Superhero Silouettes By Steve Garcia

Over the years, I've come across Steve Garcia's silhouette art of the superheroes many times. Each hero's silhouette is in a certain color, and another smaller image is in white. These were all fun to look at, but what caught my attention was the theme that the artist gave each character. For Superman, it says "Hope," Batman got "Justice," and Wonder Woman was titled "Truth." Those made sense. Hawkgirl was titled "Spirit." I thought that was a pretty good one-word description of her. The one-word description of Hawkman is "Order." This made me think about a couple of things. Did "order" accurately describe Hawkman? Since the Silver Age, Hawkman has been portrayed as a somewhat rigid, by-the-book character at times. He has even been thought of as a conservative to go against the liberal Green Arrow. He was a police officer on Thanagar when he came to Earth, he was portrayed as a wingman in the Hawkworld series, and he was even the police commissioner on Thanagar after the Infinite…