#blackhawk

DUSTOFF dry run.

Tech. Sgt. Christopher Hibben, Combat Aerial Photojournalist, 4th Combat Camera Squadron, March Air Reserve Base, Calif., documents simulated patients being transported for care by a U.S. Army HH-60L Black Hawk medevac helicopter at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana. Service members at JRTC 13-04 are educated in combat patient care and aeromedical evacuation in a simulated combat environment.

(Photo by Tech. Sgt. John R. Nimmo, Sr, 20 FEB 2013.)

Birds of Prey Group Shot from Wondercon 2010

going through the old albums

Pictured: Gypsy, Power Girl, Raven, Huntress, Blackhawk, Supergirl, Batgirl, Black Canary and last but not least Spoiler.

What an amazing weekend! From Heroes & Villains Comicson Friday to a wonderful first time out at Big Wow! ComicFest. Awesome, Awesome. Can’t wait to do it again!

Picture heavy post! First Batch of photos (all found) 

Photo Credits go to-
DnR Photography
Bill Watters/ComicsOnline.com
Bridget Slavie-Facebook
Big WoW
Surfsama-Flickr

More Free Comic Book Day at Heroes & Villains Comics

more free comic book day goodness from our Ivy’s photo collection at Heroes & Villains Comics:) 

From DnR Photography and from our Poison Ivy. More to come from her, since she’s the only person to post photos at the moment haha. 

But an awesome Free Comic Book Day at Heroes & Villains Comics! 

found photo, a bit of the group from Wondercon. 

Huntress, Raven and Blackhawk. 

Blackhawkmini-series

Blackhawk was created by Chuck Cuidera, Will Eisner, and Bob PowellforQuality Comics.

Blackhawk was a title originally published by Quality Comics back in 1944. Blackhawk would continue to be published by Quality until 1956 (issue #107) in which, opting to withdraw from the comic book publishing business,Quality leased the characters to DC comics (then called National Periodical Publications).DC comics picked up where the series left off (at issue #108) and after a rocky publishing history managed to get the series as far as issue #273 before being cancelled for good in 1984.

The 1987 Blackhawk prestige format mini-series was the third revival of the title (revived in 1976 after a seven year hiatus and again in 1982 after a four year hiatus). For all intents and purposes, we can consider this the ‘post-Crisis’ Blackhawk reboot.

The premise of Blackhawk is pretty simple: it’s about an international squadron of WWII-era fighter pilots (led by a man named Blackhawk) who battle whatever the tyrannic force of the day was - so during the 1940s they mainly fought Germans. Of course, you’d never know this reading Chaykin’sBlackhawk revamp - as he pretty much expects the reader to already have some some of understanding of who or what Blackhawk is. My only knowledge of Blackhawk prior to this series were his few guest appearances in other DC titles during the late 70s/early 80s - so there was a bit of research needed to figure out what was going on.  

The big deal about this mini-series was that it was written and illustrated by Howard Chaykin.Chaykin had always been a somewhat controversial writer - trying to push the envelope in regards to adult themes as far as the Comics Code Authority would allow him to go. Most reviewers who have written articles about this mini-series always make a point of comparing it to Chaykin’sAmerican Flagg! (published by First comics from 1983 to 1988). Keeping this in mind, I read the first 20 issues of American Flagg! just so I’d have some sort of context as to what reviewers were basing their comments on. I recognized quite a few similarities between these titles: both Reuben Flagg and Blackhawk are 'men of uniform’, both Reuben Flagg and Blackhawk have vivacious sexual appetities, both titles feature a lot of Russian ('Bojemoi’), both use frequent media interludes (news clippings, radio, tv, etc) to give the reader some background as to what’s going on, and both titles have lots of (implied) sex and political power struggles at play.

A major sub-plot in this mini-series is Blackhawk (a man of Polish decent) being under investigation by the United States for being a communist sympathizer. This was not a new change Chaykin had made: originally Blackhawk was introduced as a Polish citizen back in Military Comics #1 (1941). Since the invasion of Poland was still news, Blackhawk creator/artist Bob Powell suggested that Blackhawk should be a Pole (with the intention of making the story topical). During the course of the original ongoing series (I think by the time the title is picked up by DC comics), Blackhawk’s nationality is retconned to American and he becomes an All-American hero. 

Reactions to this mini-series were mixed: many fans applauded Chaykin for his innovative visual style and fresh breath of life into the character, while others criticized that Chaykin’s depiction of an 'all too human’ Blackhawk was a huge departure from the selfless and stoic Blackhawk they grew up with. Nevertheless, Chaykin’sBlackhawk mini-series was successful enough that Blackhawk received a weekly feature in 1988’s Action Comics. Later, Blackhawk would receive it’s own ongoing series in 1989.

On the surface, this seems to just be another World War II era adventure where the hero is racing against time to stop the atomic bomb from falling into the hands of the enemy. However, Brannon Costello’sbrilliant essay on sub-themes in the mini-series exploring Chaykin’s views on Fascism and Mass Culture has encouraged me to go back and read over all of the subtleties I may have missed the first time. All in all, a very interesting book, but not the jumping on point I’d recommend for someone who wants to find out what Blackhawk’s all about. 

Next in line for the remake: #BlackHawk.

Also present but not photographed (due to lack of child poses) is their daughter, Kate. The Bartons have actually been made some time ago, but I delayed actually putting them in-game until I had prepared a home for them to live in. They’re actually next-door neighbours to Ed Kenway and Mary Read, now.

Airbourne Dofus

Just watched my fellow #greek #spartans #300 #riseofanempire #comfyassleatherseats #blackhawk #lovethistheatre #bayarea

#greekblooded

2020 sure isn’t letting up. California is now battling roughly 367 known fires. Today, I decided to drive down the coast and document what I could of the ‪#CZUAugustLightningComplex‬ fire. This fire is just north of Santa Cruz, is burning over 25,000 acres and growing with 0% containment so far. It was a day I won’t forgot.

On the lucky and semi-exciting side of being a photographer, I got to document my buddy and pilot friend @Jakelounsbury who use to fly me around SF and now fights fires and his co pilot @rlenzer.

On the not so lucky and not exciting side of things, knowing a friend probably lost his home in this very fire. That part was unsettling to say the least.

I was standing here in absolute awe, with a group of locals who were just evacuated, watching their land and homes burn away in the distance. Everyone was in decent spirits, but you could tell deep down how everyone was really feeling. Something I could not relate to, but I could definitely see it in them.

I started talking with a nice gentleman named Andy, who was a local Arborist and lived in the now burned valley for the past 12 years. He mentioned and pointed at his three trucks filled with everything he could grab. We sort of knew this fire was going to come at us eventually. So before I decided to leave the area and get out of everyone’s way, I offered to help him shuttle his trucks, as he seemed to be alone. One by one a few miles down the road we went so that he could at least get them parked further from this fire zone. I know I can’t stop the fire and save the day, but I also felt I didn’t just want to stand there and be that come and go tourist. I love this area and have explored this coast for the past 10 years as a photographer. Never have I seen it like this. I am praying for these fires to let up and of course 2020 to end.

Pictured is a Blackhawk H-60A+ Helicopter with a Bambi Max Bucket. Shots taken on August 19, 2020 near Whitehorse Canyon north of Davenport and the Santa Cruz area.
Photos by @tobyharriman.

‪#natgeo #pegair#CaliforniaFires‬ ‪#santacruzfire‬ #blackhawk #santacruz #fire #pescadero (at Pescadero, California)
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1972 Stutz Blackhawk