I’ve never had any real interest in writing comics.<\/p>\n
Except for Hawkman<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I don’t know what it is about Hawkman, but I just love<\/b> Hawkman. In particular, I love what Tim Truman, John Ostrander, and Graham Nolan did on Hawkworld<\/i> in the early 1990s, even though that’s the point where DC Comics took Hawkman continuity out back and put a couple of bullets in it. But taken on its own, Katar Hol as a disgraced drug addict redeeming himself as a hero on a world that hated him &mash; that was really compelling stuff.<\/p>\n
Everything since then, especially when the whole Hawk-god mythos was overlaid on top of Hawkman, and the various incarnations were merged into one gestalt being, doesn’t really connect<\/i> with me.<\/p>\n
That said, I have no real idea what I would do<\/i> with Hawkman. But if Dan Didio called me up tomorrow and said, “Allyn, you’re the guy I want writing Hawkman<\/i>,” I’d give him something kick-ass for Hawkman<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Then, this morning on the train, a new idea struck me.<\/p>\n
Azrael<\/i>.<\/p>\n
DC has done nothing with the former Batman, mostly because the former Batman is dead. And the Order of St. Dumas destroyed.<\/p>\n
But…<\/p>\n
What if there’s a new heir to the mantle of Azrael?<\/p>\n
Ideas were suddenly clicking in my head. A new Azrael.<\/p>\n
I mean, why not?<\/i><\/p>\n
I’ll have to write them down. Maybe they’ll come in handy. So that one day, when Dan Didio calls me up and says, “Allyn, how would you launch a brand-new Azrael<\/i> series?” I’ll have something brilliant to say. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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