Wanna Get Ficced?

My feelings on DC's hate-boner for the Arrow Clan has been well-documented. [Video ranting, Written ranting. My feelings on Winick are so well-documented, they have their own tag.

I hate Winick. A lot. Like, a super-duper, double-load, send-him-a-shit-in-a-hat lot. And I am utterly amazed at how quickly Krul has managed to climb down the ladder of expectations into the scum beneath the bottom of the barrel where Winick lives.

How did he do it, you ask? Well, he's currently writing "The Rise of Arsenal," wherein Roy Harper, the original Speedy in the Arrow Clan, is about to go evil because his daughter was fridged, and he had his arm ripped off. Full disclosure: I was already ready to hate it. In fact, I was so ready to hate it I refused to read it. Which is why, rather than give you another four paragraphs of rage, I'm going to link you to the Comics Alliance post on the matter. Chris Sims (who was brave enough to introduce the wider world to haunted vaginas), has been reading it, and he gets the rage out nicely and makes all the points I'd have made with a great deal more capslock rage.

Good to know that no matter who they throw the pen to, there's always someone at DC ready to shit on a set of good heroes. Bravo, you fuckers. Bravo.

I stopped reading Green Arrow/Black Canary because it blew goats. The characterizations (especially Dinah) were godawful, and the plots (especially Connor becoming legally-distinct Wolverine and the whole Cupid bullshit) were fucking stupid.

I haven't been reading Cry for Justice because there is literally nothing in that book that intrigued me, and it felt like a huge step back in Hal's characterization to put him back in "Oh, I'm a total cock-monkey who listens to no one" frame of mind.

I dropped Titans a couple of months ago, but #21 ended up in my stack, and I didn't notice when I bought it. It has a new writer (Krul), so I figured I'd give it a read as long as I'd paid for it. The overall story itself was just as dis-interesting as I've found the book lately (hence the droppage), but I did get to grit my teeth and see fucking red. Wanna know why?

THEY CUT OFF ROY'S FUCKING ARM.

Roy Harper. The original Speedy. Arnsenal. RED FUCKING ARROW. Because making him a recovering drug addict, a single father of a daughter whose mother is a villain, and a man who is just finally, finally, FINALLY beginning to find his balance with Ollie again isn't fucking enough.

THEY HAD TO CUT OFF HIS GODDAMNED ARM.

Seriously, DC, what the fuck is your beef with the Arrow-Clan? You're letting Ollie and Dinah get written, respectively as an absolute asshole and an idiot; you've regulated Mia (and Dinah) to a back up in a book they used to headline; you've taken a giant dump on EVERYTHING INTERESTING about Connor, and now you've CUT OFF ROY'S FUCKING ARM.

I will grow a dick, just so you can blow me. You fuckers.

Title: Lesser Moments in Parenthood: Oliver Queen's Reaction Time
Author: Perpetual Motion
Fandom: Green Arrow [DC Comics]
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Roy, Connor, and Ollie in the three minutes after.

Disclaimer: Lies and fantasy.

Author's Notes: Written as a Yuletide Treat for one of my Yuletide betas, who was fabulous.

( Short tempers? In the Arrow family? Surely, you jest. )