Green Arrow & Black Canary

[クジラ]

Beautiful art

 

[BrianWilly]

How in the poop did you get your screenname in katakana?

Anyway!

Black Canary/Green Arrow #1
Sht on a horse, does everything tie into Amazons Attack now?? I had to fight an unconscious muscle reflex to hurl the book back on the shelf.

But buy it I did. If only to show my approval of the first unequivocally "good" comic book issue that Judd Winick has written in a good long while. Waiting on Winick books has become something of a crapshoot as of late; it might suck outright, it might suck not so much, it might even be decent or acceptable, but it has not been good for a good long while. Not the good that makes you go "Hey, I'm enjoying this. This is a comic book that I like and support."

Do I like and support this book? I think...probably. His depiction of Dinah is several steps above the crazy screeching banshee woman that she was during the wedding special. His Connor Hawke hasn't done anything to make me go

...yet. There are actual tangible funnies here (Batman with power saw? Victory). And the story is interesting enough to get into. And besides, this issue might finally hail the end of Everyman, possibly one of the most overused plot devices in recent memory. Not as overused as, say, Deathstroke, but he's high up there. I'm sure some people might survive having their brain taken out and played with, but I hope this guy is not one of them.

And Winick is just well-versed enough in the DCU to feel like he knows what he's doing with these characters as opposed to, oh, some other writers I could name. This is feeling like a big story with a lot of consequences to a lot of characters, and I'm just enough of a hopeful bastard to want to believe the best in this, the fact that Winick's slump in recent years was just that: a slump.

I do have to wonder, are there two Themysciras now or something? One where Hippolyta is just emoing alone, and one where Athena has taken all the crazy women? Is this just another instance of DC's right hand not knowing what the left is doing?

(7.2 out of 10)

 

[Fledermaus]

I do have to wonder, are there two Themysciras now or something? One where Hippolyta is just emoing alone, and one where Athena has taken all the crazy women? Is this just another instance of DC's right hand not knowing what the left is doing?

(7.2 out of 10)

That's a good question. My guess is they're is only one 'real' Themyscria and that's where Hippolyta is. The one Granny Athena is taking the women to could literally be any island on Earth or even Apokolips since I doubt any of the Amazonian Shelter women have ever been to the real-deal Themyscria.

 

[WompuM]

I like the boob window.