Green Arrow #11

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[medster_comics]

"Dark Arrow"?! Aren't they not the Black Arrows or something like that?

[darkknightjrk]

Considering the crowd these guys are trying to keep and represent, they probably assumed calling themselves the Black Arrows might be considered racist.

[medster_comics]

I'm black and don't find that racist its just a name :)

[icon_uk]

But that doesn't mean it might not be offensive to other black people.

[starwolf_oakley]

Ann Nocenti seems to be less of a downer now than in her late 80s DAREDEVIL run. While she was writing the book, Matt Murdock went from "grim and gritty" to "clinically depressed."

[darkknightjrk]

Think it's possible we might get some entries here of her Daredevil run? I've heard that she took over after Miller, but I don't think I ever saw any of it outside of some random pages where DD grabs a kid's skateboard and does flips n' shit with it.

[darkknightjrk]

Another thing that people forget about the Robin Hood myth was that the reason why the people were so poor in the first place was because of rampant government corruption and massive taxation.

That said, this does look interesting. I dropped off this with the last issue, but between this and the news of Nocenti going on Catwoman I might give this another shot.

[icon_uk]

That being said, a lot of the rampant taxation was down to Prince John having to pay for the Crusades that the absent King Richard kept fighting, and it was his return that Robin Hood was fighting FOR (Though Richard hated England (at least partly because of the weather) and only spent six months or so there out of his ten year reign)

[pallas_athena]

The Crusades were expensive, but what really bankrupted England was raising the ransom money for Richard when he was captured.

[arilou_skiff]

'cept Richard probably wasn't the king in the original robin hood stories in the first place. (The Geste calls him Edward)

[thanekos]

I love that last panel.

" Yes, boys and girls, I actually haven't had to shave for a while.. "

[mullon]

His mustache was a fake?! Everything in my life is a lie!

[protogarrett]

My neck has a crick in it from turning it to the side for all the panels and their bad art. Why is everything all slanted?

[lissa_quon]

DUTCH ANGLES! It's not just for over dramatic cameramen anymore!

[nefrekeptah]

I gotta say, this all feels so... shallow.

It's like, instead of actually taking a pragmatic look at the state of the world today, they just glanced at a few headlines and then made a comic about it.

[celestialchild]

Yeah, it read the same way for me too.

[halloweenjack]

Yep. This is what I remember of Nocenti from her eighties heyday: an ax-grindy approach to social issues that would make the most shameless message-episode writer of Star Trek TOS' third season blush.

[celestialchild]

Do we know how old Green Arrow is supposed to be? My attentions have really drifted off since the reboot.

[espanolbot]

Twenty something. The same as every other damn character in DC at the moment with the possible exceptions of Batman and Wonder Woman.

[jlbarnett]

Wonder WOman has to be younger than 33 because the Amazons trips out to raid ships for men occur three times a century and she has never participated or even knew about it..

[icon_uk]

GA seems to have a very narrow take on a popular folk legend.

According to many versions of it (including most of the pop culture ones around now, which are just as valid as folk tales as anything older) Robin Hood DID redistribute the wealth he stole.

[stolisomancer]

One of these days I'm going to make that animated .gif of the Nostalgia Critic and Nostalgia Chick screaming "TOO SUBTLE" at the viewer.

[sailorlibra]

I hate it when comic books try to make their storylines ~revelant~. They do such a poor job of it, most of the time. This scene is just awkward.

[nefrekeptah]

Totally. It reminds me of an earlier arc where a bunch of Super-Villians post their crimes on YouTube. When Arrow asks what kind of people would watch that crap, one of his supporters remarks. "Well, what would you expect with violent video games?"

[tsunamiwombat]

'I made my outfit for 20 dollars at an army surplus store!'
*gets shot and dies*

[sinisterlink]

I would laugh so hard if something like that happened.

[espanolbot]

So their gimmic is that they're pre-reboot Green Arrow and semi-Mia Dearsden before she because all maudlin and depressive?

[big_daddy_d]

Is that Mia Dearden?

[sinisterlink]

After reading this I rolled my eyes so hard I'm surprised they didn't fall out of my head.

The whole concept of "you have lots of money, so you should be giving it away to others" has always annoyed the crap out of me, mainly because even though there are lots of people that are born into it or whatever, there are plenty who have gotten as rich as they are by working their ass off their whole life. Who are you to tell them what they should do with what they earn? Also, if what the guy in the scans was saying is true, the money is for a charity event. So yeah, they helped someone from getting their home taken away, but they basically stole from a charity to do so. Nice job, guys.

Lastly, that kid on the bike. "What the hell are you doing for the people of this city?". Holy crap, what is this, the Marvel Universe all of a sudden? Honestly, sometime when a super hero gets asked stuff like that, I'd really like to see them just turn it around and be like, "Oh, you know, I've been going around risking my own life to help people and like, defending the world whenever it comes under some alien attack or whatever. And I don't get paid for it or anything, I just do it out of the goodness of my heart. What have YOU done for the city today? Rode around on your bike and made snarky comments about stuff? Yeah, that's what I thought. Feel free to GTFO."

[halloweenjack]

Lastly, that kid on the bike. "What the hell are you doing for the people of this city?". Holy crap, what is this, the Marvel Universe all of a sudden?

Or this infamous Green Lantern/Green Arrow comic. "Next Issue: The Ku Klux Klan gets tossed into the sun! Or: How Green Lantern Cured Racism."