![]() I surely believe the environment depicted by Adams … no one can depict the real world as well. Thank heaven O'Neil didn't make him a Vietnam vet … most of the 'Nam vets comix have shown us have been black, and what sorry evidence of class consciousness bubbling from what artists' ids is that? No, Stewart is an architect. While there have been super-heroes before, none have talked like black men, none have convinced me for one moment that they were anything more than some quasi-liberal comix writer's guilt-trip on hip pills. "relevance" has been shoved down the throat of fandom since GL/GA's success, never with one-tenth the care and maturity of even the least of the Denny O'Neal Adams stories. This is the usual response of comixdom to an outstanding unique story. Like "Snowbirds Don't Fly", the superb dope story that preceded this unlucky yarn (unlucky because it had to follow "Snowbirds"), I think that the introduction of John Stewart will provoke a mess of inferior imitating work throughout the comfit periphery. for its 12th issue this time, "Beware My Power!". Time for another collection of linked superlatives to GL /GA. It has changed the face and dream of comix magazines. Each new issue in-spires the same general comments: Neal Adams captures reality as no other artist in the field dares, and Denny O'Neil is the best writer in comix (as good in this medium as Norman Mailer is in his-and I'm not pulling a typical Guy Lillian hysterical exaggeration there I mean it). GL /GA has been exclaimed over and praised time and time again in the dozen issues since the two characters got together. The quality of the artwork has been exclaimed over and praised. The "relevance" of the series, which I would rather call "pertinence", has been exclaimed over and praised. ![]() Hand-picked and gatekept of course… but no one shouting all-too-familiar buzzwords, though we do get the occasional dog-whistle…Ī letter-of-comment to Green Lantern/ Green Arrow is no simple choreĭear Editor: A letter-of-comment to Green Lantern/ Green Arrow is no simple chore-or pleasure, rather-this late in the game. ![]() And they feel rather familiar, positive reaction from people who weren't quite expecting to be so positive. But how about we check in with the public reaction to Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams' introduction of the character in Green Arrow/Green Lantern back in 1971? This is how the letters page ran at the time, with selected panels from the pages they are referring to. Right now, social media reaction, what little there is, is pretty positive. Will we go through something like the above from the other direction when the trailer eventually runs? Possibly. ![]()
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