remember everything.)  A Hawk God has ravaged
Thanagar, and then come to Earth.  It has been searching for Hawkman 
while Hawkman has searched for a gang leader named Badblood.  In their
first encounter, the Hawk god took over Carter Hall (the Golden Age Hawkman)
and battled Katar.  The god was then revealed to be an extradimensional
being imprisoned by Katar's father in order to create the anti-grav metal.
The angel wants revenge. In issue 12, Carter is apparently freed of the
influence, but when Katar follows him to Badblood's hide-out, he finds
a slaughterhouse.  (This is my main problem.  Carter acts far too
rational when he meets Vandal Savage in ZH #4.)  

This issue:  Katar refuses to help the police, tries to recruit New Blood
Mongrel (Yuck.), and then returns home.  He has a serious talk with his mother
about helping redeem the Hawk god while the TV shows live footage of Hawkman,
the well-known Israeli hero, in action.  If Katar thinks that's odd, then 
the replay of his conversation with his mother really confuses him.

Katar flies his hardest, using the nth metal to summon the Hawk god, who
arrives and begins to beat him to a pulp.  Waverider and the Golden Age
Hawks show up (from the beginning of ZH 4) to help out.  Katar tries to
reach the angel to redeem him, and is failing.  Carter and Shiera add
their support, and Mongrel shoots in raw power.  Finally, something happens:
the Hawk God explodes along with Katar, Carter, and Shiera, but something
beams down to the ground.  Shayera goes to find out what, and they find
a single Hawkman (with the wings actually part of his body).

(continues in Zero Hour #3)

Actually, I found the conclusion more satisfying than the rest of the
storyline, but I still maintain that this is an overwhelmingly confusing
place to try to pick up this comic book. Wait till Hawkman #0.

Michael