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Okay, to begin with let's not kid ourselves about what's going on here... Nighthawk and the rest of the Squadron Sinister was a not-so-subtle swipe at DC's big four: Hyperion = Superman Dr. Spectrum = Green Lantern The Whizzer = The Flash Nighthawk = Batman They actually did a pretty nice job riffing on both Batman and Dell Comics' The Owl. I suppose they had to use a light blue as gray would have been close enough to get the lawyers all excited and shit. Rating = Pretty damn good, conveys the concept of "creature of the night" rather nicely. Now, the makeover... WTF is going on here??? For any other character, this costume (while not a big favorite) would be perfectly adequate, however, this is Nighthawk that we're talking about here. Nothing says "creature of the night" like a bright yellow hawk emblem on your chest and matching boots and gloves. Absolutely ridiculous. On the flipside, here DC does a great job with their Silver Age re-imagining of their #3 GA character: Now from a character standpoint I find Jay Garrick 100 times more interesting than Barry Allen, who is about as bland a superhero as Cody Rhodes is as a wrestler. But we're talking about appearance here, not character development. This isn't just impractical, this is downright silly: Yeah, I'm literate enough to get that this is a riff on the famed sculpture of Hermes/Mercury, the fleet-footed messenger of the gods of Mt. Olympus, but let's pause a moment to consider the laws of physics eeef you weeeel. How in the hell is that helmet supposed to stay on his head as he zooms around at sound barrier breaking speeds? The answer is that either Mr. Garrick has a garage full of the things or someone at DC didn't think this through very well, hmmmm? Now, the SA makeover: Not one of my favorite costumes, but damn, this is light-years ahead of the duds that Jay Garrick was stuck with. Best thing of all? The Flash began the tradition of eliminating the almost totally useless item of apparel that we refer to as a cape. Okay, if you're Batman, Sandman, or the Shadow it's more than an accessory, it's actually a useful and functional device, if you're Superman, Shazam, or Dr. Fate you are so powerful that you can wear whatever the hell you please. On the other hand, if you're the Martian Manhunter, Hourman, or someone like that, you're wearing a useless accessory that can actually be such a hindrance as to endanger your life by restricting your movements. So knock it the hell off, capes are fine if you're going to the opera, on the other hand, if you're going out to project the city by roughing up the ruffians, leave the damn cape at home. There are tons of other horrid examples, the GA Green Lantern coming to mind, but you'll have to go a long. long way to find a costume as inappropriate to the character as that of the original Marvel Daredevil (the real original Daredevil had one of the coolest costumes of all time); I realize that the guy is blind, which I suppose could serve as an excuse, but one would think that a public-spirited citizen just might take a moment to let the poor man know just how awesomely foolish he looks prancing about in this: Man without fear? Perhaps. Man without taste, most def. So who ya got?