Norda Cantrell. Gulp. If you're thinking I'm going to explain who Norda (a.k.a. Northwind) is, think again. He's the intersection of the Hawkman mythos with Infinity Inc., which is like living at the corner of The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea. I'm hoping someone can explain him to me!Northwind is Hawkman's godson (?), adopted son (?), vague legacy character (?) from some race of Scandinavian birdpeople. He's black. Like lots of Scandinavians. In the DCU, anyway. Or maybe he's black because Hawkman is black? Oh, wait Hawkman's not black. Never mind.
He has a mohawk made of feathers. It was the nineties. He's got an N on his chest to help you remember who he is. To me, he was one of those characters I saw for the first time in the original Crisis, who made me go "what the --?", then disappeared. Actually, he didn't disappear; he's come back and now he looks like the scary birdman from "Kingdom Come" and he's mean and hangs out with Black Adam. Following in his own fine feathered tradition of incomprehensibility, I suppose...
Of course, that makes him yet another "black character whose race is conveniently obscured by his powers or costume". Harrumph.
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