"We're doing a book called 'Savage Hawkman' and to see the excitement between the artist (Philip Tan) and the writer (Tony Daniel), taking a classic DC character, and to see what they're doing with it is so amazing, " said Harras of the energy he sees in the pages of the rebooted title.

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The character has long enjoyed cult classic status and found varying success on the big screen, portrayed by actors including Lee Marvin and Mel Gibson.

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Another classic New Orleans character, Blain Kern was really upbeat.

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Lastly come classic instances of rotten character, a sickening virus of entitlement and careless grandiosity.

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Numbers of the British vole - which inspired Ratty's character in the children's classic The Wind in the Willows - have plunged from seven million to less than a million in a decade.

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The lowest we saw, at 23%: Louisville's Ned Beatty Hope for Children Classic, staged in the name of the veteran character actor.

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In just one audition, she won a career-making role: the title character of David Ives's provocative play Venus in Fur at the Classic Stage Company, off-Broadway.

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This classic Provencal chateau, complete with light blue shutters, abounds with countryside character and is just an hour from Marseilles and Nice.

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Dotz points to Chicken of the Sea's mermaid, who recently morphed from a classic 1950's mermaid to a Walt Disney-style Little Mermaid character in an attempt to remain fresh.

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