The Savage Hawkman #4

Issue #4 ends this storyline. Hawkman wins.

Sure, there's more to it than that. But not much. It's mostly a lot of panels of fighting and a few moments of realizations. Like the following:



Here we see Hawkman overwhelmed by the Black Oil Clones. And Morphicius introducing Hawkman to the term 'Thanagarian'. That's the Hawkpeople's home planet, for anyone who hasn't wasted any brain space to comic book knowledge.

Hawkman has been fighting alongside Dr. Kane's assistant, Askana. Unless it's spelled differently. She's some kind of lizardy shape-shifter that seems to only know two shapes, human humanoid and lizard humanoid. Hmm, perhaps she only knows one shape and can only change the texture of her skin.

Anyway, she also gets overwhelmed by the Black Oil Clones.



Only to be rescued by Hawkman who we last saw overwhelmed himself. Chalk it up to the Nth Metal?

Hawkman defeats Morphicius by putting together all the clues he's gained across the last four issues. Kind of like an episode of House.

1. The Explanation Bot said Morphicius was sent to roam icy space for eternity.
2. The ship was found at the bottom of the icy ocean where Morphicius hadn't been able to escape.
3. The Explanation Bot said Morphicius had one weakness.
4. Askana says Kane would have gone first to his Cryo-lab before escaping.
5. Close-up of Hawkman as the light bulb goes off in his head and he limps off to tell Wilson he's solved the case.

Also, the Vexaphone apparently wasn't dead. He was also in the Cryo-lab and Kane unthaws him. Probably because he stopped Morphicius so easily in that one issue. But he doesn't actually do anything except this:



Duh duh DUN! Carter Hall is Katar Hol, the Thanagarian! So why is he human? Why doesn't he remember his alien past? How did he become Hawkman and what happened as Hawkman that made him want to burn the suit!?

And who are the Vexaphones and Xenusians? The Xenusian spoke the same alien language that Peraxxus from JLI spoke. Similar aliens? Or is DC just being lazy? Where's the Explanation Bot when you need him?

Maybe I need a separate entry to tie some of these comics together a bit. Maybe read the clues for DCs first big New Universe Cross-Over Event. You know one is bound to happen. And it'll probably be Flash or Green Lantern's fault.