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<\/a>Like Noisy, I\u2019m not really into DC Classics wave twenty.\u00a0 I know the line will continue through the sub, but it seems like a lackluster way to end a generally good run.\u00a0 Of course my feelings are also compounded by the loss of the true universe.<\/p>\nThe story of Hawk and Dove is a bit convoluted.\u00a0 The original 1968 Hawk and Dove crime fighter duo was portrayed by Hank and Don Hall, two brothers who had opposing viewpoints when it came to violence.\u00a0 Although they often disagreed, their personalities were perfectly matched to balance each other out.\u00a0 Don kept Hank from becoming too brutal, while Hank pushed Don from his indecisiveness.\u00a0 The team\u2019s superhero exploits came to an end in 1985\u2019s Crisis on Infinite Earths<\/em>, where Don was killed by a shadow demon while trying to help civilians evacuate.<\/p>\n Hank took Don\u2019s death hard, and without his brother to keep him in check, he became a darker and more violent character.\u00a0 Luckily Hank was able to be roped back in by his new partner, a young lady named Dawn Granger.\u00a0 She mysteriously received Don\u2019s powers the instant he died.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t till later that She and Hank discovered their powers originated from a Lord of Order (for Dove), and a Lord of Chaos (for Hawk).\u00a0 Together they were to be an earthly representation of the two opposites coexisting.<\/p>\n The story of Hawk and Dove was pretty simple and mostly decent up until this point, but then it got a bit screwy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was never a big fan of the Lords of Order and Chaos, and Hawk and Dove started delving pretty deeply into those ideas.\u00a0 At one point they even traveled to a magical land where they could exist in their \u201ctrue\u201d bird-like\/warrior states.<\/p>\n To make things even worse for the pair, the Armageddon 2001<\/em> crossover was just around the corner.\u00a0 The big bad of this series was Monarch, a future dictator of Earth.\u00a0 A time traveler named Waverider journeyed back to the current DCU to discover which hero would become this ruthless tyrant.\u00a0 The original plan by the editors was to make him Captain Atom, but word leaked out and this was changed at the last minute with Hawk being revealed as Monarch.\u00a0 He traveled back in time and murdered Dawn, causing present Hank to go insane and take the first steps to becoming Monarch.<\/p>\n Eventually Hank\/Monarch would go on to absorb Waverider\u2019s energy and become the time traveling villain Extant.\u00a0 As Extant, he decimated the original JSA, mostly by aging them to their proper age.\u00a0 And he assisted Hal Jordan\/Parallax in erasing the universe in Zero Hour<\/em>.<\/p>\n Things got even crazier under Geoff Johns in the JSA books:\u00a0 Atom Smasher and Metron killed Extant by putting him on a crashing plane.\u00a0 The evil wizard Mordru tricked Hawk into having sex with a comatose Dove, and then disguised her as Lyta Hall and hid her away in a hospital.\u00a0 Hawk and Dove\u2019s child turned out to be Hawkman\u2019s reincarnated son, Hector Hall.\u00a0 Hector would become the new Doctor Fate, Hank would die, only to be resurrected in Blackest Night, and Dove would start dating Deadman.<\/p>\n Whew\u2026 Got all that?\u00a0 Continue to page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n Although not my favorite characters, I am glad these two did make it to figure form since they fit in nicely with various generations of DC characters.\u00a0 But there\u2019s not a lot of complexity when it comes to the figures themselves.\u00a0 Both Hawk and Dove are using the basic male and female buck bodies with only their heads and capes being newly sculpted pieces.\u00a0 At first I thought Hawk\u2019s cape might be a reuse of Azreal\u2019s, but it actually has a slightly different shape with the individual streamers having much more definition around his collar.<\/p>\n I actually really like Hawk\u2019s head sculpt.\u00a0 Gritting his teeth angrily, he looks ready to throw down at any second with anyone.\u00a0 Dove\u2019s head sculpt is appropriately calm looking.\u00a0 I like the detail they gave to her hair and ponytail, but her head seems a bit too small overall.\u00a0 But that might just be the thick collar of her cape.<\/p>\n The designs of both figures\u2019 costumes are done entirely with paint jobs.\u00a0 Hawk\u2019s is the more detailed figure.\u00a0 The white areas of his costume are actually a light gray, with a darker wash given to emphasize the muscle details.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I had some issues with red flecks of paint on his face.\u00a0 Dove\u2019s face turned out fine, but has some gray flecks on them.\u00a0 Also, the whites of her costume tend to fade at the edges instead of being a crisp line.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.itsalltrue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/hado1.jpg?resize=640%2C480\")
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