Dawn Granger (the 2nd Dove) was created because the lords of chaos and order decided that the original Hawk and Dove experiment had failed.  It was determined that the sibling's fought too much to be effective and that the only way to make Hawk and Dove work was to make the pair an unrelated male and female and have them eventually fall in love (which Hank and Dawn didn't do) and create some being of purity between the two.  So the lords took away Don Hall's powers and he was unable to get out of the way of a shadow demon and died during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.  At the same time they gave powers to Dawn Granger and she became the new Dove, eventually teaming up with Hank until he was transformed into the evil Monarch (a rant for another time).

With me so far?  Fast forward ten years.  Hank Hall is dead and its time to introduce a brand new Hawk!  So who gets chosen to take up the mantle?  Dawn Granger's bitchy sister Holly, who she fights with all the time.  Anybody else see the problem here?  The entire reason the first Dove was killed was because a sibling team cannot work as Hawk and Dove.  It doesn't help that at this time, the lords of chaos and order who gave Hawk and Dove their powers are already dead.  Lovely.

But that's not all.  Holly is Dawn's sister who grew up in Great Britain.  She keeps making references to "dad's house" or "did dad ever blah blah blah" and that Dawn choose to live in the wrong place growning up. Cyborg mentions that the Granger parents live in Georgetown and London.  So it seems Dawn grew up with her dad in DC and Holly grew up with her mom in London until the long lost sisters were reunited.  Aside from sounding like the plotline of a bad Mary Kate and Ashley movie, what's wrong with this?  Dawn's parents were happily married and together all through Hawk and Dove volume 3.

So lets recap.  Holly being Hawk doesn't make sense.  Anybody but Hank Hall being Hawk doesn't make sense.  Holly even existing doesn't make sense.

Thank you Geoff Johns and Gail Simone for recreating Hawk and Dove while pissing all over the entire Hawk and Dove mythos.

/rant

" Just to piss you off somemore aparently this new Hawk is a slut who dresses up as Supergirl in powerboy's sick erotic fantasy "

Well if it means anything, Holly's dead now. :P

Krul had obviously read Hawk and Dove.  He had Dove explain her powers and actually use them for the first time since her "death" and he had Hawk shouting his catchphrase. 
 
I wouldn't be surprised if Krul killed her off because her existance was a plothole.

" Just to piss you off somemore aparently this new Hawk is a slut who dresses up as Supergirl in powerboy's sick erotic fantasy "

" @G-w-D said:

" Just to piss you off somemore aparently this new Hawk is a slut who dresses up as Supergirl in powerboy's sick erotic fantasy "

How does that make Hawk2 a slut? I thought everyone felt that Supergirl was the slut. "

Well, she's dead now.  No worries.

i liked her, she was waaay better than hank who has the personality of toenail clippings, and on the supergirl thing, if you had a hot red head willing to dress up in a kinky outfit, would you be complaining?

Can I add another item to the list?
 
During Infinite Crisis, The Spectre slaughtered all the lords of chaos and order, causing Hawk and Dove to visibly lose their power on panel. To my knowledge, this is never brought up again...

XD

"Can I add another item to the list?  During Infinite Crisis, The Spectre slaughtered all the lords of chaos and order, causing Hawk and Dove to visibly lose their power on panel. To my knowledge, this is never brought up again... "

I always liked Holly *hides from wrath of Zoom*

"I always liked Holly *hides from wrath of Zoom* "

I think everyone is missing the point that Holly is useless because her creation was a contradiction and frankly redundant to the Hawk and Dove pairing. Her being there pretty much made Don Hall's death a waste and the subsequent follow up of Hank Hall going crazy and becoming the Monarch stupid. Stupid + Stupid + Redundantly Retarded does not equal good characterization. They need to stop giving weak writers canon books. It screws everything up.

I don't agree that Holly was more interesting because her only personality traits (which isn't really her fault because she never did anything save guest appearances) were being slutty and being a drunk.   They never really put the time into making her a likable character...which is fine, because I as previously explained, she was a walking plot hole.

@Sinestro2828

"Plus, the Hawk and Dove costumes REALLY look so much better on girl characters than guys, SERIOUSLY.  Hank"

"Hank died as a supervillain too, so I don't get why he wasn't thrown in jail as soon as he was revived like captain boomerang was >_< "

" I don't agree that Holly was more interesting because her only personality traits (which isn't really her fault because she never did anything save guest appearances) were being slutty and being a drunk.   They never really put the time into making her a likable character...which is fine, because I as previously explained, she was a walking plot hole.

@Sinestro2828

said:

"Plus, the Hawk and Dove costumes REALLY look so much better on girl characters than guys, SERIOUSLY.  Hank"

I do agree with that.
  
@Sinestro2828 said:

"Hank died as a supervillain too, so I don't get why he wasn't thrown in jail as soon as he was revived like captain boomerang was >_< "

Especially since he wasn't a "killed a dude and robbed some banks" bad guy.  He was a "tried to destroy the universe" bad guy.  I'm not sure how he's magically sane and has his old powers back either. "

If they were going to kill off a bird & bring back a dead one, why not have given us the only team-up there hasnt been yet, Holly & Don?

As for Hawk not being in jail, same can be said for Hal.

SHES DEAD?!?!?!

WHO(holly granger),WHAT(she died) WHERE WHEN WHY HOW

@cameron83 said:

SHES DEAD?!?!?!

WHO(holly granger),WHAT(she died) WHERE WHEN WHY HOW

Um... Blackest Night. 2009.

Anyway, she's still a better character than Hank Hall. Hell, a random rock is a better character.

@COBRAMORPH said:

If they were going to kill off a bird & bring back a dead one, why not have given us the only team-up there hasnt been yet, Holly & Don?

As for Hawk not being in jail, same can be said for Hal.

Hal went through his penance as the Spectre. he also saved the earth during Final Night so idont any of them are going to arrest him. not mention the fact that he was retconned into being possessed by Parallax.

Holly never made sense. There was never any mention of Dove having a sister before her first appearance.

I don't know about Holly's (pointless) origin but I liked her a lot more than Hank Hall. Though as a character for drama's sake Hank probably works better.