JB have you ever thought about doing a Hawkman solo title?

Is that a modern retcon or have they always been that way?

There is a precedent in Timothy Truman's Hawkworld, wherein Shayera is a super-competent police professional and Katar is a fairly pathetic drug-addicted rich kid in need of a good kick in the ass whose Daddy bought him a place on the force.

Back in the day, they were fated lovers and later, an imaginative, determined couple who happily worked on the police force together. 

Seems typical of so many modern writers to break them up or make one of them flawed.  I never understood why they put John Stewart and Hawkgirl together.  Not only that, they turned Hawkman into a real creep and stalker.

I strongly recommend the early Fox/Kubert Silver Age stories as good, clean super-hero fiction, even if the story logic gets a bit strained at times. (Schwartz books will do that occasionally. There's a reason they call them Strange Schwartz Stories... :-) The patter and tone of the married couple is always enjoyable and downright charming at times.

And mix in a few Golden Age tales here and there where you can. They're pleasantly adventuresome and romantic with a certain mysticism to them. I could easily have seen some very stylish 40's era films made on their premise.

A man and a woman loving each other and being partners is just too far-fetched.

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Argh!  Another "Almost-Was"!  Walt Simonson and Jim Starlin have also done some great mini-takes on Hawkman--what might have been!

Byrne, Simonson, Starlin--If each of these could have done a year or two with the character, Hawkman would definitely be a major hitter now!