Hey everyone! How's it going? I'm doing pretty well. I've gone on record elsewhere on this blog stating my opinion of the future of the MCU and how I feel about Marvel in general being that...well...I didn't grow up with Marvel except the occasional Spider-Man comic, i.e. only three of them, and the Spider-Man animated shows from the 60s and 90s. I've also gone on record elsewhere on this blog stating my opinion on the future of Star Wars as a franchise and what I am and am not interested in going forward. But, I haven't talked about DC Comics outside of my love of Batman and how I grew up watching reruns of the 1966 TV series and watching the 1966 movie on repeat. So that's what I'm going to do today. I'll be touching on the comics, the TV shows that I watched (and still watch) from the last decade, and the DC Extended Universe. Let's get into it.
I started reading DC Comics publications at a fairly early age. From 1984 until 1996 DC published comics based on Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation and my dad started buying them for me in 1992 when I was five years old. These comics were also my first exposure to superheroes as they'd be filled with ads for other DC Comics titles, as well as events like The Death of Superman and Knightfall. Plus the DC subscription order forms included the characters on them (I'll be showing an example of this a little later on). My first time seeing Batman was the 1966 TV series which was in reruns on YTV at the time while the movie based on the show was shown on the PBS station we picked up at the time so my dad taped it for me.
Besides Batman: The Movie, the first Batman movie I ever saw was Batman Returns. My parents were smart enough not to take me to see it in theatres when it first came out, but I ended up seeing it on VHS when I was in the hospital. It was so dark and so intense that it scared the crap out of me and set me up to have an intense dislike of dark, scary, super violent films for life. But it was that 1966 TV show and 1966 movie that I fell in love with Batman as a character.
Over the last few decades, I've bought alot of non-Star Trek DC comics. Batman, Superman, Green Arrow, the Flash, and Justice League are all characters that I enjoy reading about as well as certain eras of the Teen Titans and some eras of the Birds of Prey and Batgirl as well. However when the New 52 started in 2011 I started to become disillusioned with the way DC editorial was starting to handle the books on a story level. I didn't mind that they felt they needed to reboot the universe since things had gotten pretty convoluted since Crisis on Infinite Earths came out in the mid 80s. Oddly enough Crisis was supposed to resolve the problems created by decades of continuity. My problem with the material that DC has been publishing in the last decade is how dark, brooding, and not fun these characters have become.
This is the DC Comics subscription form I mentioned earlier. I fell in love with the way these characters looked because they were bright and cheerful looking, even if the characters themselves weren't silly and goofy. That, to me anyway, is how comic books should look. I understand that layouts change over the course of decades, but think about this for minute. DC Comics began in the 1930s with Superman debuting in 1938. for sixty years DC's look maintained that bright, cheerful look, even when some of the books they published were more adult with darker themes and the brightness of a character's costume would also depend on who the colourist is at the time. Batman's cape and cowl have both been various shades of blue over the decades, occasionally becoming black. But they've always been vibrant. Even in the 2000s, DC's bright, cheerful colours have kept me going back to try out their books in a way that Marvel has never been able to do.
Superheroes are supposed to represent the very best that Humanity has to offer. They're supposed to represent the traits that we, as people, wish we had, or that we do have, but lack a little bit in. They're supposed to be our protectors from the world outside our windows. Marvel, and DC in the last decade, aren't those things. And I mean the diversity. In fact, I am extremely glad that more superheroes of other ethnicities are being created, because those groups have been sorely under represented in comics. Both in the universes, and on the creative side. Batman helped my parents teach me about morality and finding other ways of dealing with your enemies than simply killing them. Yes, I saw him in movies and on TV before I ever picked up a comic book, but the fact of the matter is, Batman had an impact on me that no other comic book character has. I've always said that DC characters are who we want to be but Marvel characters are who we ARE. And I feel like that's no longer true. Because they're all the same.
I still check in on my favourite DC characters from time to time, just to see what they're up to in the comics. But I no longer seek them out on a regular basis like I did pre-New 52. Before the reboot in 2011, I had five or six Batman books that I was buying as regularly as I could manage. I didn't care for Scott Snyder's run on Detective Comics as I wasn't interested in the crime thriller that he started there, and continue exploring in his New 52 run. But, I was buying Batman, Batman and Robin, Batman: The Dark Knight, Batman Incorporated, and Batgirl with a few issues of Detective Comics from time to time. But I was buying these books on an almost weekly basis in 2010 and 2011 once Brad and I started making almost weekly trips to the comic book store. That's no longer the case. Even before the pandemic. Now I'm going to talk about the DCEU, then I'll talk about the TV shows. There's a sharp contrast between the two of them...sort of.
I saw Man of Steel in theatres when it first came out back in 2013. My brother, sister, and I saw it together as a sibling activity. I'd never seen a Superman movie in theatres before, and I wasn't that big of a Superman fan. I liked Smallville, but had dropped off that near the end of season 5 when The WB became The CW and here in Canada, the show moved to YTV. I also didn't see the Christopher Reeve Superman films until I was a teenager, and the only actual Superman TV show I watched was Lois & Clark, which I hadn't seen in 20 years by that point. So I wasn't that big of a Superman fan. I came out of the movie not really sure what to make of the movie. I thought it was a good movie on a technical level, but as a story, I just didn't care. I thought Henry Cavill was fine as Superman, I just didn't like his Superman because of the way he was written. Fans of the Snyderverse defend this Superman by saying that he isn't quite Superman yet and is just starting out. I'm sorry but even in the comics, a Superman who is just starting out DOESN'T KILL HIS ENEMIES!!!! He also does his best to minimize collateral damage. In this movie he kills, he does the most amount of damage, and he always looks like he's brooding. Superman isn't supposed to brood. That's Batman's job.
I realize I am in the minority on this, but I don't like Christopher Nolan's Batman films. They're not Batman movies. They have Batman in them, but they aren't Batman movies. As I said earlier, even with his darker persona, Batman is supposed to represent the best Humanity has to offer. Nolan's Batman does not. It's more realistic, in fact all of these movies are more realistic, which completely ignores the fact that these are comic book characters, living in a fictional universe.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was (and is) worse than Man of Steel. It's bleak, colourless, with unlikeable characters. It's no surprise, because that's the kind of movie that Zack Snyder likes to make. Just look at Watchmen and 300. But it's also missing the point of these characters. But, here's the thing, seeing Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman together on screen, in a single shot, fighting Doomsday made me smile as a comic book fan. This is the kind of thing that I want to see as a comic book fan, because I like these characters so much (in the comics). But the overall execution was horrible. To be honest it took me a few days to make that realization because sitting there in the theatre with my brother and sister (once again), I was taken in by the fact that Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman were on screen, in live action, in a freaking movie, not just on TV, for the first time EVER!!!
It's also clear that Zack Snyder likes Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller. Because there's callbacks and references to it all over the place in this movie. I've heard that Snyder did an interview at some point where he openly stated that he hated comic books aside from The Dark Knight Returns. Which is not a good thing to say when you're working on movies based on comic books that are supposed to be starting a shared cinematic universe. Especially when Disney is on top with the MCU dominating EVERYTHING. I'll get into this more when I get to the TV shows section.
Suicide Squad was the first DCEU film that I didn't see in theatres, or as soon as it came out on home media. I watched it on DVD, in 2018 because Kelly lent it to me. I have never been a fan of supervillains. They're everything I was taught not to be, and in every TV show and movie I saw when I was a kid they represented EVIL!!! Occasionally, villains like Rita Repulsa, Lord Zedd, Queen Beryl, and Doctor Evil just can't be taken as a serious threat to the heroes. But they still aren't characters we should admire. So when a movie was announced in 2014 that was going to be focused on a group of supervillain team known as Task Force X, or the Suicide Squad, I immediately wanted nothing to do with it. I didn't want to go see it, I didn't want to buy anything surrounding it, I just didn't want it. Here's the thing about running a blog where you review movies. Sometimes you have to see a movie you're not interested in because someone requests you review it. And that's what happened. One of my friends asked me to review Suicide Squad on my old blog, since I had borrowed the DVD from Kelly. I hated it. Not even Will Smith could save it for me and I love Will Smith movies.
I was extremely late in seeing Wonder Woman. It came out in June 2017, and I ended up not seeing it until August because that was the really weird year for me when it came to movies as I was out of commission from major abdominal surgery for the majority of the year. I enjoyed it as Gal Gadot is an excellent Wonder Woman. However, like the previous DCEU films, it's almost colourless. Even Wonder Woman's costume is toned down with the colours (look at Wonder Woman on the subscription form I showed earlier in this post for reference). I get that in movies you don't want to have a movie that lit too brightly because the light might wash out the scenes, but look at the Marvel movies that have come out since 2008. They're all brightly lit, mostly, and the costumes worn by the characters are even more colourful than Batman and Robin's costumes in the 1966 series. It can be done, but Warner Bros. doesn't seem to want to do it, because of their philosophy concerning DC and the DC Universe being dark and gritty. But again, with Zack Snyder attached to this movie as producer, the visual style of the movie hasn't changed from the previous films. It's still leagues beyond the previous films in terms of quality, but it's still not quite there yet. It does have the distinction of being the first female led superhero movie since Supergirl in 1984, and the first superhero movie to be directed by a woman. So that's cool. Also, I prefer Ares in the Percy Jackson books over Ares in this movie. But that's just me.
Given how much I hated BvS and Suicide Squad, I was not excited for Justice League. Even though Zack Snyder stepped down from the director position on the film and was replaced by Joss Whedon (I also wasn't too thrilled with him at this point), I didn't like these versions of the characters already, except for Wonder Woman, and nothing was going to change my mind at this point. Also I don't like Ezra Miller as an actor, so knowing since BvS that he'd been cast as Barry Allen/the Flash didn't thrill me. Especially because Grant Gustin's suits on the TV show looked ten times better than this movie's suit does, and the TV show has a much smaller budget. All the behind the scenes problems this movie had didn't help matters either. So I skipped it in theatres. I saw it on TV because Space Channel (as it was known as back then) aired it one weekend, and didn't like it. I didn't even bother reviewing it on my old blog.
The problem this movie has is that it doesn't feel earned. When The Avengers came out in 2012 all of the characters who made up the team were introduced in their own films first or in other people's films as was the case with Black Widow and Hawkeye. Those other movies also came out over the course of four years, allowing us time to get to know those characters and get excited to see them all in a movie together. There was three years between Man of Steel and BvS, a few months between BvS and Suicide Squad, ten months between Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman and then six months between it and Justice League. That totals to about a year and a half between BvS and Justice League with the audience not really knowing who the Flash, Cyborg and Aquaman were since they only had brief cameos in BvS. That left the general audience, who had never read a comic book in their lives, no time to really understand that the Justice League is as big a deal as the Avengers. Especially the younger people who didn't watch Justice League and Justice League Unlimited on TV in the 2000s or Super Friends in the 70s and 80s.
I would like to stop now and say that if you like these movies that is fine. I'm not here to judge you, or to shame you because you like something that I don't. It's just personally, I don't like these movies and I don't care for Zack Snyder's style as a director. That doesn't mean you can't like them. That's the best part about being able to have our own individual opinions. We can each like the entertainment that we like, while someone else is free to like something else or the same things that we like.
Aquaman is probably the most confusing movie in the DCEU for me. Aquaman has never been a popular character. He's had some fans within the comic book community, because of things like Peter David's run on the book in the 90s, the character's appearances in various animated projects produced by Bruce Timm. But non comic book reading audiences know him as the hero who can talk to fish thanks to the 60s Aquaman cartoon and the Super Friends cartoons in the 70s and 80s. Which didn't help people's perceptions of him over the years either. Yet this movie, starring Jason Momoa as Aquaman, made $1.148 billion at the box office, worldwide. How does that even happen? Especially when most of what I heard about this movie was pretty negative, though I know at least two people who loved this movie. But still I still heard mainly negative things about this movie. Even before it came out, I wasn't interested in it. Mainly because I didn't care about Momoa's Aquaman in Justice League. He wasn't the worst thing in that movie, that was Ezra Miller's Flash, but I'm not a big Momoa fan to begin with, so having a whole movie centered around him just didn't appeal to me. I'm also not a big Aquaman guy either, so that didn't help things either.
I was cautiously optimistic about Shazam! because, even though I didn't know a ton about the character, other than he had been competition for Superman in terms of comic book sales in the 1940s, which led to the company that published the character, originally known as Captain Marvel, to go out of business and the character to languish in oblivion for a few decades before DC got a hold of him in the 70s, I was excited to see this movie as I heard it was going to be alot of fun to watch. And it was! Brad and I traveled to Kingston to see the movie with Jonathan on opening day, or the day after opening day and it was so worth it. In fact it was worth it enough for me to buy a physical copy of it on 4K (luckily it has a Blu-ray included) to put in my movie collection and has me somewhat excited for the sequel. I say somewhat because we aren't actually getting it until the spin-off, Black Adam comes out.
Birds of Prey isn't actually a Birds of Prey film. It's a Harley Quinn film pretending to be a Birds of Prey movie. It's also not a superhero movie. I'm not against a female superhero team film set in the DC Universe under the name Birds of Prey. Far from it. In fact I would love a Birds of Prey movie with the Birds of Prey. These characters aren't them though. The only comic book accurate character in this movie seems to be Harley Quinn, played by the wonderful Margot Robbie, who was my favourite part of Suicide Squad. And honestly, my only problem with this being a Birds of Prey film is that Cassandra Cain is in it, and that Helena Bertinelli doesn't have a mask and cape on. Mainly because when I see Cassandra Cain in a movie, I expect her to be Batgirl or Black Bat or Orphan (her post-Batgirl codenames). Without the costumes, this movie just looks like a generic action movie. Which is sad. I haven't seen the movie, and depending on how things go, I probably won't watch it, because, again it's too generic for this old comic book fan, who happens to like the Birds of Prey. At least the 2002 TV show had Barbara Gordon in the Batgirl costume and Helena in a sort of Huntress costume. But who knows, I might see it anyway. I just didn't have a chance to see it in theatres before the pandemic hit.
We're starting to see a trend where even the best movie in the DCEU (aside from Shazam!) has a sequel that people were disappointed with. From the trailer I saw, Wonder Woman 1984 looks more comic booky than the 2017 movie did. Which is really cool. But for some reason it had lukewarm reception upon release and didn't even make back it's budget, which hasn't happened with a DCEU film before. While BvS and Suicide Squad were critically panned, they still made tons of money, as did the 2017 Justice League movie. This one flopped though. Even my sister, who loved the 2017 movie, was disappointed with this sequel. I missed it because I wasn't paying $30 to rent it on iTunes, and I don't have Crave, which is where it appeared here in Canada, since HBO Max isn't available up here. Maybe someday I'll see it, but for the time being it's not happening.
Where do I even begin with this movie?
Zack Snyder's Justice League is a good example of a movie studio caving to fan demands even though there was no intention of ever putting this movie out. I get many people love this movie, but here's the thing, if you need four hours to tell your story when it's not that complex a story, then it's not a good movie to begin with. We went through this in 2009 with
Watchmen. Adding two extra hours to a bad movie doesn't make it a good movie, it just makes it a longer bad movie. There was nothing in the marketing for the Snyder Cut to indicate to me this was a different movie. Snyder had pretty much finished the film when he had to drop out, with Whedon being hired to supervise pickups, editing and post-production. Everything that was put back into the film for the Snyder Cut would've been removed from the movie for it's theatrical release even if Snyder had stayed on to supervise the movie's completion. Which makes this version no different than the Ultimate Edition of BvS or the ultimate cut of
Watchmen. I'm not here to sway you from liking this movie. If you DO like this movie, more power to you. I just see it as an unnecessary entity that adds nothing to an already shakey franchise. Now I'm going into movies that are upcoming.
You know what the definition of insanity is right? Doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same results. The Suicide Squad is an example of this. The 2016 Suicide Squad movie didn't work, and while it made tons of money, fans didn't like it. Critics didn't like it. So why would Warner Bros. decide to make a sequel/soft reboot of a film that didn't work? Again, I feel like movies like Suicide Squad, Venom, Joker, and The Suicide Squad glorify villainy. The comics do it too and in most cases a hero's rogues gallery is more popular than the hero themselves. Which is completely backward in my opinion and is the opposite of how I was raised. I realize that the real world is more complex than that, but this generation seems to be more impressionable than previous generations have been, and there needs to be an understanding that the things happening in these movies are not things to be celebrated and the villain characters are not characters to be looked up to. And yet Hollywood continues to make movies focusing on these characters. I won't even get into the Harley Quinn and Joker relationship, because that's all kinds of wrong.
Anytime I have seen the character of Black Adam in the comics, he has been portrayed as a villain. This goes back to what I said in the previous section on The Suicide Squad about glorifying the villains in these pieces. My biggest problem with this particular movie is that the Justice Society of America, who are superheroes by the very definition of the term, are going to be the antagonists to Black Adam's protagonist. That sounds backward and wrong to me, especially because, while I haven't read much with the JSA in it, I have seen them in a few TV shows like Smallville, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and the pilot episode of Stargirl. By portraying them as the enemies of the film's central character, WB is destroying any chance they have of making an awesome JSA film, or TV show in the future. Because people won't want to root for them as they attacked the "hero" Black Adam. It's because of this that I can't get excited for this movie, despite the fact that Dwayne Johnson is playing Black Adam, and he's going to be awesome in it.
The last movie I want to talk about before I move on to the TV shows is The Flash. Of all the DCEU films I am the most torn about this movie. As I mentioned before, I am not a fan of Ezra Miller or his version of the Flash. However, I am curious to see how they handle the amount of material that's going to be in this film. Mainly because the DC Multiverse is going to be introduced in this film with the inclusion of Michael Keaton returning to his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman from Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992). Mind you, unlike the Arrowverse, which introduced the concept of the multiverse over the span of five seasons of The Flash and several seasons of Arrow, Supergirl, and DC's Legends of Tomorrow, this movie is just going to throw it at the audience, expecting them to understand and accept it within a two hour time period, while rebooting the DCEU. They're also introducing Supergirl in this movie for some reason.
There are so many other movies in development or rumoured to be in development that I can't talk about all of them here. There are two that I'm interested in and that's Batgirl and Nightwing. Look you guys, I'm a Batman fan first and foremost and that extends to the Batman Family as well. So when WB announces movies starring Batgirl and Nightwing, you better believe I'm going to be following the production of both films with great interest. Now, onto the TV shows that I want to talk about, because I feel the TV shows better capture the heroic nature of the DC Universe than any of the movies have since Superman Returns in 2006.
Before 2012 I wasn't overly familiar with the character of Green Arrow. I'd never read a comic starring him and I'd already dropped off of Smallville by the time Justin Hartley was cast in the role on the show. Yet when it was announced that a Green Arrow TV show had been greenlit, for some reason I was intrigued. I don't even know why I was even interested since I knew nothing about the character. I think it's because that first season focused on Oliver Queen as a person, rather than as a hero and that pilot hooked me. Plus Stephen Amell was amazing in the role. It also helped that two actresses that I was familiar with were regulars on the show too. Susanna Thompson, who played the Borg Queen on Star Trek: Voyager, and Willa Holland, who played Kaitlin Cooper in the final two seasons of The O.C. So that was pretty cool. The reason I didn't mind Oliver killing the bad guys here whereas I did mind it in the DCEU films, is that here Oliver is struggling to get away from killing criminals and it's a journey that he has to go through, but eventually he does stop doing it, unless absolutely necessary.
The Flash introduced the hero aspect to the Arrowverse. Barry is a selfless person and when he got his powers, and with some encouragement from the Arrow (Oliver's original codename) Barry used his powers to help people. He became the symbol of hope that Oliver knew the Arrow could never be due to all the horrors he went through during his five years away from Starling City. And in those early seasons of both shows I watched every week because I saw why I kept reading Batman comics, kept reading Superman comics, and got into Green Arrow comics. Because they are the people that I aspire to be every single day of my life, even though I don't have super powers or special training. The movies do not do that. Sadly, I had to stop watching The Flash because the writing got so bad that I stopped seeing Barry as an inspiration and started seeing him as an idiot. Supergirl had a different problem.
When Supergirl started, it was basically a Superman series, starring Supergirl, because WB was too busy butchering Superman over in the movies and their deal with the Siegel Estate didn't allow for a live action Superman TV series to be on the air while Superman was being used in movies. They still snuck him in either by shooting someone from behind or showing him in silhouette, but it wasn't until the show's second season in 2016, following the disaster of BvS that they cast Tyler Hoechlin in the role of Clark Kent/Superman. Fans and viewers responded to how Hoechlin portrayed the character, which led to Superman & Lois being produced this year. The reason I stopped watching Supergirl except for the crossovers is because, not only was Kara acting like a high school teenager, but the show got a little too preachy. I didn't mind the message, as it was a valid one, and one they often relayed on the various Star Trek shows, but I don't want to feel like I'm listening to a sermon when I'm trying to relax. The writers weren't being as subtle about it as the Star Trek writers were either. Have a message, talk about current issues like racism, sexism, tolerance etc. But don't tell the audience to come down on one side or the other, regardless of the side you're on personally. Star Trek never did that, in any of it's incarnations.
And then there's DC's Legends of Tomorrow. It's the one DC Comics based show from the original Arrowverse lineup that relishes in the fact that it's based on comic book characters. Season 1 was pretty bad, but after that they embraced the ridiculous and took us on a ride. To this day, while season 5 was kind of hit and miss as they had just come out of Crisis on Infinite Earths, and all the Arrowverse shows were weird coming out of that major crossover, I can't wait for a new episode of this show. The time travel aspect isn't really a big deal on this show anymore. Sometimes they don't go to a different time period even. Or if they do, they don't do it to fix a problem with the timeline necessarily. Instead it's become a show about a family who fix problems with the timeline while fighting aliens, mythical creatures, demons, and dead supervillains and cleaning up John Constantine's messes left over from his own short lived TV series. And they do it without being too melodramatic or serious. It's a fun show and probably the one that has changed for the better out of all of the original Arrowverse shows.
I don't even care whether we have good Superman movies or not right now, because I have the best comic book based TV show on the air right now. You all know how I feel about Superman & Lois because I've talked about it enough on this blog, but I will not stop talking about it, because after 13 episodes, with only two more left in the season, this show continues to be amazing. It's like the one time The CW walked away from the show, because they didn't want to tell the showrunners how to do a Superman TV series. I've said this before, but I can imagine CW execs being like, "You wanna do a Superman series? Great, go do it, we're not gonna make you screw it up! Byyyye!!!" when the producers pitched this series to them in 2018 or early 2019 (it was announced in October 2019). Especially when Tyler Hoechlin was so well received when he was first cast on Supergirl back in 2016. The final two shows I want to talk about are ones I haven't paid much attention to but would like to talk about because the new season for both shows is starting very soon.
The first show I want to talk about is Titans. I've been super wary of this show since it started in 2018. Mainly because the initial trailer for the first season painted the show in a very negative light with the ultra violence and Robin dropping an F-bomb. Very much like the DCEU films in that regard. Since then I've only seen the pilot so far, but I bought the entire first season on iTunes and I'm planning on getting into it very soon, but from what I've seen they've gotten away from that edgy feel and brought it more to the traditional Teen Titans vibe. I used the poster for the upcoming third season because I almost started crying when I saw it. I see Nightwing, Beast Boy/Changling, Wonder Girl/Troia (not sure which name Donna Troy goes by on the show), Oracle, Starfire, Red Hood, Superboy, and Hawk & Dove as if they had just leapt off the pages of The New Teen Titans and Teen Titans and that gives me chills, because it's so brilliant seeing these characters translated into live action. That wouldn't've happened 20 years ago when Smallville first started airing.
The final show I want to talk about is Stargirl. I've heard alot of good things about this show, but the first season only just became available on iTunes here in Canada, and didn't air anywhere else during it's run on the DC Universe app and The CW. My only real concern about this show, going into the first season is that it's a teenage superhero show, set in a small town high school, airing on The CW, which I don't have much tolerance for these days after bad experiences with Riverdale and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
Even if I don't end up liking Titans or Stargirl, I'm still glad these shows, along with Batwoman, Black Lightning, and Doom Patrol, are on because there are characters I'm not super familiar with because they've never been shown on TV before and will probably never get their own movies, because they were overshadowed decades ago by Batman and Superman and the people who don't read comics, don't know who these other characters are. The same thing goes for the DCEU and other DC Comics based movies. I may not like the direction WB is taking them in, but I'm glad that they're finally getting DC Comics out there because I am a fan of DC Comics and I want to see these characters become known to the general audience and gain new fans, even if they don't do anything for comic book sales. Because if it weren't for Arrow I would never have become a fan of Green Arrow and gotten to meet the man who revitalized the character in the 80s, Mike Grell, at Ottawa Comiccon a couple of years ago.
Alright my friends that's going to be it for me for today. I really wanted to talk about DC Comics indepth because I've never done that before on here. I will be back tomorrow for my review of the 2000 Nickelodeon movie, Snow Day starring Stephen Stills from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) and Lana Lang from Superman & Lois. Until then have a great evening and I will talk to you all later. Take care.
