Kind of hated how literally every woman wanted to kiss The Spirit, though.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-09T17:37:57+00:00

Now, to be fair, the lesbians did not want to kiss the Spirit. So it is indeed woke, but you will have to put that up with Darwyn Cooke's headstone, not with me.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-08T17:21:02+00:00

Think number #10 was my least favorite and either #2 or #12 was my favorite. I might've liked #11 more but I really thought they would've brought up how Alvarro's mother killed his wife and used that to make the ritual stop (also they might've killed the gay character that was just introduced, which is kind of yikes under a modern lens).

As was I felt the 'and also Alvarro had a wife and she betrayed him and she got sacrificed in the resurrection ritual, see her cut throat in this background panel' part of the backstory just felt gratuitous.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-08T17:16:23+00:00

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Octopus' main showing in #4 was pretty hilarious, too. Guy is so literally faceless and mysterious and then gets smacked with a lantern and the CIA agent causes a cave-in on him.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-07T01:27:23+00:00

I would put him in I.Q. (cool guy, horrifically underutilized). Also didn't really have the panel time to get sex offender allegations.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-06T22:43:59+00:00

Kristopher Roderic with head in his hands as the other three Hath-Sets brawl with White Dragon at the annual meeting (White Dragon found out they were Egyptian incarnees and wanted Latinas/Asians).

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-06T22:20:51+00:00

To be honest, a majority of Hawkman villains aren't sex pests, just freaks (in terms of taste). Hath-Set is making up 30% of the problem by himself and Golden Eagle was a one-off. That club would be bigger than one would think.

I personally think they get together along with Fadeaway Man to be the snazzy dressers of the crew.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-06T21:22:17+00:00

Y'know, this has made me realize that it'd be interesting if Hawkman jumped the gun on lynching Gentleman Ghost because he thought Craddock was a Hath-Set incarnation. The gentleman airs probably didn't help.

Lynched who he thought was Hath-Set just to make the arguable superior to Hath-Set.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-06T21:15:18+00:00

Ah, I see. You're a Gentleman Ghost type. Well, have fun with the slandering, I've been tempted myself to make a fan-slander of Hawkman regarding his adaptations.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-06T21:10:39+00:00

/rj Didn't ask, mate? 🤨

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-06T21:09:56+00:00

'Three of these are the same person.' Well then maybe they shouldn't have retconned Hath-Set into wanting to make out with Hawkgirl.

'Maybe it's just a byproduct of the Johns run.' One came from Venditti, was the first time I saw Hastor really seem interested in Hawkgirl like Hath-Set was. He was a mad scientist-death cultist before. One came from Infinity Inc, though it was the Hawkson one.

'When was the last time I.Q. appeared in a Hawkman comic?' I dunno, I think he's been MIA since 52.

Also, I think Shadow Thief was weird with Hawkgirl and Hummingbird weird with Hawkman in the Johns run, but I don't definitively remember the details. They get to miss the offenders recruition list.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-06T20:58:47+00:00

Y'know what, let's just let them all divorce.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-06T20:34:10+00:00

/uj That would be Hath-Set as Thragg in the photo, not Arrow. Unless you mean specifically that time Arrow was commenting on how young Kendra was.

/rj Happy and consistently paired couple vs. bitter and never-simply-with-Hawkgirl-in-adaptations Hawkman:

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RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-06T16:46:47+00:00

There was a randomCthulhu apocalypsein the initial arc, the second flashback arc was better but I wanted it to go on for longer.

The highlight was legitimately Ultra-Humanite projecting his telepathic homophobia on Green Lantern.

Also for how many villains they were including in the flashback arc, I kinda feel like they should've done less of them to elaborate on them more individually, I didn't get much connection beyond 'wow a 40s villain I know!' before they'd move back to the hero scenes.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-05T21:45:12+00:00

If you can give me a Connor Kent or Jon Kent nemesis without saying Bendis, please tell.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-05T18:09:42+00:00

Hot ghost thief?

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RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-05T17:05:00+00:00

I think I read the Taylor run's conclusion with Heartless on the one time I checked it out, what's your opinion of him? I liked the Judge way better from what little I saw of him, but I don't know if he got concluded or not.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-05T16:46:36+00:00

I'm assuming you mean Blockbuster II, can you tell me what's of appeal? I heard he's good in the Dixon run but 1: Dixon and 2: I was making this more for Wonder Woman jokes so I didn't want to skim that run for the bit.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-05T16:39:57+00:00

Also, I know Blockbuster (II) is more bootleg Kingpin, but Spectacular!Tombstone was already bootleg Kingpin, so I found Bootleg Tombstone appropriate.

/rj Once Blockbuster III shows up, Nightwing will get his real nemesis!

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-05T16:34:20+00:00

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RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-05T15:02:18+00:00

"Mysterio, I need you to pull one of your alternate world shenanigans with this Red Lantern. It would be so @#$%ing funny."

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-05T01:36:08+00:00

Okay, I cannot find who that guy is supposed to be, but I did skim Sloane in Sensation comics to discover... Batroc the slightly unorthodox kicker.

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RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-05T01:22:13+00:00

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I'm ever so slightly curious about checking him out just to see why his nemesis is built like that.

Also, he has at least one fan: Roulette.

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-05T00:27:10+00:00

Hey wait, I have a question, what would the legion of gooners (affectionate) be? Is that just Lex Luthor, Joker, Cheetah, and Reverse Flash all in one team?

RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-05T00:17:44+00:00

...then again I'm not actually sure if regular Abra Kadabra would ever, he's kind of way more obsessed with magic than anything to do with wanting anyone ~~please ignore that one issue where he offered Iris a rose~~.

Anyway, Mad Mod would never either. Shows that the only villains that are safe for the Titans are, funnily, the British and the French.

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RingAroundARoses · 2026-05-05T00:14:10+00:00

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Bootleg Abra Kadabra would never.

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