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Worst of 2016: Death of Hawkman

By Dustin Cabeal

I know what you’re thinking… he’s not dead yet. God, I wish he was because it might make this mini-series a tad more unbearable. Just kidding, it’s one of the worst things I’ve ever read so there’s no way it could be more unbearable just in case you thought that was a typo.

The story lacks any motivation to tell a story. It’s completely content with showing Adam Strange be a dimwit. Perhaps my favorite panel which says everything about the quality of writing is when Strange teleports into Hawkman’s apartment after he’s just banged a woman, and cringes at the site of his cock and balls… and that was the cliffhanger for the issue. Adam Strange responding to gentile like a sexually awkward teenager. Next, he’ll throw up when two men kiss or when he finds out that Hawk people all die with raging, untamable boners. Not only is Hawkman hardly in his own death series, but it's hard to care about him dying considering how shitty he is, to begin with. I just hope that he takes Adam Strange with him… maybe they can have a circle jerk so that Strange can get over whatever pent up penis problems that he has.