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OneMoreDay said on August 11th, 2008 at 9:28 am

Fail.

Ladies and gentlemen, my first official troll! I’m so proud. –MGK

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Adrian Tullberg said on August 11th, 2008 at 9:47 am

Great work, as per usual.

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Cookie McCool said on August 11th, 2008 at 10:36 am

I never understood how Hawkman’s regular-sized eyeballs somehow turned into giant hawk-sized googly eyeballs when he put on his hat. I mean, those are some seriously gigantic googly hawk eyeballs he’s got there.

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rwe1138 said on August 11th, 2008 at 10:43 am

Hilarious. It’s been far, far too long since your last one. Great work. (Even if Stargirl never went back in time. ;) )

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Lister Sage said on August 11th, 2008 at 11:10 am

“Come on, it’s frigging Power Girl!

Damn straight brother!

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Joysweeper said on August 11th, 2008 at 11:15 am

“Haunt haunt haunt!”

I love these.

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Lister Sage said on August 11th, 2008 at 11:31 am

I can definitly say, without any hesitation, that that was indeed Thanos.

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NCallahan said on August 11th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

Fails for lack of man-hawks. Thanos is no man-hawk.

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Sig said on August 11th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

Good work, sir. I think that the only other thing that could’ve improved Special Hawkman more would’ve been to staple it shut.

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BringTheNoise said on August 11th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

FEAR THE PUDDING!

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David Looney said on August 11th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

Funny and good. But someone is going to have to give me a synopsis of the real one so I can resist the urge to find out what they hell is actually going on.

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Thomas Wilde said on August 11th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

David:

Jim Starlin is pulling a Byrne and “fixing” Hawkman, because apparently his old origin didn’t jibe with actual Egyptian history or something. It’s very skippable.

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Milkman Dan said on August 11th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

I just skipped the original comic entirely. Now, the next time I read a DC comic, I’m alwas going to wonder where the pudding is.

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Queen Anthai said on August 11th, 2008 at 2:38 pm

The second I saw this on Scans Daily, I knew the two of you were meant to be.

And lo, it was awesome.

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Zenrage said on August 11th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

Definitely Thanos.

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Joe England said on August 11th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

This is hilarious. And I have to say, I don’t much care for Starlin and Milgrom’s art, either. For one thing, Hawkman must not have a forehead, judging from where his lower face goes up into his… helmet? And for another thing, he seems to have a bad habit of losing his legs beneath the knees when he kneels down. And for ANOTHER thing… What is it with Starlin and skulls?? They’re EVERYWHERE. There are skulls on the knees of the beefy cosmic spooky dude. There’s one in that panel where that one guy disintegrates (though I admit that’s not out of place). They’re dotting the scenery in Hawkman’s premonition of death, like evil polka dots. Geez, Starlin! That didn’t work in “Death of the New Gods,” they don’t work here! Skulls are just not a viable background motif! How do you expect us to take anything (much less the death of Big Barda) seriously when the page looks like an online Halloween store??

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malakim2099 said on August 11th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

You know, I think the line, “Sometimes, you have to SCHOOL unknown energies,” needs to enter common usage.

Nice work. Though I think the best bits were in the beginning. And the Ollie comments. Gotta love the Ollie comments. :)

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Justin Mohareb said on August 11th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

Can anyone tell me when, exactly, Hawkman went from “mildly grumpy space cop” to “hardcore dittohead”?

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Clayton said on August 11th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

It was probably around the same time DC noticed that Guy Gardner was their only confessed Republican, and decided to add political balance to their stories rather than lose that valuable Reaganite demographic.

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Sofa King said on August 11th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

No! Macey!

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EndOfTheWorld said on August 11th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

You’d think Republicans would be MORE incensed, if anything, to have fucking Hawkman be their political representative?

“What? Oh shit, guys, we need to keep The Power Pack fair and balanced. Fuck it, just have Jack quote Margaret Thatcher or something.”

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Alan said on August 11th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

“Hawk Hawk adoo”…..I snarfed my soda

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NCallahan said on August 11th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

“What? Oh shit, guys, we need to keep The Power Pack fair and balanced. Fuck it, just have Jack quote Margaret Thatcher or something.”

….I’m actually grooving on the idea of a political Power Pack storyline. Like, Katie discovers politics and Jack and Julie get into a strawman Republican v. Democrat thing and then Alex goes all Captain America and teaches them about being informed voters.

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Bret said on August 11th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

And then they fight Dire Wraiths?

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Jack Norris (Ed) said on August 11th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

Having read the real issue shortly after this, one thing I love is the fact that you don’t really need to have read the comic being mocked here. As much as it’s being made fun of, the plot shown in MGK’s version is a surprisingly accurate rendering of what goes on in the actual comic. If anything, it’s just dialogue that’s more honest about what’s actually happening than Starlin’s.

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Bitsy said on August 11th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

Just FYI, this has been posted on 4chan in the /co/ forum.

N…o, I wasn’t at 4chan. Never. >_>

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AERose said on August 11th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

Delightful, and I thought the original comic was pretty OK too! (For some reason I’ve been unreasonably fond of Starlin since Mystery in Space, even though Death of the New Gods and most of Rann/Thanagar Holy War have been dreck.)

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Andrew said on August 12th, 2008 at 12:18 am

Can anyone tell me when, exactly, Hawkman went from “mildly grumpy space cop” to “hardcore dittohead”?

When I first read this, I read ‘dittohead’ as ‘ditkohead.’

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Aardy R. DeVarque said on August 12th, 2008 at 1:15 am

Is Mrs. Shapsut’s first name “Hot”, by any chance?

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Adam said on August 12th, 2008 at 1:25 am

Well, it’s good to know that if this whole law thing doesn’t work out I could always get a job as a DC artist. And never have to worry about sobriety again.

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Justin Newberry said on August 12th, 2008 at 5:12 am

… I could tell Hawkman what “aberrant” means…

But I won’t, because he’s gonna fuck up this whole pudding thing and I bet my part of the universe turns into crapioca.

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Katherine F. said on August 12th, 2008 at 9:50 am

This reminds me of Hawkgirl from the Justice League cartoons. She never met a problem she couldn’t solve by bashing it with her mace!

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Rattsu said on August 12th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

See, I never read the original (like with most of these), but just like with Death of the New Gods and Civil War I now feel completely informed.

Really. And the bad guy looks like he had pulled a garbage bag tightly over his head cor a cowl.

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Dayv said on August 12th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

So the bad guy isn’t Thanos.

It’s the love child of Thanos and Moon Knight.

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Mariko said on August 13th, 2008 at 4:05 am

Will there be more? Please let there be more. . .

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w00p@ss said on March 23rd, 2009 at 10:28 pm

I lol’ed.

Moar, ever so pretty pleeeaaaassseee?

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ghostly said on March 29th, 2009 at 3:01 pm

Which comic is this from and where can I get the original version?

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lance lunchmeat said on June 27th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

At least he sorta died like it showed him dying.

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