Exclusive: THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN #12 4-Page Preview

Things are beginning to look a whole lot clearer for Hawkman in THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN. We received an exclusive preview for issue #12 this week that gives us a big hint at what might be in store for Hawkman very soon. The winged hero has come face to face with Pike, a mercenary hired to seek him out. Question is, who hired him? Enter the alien race, the Daemonites, who are coming close to invading Thanagar. Looks like Hawkman may be meeting more people like him in the very near future -- at least based on this preview.

THE SAVAGE HAWKMAN is written by Rob Liefeld and Mark Poulton and features art by Art Thibert and Joe Bennett. Check out the preview below and let us know if this is a series you have been enjoying and whether or not it's an issue you will be picking up on August 22nd, 2012.

ugh. dc just let him go. most people wont give the comic a second glance thanks to the cover. look at the awesome art on the inside. shame.

Pike!!!

Interior art looks ok... Bennett does a fine job... About the writing I can't say anything... Don't read the story...
 
But that cover... He really isn't even trying, isn't he....
Good thing Bennett is doing the interiors... With a variant cover this could be saved...

I dropped this book once Liefeld started writing it. It was already barely hanging in their with Daniel writing it. Which sucks because I love Hawkman. I wish James Robinson was the writer like it originally was going to be. The interior is great but the covers are horrible. And I am sick off all of Liefelds villains being another Deadpool knockoff. Just give it up already!

This is probably the best arc from savage hawkman. I loved everything that this book is doing. Mark Poulton, rob and joe bennett are doing their best work here.

Pike just seems like a deadpool clone...

yay Wildstorm villain! :D

Horrible cover.

liefield art is better..but not by much..Hawkman deserves better...im not a liefield hater

Pike is an old Wildcats villain.....so why isn't he fighting Voodoo or Grifter, especially since Liefeld is writing Grifter.

Pike is an old Wildcats villain.....so why isn't he fighting Voodoo or Grifter, especially since Liefeld is writing Grifter.

Ugh...that cover...dude isn't even holding the sword, it's just kinda floating there...

I dont know why Liefeld haves job, he is the joke of the industry

I'm really enjoying this series. love Joe Bennett's art. and I'm super glad that he'll be doing the covers starting with the zero issue.

I'm not gonna comment on the writing because A) I stopped reading this title and B) I've never read any of Liefield's work. Although I will say that that cover is just....awful. I mean, does Hawkman have a neck?

@Jonny_Anonymous: Too true. I personally still hate how DC are treating the Wildstorm characters. Warblade is a Titian's villain, voodoo has not been the same voodoo we were reading for the past 3-5 issues, grifter is alright, but I haven't read anything from him yet, and I do love Stormwatch.

WOAH!!!! Is that Deadpool fighting Hawkman on the cover.....oh, nope. Diehard!?!?....nope again.....Cabot???? Oh, I see now, It's Pike. Sorry, my mistake. How dare I confuse those characters based on the cover. Shame on me......

I don't like the changes to hawkmans mask.

Please write a dove comic rob

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I was really enjoying The Savage Hawkman up until issue #9 when Liefeld took over covers and started co-writing. I can get past the covers, as "savage" as they might be there no reflection on what type of art is waiting inside for those willing to take a closer look. I'm still pulling this title in hopes that Liefeld will eventually leave it.

Is part of Liefeld's contract with DC that they HAVE to let him do cover art? That's the only thing I can imagine as to how they let that cover print.Oh god, where is Pike's left foot?!

I actually kinda like Rob Liefeld's art. It's better than Skottie Young or Mike Mignola. YMMV.

I'm not a Liefeld hater (tho I'm not exactly a die-hard fan either), and his take on Hawkman does intrigue me, this arc has me interested. Unfortunately, my budget is stretched thin enough with all the other comics I'm getting.

The preview is very attractive. LOL "new car smell". "uglier than my mother in law"... :):) I wasnt reading this but I'm going to pick it up.. Or maybe buy them digital as I'm interested in the story and not collecting "HAWK".. Atleast for now..

What is so hard about drawing FEET, Liefeld?!?

Well, I won't comment on Liefeld here anymore because anyone who knows me knows I'm a Liefeld supporter. In truth this looks great, its just SH isn't one of my pulls, so I'm not getting it, but I am interested in it nevertheless.

That cover is classic Liefeld. That's all I'll say.

I've seen worse feet drawings. They are hard to draw, they are so weird looking.

does anyone read this?

Love Hawkman, Hate Liefeld... -__-

@JohnnyWalker said:

ugh. dc just let him go. most people wont give the comic a second glance thanks to the cover. look at the awesome art on the inside. shame.

I know. The interior art is actually really good. But no one is going to give a crap due to Liefield's awful cover. At least his plotting isn't terrible. It isn't good but it isn't terrible.

This looks like trash, what the hell happened at DC that they would let Liefeld put out this hacky junk? Is he holding them hostage in their offices? Of all the #0 covers theyve shown, i'll bet 1,000,000 facebook credits that theres not one person outside Rob's family that would say his covers on Deathstroke and Grifter are anything but an abomination. C'mon DC, kick his cocky, pompous ass out the door, unless of course he really is pointing a ridiculously oversized gun at you guys.....

Rob Liefeld's on the cover? Don't give an eff. I gave him a couple issues (plus 1 for Deathstroke) to see if somehow, maybe he could redeem himself but NOPE. Thanks to him TSH is out of my rotation.

Lol

well i don't think i need to say anything about the cover. It's already been said. Interior art looks much better though :)

I think Lifeld still gets work is that he has some sort of incriminating evidence against Jim Lee from their Image comic days that he placed before Lee after the cancellation of Hawk and Dove, thereby allowing him to walk out of the office with Griffter, Deathstroke and Hawkman under his arms.

pikes just a cheap knock off of deadpool

I wish you had not said that because pike as well as a lot of image characters are knockoffs of marvel characters and I don't want them interacting with my dc universe.

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@xAnimosity said:

I dropped this book once Liefeld started writing it. It was already barely hanging in their with Daniel writing it. Which sucks because I love Hawkman.

Liefeld's doing a much better job at writing this than Daniels ever could. Liefeld might have no talent as an artist, but that doesn't dictate the quality of his writing.

I wish James Robinson was the writer like it originally was going to be. The interior is great but the covers are horrible.

Can't disagree on both accounts.

And I am sick off all of Liefelds villains being another Deadpool knockoff. Just give it up already!

This is the only thing that's bothering me. Pike isn't a Deadpool knock-off, hell, he was created just a few months after Deadpool was in the early 90s, in Wildstorm. Even if he was (which he isn't, because Deadpool didn't even have a mini-series back then), Liefeld wasn't the one who created him, and its highly likely that he isn't the one that's forcing him onto the book -- seeing as DC is the one that's editorially integrating Wildstorm into the DC Universe.

ARRRGGHHH!!!! That cover.......*blech* I've started picking up Hawkman again(bought the first issue) because Joe Bennett is drawing the comic, and his art is AMAZING on this book. But that stupid horrible cover(Liefeld's Hawkman doesn't look anything like the one INSIDE the comic!!!) totally and completely detracts from the book! Why do the higher ups not see this!!???? PLEASE LET BENNETT DRAW THE COVERS!

@Tellumo said:

Pike just seems like a deadpool clone...

yes, rob sucks

@cyberchop979 said:

WOAH!!!! Is that Deadpool fighting Hawkman on the cover.....oh, nope. Diehard!?!?....nope again.....Cabot???? Oh, I see now, It's Pike. Sorry, my mistake. How dare I confuse those characters based on the cover. Shame on me......

lmao.

I wonder how they are going to tie the wildcats together with them and their villians making guessspots in other comics.

@JohnnyWalker said:

ugh. dc just let him go. most people wont give the comic a second glance thanks to the cover. look at the awesome art on the inside. shame.

Exactly. I never even saw the interior art until I clicked on this article. It's beautiful!

Deadpool always finds a way to get into DC comics :p

I only kept getting Savage Hawkman after Liefeld took over because I wanted to collect the whole series. I was so relieved when I realized he wasn't doing the art on the inside. Bennett's art is great, it was even better than Tan's art, and I didn't think anyone would top that. The only book that Liefeld draws, to my knowledge, is Deathstroke... and I had to let that one go because I couldn't even focus on the dialogue. His art is AWFUL. Absolutely no detail whatsoever. Please DC, wake up and realize he's past his prime.

@JohnnyWalker said:

ugh. dc just let him go. most people wont give the comic a second glance thanks to the cover. look at the awesome art on the inside. shame.

Right?! The interiors are great! Why use liefield on the cover? Or at all?

savage hulkman

This book is not bad,but the covers ugh!

I'm I the only one who thinks Pike looks a little like Deadpool??