Oliver Queen has been defending Seattle both as his common identity and as Green Arrow but once that he meets Dinah Lance, he will discover that there's even more work to do.
The terrible moment is here people, the moment where Ben Percy is able to relaunch the title despite of how consistently bashed his work on the franchise has been. Percy's work as a whole suffers from several problems like heavyhanded narration and themes, awfully one-sided and unnatural sociocommentary that is only made for people with a single mindset and finally, completely off characterization for Oliver Queen.
And sadly some of those aspects continue to appear here.
From the beginning where Ollie calls himself "Social Justice Warrior". A term by the way that is used both seriously and as insult for people in social media and it doesn't work in either way because people who complaint about such persons are basically complaining about people who want to address social problems and people who use it usually tend to go overboard complaining about the slightlest thing they might consider "offensive" while at the same time being completely unaware that such name refers to them as "saviors" of minorities (which strikes me as intrinsically wrong).
Not to mention that "Social Justice Warrior" is something that nobody should use in real life because is a pretty odd term and it certainly sounds unnatural for Ollie to call himself that or Dinah calling him that. Just say that he has a social conscience and there, done.
The awkward lines don't end there since at one point Oliver says to one of the villians:
"Listen, worm. There's a special black chamber in my heart. It's full of sharp objects, but it's pretty much absent of mercy, and it's reserved especially for those who prey on the weak"
Which is pure unadulterated Percy. This is pretty damn close to: "Thousands of windows, thousands of eyes, that's an equation that result in someone seeing something" levels. Is so corny, so unrealistic, so stupid that is laughable and I don't think the bad lines will end there. Expect more for the future people.
THAT BEING SAID, this is not as bad as it could have been.
Yes, the narration is derivative at best and downright dumb at worst but the characterization is not as bad as it was before. It seems like Percy is recognizing his mistakes, leaving the ridiculous "Werewolf makes you realize you're privileged!" stuff and coming to the logical conclusion that Ollie's ordeal in the island is what made him realize what not having a privilege actually is. Plus, while the "SJW" theme is still heavyhanded at times with a caricature of the opposition being presented, at least Percy is actually questioning some of the nature of Ollie's place in that argument while also showing that he does things with the privilege he has.
Dinah is portrayed adequately although it seems a bit weird that she keeps questioning Ollie's "SJW" role. This comes just as out of nowhere as when Emiko started to call him "Privileged". The villains are not particularly interesting and they represent more themes than anything else once again but eh, they get the job done.
Otto Schmidt handles the artwork and is pretty good looking with beautiful characters and a distinctive style.
Not as bad? Yeah, not as bad. Let's go with that.
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