I'm reading the Garth Ennis "Hawk the Slayer" comic and the writing's not great.
Weirdly out-of-tone at times, annoying characters, bizarre word choices...

(I could be wrong, but I'm also pretty sure he used "council" in place of "counsel". )
Reads more like a cheap hack job than a labour of love, ngl.

(that said, I did appreciate the screeching hawk graphic at the beginning, that's neat. :))

#comics #graphicnovel #hawktheslayer #swordandsorcery

Watching #HawkTheSlayer. There's a scene where a group of murderous priests try to sacrifice a Dwarf on a holy river by tying him to a raft full of wood & shooting flaming arrows at it. Then Hawk shows up & helps the Dwarf escape, while the Dwarf complains about hating water.

This feels an awful lot like an inspiration for the scenes with Fulk - King Richard's little-person jester, who fears water and is held captive in a swamp by evil monks - in #ConquestsofTheLongbow. #sierra #adventuregames

Best of the Worst: Hawk the Slayer with the X-Ray Eyes
#rlm #redlettermedia #bestoftheworst #HawkTheSlayer

https://youtu.be/XNY6HlDKLgk

I’ve just discovered that this an actual thing!

You have to be of a certain age to think the original Hawk the Slayer film was a ‘classic’.

Which I am and unashamedly do.

The film was the very essence of my local vhs rental place back when I was a kid and this was one of the first films I was allowed to rent! (‘Escape to Victory’ was the first but I digress…)

I can practically smell that place by just thinking of the film.

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#GarthEnnis
#2000AD

More than 40 years have passed since the cinematic release of the fantasy epic 'Hawk the Slayer'. Humankind is still no closer to understanding its wondrous secrets. Hope still remains. Somewhere out there is a useless idealistic kid who's delusional sense of purpose will lead to a series of improbable events that will temporarily suspend the onslaught of evil.

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