Deadshot - part 3 of 5

[espanolbot]

Green Arrow is called in to capture Deadshot by the head of Star City's police force, due to Floyd killing a corrupt cop in addition to a sizeable chunk of the criminal population. The fight itself is well done, and interestingly the writer decided to have the two pretty evenly matched in terms of accuracy etc. Which I guess makes sense, what with them being the two at the top of their game in regards to projectile weaponry.

Before it can progress much further though, the local folks arrive to defend their friendly neighbourhood murderer,











Curious that Ollie would get on so well with Floyd, though He's also friends with the Shade, who can be considerably WORSE than Deadshot when the mood takes him.

Floyd stops off at Michelle and Zoe's to repair his stuff and have a shower, only for Michelle to drop a babysitting job at him. It turns out that it's her friend's birthday, and a babysitter isn't avaliable, so she figures that since Zoe's his he can look after her for a few hours, to his dismay.





Long story short, Michelle and Floyd end up sleeping together, which he reveals it was the first time he hadn't paid for sex in fifteen years. This kind of knocks her sideways, asking him what it was like, getting the response "Weird". He then clarifies "Good weird" and they kind of become more of an official couple.

Later, the pair are watching Zoe play in the (now non-drug dealery) park, only to have one of Floyd's former assassin teammates show up, thinking that DS had gotten into the crimelord gig and that he should cut him in on the action. The problem being this guy happens to be bulletproof and has superstrength...

Comments

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

One of the things I loved most about this story was how Green Arrow found himself on the receiving end of 'Why aren't you saving our block instead of saving the world!' bullcrap.

Also, the fight between the two was pretty creative.

[icon_uk]

Though they never do give Oliver a good reason why he didn't do more work in the Triangle, and him ignoring such a crimelord ridden areas seems OOC.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Err, what?

They give him a good reason in the scenes scanned. He's freakin' *busy* with everything else. He's gotta protect the entire city and save the world along with the JLA. And for all we know, the triangle isn't even the worse part of Star City.

[icon_uk]

Well, it does come across sound more like an excuse than an explanation.

The Triangle is part of the city and appears to be a heavily crime ridden area, and fundamentally, Star City has never seemed as corrupt as certain other cities guarded by a non powered hero with some skill with projectile weapons, so the Triangle should stand out, as being at least deserving of his regular attention.

[espanolbot]

This was only a little after Ollie's return to supeheroics after being dead, and in his absence it basically sunk into near Gotham levels of corruption. For example, The mayor, or at least one of the upper councillors, was involved in drug fuelled parties where he ordered underaged prostitutes on the city's dime (that's how Mia Dearsden was introduced).

[icon_uk]

Ah right, the old "Being dead at the time" defence! ;)

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

It's better than "Why were you saving the entire world (that includes me) instead of just saving this block from mundane threats?", ya ask me.

[blackruzsa]

I'm glad for Floyd. I'm glad for the people in the Triangle too. Half reminds me of the Daredevil film where DD isn't afraid to let a few scumbags get run over by trains when the entire town, overall, is overrun by badness. Half reminds me of P!nk's "Trouble" video where an outlaw and a criminal comes in and helps people where the Sheriff didn't.

In this case, people don't care about methods. They care about results.

[icon_uk]

Those as always in such cases, if the bulk of the change is caused by fear of one person, what happens when that one person is removed from the equation?

[blackruzsa]

Then they adapt, which is a lot to expect from people, but with those who've been surviving long before the one person came, it's not hard to believe.

The difference between the time the person comes and the time before is that before, they survived, and when the person comes, they thrive.

[sir_razorback]

Thanks for posting this stuff for us, this is better than alot of the new stuff from the Big Two these days. Although with all those references to 'violence doesn't solve violence', I'm going to guess things don't stay nice much longer. :/

[md84]

I can definitely see Ollie sympathizing with Floyd's reasons for trying to help the Triangle. Ollie abandoned his own son for the kid's entire life. Yeah he and Connor have a pretty good relationship, but he has never stopped feeling guilty about it. Even more so in a later storyline when Ollie learns -- while Connor is in a coma no less -- that Connor knew Ollie had abandoned him and he forgave Ollie anyway.

[glprime]

"Says the guy with razor-sharp arrows."

SERIOUSLY. If I had to choose Death By Arrow or Death By Bullet, I'd take the bullet.

Also, I'd only buy this anti-escalation argument from Ollie AFTER the Batman-level of training he and his partners undertook to take on Slade.