Hawkworld
May 31st, 2006
Hawkworld was a comic book from DC Comics that explored the origins of the Silver Age Hawkman and Hawkwoman. There was a three issue limited series by Timothy Truman in 1989, which was followed by a 32 issue series (plus 3 annuals) by John Ostrander, published from 1990 to 1993. Katar Hol and Shayera Thal were rebooted in the prestige format limited series. In this new version, Hol was a young police officer on the planet Thanagar, and a child of a privileged family. But his homeworld had the policy to conquer and mine other worlds for their resources to maintain its high standard of living, and Hol realized that this was wrong. He rebelled against the system, and was sent into exile. However, 10 years later, he escaped and got the help of Shayera Thal, a young officer from a lower class of society, to uncover and defeat the renegade police captain Byth. As a result, Hol was reinstated in the Wingmen Force and given a new partner, Thal. Along with its contemporaries (The Man of Steel, Batman: Year One and so forth), Hawkworld was intended to revise DC Universe continuity for the post-Crisis continuity. However, DC editors decided that it was not just an origin story; rather, it was occurring in the present, concurrently with the rest of DC’s output. This meant that the Hawks’ entire history from the Silver Age of Comic Books onwards had to be disregarded, including their memberships in the Justice League. This began a series of nonstop retcons to the Hawkman characters that ended with the original Golden Age Hawkman returning in the pages of JSA.
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