Of all the superheroic skills one could possess, being good with a bow and arrow ranks somewhere below talking to fish and only slightly above being able to teleport someone into an adjacent room. You may have noticed how little Hawkeye brought to the table in that final battle during Avengers. Oliver Queen, a similar chap who’s better known as Green Arrow in the DCU, is an intriguing character (a billionaire with a Vandyke beard and liberal tendencies) whose only weakness is poor vantage points. Wait, that’s actually a pretty glaring weakness.
I never watched Smallville, but I know they had a Green Arrow as well (played by Justin Hartley). Strange then that they wouldn’t just spin the character off from that show. What I find truly egregious in the below footage of the CW’s upcoming Arrow is CW substituting the trademark Vandyke beard for that weak-looking peach fuzz. I get that this is an origin story, is he growing it out? Does the Vandyke come later? If so, he should fashion the points of his arrows into mini-combs that he can groom his beard with right before he fires it into the heart of Black Manta or Ronald Reagan or whoever the hell the villain is going to be.
It doesn’t help that Vandyke-less Steve Amell delivers lines like he just awoke from the most taxing coma ever. And why does Green Arrow need sixpack abs? What immediate threats could possibly befall him up in that arrow perch that would require him to look sexy with his shirt off?
Hey WB, if this tanks can we finally get Green Arrow: Escape from Super Max greenlit?
Source: Super Hero Hype
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I’ll second the Super-Max comment!
Tim Kelly, Arrow is one of the…Only new series I have…Targeted, as interesting. Also, Katie Cassidy as Dinah Laurel Lance is…Perfect Casting. Hopefully she will also get to wear her bathing suit and fishnet stockings as Black Canary. Ms. Cassidy daughter of David Cassidy whom also was in a DC Property 21 years ago as…The Mirror Master in the sadly quickly cancelled Superhero series…The Flash, should get a chance to re-prise his role. You know, Hawkeye was inconsequential in The Avengers because he was written as unimportant. Hawkeye is not only a great archer, he is one of the cockiest Marvel Heroes. The Hawkeye in the film is quiet professional who likes Black Widow. The Comic Hawkeye fought Daredevil for Widow’s affection, and she dumped them…Both!
Seeing as Green Arrow is one of my favorite DC characters, I juust have to say….this looks AWESOME.
The SuperMax script sounds more like the experience of jumping into the middle of a comic book story than anything else I have heard of. I mean this as an endorsement.
However: Bow and arrow comics grew out of the popularity of Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr buckling their swashes all over fake castles and forests…Now it makes me think of Ted Nugent or Geena Davis…kind of weird thing to try to transpose to the 21st Century…We’ll see*.
*”Hey, the story of John Carter is timeless, right? What could go wrong?”
Thank God someone knows the difference between a Van Dyke and a goatee.
If we’re lucky, maybe we’ll get to see the Vandyke finally make an appearance in the finale of the 10th and final season.
Yea
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