Comments on: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #60

By: The Kirbydotter

The Kirbydotter — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:22:39 +0000

Weird, I just finished reading the first 12 issues of Mark Evanier and Dan Speigle run on Blackhawk...

It was a nice run set in WWII as it should be.
Spiegle gave them a classic look and the many guest artist (in back up solo stories about individual members) that included the John Severin, Howard Chaykin, Alex Toth, only makes this series a must read! You can usually get them pretty cheap on Ebay althought they don't come up very often in complete run sets.

The post-war Blackhawks of Howard Chaykin revamping mini-series was also very interesting, very political and showed well research stories set in the Red Scare of the Maccarthysm era of the 50's. Pasko did some of his best work on this series.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:32:53 +0000

Well, his name could be Batroc...

By: Matt Liparota

Matt Liparota — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:28:46 +0000

The Leaper is the best superhero name ever.

Especially since his real name is Olaf. Does it get much better than that?

-M

By: John

John — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:19:27 +0000

DC really, really, REALLY needs to reprint the Evanier-Spiegle run in a trade paperback or two. If you're reading this, do yourself a favor and track their run down in the back issue bins. Great, great stuff.

By: Kim Wong

Kim Wong — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:36:32 +0000

Imagine if the Blackhawks fought the impossible weapons from World War II. That flying tank is but one example. Blackhawks vs. steampunk technology. Blackhawks vs. invasion from the future. Blackhawks vs. their evil alternate dimension selves from World War II. Blackhawks in The Final Countdown situation.

By: The Mad Monkey

The Mad Monkey — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:53:36 +0000

Dig the funky lingo of Blackhawkeroo.
If you're not "IN", you're "OUT".

A new era, indeed.
Thank you, Bob Haney.

Perhaps Dr. Hands and I Ching should compare notes.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:04:13 +0000

Ha. It *is* hilarious. I also dig Chop Chop as "Dr. Hands."

So I linked it. You can now click on "superhero phase." Bam!

By: Matt Brady

Matt Brady — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:19:55 +0000

You briefly mention their superhero phase, but you didn't show a picture of the poor guy named something like "The Listener" who had a costume covered with ears. That's hilarious!

By: David C

David C — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:24:38 +0000

Don't forget, we still have Lady Blackhawk in Birds of Prey! I'd love to see some new stories about the "old" Blackhawks, in large part because I think there's a great "origin story" for Zinda waiting to be told. The Silver Age Zinda was a Silver Age creation, in the postwar Blackhawks. I think she just sorta turned up, without much backstory. Her current version pretty clearly came to our time from WWII. There's gotta be a great story in there. For a young woman to take up flying in the '30s and '40s, that was unusual in itself, but one who has both the flying chops and moxie to shoehorn herself into the most elite flying squadron of her day, that's something else!

By: J to the A.A.P.

J to the A.A.P. — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:28:13 +0000

The Blackhawks: They may dress like fascists, but theyâ€™re here to save your freedom. Hawka-a-a!

I salute you.

By: chroom

chroom — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:43:57 +0000

I don't know ... Erik Larsen tends to run 100-pagers of SAVAGE DRAGON on weird numbers like 108.

But he charges like nine bucs for 'em.

And what in the world was Chop Chop supposed to be? I get that he was meant to be a caricatured Asian, but he looks kinda like Rufus, the naked mole rat from KIM POSSIBLE. Only, y'know, not nekkid and all.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:15:44 +0000

In my experience, comics which claim to be "double sized" often have 37 pages - which isn't exactly double when the norm is 22 pages

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:56:44 +0000

Two things stick out to me about that cover for Blackhawk #7, besides the nice rendering of Blackhawk himself.

1. "Special Double Sized Issue!" Does anybody remember when they used to do these? Do any books ever get double-sized issues anymore, especially on a non-anniversary/non interval-of-25 issue?

2. That said Double-Sized issue was $2.50! That's considered cheap by today's standards, but that was pretty pricey for 1989/90...

By: Dan K

Dan K — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:18:14 +0000

Weird mummy insects are far more scary than regular mummy insects.

By: Apodoctopus

Apodoctopus — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:24:49 +0000

Octi-apes.

Nuff said.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:51:28 +0000

"Issue"... er, I meant episode.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:51:05 +0000

The Blackhawks also appeared in the Justice League TV show, in a WWII time travel issue that also featured Steve Trevor, Vandal Savage and, most rockingly of all, Sgt. Rock and Easy Company.

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:41:01 +0000

Nothing to say; I'm just impressed we went a full 24 hours between posts. We're slipping!