Comments on: Thursday WHO’S WHO: Hawk (Son of Tomahawk)

By: Kyle W.

Kyle W. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:10:09 +0000

In the middle of a burlesque show Saturday, a song was sung by “Clownvis, King of Clowns.” This was admittedly more of a parody than impression.

By: Zenrage

Zenrage — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:56:25 +0000

I think he looks more like Christian Slater doing a bad Elvis impersonation.

Not that there are any good Elvis impersonations.

By: Spartakos

Spartakos — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:32:54 +0000

To Lawnmower Boy:

Yeah, there was a western frontier back then…but there weren’t six-guns until the mid-1830′s at the earliest, and that sure don’t look like a Colt Paterson in this dude’s hand. If it’s a Colt .45 Peacemaker (looks like it), we’re talking 1876 or so.

Sorry for the firearms nerdness.

By: tyg

tyg — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:49:33 +0000

You missed the bit that even Who’s Who couldn’t bring itself to admit (“Full name: Unknown”). Tomahawk’s real name was “Tom Hawk”. Which’d strongly imply Hawk’s name was, well, “Hawk Hawk”.

By: Uber Geek

Uber Geek — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:17:04 +0000

As Johnny Bacardi mentioned, Hawk did first appeared in 1970. I should know, I have his first appearance. The stories are actually better than MGK let on, being well written by Bob Kanigher with well done by Frank Thorne and covers by Joe Kubert. However, he’s right about the Who’s Who entry making the character look silly. As for when it was set, it was never mentioned, but Tomahawk was depicted as elderly but spry.

By: Brandi

Brandi — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:52:53 +0000

There’s a 1968 movie called Stay Away, Joe that stars Elvis Presley as a half-breed Indian.

You don’t suppose…?

By: Craig Oxbrow

Craig Oxbrow — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:45:20 +0000

He’s a hunka hunka burnin’ anachronism!

By: lawnmower boy

lawnmower boy — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:42:23 +0000

Hey, there was a West in those days, too. First Western: James Fenimore Cooper, _The Prairie_ (1828, I think), featuring a Seven Years War veteran as the hero. Admittedly, Hawkeye was 108 at the time, but Cooper does admit that he was slowing down a bit.

By: mll1411

mll1411 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:54:02 +0000

It’s all the Time Trapper’s fault!

By: Kingfisher

Kingfisher — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:35:34 +0000

Something about that pose makes his tomahawk look like a microphone.

By: IdleLurker

IdleLurker — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:34:39 +0000

Harvey- Obviously, Tomahawk gets returned to the wrong time period after “The War that Time (and every writer save Bruce Jones) Forgot”

By: John

John — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:10:18 +0000

Hey, now there’s Zombie Morbius. The Undead Living Vampire?

By: Harvey Jerkwater

Harvey Jerkwater — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:54:07 +0000

Tomahawk was a Revolutionary War hero, and Hawk here is from the Wild West era, which was…about ninety years later. Hm.

Roy Thomas has a script hiding in a desk somewhere that explains how that works. I guarantee it. Time warp? Fountain of Youth? Mysterious Native American magic? Robots? Clones? Somewhere, Roy Thomas has the answer.

By: karellan

karellan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:06:19 +0000

The “Disco Stu meets Tonto” look is the most awesome thing I’ve seen all week.

By: Johnny Bacardi

Johnny Bacardi — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:50:38 +0000

Hawk was excellent at all things. He was friend to white man and Indian alike! (Black men, not so much. He was in 1950s comics, after all.)

Yeah, ha ha- but Hawk was introduced (like it says in the small print on the page scan you’ve posted) in issue #131, which came out not in the 1950′s but in late 1970.