Well then it’s finally time for us to discuss Darkhawk again. This time it’s a two parter sos we can get the series over with sooner. Not soon enough for portnoyd’s liking but I like the idea of reviewing a two parter in one blog post. Feels better that way. Anyway today’s issues introduce a new supervillain to bother Dark Hawk. Created by Phillipe Bazin comes LODESTONE! She’s apparently Darkhawk’s GREATEST CHALLENGE. Ho boy.
The first part of this story is seriously light. We see Dark Hawk fight some drug dealers while a character named Bobby aka Headset watches. Headset is a big nerd but the kinda nerd from like the 1980s and 1990s the ones that were into like weird stuff like Mozart. That’s the stuff Headset always listens to on his way home. He even agreed to see Karate if Chris Powell (Darkhawk’s alter ego) and his girlfriend Cheryl Colon (lol that’s not the best chose for a last name) come to the Mozart festival with him. So he came and they now have to go there. Chris Powell is not too happy about that.
We get some stuff about Dark Hawk wondering if he should keep the criminals there with him until the cops arrive or kill them like the Punisher does. He also reads a story from a hidden journal his dad kept but it doesn’t help him because the story ends before he learns out what his dad did! His mom also has a plan to stop all the stuff that’s been happening to her (like you know attempted murders and stuff) and it might involve this Private Investigator. Or Private Eye. Or Gumshoe. Gumshoe is not a good NES game.
Anyway there’s another fight with the drug dealers that Dark Hawk takes care of easily. He then hears someone scream and he finds out that it’s Headset, He tries to get him to take the Darkhawk Amulet and become Darkhawk but he can’t because he’s now unconscious which is when Lodestone shows up and starts screaming for Chris to show her the Darkhawks power but he can’t because the amulet is with Headset. Oh man. Pretty good way to end an issue huh?
So Chris Powell is being held up by Lodestone’s magnetic powers until he just flat out lies to her because she didn’t see him change from Darkhawk to Chris she just thinks he SAW where Darkhawk went too. He does this and then worries if he should stop Lodestone or help Headset. He decides to stop Lodestone as he doesn’t want any more people to be hurt. Lodestone and Darkhawk fight until more people come around to be lookie loos. Frankly if a superhero/supervillain fight happened anywhere where I was I would run as far away as possible from it. Probably get a part of your body lazered off. Anyway we also see an ambulance come for Headset! Let’s hope he’s okay. I like this nerdy goober.
Anyway Darkhawk gives up because he thinks people will get hurt and Lodestone starts trying to use her magnetic powers to steal the amulet. Darkhawk thinks this is the end but someone comes to save him. That someone is Phillipe Bazin who wants Darkhawk’s body and everything so he can find out what makes him tick and get the power for himself. He uses this doohickey to cause Lodestone major pain. Anyway Darkhawk is now at a abandoned factory owned by Bazin and he’s beeing poked and prodded and he can’t exactly escape because of the pain the machines cause him.
Darkhawk pretty much gets a small saving grace when Allegra Bazin shows up and literally gives him enough time free of prying eyes to change back into Chris Powell. He’s smaller and everything and just has to ignore the pain long enough to change back into Darkhawk! Which is exactly what happens! Lodestone however sees him escape and they start fighting again. Phillipe Bazin shows up with the doohickey and it’s knocked out of his hands and into Allegra’s who shocks Lodestone. Darkhawk wonders if he should try to stop everyone here and now but realizes he’s overwhelmed and escapes! He also wonders why Allegra even decided to help him! QUESTIONS UPON QUESTIONS! We then go to a scene with his mom talking to her shitty private eye who after she leaves talks to someone via telephone saying that she is getting to close and won’t back off and needs to be eliminated!
FINAL VERDICT: I want to how all of this ends even though I’m sure I read the story where he does conclude like 15 years ago. Anyway I enjoyed this story and I hope to see more soon. Next issue of Darkhawk will have the Punisher and the Return of Savage Steel. We will come back to them in a few posts because next time is the second issue of Vigilante!
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