I will agree with you in that there's a large focus on Galaxy in this issue, which is something I even pointed out in my review. However, a lot of what's written for her also deals with Hawkgirl. We start off with a page about Galaxy and Katherine, which I will say does not feature Hawkgirl. Next, we get Hawkgirl and Galaxy talking about Hawkgirl having her past lives lingering in her mind. We cut to Vulpecula for a page, but then we're right back to Hawkgirl and Galaxy.

Galaxy does talk more about herself here, but it comes right back to Hawkgirl in that she relates to her and, in turn, becomes a little closer to her. Her difficulties with becoming close with someone is something we saw in Issue 1. We move on to just Hawkgirl by herself for a page, and then we get Hawkgirl meeting up with Galaxy and Katherine at night.

We get a quick page of the Vulpecula to set the ending of this issue up, but then we, once again, come right back to Hawkgirl where literally everything is about her. Yes, it's here that Galaxy has nearly two pages dedicated to her facing Vulpecula, which happens because Hawkgirl is changing into her costume. Finally, the last three pages of this have Hawkgirl confront Vulpecula in battle, while also setting up Hawkgirl wanting to talk to Abilene in either the next issue or at some point.

Now, I know that what I said is just a description of what happened in this issue, which anyone who read it would know. My point in saying all of it is to show that, while Galaxy has a large presence here, this book is still very much about Hawkgirl.

@ DC Fan of Sorts, Hawkgirl ended up in Galaxy's apartment when Vulpecula pushed down whatever lever she had in her room. I'm not exactly sure what it does, but I'm sure it's tied to Nth Metal somehow. I would assume that whatever device Vulpecula used teleported her there, which would just be a chance encounter after they met earlier in the issue. Chance encounters like this happen all the time in comics, movies, and television.

I will agree with you in that I think Galaxy or Katherine should have asked how Hawkgirl ended up in their apartment, but leaving that out doesn't break the issue. Galaxy fusing Hawkgirl’s wings made sense to me, as I thought Galaxy’s powers were about energy manipulation. As for exactly how she did it, I thought it was explained by the narration as she was doing it. As for that character moment, you could make so many character moments sound simplistic by saying/writing it a certain way.

Yes, you can sum it up as her deciding whether to go to a bar or not, but that diminishes what it means/represents. With the story we've been given thus far, it shows that Hawkgirl is willing to open up to Galaxy by going to said bar and meeting her there. As I said in an earlier comment, struggling with opening up to and/or becoming close with other people is something that Hawkgirl has been shown to deal with in this series.

When it comes to Vulpecula, we don't know enough about her to know how she pulled a feather off of Hawkgirl's wing. Speaking of her feather, I think she took that rather than the mace because losing feathers could hinder her flight abilities, which would make Hawkgirl coming back to Vulpecula more of a necessity than trying to get back a weapon she could get a new one of. At least, that's how I, personally, thought of it.

I agree that it would make absolute sense for her to take her mace, but I don't see it as a huge flaw. Katherine lifting the mace isn't something I had a huge problem with. I've been looking around the internet and I haven't been able to find anything about Nth metal or Hawkgirl's mace being incredibly heavy to hold, so I would need someone to show me where it's said/shown that it's too heavy for a human to wield.

Plus, I don't think we really know anything about Katherine, specifically her strength in this case. Either way, it's not something I think deserves a bunch of outrage currently.

@ Tron, I can agree with you there. I think less people would be upset if DC had promoted it that way instead, but I also don't think this just being called "Hawkgirl" means it deserves some of the hate it's getting. That's just my opinion, at least.

so the comic book roundup should censor who does reviews... odd idea there. But no mention that all the critic reviews are from reviewers who have averaged between an 8.3 to a 9.4/10 after hundreds or even thousands of reviews - most people have bailed on this site because it's shills handing out perfect scores for just about everything. Go back 10 years and you wouldn't even notice Gabe's scores because the critics were actually a tiny bit critical.

Also, anyone who wants to see how much of a troll you are just needs to check out your profile where you've reviewed six issues and given four 1/10s - but you're mad at Gabe for low scores🤡 also it's hilarious that you copy and pasted this hate message on other books because you're lazy as well as being a hypocritical POS

Isn't this the guy who had a mental breakdown on Twitter over Captain America killing Nazis?

I trust gabe more than any person here as a reviewer. The rest give 10’s to everything as long as they keep getting their review copies. You may not agree with him. Maybe you think he’s sus. But at least he’s honest.

@braveandthebold and? Plenty of people, including past creators, have gone on record saying Cap regrets taking any life no matter how vile they are! In canon, Cap has said he regretted letting his anger take him over when he punched H*tler! And spoiler - not liking an issue because you think the character is written poorly isn't having mental breakdown! You don't deserve to have that Grant Morrison pic!

Also it's pretty obvious you are just an opticrage burner account

Ah yes, everyone who disagrees with you must be a burner account. The paranoia is setting in hard, huh? Can't take any criticism about poor reading comprehension, so everyone must be an enemy.

Going 3 years between reviews pretty much says yeah. You’re sus.

And Jimbo here hasn't used his account since 2023.

Yea- I have over 3000 critic reviews that are carried on this site from the website and podcast I have run for over ten years, but yes, keep reaching! And the funny thing is you are talking about reading comprehension when I never said anything about liking or disliking the issue, or even if I read it or not! Not hiding who I am "brave and the bold grant Morrison" https://comicbookroundup.com/comic-books/reviewer/jim-werner

Paranoia about what? I think you might be self projecting here! I said that an Aggregate review site shouldn't censor whose reviews are included and you came in with the nonsense.

You're a riot. I made fun of Gabe's poor reading comprehension, and you throw a hissy fit. Not really beating the allegations here, Jimbo. Especially not with those hilarious reviews. Thanks for that, I had a good laugh.

Brave and the Bald isn't anyone's alt. Seems Gabe's paranoia is rubbing off on James.

Thanks psychomoron! The best thing about all this is this site is pretty much dead because of the shill critics reviews and the idiotic user reviews anyway - nobody cares about anything anyone says here except you losers who can't stop thinking about Gabe 24/7. Plus I'm saying all 3 of you are 100% the same person.

... I think you've interacted with 2/3 of us over on my discord server at the same time. So there's that. I promise I don't give Gabe much thought, though I am sorry your friend is an out of touch moron.

the only name I remember is yours, but it just amazes me the amount of toxic hate that this site's "user review" section becomes when someone writes a review that the usual suspects don't like - Don't get your panties up in a bunch over the aggregate score of a book, nobody cares about the site anymore! The site drives zero traffic, so the theory that Gabe writes reviews for that is ridiculous! There's hardly any sites left that even bother to review stuff

Gabe's reviews are not quality criticism. So much of it is focused on what Gabe would rather see than what is presented to him. That's not criticizing a comic on its own merits, it's akin to the lowest level of social media comics discourse. I think Gabe's biggest issue is he's not good at what he does, and it's wild to have you have you act as though he's a consummate professional lol.

At the end of the day the only difference between the reviews on your site and the ones in the user section here is a no doubt begrudged insistence on word count.

Psaycmorean is right, Gabe is kind of incompetent, and a bit of a baby when it comes down to it. And "Jim" - if he's not a burner account - just sounds like an angry troll.

i share those sentiments. Gabe can give a 2 to Uncanny X-Force for all I care, it's just that his reviews are shallow. I think that if incorporate more antithesis into his writing it would end up stronger. Like here he says that the comics is different for the sake of being different, without providing any good reasons, when so many reviewers actually found meaning behind the choices made here. For me that's why it comes out as just hating, because he does not acknowledge that others are feeling

if he actually did it and still defended his opinions, I think that his reviews would be way more respectable. Also every time i read a review of his, it seems that it comes with a preconceived notion of what the comics should and it's a really rigid one, and i mean, if you are with a mindset like this, ofc you would hate most of the things that you read and ofc that it would seem like straight up hate. At this point, personally, I don't get much of his review.

Dude gave Hawkgirl a 9 and galaxy a 10 and wants to talk incompetent. Ok.

@orbisstelassis burner account or angry troll? you can look ne up - i have thousands of critic reviews here, have DC/Marvel podcasts with over 500 episodes each (dc comics pod has been rated #1 DC Comics podcast for 6 straight years by feedspot) Just type "weird science dc comics" and you can find me (and I'm sure you haters will make fun of all that - you're all pretty much just hypocritical toxic fans who think you're "positive" for defending books but do it in the worst possible way!)

@criminology the reviews are just his opinion; not based on other reviewers. His reviews (marvel especially) are written before the book is released and there is no way to know others' thoughts on it, but still, other reviewers explain themselves in their reviews. I own the DC & Marvel sites Gabe reviews on and rarely agree with him - but it's his opinion and this thread started with the call for Gabe to be censored which is BS IMO! Like anything of the sort, you don't like his reviews (1/2)

just ignore them! There are plenty of sites and reviewers that never go below an 8 (which has more to do with keeping review copies than being honest), so go and read those. I gave up doing written reviews because of stuff like this - i prefer reviewing comics on podcasts with multiple people to get more of a varied discussion (kind of like what you said earlier). BTW, I do find positive reviews are rarely called out for lack of substance just because they are positive. (2/2)

I'm new here and have no problem with a neg review as long as it's explained. The same should be true in reverse. I see a lot of 10 reviews without a single word to explain why. I'm not going to but I really would want to blindly rate 1's just to counter them.

@Weird Science Jim - This site has definitely taken a serious nosedive, as has the comic industry in general. Most books average about $5 per issue, and read in about 15 minutes. But I honestly doubt most of the users on this site are even bothering to buy their comics. Probably just reading them online. ...Anyway! Yeah, this site has become riddled with toxic folks who readily attack anyone that doesn't agree with them. Silly drama over cartoon books.