tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post6736963256400114049..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: Batman in the 1980s Issue 57: October-November 1985John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-56427800644751822132022-07-13T14:40:23.322-07:002022-07-13T14:40:23.322-07:00Hey Joe! Glad to read your comment. And that issue...Hey Joe! Glad to read your comment. And that issue WAS dreadful. I hope things improve with Gulacy.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-473133476803409672022-07-13T14:39:29.944-07:002022-07-13T14:39:29.944-07:00I'll stick up for the O'Neill/Adams GL/GA ...I'll stick up for the O'Neill/Adams GL/GA stories, which I think are some of the best comics ever. I read them when they came out and loved them, and I bought a trade paperback with them a few years ago and thought they still held up well. I wasn't as impressed with Adams's work in later years, especially on the Deadman series that came out several years ago, but the guy is my 3rd favorite comic artist of all time, after Eisner and Barks, so I'll always defend him.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-46932451912821816452022-07-12T18:35:45.488-07:002022-07-12T18:35:45.488-07:00b.t.-
Green Arrow seems like such a disposable ch...b.t.-<br /><br />Green Arrow seems like such a disposable character, I have a hard time taking any of his adventures seriously. I remember reading those O'Neil/Adams GA/GL stories when I was a kid and thinking they were the bee's knees. A decade later (get ready for the blasphemy)while re-reading them in high school, not so much.<br /><br />Professor Joe-<br />You complete me.Peter Enfantinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317575598411394944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-17353363754822316992022-07-12T17:23:18.199-07:002022-07-12T17:23:18.199-07:00My favorite comment of this excellent post was &qu...My favorite comment of this excellent post was "This issue is dreadful." Until I saw that "Hey Moe!" caption... Oh man, I literally LOL'd! You guys are the best....turafishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09285392739078487496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-69151554583027487942022-07-12T08:47:35.155-07:002022-07-12T08:47:35.155-07:00Green Arrow‘s time in the monastery took place in ...Green Arrow‘s time in the monastery took place in a series of back-up stories by O’Neil and Adams in THE FLASH #216-219. Ollie accidentally killed a bad guy, gave up Super-Heroing and entered a monastery. In the final chapter, Black Canary is seriously injured in a car crash and needs a transfusion, so Green Lantern has to track down Ollie (he and Dinah have the same ultra-rare blood type)and coax him back to civilization. <br /><br />FLASH #219 was the first Green Lantern / Green Arrow story I ever saw — my first impression of Ollie Queen as a character was NOT good, and it stuck. Even as a 12-year-old, I thought his sanctimonious, self-righteous schtick was unpleasantly hyperbolic (tho I wouldn’t have used those words). He’s out in the boonies somewhere having a pity-party because he killed a guy (who was trying to kill HIM, mind you) and the wise, peaceful monks are telling him he’s over-reacting, that he should return to The World to face his fears instead of running away from them. When GL shows up and tells Ollie his girlfriend will die unless he gives her some of his blood, he reacts with one of Adams’ patented heavily-shadowed, slit-eyed, teeth-baring, shouty close-ups: ‘Back to smelly, corrupt, polluted Star City, huh? FINE! I’ll GO! But don’t expect me to LIKE IT!’ he snarls. I’m like, ‘Dude, your girlfriend is effing DYING, get over yourself’. To this day, part of me still thinks of him as ‘Drama Queen, Green A-hole’. <br /><br />My poor opinion of GA was only reinforced when I later acquired and read the rest of the O’Neil / Adams GL/GA run. What a jerk!<br /><br />But the funny thing is — whenever anyone writes him as a bog-standard ‘Nice Guy’, with all his hot-headed sharp edges sanded off, it feels wrong to me. I find myself WANTING him to blow his stack or pontificating about the Evils Of Capitalism or Stickin’ It To The Man or whatever. All from reading that one 10 page back-up strip in 1973. <br /><br />b.t.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com