The
first issue of Hawkman finally arrived this week. As a Hawkman fan, the last
three months have been a time of speculating, hoping and guessing about what
the new series will bring us. Over the course of the last three months, I have
had the pleasure of meeting writer Robert Venditti on Twitter and later on The
Comic Source podcast, tweeting and talking with him about what he is planning
for the new series. The more news I heard, and the more information I received,
the feeling that something special was going to be starting on June 13th gradually intensified as the release day approached. It’s
been three days since I first saw the book, and I have to admit that as a
Hawkman fan, I was disappointed. I was disappointed in the fact that I had held
my expectations too low. Nothing prepared me for what I experienced on June 13th.
Let me get into the details of the book, and I’ll explain more about what I
mean at the end.
