Showing posts with label Speedy. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 23, 2003

Teen Titans – Year One | Comics

When heroes of the Justice League of America start behaving like villains, young trainees like Aqualad, Kid Flash, Robin and Wonder Girl should team up.

Sitting on the Batcomputer, Robin was trying to see if any of his fellow teen superheroes are up online only for Batman to show up out of nowhere. Although Dick Grayson was trying to contact his friends to see if anyone knows anything about a master cat burglar but The Dark Knight believes that he is wasting time chatting and takes him to patrol.

Though Kid Flash actually responded back to him, Dick never saw it on his way out and Wally got stressed out quickly due to his perception of time being too faster than anyone else. He even took a trip to Paris to get a snack and then started to look for others on the web. Donna Troy comes to the big city looking for Wonder Woman with no luck.

Back in Gotham City, Robin notices Batman to be extra cranky than his usual and it only worsens when he catches the Bat beating someone over a necklace. When Dick tries to reason him over the matter, he got swatted back on the face and left perplexed.

In Atlantis, young Aqualad sees Aquaman employing a group of sea creatures in wrongfully assaulting a submarine and tells him to stop but gets strongly rebuffed by Orin instead. Similarly, Kid Flash faces the same problem with his own mentor, Barry Allen AKA The Flash acting weirdly out of his nature as they both race to Easter Island.

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Teen Titans – Year One | Comics

Knowing his underdeveloped lungs would not let him survive out of water; Aqualad still reaches to the surface and is taken to a cave by the Boy Wonder. After seeing ten messages from Speedy, they all assumed that Green Arrow has gone rogue too. Heading over to help their friend, they all are eventually saved by the timely arrival of Wonder Girl.

After taking her to their secret cave, the youngsters learn that she too has been having a hard time to reason with Diana. Earlier, Donna met her outside of United Nations Building and behaved pretty rudely. Robin has finally come to the conclusion that something really weird is going on with their idols and they need to intervene at once.

Suggesting that they should work together, he sends Speedy and Wonder Girl together after The Flash and taking both the teenage Atlantean and speedster along with him. At first, these three goes after Wonder Woman with a plan to capture her before moving to Aquaman. Donna and Roy successfully take down Barry and Oliver as well.

The heroes take all four possessed members of Justice League of America to Secret Sanctuary at Happy Harbor. With only Batman left to bring in, Dick announces he would do it even though he strictly advised everyone against the idea of going against their own idols.

The Dark Knight strikes onto them when they least expect him to be there and take them all down with ease. During his confrontation with Dick, his little sidekick managed to reach out to him and helped him break free of the control by a vile creature. Not only the heroes were freed, they appreciated the bravery of their juvenile partners.

Of course, Robin had to get back to Gotham City and rest of the team became very popular to media as Teen Titans, they would still face troubles from second-string villains with a grudge over their fame or someone trying to piss off their mentors.

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Teen Titans – Year One

As per tradition, "Year One" is a retelling of Teen Titans origin story by writer Amy Wolfram and artist Karl Kerschl (Gotham Academy – Welcome to Gotham Academy, Gotham Academy Second Semester – The Ballad of Olive Silverlock). This six-issue limited series came out in 2008 from DC Comics chronicling early days of these superhero sidekicks.

Though her depiction of Batman seemed a little off at times but other than that, Wolfram pulled off a pretty decent plot in overall. It would have been nice to see more of her work on these young heroes or maybe some other character from DC Universe. Kerschl was also spontaneous with his animated styled art throughout the miniseries.

Initially, the heroes considered calling Superman for help but that idea didn't work out at all. At one point, Aqualad referenced back to their prior team-up effort against Mister Twister from first ongoing series of Brave and the Bold, issue #54 that came out back in 1964.

Lesser known villains like The Ant, Antithesis and Ding Dong Daddy showed up to give these rebel band of youngsters some trouble but their rendition came out a lot less threatening to be deem as an actual threat, except for Antithesis who actually managed to take most of JLA members under his control and troubled the Titans as well.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Green Arrow | Comics

Growing up idolizing Robin Hood, Oliver Queen naturally had every quality to become an accomplished archer and so he kept practicing with bow and arrows. His life changed tragically when his parents were mauled by a lion and he paused without shooting it. But he grew up to be an irresponsible and drunken playboy inheriting the Queen Enterprises until his friend Hackett’s betrayal drifted him to Starfish Island only to confront a crime lord.

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Green Arrow | Comics

Determined to become a crime-fighter, he returned to Star City and took the name Green Arrow as well as a sidekick named Roy Harper AKA Speedy. With their non-lethal Trick Arrows, he and Speedy would go on patrol in costume. Ollie becomes a member of the JLA and eventually met JSA member Dinah Lance AKA Black Canary.

In his career, Oliver Queen has worked alongside Batman, Catwoman and mostly with Green Lantern Hal Jordan whom he also stopped when Parallax got him in Zero Hour. He grew flustered and Connor Hawke took his mantle. He dies in an accident while investigating the Eden Corps even after the best efforts of Superman. He was resurrected during Final Night by his friend Hal Jordan.

When the entire League faced Doctor Light for his actions against Elongated Man's wife Sue Dibny, Green Arrow picked a fight with Deathstroke that lasted quite long (Identity Crisis). One Year Later, Ollie becomes the Mayor of Star City and Deathstroke took a hit on him. Teaming up with Batman, he even fought Brick and Red Hood. Upon ending the clash, he finally marries Black Canary.

For more information on Green Arrow comics series, you can check out these links below.

Green Arrow (Comics) Wikipedia

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Green Arrow and Speedy

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Green Arrow – Year One (Softcover)

Green Arrow – Year One (Hardcover)

The Green Arrow by Jack Kirby

JLA – Year One

Batman – The Ring, The Arrow and The Bat

Showcase Presents – Superman Vol 03

Showcase Presents – The Justice League of America Vol 01

Showcase Presents – Green Arrow Vol 01

Showcase Presents – The Atom Vol 01

Showcase Presents – The Justice League of America Vol 02

Teen Titans – Year One

Showcase Presents – Aquaman Vol 02

Crisis on Multiple Earths Vol 01

Batgirl – Year One

Justice League of America Archives Vol 09

Crisis on Multiple Earths Vol 02

Green Lantern/Green Arrow – Hard Traveling Heroes

Crisis on Multiple Earths Vol 03

Showcase Presents – The Brave and The Bold Vol 03

Crisis on Multiple Earths Vol 04

Showcase Presents – DC Comics Presents – Superman Team-Ups Vol 01

Saga of the Swamp Thing – Book 01

Showcase Presents – Batman and the Outsiders

The Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told

Crisis on Infinite Earths

Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths

History of the DC Universe (Softcover)

Whatever Happened To the Man of Tomorrow

DC Universe – The Stories of Alan Moore

Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told

Green Arrow – The Longbow Hunter

Millennium

Batman/Green Arrow – The Poison Tomorrow

Zero Hour – Crises In Time

Kingdom Come

Justice League of America – The Nail

Green Arrow – Quiver (Softcover)

Green Arrow – Quiver (Hardcover)

Green Arrow – Sounds of Violence (Softcover)

Green Arrow – Sounds of Violence (Hardcover)

Green Arrow – Archer’s Quest (Softcover)

Green Arrow – Archer’s Quest (Hardcover)

Green Arrow – Straight Shooter

Green Arrow – City Walls

Batman – Hush Returns

Identity Crisis

Green Arrow – Moving Targets

Countdown to Infinite Crisis – The OMAC Project

Countdown to Infinite Crisis – Villains United

Green Arrow/Black Canary – For Better or Worse (Softcover)

Green Arrow/Black Canary – For Better or Worse (Hardcover)

Power Girl

JLA – Crisis of Conscience

Infinite Crisis (Softcover)

Infinite Crisis (Hardcover)

Infinite Crisis Companion

Superman – Infinite Crisis

JLA – World Without a Justice League

Green Arrow – Heading Into the Light

52 Vol 01

52 Vol 02

DC – World War III

Green Arrow – Crawling Through the Wreckage

Green Arrow – Road to Jericho

Green Arrow/Black Canary – Road To the Altar

Green Arrow/Black Canary – The Wedding Album

Green Arrow/Black Canary – Family Business

Green Arrow/Black Canary – A League of Their Own

Green Arrow/Black Canary – Enemies List

Justice League of America – When Worlds Collide (Softcover)

Justice League of America – When Worlds Collide (Hardcover)

Green Arrow/Black Canary – Five Stages

Justice League – Rise and Fall (Softcover)

Justice League – Rise and Fall (Hardcover)

Oliver Queen AKA Green Arrow was created as one of DC Comics’ fictional protagonist character by Mort Weisinger and George Papp, who debuted back in 1941 on the pages of More Fun Comics issue #73. Despite being a rich playboy like Bruce Wayne, he is a crime-fighting hero of his own right. Through the years of long publications, the character was a part of significant stories and events like Green Arrow – Year One, Justice League – Year One, Hard Traveling Heroes, Longbow Hunters, Cross Roads, Quiver, The Dark Knight ReturnsInfinite Crisis, Crawling through the Wreckage, Road to Jericho, Final Crisis, Cry for Justice, Blackest Night and Brightest Day.

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Following the “Flashpoint” reboot, Green Arrow has moved to The New 52 timeline with his revised origins just like the other heroes of DC Universe. The character also appeared on animated TV series Justice League Unlimited, Young Justice, The Batman and Batman: The Brave and the Bold. Also actor Stephen Amell is responsible for the live-action portrayal of Green Arrow from 2012 on The CW television series titled "Arrow".
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