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** Skulldigger is a [[ComicBook/ThePunisher controversial, non-powered violent vigilante who kills criminals and wears a has a skull motif]] (though in his case it's a mask instead of on his shirt, which has a skeleton pattern). Hiscostume really does look like an alternate take on Frank Castle or his brief successor Carlos Cruz. Unlike them though, Skulldigger forgoes guns in favor of a weapon themed after his symbol and has a sidekick/helper in Skeleton Boy, giving him some Batman elements.
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** Skulldigger is a [[ComicBook/ThePunisher controversial, non-powered violent vigilante who kills criminals and wears something depicting a has a skull motif]] skull]] (though in his case it's a mask instead of on his shirt, which has a skeleton pattern). Hiscostume His costume really does look like an alternate take on Frank Castle or his brief successor Carlos Cruz. Unlike them though, Skulldigger forgoes guns in favor of a weapon themed after his symbol and has a sidekick/helper in Skeleton Boy, giving him some Batman elements.
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** The "Pulp Age" heroes each take inspiration from ProtoSuperhero characters.
*** Doc Steele is ''blatantly'' a stand-in for Franchise/DocSavage.
*** The Crimson Fist is less obvious, but he clearly fills the role of characters like Radio/TheShadow. He also is associated with with the color red like Literature/TheScarletPimpernel, who, like the Shadow, could be considered a precursor to Batman.
*** Tazara is a JunglePrincess a la ComicBook/SheenaQueenOfTheJungle, with elements of Literature/{{Tarzan}}, such as her name. The obvious divergence is that she's actually a Congolese woman instead of a Caucasian woman.
** Skulldigger is a [[ComicBook/ThePunisher controversial, non-powered violent vigilante who kills criminals and wears a has a skull motif]] (though in his case it's a mask instead of on his shirt, which has a skeleton pattern). Hiscostume really does look like an alternate take on Frank Castle or his brief successor Carlos Cruz. Unlike them though, Skulldigger forgoes guns in favor of a weapon themed after his symbol and has a sidekick/helper in Skeleton Boy, giving him some Batman elements.
*** Doc Steele is ''blatantly'' a stand-in for Franchise/DocSavage.
*** The Crimson Fist is less obvious, but he clearly fills the role of characters like Radio/TheShadow. He also is associated with with the color red like Literature/TheScarletPimpernel, who, like the Shadow, could be considered a precursor to Batman.
*** Tazara is a JunglePrincess a la ComicBook/SheenaQueenOfTheJungle, with elements of Literature/{{Tarzan}}, such as her name. The obvious divergence is that she's actually a Congolese woman instead of a Caucasian woman.
** Skulldigger is a [[ComicBook/ThePunisher controversial, non-powered violent vigilante who kills criminals and wears a has a skull motif]] (though in his case it's a mask instead of on his shirt, which has a skeleton pattern). Hiscostume really does look like an alternate take on Frank Castle or his brief successor Carlos Cruz. Unlike them though, Skulldigger forgoes guns in favor of a weapon themed after his symbol and has a sidekick/helper in Skeleton Boy, giving him some Batman elements.
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** ''Doctor Star/Andromeda and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows'' introduces the Star Sheriffs, an organization of aliens inspired by James Robinson's exploits. They are shown to be a diverse group of aliens in close to matching uniforms who all wield the same signature cosmic tool to travel through space and protect the innocent. [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Hmm, why does that sound familiar?]]
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In true superhero fashion, Lemire has expanded the scope of ''Black Hammer'' to include side stories and tie-ins set within the same world, featuring titles like ''Cthu-Louise'', ''The Quantum Age'', ''Black Hammer '45'', ''Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil'', ''Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows'', and even a canonical crossover with the ComicBook/JusticeLeague of Creator/DCComics, whom Lemire has written for in the past.
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In true superhero fashion, Lemire has expanded the scope of ''Black Hammer'' to include side stories and tie-ins set within the same world, featuring titles like ''Cthu-Louise'', ''The Quantum Age'', ''Black Hammer '45'', like:
* ''Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion ofEvil'', Evil'' (2017-2018)
* ''Doctor Star and the Kingdom of LostTomorrows'', and even a Tomorrows'' (2018)
* ''Black Hammer: Age of Doom '' (2018-2019)
* ''The Quantum Age'' (2018-2019)
* ''Black Hammer: Cthu-Louise'' (2018)
* ''Black Hammer '45: From the World of Black Hammer'' (2019)
* ''Black Hammer/Justice League: Hammer of Justice!'' (2019): A canonical crossover with the ComicBook/JusticeLeague of Creator/DCComics, whom Lemire has written for in the past.
* ''Skulldigger + Skeleton Boy'' (2019-2020)
* ''Colonel Weird: Cosmagog'' (2020)
* ''Barbalien: Red Planet'' (2020)
* ''Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of
* ''Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Lost
* ''Black Hammer: Age of Doom '' (2018-2019)
* ''The Quantum Age'' (2018-2019)
* ''Black Hammer: Cthu-Louise'' (2018)
* ''Black Hammer '45: From the World of Black Hammer'' (2019)
* ''Black Hammer/Justice League: Hammer of Justice!'' (2019): A canonical crossover with the ComicBook/JusticeLeague of Creator/DCComics, whom Lemire has written for in the past.
* ''Skulldigger + Skeleton Boy'' (2019-2020)
* ''Colonel Weird: Cosmagog'' (2020)
* ''Barbalien: Red Planet'' (2020)
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** ''Sherlock Frankenstein'' features more homage characters.
*** Wingman is one for ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}, made ''blatantly'' clear by his appearance in his youth, which one could easily mistake for Hawkman.
*** Concretestador is a burly RockMonster hero with blue eyes, suggesting influence from [[ComicBook/TheFantasticFour Ben Grimm/The Thing]].
*** The villain Manaconda, while not featured in person, is shown to have clear visual similarities to Batman foe Killer Croc.
*** Wingman is one for ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}, made ''blatantly'' clear by his appearance in his youth, which one could easily mistake for Hawkman.
*** Concretestador is a burly RockMonster hero with blue eyes, suggesting influence from [[ComicBook/TheFantasticFour Ben Grimm/The Thing]].
*** The villain Manaconda, while not featured in person, is shown to have clear visual similarities to Batman foe Killer Croc.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The Anti-God returns to Spiral City, so to stop him the heroes decide to seal themselves back in the farm and wipe their memories so they can never break out. It works, but they are a lot happier now that their issues are removed with.]]
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* IntrepidReporter: Lucy wants to find out what really happened to her father and the Spiral City heroes.
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The main cast of ''Black Hammer'' includes:
* '''Abraham Slamkowski / Abraham Slam:''' A [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] brawler and grandfatherly patriarchal figure of the family.
* '''Gail Gibbons / Golden Gail:''' A middle-aged woman forced in eternal youth as a by-product of the [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull the]] [[FlyingBrick superpower]] given to her as a child.
* '''Mark Markz / Barbalien:''' A shapeshifting (gay) alien warlord from Mars fulfilling the role of {{cool uncle}}.
* '''Colonel Randall Weird:''' A cosmonaut desperate to return to his old life; the [[PerilousOldFool weird uncle]] to Barbalien's cool uncle.
* '''TLK-E WLK-E / Talky Walky:''' Col. Weird's chatty robot sidekick, and the only one who can't pass for a human.
* '''Madame Dragonfly:''' A green-skinned swamp witch with questionable motives who sometimes masquerades as Gail's mother.
* '''Joe Webber / Black Hammer:''' The ([[PosthumousCharacter posthumous]]) {{title character}} who is eulogized annually by the heroes who was super-strong and wielded a hammer to battle.
* '''Lucy Webber / Black Hammer II:''' Joe's adult daughter who finds the lost heroes and takes up her father's mantle.
In true superhero fashion, Lemire has expanded the scope of ''Black Hammer'' to include side stories and tie-ins set within the same world, featuring titles like ''Cthu-Louise'', ''The Quantum Age'', ''Black Hammer '45'', ''Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil'', ''Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows'', and even a canonical crossover with the ComicBook/JusticeLeague of Creator/DCComics, whom Lemire has written for in the past.
In November 2018, it was announced that Lemire signed an overall development deal with Creator/LegendaryPictures, which includes potential television and/or film adaptations of the ''Black Hammer'' universe, of which he will be closely involved with.
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* ShoutOut: Doctor Star (the Comicbook/{{Starman}} {{Expy}}) is named James Robinson.
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** The Quantum League is blatantly meant to be the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes, being a group of teenage heroes in the future whose name all featured variants of "Boy, Girl, Lad," and "Lass." That ''The Quantum Age'' focuses on the League 25 years after most of them died serves as an homage to the infamous "Five Years Later" Legion arc. However, this was ''so'' blatant that in the trade collection of ''The Quantum Age'' the Leaguers all had their names altered except for Hammer Lass.
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*** The New World is a pantheon of god/aliens akin the Asgardians and New Gods. There are direct expies of Mister Miracle and Lightray in particular and the leader of the New World is a mix of Highfather and Odin.
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** During Lucy’s journey through Dreamland, Lonnie James is a loose expy for John Constantine and the family in the land of Nod is a pretty obvious pastiche for The Endless.
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*** His backstory of a normal man receiving a powerful weapon from dying alien in a back alley is a combination of [[ComicBook/GreenLantern how Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner got their powers]].
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** Barbalien made advances to his former partner in the police, who reacted ''very'' negatively. [[spoiler: When he attempts again with a priest he thinks is closeted, the exact same thing happens.]]
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** Colonel Weird = ComicBook/AdamStrange [[spoiler: with shades of Dr. Manhattan from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}.]]]]''
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Madame Butterfly. Dragonfly. Most notably when Lucy, Black Hammer's daughter, somehow [[spoiler:teleports into the dimension the heroes are trapped in, Madame Butterfly Dragonfly wipes her memory]].
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Madame Butterfly. Most notably when Lucy, Black Hammer's daughter, somehow [[spoiler:teleports into the dimension the heroes are trapped in, Madame Butterfly wipes her memory]].
* DysfunctionalFamily: Played with, since the cast is not family per se. Since the heroes are trapped on the Farm, they decide to disguise themselves as a family. Unfortunately, their personalities all strongly conflict with one another's, making them this.
* HeroicSacrifice: Black Hammer sacrificed himself to kill the Anti-God. His hammer is all that's left of him.
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* PosthumousCharacter: BlackHammerHammer.
* PosthumousCharacter: Black
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''Black Hammer'' is a DarkHorseComics series created by Creator/JeffLemire and Dean Ormston.
The series follows six superheroes who, after having saved the world from a multiversal crisis, are trapped in a small town from which they can't escape.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Madame Butterfly.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of superheroes in general. Each issue of the opening arc tackles the psychological and emotional effects of being a superhero.
* {{Expy}}:
** Abraham Slam = ComicBook/CaptainAmerica
** Anti-God = [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths The Anti-Monitor]]
** Barbalien = ComicBook/MartianManhunter
** Black Hammer = Franchise/{{Superman}}
** Colonel Weird = ComicBook/AdamStrange
** Golden Gail = ComicBook/{{Shazam}}
** Madame Butterfly = An Creator/ECComics-style host of a house.
* IncompatibleOrientation:
** Barbalien made advances to his former partner in the police, who reacted ''very'' negatively.
** Gail has feelings for Barbalien, which he's oblivious to. Unfortunately, when he does pick up on them, he attempts to lightly turn her down by pointing out her physical body - a sore spot for her - and his sexual orientation, but she leaves before he finishes.
* PosthumousCharacter: Black Hammer
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Played with. Gail exhibits this, but she's a 55-year-old woman trapped in a 10-year-old's body.
''Black Hammer'' is a DarkHorseComics series created by Creator/JeffLemire and Dean Ormston.
The series follows six superheroes who, after having saved the world from a multiversal crisis, are trapped in a small town from which they can't escape.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Madame Butterfly.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of superheroes in general. Each issue of the opening arc tackles the psychological and emotional effects of being a superhero.
* {{Expy}}:
** Abraham Slam = ComicBook/CaptainAmerica
** Anti-God = [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths The Anti-Monitor]]
** Barbalien = ComicBook/MartianManhunter
** Black Hammer = Franchise/{{Superman}}
** Colonel Weird = ComicBook/AdamStrange
** Golden Gail = ComicBook/{{Shazam}}
** Madame Butterfly = An Creator/ECComics-style host of a house.
* IncompatibleOrientation:
** Barbalien made advances to his former partner in the police, who reacted ''very'' negatively.
** Gail has feelings for Barbalien, which he's oblivious to. Unfortunately, when he does pick up on them, he attempts to lightly turn her down by pointing out her physical body - a sore spot for her - and his sexual orientation, but she leaves before he finishes.
* PosthumousCharacter: Black Hammer
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Played with. Gail exhibits this, but she's a 55-year-old woman trapped in a 10-year-old's body.
