Consume All Media! Blackhawk: "Chapter Fifteen: The Leader Unmasked!"

Joe Heath is a big fan of comic books and watching things in order. So they made this spreadsheet containing every serial, short, film, television episode, commercial, motion comic, and web series based on a comic book. Now they're watching them all. Previously, Joe watched the fourteenth chapter of Blackhawk. This time, they conclude with the fifteenth chapter.

Blackhawk: “Chapter Fifteen: The Leader Unmasked!” - 15:06 (Available on Dailymotion)

The car explosion blows the Blackhawks back a little, but they are basically okay.

Other Blackhawks figure out where the new car is and pursuit continues.

The Blackhawks catch the driver outside of their new identical hideout. Blackhawk heads to the roof for some reason. Someone shoots him and he falls off.

Blackhawk down... again.

Actually, no. He just hits the ground, jumps back up, and runs away like nothing happened. We got to get to the end of this serial! There's no time for logical explanations! Blackhawk knows parkour! There! Are you happy now?

The Blackhawks round up the henchmen, but Laska is missing. It's fine though, because one of the other Blackhawks followed her.

Laska calls the Leader and says she has the Element X. He tells her to give it to one of his henchmen, then lead the Blackhawks away to a trap. After he hangs up, he explains to his henchmen that he's going to catch Laska in the trap as well, because he's very evil.

The Leader's henchman sets up a bomb and hides it from Laska.

The henchman escapes through a secret exit as the Blackhawks arrive. They grab him and start to head inside, but he quickly tells them about the bomb. Blackhawk tries to warn the henchmen inside, but they just start firing through the door.

They wind up shooting the Leader's henchman.

Whoops.

Laska manages to get away before the place explodes. She goes and confronts the Leader, not realizing the Blackhawks have followed her. Laska gets tired of all this nonsense and shoots the Leader.

I thought this Case was closed?

I'm very confused as to how the Leader is Case considering he fell to his death from a plane. The Blackhawks, who have now grabbed Laska, are also confused. She explains that the Leader isn't Case, but instead a look-alike who had plastic surgery.

WHY? Who does this benefit? How was I supposed to figure this out? What is the point of all this? What is the point of anything??

Anyway, the Blackhawks go back to their headquarters to celebrate by singing and dancing outside. Chop Chop throws a firecracker at them and then they go eat, I guess.

Should you watch it, though? No. It wraps up very haphazardly. The reveal of the Leader's identity makes zero sense. The identical hideouts were never explained. Laska wraps things up more than the Blackhawks do.

All in all, Blackhawk is a very disappointing end to comic book serials. I didn't care about anything or anyone in it. I also got the distinct feeling no one involved in the making of the serial really cared, either.

Tune in next time for the first ever comic book television show, Adventures of Superman!

A version of this article was previously published on The Dipp.

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