Polite Dissent

It’s been a while since I updated the Hawk and Dove Chronology (actually, at this point it’s just the Hawk chronology since Dove perished during Crisis on Infinite Earths).

When last seen, Hawk was fighting Cheshire alongside Wondergirl, Flash, Aqualad, Robin and Speedy in New Teen Titans #19-21. As you recall, the other characters — both hero and villain — made sure that the reader knew that Hawk had gone insane since his brother died.

Hawk returns in New Teen Titans #24 (October 1986), but just long enough
A) to quit the Titans,
B) for the reader to be told once again that Hawk is crazy.

The rest of the issue deals with the introduction of the Hybrid, a super-powered team developed by Steve Dayton (you want to see somebody nuts, look at Mento, not at Hawk) to defeat the Titans.

Looking back at Wolfman’s New Teen Titans, it doesn’t take long to realize how incredibly well-written most of the issues are (any one with Deathstroke or the H.I.V.E. in particular), but I’m also struck by how many issues seem to consist almost entirely of exposition.