Hi, Stephen.
ST> What kind of monstrous writer/artist team would have a character's
ST> ARMS ripped off at the shoulders??? You call THIS entertainment??
ST> You call THIS good "character development"?? I call it >!!
     And what you're calling "sick" NEVER happened.  He didn't get his
arms ripped off.  He didn't take Superman up on his offer to amputate
his arms.  He removed his arm from the device and it exploded.
Whether some writer can salvage Ollie Queen out of all this remains to
be seen (evidently, rumours say that Kevin Smith has plans for both
Green Arrows when he takes over the writing of the series).
ST> Why couldnt they just have Ollie getting old and infirm, passing
ST> on the mantle gently to his son, (BTW, where DID his son COME
ST> from!?) instead of THIS El Topo bull****??
     Consider what DC was trying to do.  Ollie Queen, like Hal Jordan,
wasn't a young guy anymore.  DC wanted to introduce a younger
generation Green Arrow (seeing as just about every other major DC
character has one).  Are people going to give Connor Hawke a fair
shake at being Green Arrow or are they gonna start WHINING about why
the writers chose to retire Ollie (and I've seen plenty of that around
here over the last year or so...  and that was after Ollie Queen's
supposed DEATH)...  who, they're still convinced has a few good years
in him yet?  I think we both know the answer.
Talk to you later.
David
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