fuck yeah ollie!

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Ann Nocenti is taking over as the writer on Green Arrow starting with issue 7, making her the fourth writer on the title so far (J.T. Krul wrote issues 1-3, and writers Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens will write 4-6). I was optimistic when I saw DC was handing the title to someone new, but then I read her first interview. You can click the link above to read it yourself, but here are the big issues for me:

• she doesn’t know the character at all and has never read an issue of his series — she says when she was offered the assignment she had to read Green Arrow’s Wikipedia page, and what she gleaned was that he’s a “thrillseeker/activist”
• she didn’t even know Denny O’Neil wrote Green Arrow
• she’s keeping the new supporting cast Krul introduced, and giving him a new girlfriend (so if you were hoping to see Dinah, Connor and Mia return you’ll probably have to keep waiting)
• she thinks it would be “boring” to put social commentary into a comic book (even though she’s apparently well known for doing it in the past, and Green Arrow is a perfect fit for that kind of storytelling)
• when asked about Ollie’s goatee, she said she didn’t even know what his facial hair is like now

So basically if you’re hoping to see the title get back to where it was before the reboot, keep waiting.

DC has no idea what to do with this character. It’s like when Chuck Dixon took over in the 90s — he didn’t understand Ollie, and he didn’t know how to write Ollie, so he killed Ollie and replaced him with Connor (not complaining, I love Connor’s run on the title). Then they let Ollie rest for a few years before bringing him back. 

Maybe that’s what needs to happen now. Not killing Ollie, just killing his title and letting him be a supporting character in the new DCU. No one at the company seems to understand what makes Oliver Queen tick, so maybe they should just put him on the shelf (except for the occasional appearance in Justice League) until a writer comes along who knows now to write him.

• oh boy…
• oh boy…
• oh boy…

looks like this is a candidate to be the first dropped reboot book