Now, I'm not sure if Green Arrow actually sucks, or if he is just the victim of sucky writing. But he generally comes off as the type of person I couldn't stand in real life. (You know, not to imply that I generally like to associate with primary-colored sociopathic businessmen in real life...) His politics does play a part in it, I'll admit, but it's mostly the way he goes about his politics that irritates me.
As I've mentioned before, I've got a fairly conservative streak with some libertarian leanings, but you'd actually have to talk to me about politics specifically to discover that, as I don't wear it on my sleeve. People that do, of either stripe, tend to annoy me. Oftentimes, it seems like Green Arrow's entire character is that he's the guy who wears his politics right on his sleeve.
That wouldn't be enough to make him suck, though; crap like this is:
Linked to Scans Daily, which really should have a way to comment without getting a pay account.
Okay, so first off, Arrow interrupts the planning of an important operation to attend to his own special preferences. "Stop! Everyone look at me! I'm different!" And, frankly, admitting that you might be distracted from doing your job because you don't like what your protectee is saying means you're a pretty crappy superhero to begin with.
But that's not what really irritated me. What bugged me was his argument with Hal Jordan, after Arrow gave his opinion of a candidate on national television. He almost immediately calls Hal a Nazi.
That's stupid enough, but think about what's going on, here. Arrow is calling the guy trying to keep the military/police force that is the JLA out of politics a Nazi.
Like the man says, "You use that word; I don't think you know what it means."
Shut up, Green Arrow.
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That infamous sequence in Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams' Green Lantern/Green Arrow comic, where the old black man chastises Hal for helping blue skins and orange skins but not black skins on Earth, was over three decades ago. In that time, I would hope that the grown men writing these comics would realize that eradicating systemic bigotry can't be accomplished by blasting designated bad people with power rings or explosive arrows. Silly me.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Judd Winick and Bill Willingham were co-writers, so there's a 50-50 chance that Ollie was intended to look like a hypocrite and a fool.