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Date: 2013-02-21 12:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-21 01:37 am (UTC)And, I may also be biased, but I think old!Ollie was the single most layered and three-dimensional character in the DCU. Never being a "star" character his various writers from Denny O'Neil to Grell to Dixon to Smith to Winnick were able to continue progressing the character ever-forward. He never needed to be "rebooted" or "reworked" to get back to the character everyone knew.
And, you just couldn't stereotype the guy. On one hand, he's that "liberal" super-hero, but he was constantly at war with his own chauvanism which had been instilled in him since youth. He was just a walking mess of contradictions, self-loathing combined with utter bravado, loyalty and capriciousness, stalwart but hot-headed, disciplined and methodical yet incredibly impulsive... The way Smith and on had him kind of lax with his identity, keeping it from the wrong people but not too concerned with individuals knowing who he is... the way his no-killing rule was flexible in a very sane way (not a psychotic vigilante like Punisher, but not pathologically averse to killing like Batman). Nothing about Ollie was black or white, he was just a million shades of gray. Again, I may be biased... I've read every Green Arrow comic ever published up until somewhere early in JT Krul's run where I threw up my hands in utter frustration and gave up.