Polite Dissent

Between their 1988 mini-series and their 1989 regular series, Hawk and Dove made an appearance in the DC crossover event Invasion! (No, I’m not using an exclamation point because I was excited they were in it. I’m using the exclamation point because that’s the name of the mini-series: Invasion!) After Crisis, DC seemed to have some sort of big event every year or so. Legends, Millennium, Invasion! and others. Most of them were forgettable, some were downright embarrassing. Invasion! was actually fairly entertaining, and did shake up some things in the DC Universe, rearranging the powers of several heroes.

Hawk and Dove appeared in the second issue of Invasion! in the Invasion, Book Two: Battleground Earth. Despite the name, we never actually got to see Hawk and Dove engage in any battle. Frankly, we barely saw them at all.

They first show up in a big Where’s Waldo? scene that’a reminiscent of one of the first shots in the first episode of Justice League Unlimited. See if you can spot Hawk and Dove — I promise you, they’re in the shot. (Click on the image for a larger view.) While your at it, see if you can find the favorites of some other bloggers including Swamp Thing, Wild Cat*, Blue Beetle, and Aquaman. I think that’s Booster Gold behind Ambush Bug and Ice, but it’s hard to tell. And tell me that’s not Spider-Man hiding behind Killowog. It was sure nice of him to help the DC heroes out, wasn’t it?

A portion of the same crowd scene shows up two panels later, this time colored darker to suggest shadow and depth, but since it’s clearly the same pencils, I’m not really counting that as a Hawk appearance.

A few pages later, Dove shows up alongside Hawkman, Guy Gardner and a pre-Atom Smasher Nuklon. She even gets a word balloon, though it’s rather colloquial for someone so grammatically correct: “So we’re gonna fight?” That doesn’t sound like Dove; it sounds more like Hawk, or a second-grader.

That’s it. Those two (and a half) panels are the sum total of Hawk and Dove’s contribution to Invasion! Of course, they remember it a bit different in their own title, but you’ll just have to wait until I review Hawk & Dove #1 to get the low-down on their memories of the invasion.

*OK, it’s the Yoland Montez Wildcat II, but it’s still a Wildcat