Comments on: Hawk & Dove #5 (1988 mini-series) http://www.politedissent.com/archives/795 a blog of medicine, comics, television, science and other fun stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:50:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Richard Ryley http://www.politedissent.com/archives/795/comment-page-1#comment-67375 Richard Ryley Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:51:27 +0000 http://politedissent.com/archives/795#comment-67375 I didn't see this mentioned, so I thought I'd bring it up myself. I thought one of the most interesting parts of the story, during the fight with Kestrel, was that as Hawk was "tempted" to the side of Chaos, or more precisely became enraged as the power of Chaos flooded through him, his costume darkened, turning red and black to match Kestrel's purple and black. You can just barely see that in the last panel, as the red is fading back to white on the white part of his costume, and the black is fading back to red. The thing is, I don't it was Chaos that was overwhelming Hawk, as he is already (as we see when Kestrel reappears) infinite. It was Evil that was taking him over. Hawk and Dove share the white color of their costume because they share Good, even though the Unity said that they didn't care whether they did good or evil, as long as they worked together. Since they had chosen to be Good, though, Kestrel had to be Evil, and was created as such. After thinking this through, it occured to me that if Dove turned Evil, abandoned Hawk, and became so caught up in estabilishing Order that she didn't care about human rights, her costume, too, would darken and become black where it is blue, while the white would turn blue. I drew a picture of this altered costume, and it looked pretty cool... I didn’t see this mentioned, so I thought I’d bring it up myself. I thought one of the most
interesting parts of the story, during the fight with Kestrel, was that as Hawk was “tempted”
to the side of Chaos, or more precisely became enraged as the power of Chaos flooded through
him, his costume darkened, turning red and black to match Kestrel’s purple and black. You can
just barely see that in the last panel, as the red is fading back to white on the white part
of his costume, and the black is fading back to red.

The thing is, I don’t it was Chaos that was overwhelming Hawk, as he is already (as we see when
Kestrel reappears) infinite. It was Evil that was taking him over. Hawk and Dove share the white
color of their costume because they share Good, even though the Unity said that they didn’t
care whether they did good or evil, as long as they worked together. Since they had chosen to
be Good, though, Kestrel had to be Evil, and was created as such.

After thinking this through, it occured to me that if Dove turned Evil, abandoned Hawk, and
became so caught up in estabilishing Order that she didn’t care about human rights, her costume, too,
would darken and become black where it is blue, while the white would turn blue. I drew a
picture of this altered costume, and it looked pretty cool…

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