Sunday 13 January 2013

Green Lantern and Green Arrow

I finally got around to finishing this collection of Neal Adams (artist) and Dennis O'Neal (Writer) who paired the two green characters from DC to fight social problems like racism, drug abuse, environmental destruction, violence, and propaganda.  Some of the writing lacked subtlety and felt very heavy handed.  One of the characters was supposed to be a liberal and the other was a conservative, but they would often be confused in their varying approaches that neither seemed to fit any mold perfectly.  I think Green Lantern was supposed to be more liberal, but I am unsure.

Though I do enjoy Neal Adams rather evocative art.  He is the artist that was told that any book he illustrated would not receive the comic code of approval just by the way he drew his female figures.  They were not exceedingly curvy, but there faces often betrayed something sexual.  I imagine that threat came about by his handling of Dinah Lance (Black Canary).  It is easy to forget the majority of the comics here were written in 1970-72.

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