Hawkshaw was a member of the Press Gang, mutant patriots of Genosha, who joined the Magistrates of their own free will instead of being submitted for the Mutate process. He was first seen retrieving the expatriate Genoshan nurse Jenny Ransome from Australia.
When the Mutates were freed and Fabian Cortez engineered a civil war in Genosha, Hawkshaw fought on the side of the humans and Magistrates. He and Pipeline attempted to retrieve geneticist Renee Majcomb from the United States but were stopped by Cable and members of X-Force. Hawkshaw later confronted Cable again when he arrived in Genosha itself during the street fighting.
