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"Hawk and Dove writer Sterling Gates has revealed why he departed the DC Comics series. The scribe told Newsarama that he was asked to leave the creative team because the publisher chose to take the &amp;#039;New 52&amp;#039; title in a &amp;quot;different direction&amp;quot;. Rob Liefeld, who also serves as artist on Hawk and Dove, will take on writing duties from February&amp;#039;s issue #6. &amp;quot;Rachel Gluckstern, my editor at DC, phoned me up a couple months ago and said they were interested in taking the book in a different direction. As a result, my script to issue six was spiked, and the back half of issue five was rewritten in order to completely clear the decks for Rob&amp;#039;s run,&amp;quot; said Gates. &amp;quot;Rob came in and co-wrote issue #5&amp;#039;s climactic battle with Condor and Swan to help make the transition as smooth as possible.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t wait to see where Rob takes  Hawk and Dove next, either. He&amp;#039;s got a vision for those characters, and hopefully I&amp;#039;ve managed to get enough pieces on the board for him to really dig into their mythology.&amp;quot; Gates added that he is &amp;quot;immensely proud&amp;quot; to have been part of DC&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;New 52&amp;#039; team, and hopes to work for the publisher again in the future. Hawk and Dove continues with issue #5, on sale January 4. &amp;gt; More comics news "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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