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Published: 2014-11-19 18:47:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 889; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 9
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Shadowhawk was one of my favourite superheroes growing up. In hindsight, all of my favourite superheroes are a bit messed up lol. Aside from Cap and some of the X Men lol. Anyhoo love this guy, been too long before I drew him.Thanks for checking this out, hope you dig it! Much love! - Rem.x.
Shadowhawk (C) Jim Valentino and Image Comics
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What kind of era when he was from? He reminds me of Cooler from the DBZ movie but am guessing that this guy came first. It's a very cool design, I do like it when they make the heroes look genuinely menacing or maybe that is just how you've drawn him. He looks quite scary, I like it allot 
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Ah he debuted in 1992, he was one of the original wave of Image comics, along with books like Savage Dragon, Spawn and Youngblood. So I don't know where he'd chronologically sit with DBZ as I have to say I'm not totally familiar with the chronology of it all, I watched the Frieza saga when it was on Cartoon Network and that was great but it was nigh on 70 eps and that's WAY over my normal limit for just about anything episodic, and I HATED the sagas that came after it (Majin Buu and Cell and some kind of arena sports combat thingy) so stopped watching it. Could never quite tell if the Funimation dub was chronologically correct or a hatchet job. It seemed fairly legit at the time albeit with a few edits of death sequences.
ShadowHawk was pretty fucked up as books went, it started incredibly nasty then calmed down gradually, it's pretty hard to really get hold of these days. His trademark was crippling the bad guys he fought in the initial run, which even now is a kind of extra level of brutal, and he tended to be fighting much more real and disturbing guys, normally he was tracking down murderers, serial killers, rapists the like rather than silly guys in suits, and even when he was fighting supervillains, they were pretty horrible, like I remember one of the early arcs had him and Spawn working together to take down a guy who was flamethrowering families in a project building for a building corporation so they could redevelop it free of costs. Pretty harsh stuff. He was a brutal character but he lived in a brutal world and I kind of liked that and it had a big impact on me as a teenager. It was quite scary but quite empowering at the same time, and very punk rock. Also they took the story some places I don't think they'd go anymore. Eventually what happened to him was that he died of AIDs. Which they handled in a pretty sensitive and effecting way if I remember correctly.
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