Each night I dream I am a bird. No, not a bird-- a warrior. And I dream that I can fly. Nothing holds me back. Gravity fades away and I am free, truly free. But each night this dream quickly turns into a nightmare... I am afraid. I am alone. I fall. Once again, gravity returns... and pulls me into the blackness below.
Hawkman: Found #1 is a one-shot with a cover date of February, 2018. It was published on December 27, 2017.
Synopsis for "Hawkman Found"
Carter Hall awakens in a cave where he experiences a recurring nightmare of flying and falling to the ground. He has forgotten that he was once Hawkman and lies in wait with crude weapons to fight Manhawks as they arrive to abduct other inhabitants in the large cave system. He fights back against them and chases them away to a large spaceship where they reside. Climbing a cliff, he leaps into the ship and walks into a hall of weapons from his earlier superhero career where he starts to remember his true identity. He is confronted by a dark Hawkman who claims to have imprisoned Hall in this underworld. The two fight and Hall kills the dark impostor, vowing to get to the Forge of Worlds to protect life in the Multiverse. He takes his foe's Nth Metal armor and wings and flies away only to have the costume disintegrate as in his dreams.
In the Dark Forge Carter, as a large Hawk God, stands armed with a huge hammer while his conscience is trapped inside the recursive dream.
Appearing in "Hawkman Found"
Featured Characters:
- Hawkman/Dragon of Barbatos (Carter Hall) (Also in a vision)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Barbatos (Dark Multiverse) (Behind the scenes)
- Unknown Hawkman (Dark Multiverse) (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (In a vision)
- Manhawks (Single appearance) (In a vision)
Other Characters:
- Chay-Ara (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Hawkman's past lives (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Khufu
- Silent Knight (Unnamed)
- Challengers of the Unknown (Mentioned only)
- Kendra Saunders (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Dark Multiverse
- Forge of Worlds (Flashback and main story)
- Multiverse
- Earth 0
- Egypt (In a vision)
- United States of America
- Rocky Mountains
- Challengers Mountain (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Rocky Mountains
- Sphere of the Gods
- Hell (Mentioned only)
- Earth 0
Items:
- Dark Matter (Behind the scenes)
- Nth Metal
- World Forger's Hammer (In a vision)
Vehicles:
- Thanagarian Star Cruiser (In a vision)
Concepts:
Notes
- Hawkman's story continues in Dark Nights: Metal #5.
Trivia
- The title of the comic mirrors that of Batman: Lost #1, another one-shot tie-in to the Dark Nights: Metal event.
- Both of these one-shots tell the stories of their respective heroes being both trapped and tormented by Barbatos inside unescapable dreams.
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