Convergence: Green Arrow #1 Review

Writer: Christy Marx / Artist: Rags Morales / DC Comics Because I’m not a huge Green Arrow fan [insert crowd booing here] I originally didn’t look twice at this comic; I do enjoy Ollie every now and then but definitely in small doses tempered by some Dinah. But add Connor Hawke to the mix? Lovable, kickass, everyone’s-favorite-triracial-superhero Connor Hawke? Y’all, I would stop traffic with my bare hands for this dude if it came down to it. Of course, it helps to convince other people of this love when Connor actually looks… y’know… like himself. To be fair, this is certainly not the worst representation out there—hell, he’s actually brown, which is huge! Maybe it’s Rags Morales’ lineart that makes Connor so disturbingly resemble Mr. Clean at times (drawing him bald probably doesn’t help but it’s canon). Maybe it’s Nei Ruffine’s strange watered down Earl Grey palette (people like to do this weird thing where they forget that Connor’s mother Moonday has a deep brown complexion) and odd shading that throw me off. Whatever it is, it’s distracting and occurs throughout comic.

[divider type=”space_thin”] Christy Marx’s storyline adds a bit of a silver lining, however; while Green Arrow has been doing his best to rise on the “even playing field” of a metahumanless hero community (read: riding on a motorcycle and saving drunks), we a find a new threat has taken over local communities in the form of the Brothers of Purity, i.e. every internet troll who has ever basked in the privi…