Thanagar

Just like, oh, my coworkers got an alien over here and a robot over here.

And just because it's like, I don't know, this Thanagarian crash landed.

I don't know.

Yeah,

Okay, that

one Thanagarian lady who was just wearing suspenders as a top was a cool part of that issue.

And I will die on this weird, horny hill.

But we already

Hawkgirl, yeah.

Then they go to Thanagar and Ran and all over the universe.

They pick up Adam Strange along the way who was the guy being beaten on at the beginning.

They uncover a conspiracy to... have Ran and Thanagar, these two planets at war.

It's being made to look like each of the other side started the war and has kept it going.

We then find a trail that leads them to Sinestro and the Yellow Lanterns.

i it's kind of the same here like i didn't get into dc until not too, too terribly long ago.

And it was a, that was around the time the new 52 had started.

because that's about all i imagine he's got going on he is a jug head and a half but i love that he has this little back and forth with the uh thanagarian alien that they're they got this uh we've been fighting and we kind of fucking hate each other but i think we're gonna be bros thing going on and i think that's neat also love a dinosaur man that's just that's just key to everything

okay and i need you to be like an annoying dc fan for a The Thanagarians are Hawkman and Ran is where Adam Strange is from.

Bingo.

Well, it's where he goes.

Where the fuck do these dinosaur people and these other Ranians come in? I know I saw the Hawk people for five seconds in like issue 10 of Green Lantern Corps.

It was pissing me the fuck off.

Those are not Thanagarians or people from Ran.

They are

And at the end of season two of Justice League...

The three episode Thanagarian takeover of the planet and Jon feeling betrayed.

That is some of I mean, those are three of the best.

I remember watching it.

If you're a fan of the DC animated universe, there are a number of things you could have.

I'm just I'm so Justice League coded right now, but you could have Thanagarians and all sorts of other things that build into their Lex Luthor even at times had to do with the end of the world.

You could have War World or Mongol or.

There's a number of things you can do that build in a massive threat.

nth metal which it's really really badass looking mace i'll just say that i always love when i can see it on screen or read about in comics it enables him to fly it often increases speed and strength in some versions it can disrupt magic and it can have sort of a not quite to the level i would say of thor's hammer but a near sentient bond with with the user being drawn back to them and While there have been many iterations of, again, this character, his civilian name is often Carter Hall or Gaetar Hall, which are just basically the same but spelled a little differently.

If he's either being written as a reincarnated Egyptian, ancient Egyptian, or if he's an alien from the planet Thanagar.

But again, as the name Hawkman implies, in addition to being armed with this mace that has these enhanced magical abilities, And super powered abilities that I mentioned, he has wings.

Often they are part of his body.

The character has been in a lot of more modern adaptations, including Justice League Unlimited.

and the animated Justice League.

What's interesting about that is before the animated Cartoon Network series Justice League, which I've mentioned quite a bit because it was my gateway drug into DC, that and the Adam West series, is that Hawkman, I would say at the time, was definitely the more famous character than Hawkgirl, but the writers wanted to have another female character, but they wanted the Hawk family as it were to be represented, so they just simply swapped Hawkman for Hawkgirl so Hawkgirl became really popular and the version of Hawkgirl on the animated series is really cemented in a lot of people's minds as the true version which is interesting because in the animated version there is not this reincarnated Hawkman Hawkgirl thing as there is in comics, and as there is in Smallville and other more recent adaptations, because the animated one has Hawkgirl being Shire Hoth in the planet Thanagar, and that she's undercover, and at first she's like a bit of a double agent, and it's this whole thing.

They do an episode that nods and winks to the comic book origins of Hawkman and Hawkgirl as being these reincarnated lovers, but it's not...

But yeah, we'll see where it goes from here.

Knowing Al Ewing, next issue we're probably, like, on Thanagar or something completely...

Won't have anything to do [laughs] with this, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Uh, all right.

Oh, that's interesting.

The idea was it was gonna help unify the Golden Age Hawkman, who was a, uh, a prince in Egypt who's reincarnated, reincarnated as Carter Hall in the modern world, and then the Silver Age Hawkman, who, uh, comes from the planet Thangar, I think.

So the idea was that the, the space Hawkman would be a reincarnation of the Egyptian Hawkman, and then he would come to Earth.

But, uh, DC didn't go for it, so they revised it heavily into Void Indigo.