So, once again Hawkman has come stumbling into the world of
DC live action television, this time through the lens of the CWniverse and its
lead up to Legends of Tomorrow rather
than his previous one-off appearance on Smallville. Hawkman’s one of those weird comic book
characters like the Fantastic Four or Green Lantern in that he’s been around
for a long time but every time people try and slot him into a live action
context it tends to end in disaster.
In Hawkman’s case he kind of has a greater excuse than most given that
his origin and history don’t even begin to make sense. Seriously, I initially planned this as
a “history of” article but the history of Hawkman is so needlessly convoluted
and full of retcons and revisions not even I can really follow it. Case in point: even though the latest
version of the character seen on CW is the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian
prince the version I’m spotlighting for this review is an alien police man.
