tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post7285778522618376912..comments2024-02-21T12:40:49.323-05:00Comments on The Absorbascon: Green Arrow vs. The Pirates, #6: The Armoire of Trophies!Scipiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-73610756162274062882020-04-18T04:16:37.544-05:002020-04-18T04:16:37.544-05:00"Really need to get a bigger one of these for..."Really need to get a bigger one of these for when you fight a robot dinosaur, Ollie; you know it's coming."<br /><br />I'm fairly certain that every super-hero fights robot dinosaurs sooner or later.<br /><br />Green Arrow and Speedy once fought Alexander the Great, which is NOT something every super-hero gets to do. So there's that, anyway.cybridhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788036470551505985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-41073441338071638352020-04-18T04:11:16.101-05:002020-04-18T04:11:16.101-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.cybridhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788036470551505985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-24524080232268682322020-04-17T08:51:31.010-05:002020-04-17T08:51:31.010-05:00I weep for its beauty.
I weep for its beauty.<br />Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112155718721908876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-62679296135498699502020-04-17T07:24:51.415-05:002020-04-17T07:24:51.415-05:00Arrowcraft haiku:
Whipping up a fine
Salt spray a...Arrowcraft haiku:<br /><br />Whipping up a fine<br />Salt spray as it planes over<br />The choppy waters.Bryan Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04358102127982954750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-71643933194317320132020-04-17T07:07:47.949-05:002020-04-17T07:07:47.949-05:00Are the Kilgore Corps secretly a team of super-vil...Are the Kilgore Corps secretly a team of super-villains? I ask primarily because of their gunplay technique, which apparently involves shooting people through their own thighs and holding the rifle barrel while firing it at point blank into some random sailor's gut. And then Grape Ape is just...dangling, but prominent enough that he must be important. I realize random thug falling on his butt like a toddler speaks against that interpretation.<br /><br />And did the penciller forget to draw another character into that torpedo panel? I can't figure out who "I'm not scared...when <i>you're</i> around" is talking about, since I only see Green Arrow. Even as a pick-up line, it's not convincing, especially when he's mangling a torpedo to just set it free to Drunkard's Walk the Star City Open Air Pirate Ship Mausoleum like that.<br /><br />Head-canon, by the way: After the fight, Ollie re-cemented his feet into that flower pot. We don't see his feet again, after that, and it seems like the sort of thing he'd take a few hours out of his schedule to do.<br /><br />I want to point out, though, that this story illustrates one huge gap between National Periodical characters and All-American characters. Johnny Thunder started hanging out with a cigarette girl whose overwhelming competence pushed him out of his own strip. Green Lantern adopted a dog who pushed <i>him</i> out of his own strip. Green Arrow, though? He hires a tween who's basically his mentor and yet somehow manages to cling to the starring role for thirty years until he can get the kid hooked on heroin.John Chttps://john.colagioia.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-69224350394702101112020-04-17T04:30:18.904-05:002020-04-17T04:30:18.904-05:00I don't think anyone's going to say this s...I don't think anyone's going to say this story is anywhere near the pinnacle of Green Arrow canon. At the same time, it's nowhere near the bottom: at least it gets the fundamentals right: Ollie and Speedy actually use their archery to stop bad guys. It's not that long ago when the "Green Arrow" comic involved Green Arrow studiously avoiding the use of archery, or being turned into a werewolf to teach white people what it's like to be black. I'm not sure golden age creators exactly respected their audience, but at least they understood they had to hit a few metrics in order to get paid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com