GoldenAgeHero
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this was a great issue and hilarious. the issue doent seem far fetched to me. it completely explained hopw green arrow got so good the missing year.
GoldenAgeHero said:batman rubbed off on him.
kiuju2k said:Yeah i have to admit it. Ollie held it down. I'm not GA fan but, after this showing i am impressed. If only Nightwing got this kind of treatment.
He did, in issues 1-117.
*almost goes on a long rant about how people shouldn't give money to comic books they don't like reading anymore*SouLeSS said:I'm still picking up nightwing, though for no other reason than to say "yeah, I own every one of the nightwing ongoings"
Glad you didn't, as it would just be a waste of your time. But seriously though, It'll get better in a few arcs, and I'll start to enjoy it again. Why not buy all the issues that have to do with the backstory?Manic said:*almost goes on a long rant about how people shouldn't give money to comic books they don't like reading anymore*
Because they suck?SouLeSS said:Why not buy all the issues that have to do with the backstory?
TheCorpulent1 said:McDaniel? If Ollie's all super-badass ninja now, I think he fits quite well.
Darthphere said:I think the art on this book doesnt fit. Something about it. I dont really dig it.
He beat all of those people in the end, though. I liked that underdog aspect about him. He never even came close to getting his ass kicked by Merlyn, either. Dr. Light was the only one who kicked Ollie's ass in that arc, and I think that should be expected. I would've much rather Ollie call in his son, who's among the top martial artists in the world, to beat the crap out of Slade. He could've easily done it with the help of all of Ollie's traps. It would've worked just as well for the story and it wouldn't have changed Ollie into some wannabe ninja with the wrong color scheme.BrianWilly said:I thought the katana was flat-out awesome. I read a bit of Grell's ultraviolent rendition of GA and I hated it so it's not like I'm that into stabby mcninja XXXXXtreme badass fun, but I just like this new GA...efficient, smart, skilled as hell, but without losing any of his old personality and characterization; that last page of him screeching "YOU'RE UNDER ARREST!" in Slade's face was classic Ollie through and through.
For the last year of the comics (real world time) he's just been getting his ass kicked over and over and over and over again. By Drakon, by Dr. Light, by Deathstroke, by Merlyn...by the frikkin' Riddler of all things. It was just played out. It wasn't fun reading GA anymore. It was way past time for him to get his sht together.
TheCorpulent1 said:He beat all of those people in the end, though. I liked that underdog aspect about him. He never even came close to getting his ass kicked by Merlyn, either. Dr. Light was the only one who kicked Ollie's ass in that arc, and I think that should be expected. I would've much rather Ollie call in his son, who's among the top martial artists in the world, to beat the crap out of Slade. He could've easily done it with the help of all of Ollie's traps. It would've worked just as well for the story and it wouldn't have changed Ollie into some wannabe ninja with the wrong color scheme.
I don't mind the prep time thing--that's just Ollie being smart, since he knew Deathstroke would come after him and he had time and (as the mayor) new resources to plan for that. But the whole sword-in-the-quiver gimmick and his becoming this awe-inspiring martial artist in a year was just lame and unnecessary. Ollie got the job done just fine before with some good, old-fashioned fisticuffs and archery. No need to throw Eastern arts that I have trouble believing Ollie would ever sit down and have the discipline to learn into the mix.