Well, we are back with Darkhawk and his first six part story! There are a good amount of six part stories from the early 1990s. It was like a summer event. Very popular books like Spider-Man would get put out twice a month! Darkhawk gets his six part story but it's not put out twice a month. Anyway this is where all the subplots come home and we finally learn about all kinds of stuff. So buckle in buckaroos because we will be talking about six whole dang issues! I'd say sorry to portnoyd but he sucks and I don't like to lie so yeah.
The first part of Heart of the Hawk is PACKED to the gills. We start with Tombstone, a Spider-Man foe wanting to find the amulet of Darkhawk. So he's been causing havoc everywhere to find it. Then we go see Phillipe Bazin get arrested for calling in a hit. Grace Powell finally found a witness and they are being watched by police. However little Jason Powell gets hurt in a car bombing accident that was meant for his mother (there was also a BEWARE THE CURSE OF THE DARKHAWK note that Chris notices). It's back to the Hospital for everyone. Darkhawk gets some time to go out KICKING ASS.
He even says that he's gonna kill Bazin regardless of what he said to the Punisher last issue. He learns from the guys he beat up that some super powered jerks are being sent to kill the witness. Darkhawk goes, beats the guys just to learn that the witness died of a heart attack. The trial still goes ahead and at the courtroom Chris sees his dad and tries to talk to him but is kept off by the private eye also from last issue. Darkhawk then decides he needs to know more about his origin so he goes to find St. Johnny to hopefully learn more. St. Johnny is a homeless man who's been a big weirdo and saying weird shit. Sadly all he finds when he gets there is Tombstone beating the shit out of St. Johnny. The issue ends but man it's gonna be a wild fight!
The second issue involves a wild ass fight with Tombstone. I love Tombstone. I read this ongoing story in Web of Spider-Man and Spectacular Spider-Man that involved him like 42,000 times. I should talk about those stories. Anyway we also see an attempted hit on Jason, Darkhawk's little brother. His dad comes out and saves him again. We see a fight between Cheryl Colon (lol) and Alegra Bazin. Darkhawk meets the guy who had been sending him "BEWARE THE CURSE OF THE DARKHAWK" letters and of course to keep us coming back they do not show us his face. The jerks. St. Johnny isn't dead after all, I should mention that right now. Anyway Tombstone gets the amulet and Alegra knows her father is a jerk. What will happen in the next issue!! STAY TUNED...........TO THE NEXT PARAGRAPH
Well, St. Johnny isn't dead and he just turned his hand into some kind of WEIRD ROBOTIC CYBERNETIC WILD ASS SHIT AND SHOT TOMBSTONE RIGHT IN THE CHEST! Tombstone leaves and right after this Darkhawk asks St. Johnny how he did that and St. Johnny is just confused as fuck. He even says he doesn't know anything about anything but does say he'll patch him up. You see Tombstone stole the amulet but he had to rip it out of Darkhawk's chest to do it! Darkhawk visits his brother in the hospital. Tries to find Tombstone but Bazin's son Broderick (he really should be locked up just for naming his son this) tells everything about what he's heard and seen his dad too and it's time for PRISON. Anyway that is when SAVAGE STEEL pops up and gets his ass handed to him so quickly its hilarious. Turns out its Harry Lennox the private eye in the suit. He's not very good at wearing a COOL ARMOR and fighting I guess. Bazin gets away in a helicopter after a giant hole is created in the wall and Darkhawk's dad jumps on a rope. Darkhawk has to choose to find Tombstone and get the amulet so he won't die or save his pops. WHAT WILL HE CHOOSE!!! find out............right now!
We see just from the cover that Venom is in this issue. Yep, I mentioned how overused Punisher and Wolverine were for 1990s Marvel, but Venom is totally up there with him. Anyway this starts with Tombstone talking to I think two Asian dudes name Clarence and Terrance. Get it cuz the names kinda sound like each other. They start fiddling with a machine that causes havoc on the amulet which hurts Darkhawk despite being so far away from it. Darkhawk gets stable and then tries to get some information out of St. Johnny AGAIN. St. Johnny's so crazy and soaked in whisky he really probably doesn't know how he makes his arm into a gun or that he even did it. So Darkhawk then goes to some of Bazin's goons still in the city and finds out where he's going. It's an island in the carribean. It just happens to be the island that Spider-Man got Venom to stay on by making him think he was dead in Amazing Spider Man #347.
So Darkhawk gets into a crate that gets loaded onto the plane that some of Bazin's goons are going to use. He breaks out and makes a very timely refrenece to Gomer Pyle. Then some comment about cable tv so Darkhawk is a big Nickoledeon and Nick at Nite fan. Awesome! He kicks all of their asses and also causes the plane ot crash. Man Darkhawk is kind of a goof sometimes. Darkhawk's mom tries to get some information out of Lennox and then comes back to see if theres any evidence within the Savage Steel suit which is being stolen by three corrupt cops! Then Darkhawk gets up out of the Plane wreckage and then Venom shows up and they are gonna fuckin RUMBLE. A FIGHT IS GOING DOWN TONIGHT PEOPLE. and by Tonight I mean in Part V. Roman Numerals rule.
This issue is pretty much a giant fight with Venom until the last few pages. We get Grace Powell being captured by the guys who stole the Savage Steel suit and until Venom pretends to be dead so that Darkhawk will not send anyone after him. Darkhawk then gets a boat from the plane wreckage and floats off to Bazins island. All kinds of fights happen. He figths Lodestone from issue 8. His dad gets shot but his dad also shoots Bazin. His dad dies but we don't find out what happens to Bazin. Darkhawk is able to get a force blast off without the amulet and knocks out Lodestone. He talks to his dad who tells him to keep his family safe as his dad knows Darkhawk has a connection to them. Darkhawk tries to keep this promise but passes out from like all the green blood loss. now into part 6!
Darkhawk is awakened by a bunch of Carribbean police people and they want to take him to the Vault where the Super villains go. Darkhawk isn't having any of that and uses his Darkhawk Rope Chain thing to smack a bunch of them at once. I don't know what that s really called but I like Rope Chain thing I'mma call it that from now on. He gets into a truck and luckily a plane is overhead and he shoots the Rope Chain right onto the plane. He finds out that the pilot is osmeone helped in an earlier issue so he brings him back to New York. Now that he's close enough to the amulet it calls out for him and he follows it to a lady psychic's house that Tombstone is so desperate to get the amulet to work for him he went to her. They jump out the ladies window and fight in a warehouse of some sort.
Darkhawk shocks the shit out of Tombstone and he ties him up in chains for the police to find him. Darkhawk then tries to get the amulet to work but it wont. He goes to see his family and finds out his mother is missing. He goes to Harry Lennox who lets him know where his mother is. The Cabal of Crooked Cops are finally going down! Darkhawk style! He then runs away again and starts looking at his mementos he took from the house. Including his dad's diary. He realizes there is more to the diary then he thought. Just one blank page and he doesn't bother to look at it. He finds out that his dad was a part of the cabal and hated taking money from Bazin but wanted to create SAVAGE STEEL. However the rest of the Cabal were like "NO WE WANT TO KILL THE CRIMINALS" and Mike Powell was not going to be a part of that but after deciding that he had to run away because these guys were nuts. He decides to take one more big payoff from Bazin at the Fun House (where Darkhawk found the amulet and became Darkhawk) and try to find crime his way. This puts Darkhawk at enough ease to turn back into Chris Powell and ending the first (and I think only) six part Darkhawk story!
FINAL THOUGHTS: I enjoyed this. A bunch of characters I like from Spider-Man cross over. It ends most of the subplots from the first year of Darkhawk in a pretty satisfying way. Now portnoyd will come in and go WUH DARKHAWK WUH HURF DE GERF DARKHAWK IS THE POOPY. I LIKE DEADPOOL WUH.
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