Okay, I’m not recommending Green Arrow, but it needs to be read to be believed. Oliver Queen is Steve Jobs as a superhero and blond and young and single. Really. He made a “Q-Pad” and a “Q-Phone” and he uses the profits from those devices to run around the globe fighting really lame supervillains as Green Arrow.
Except, J.T. Krul apparently read a lot of Birds of Prey so he decided to give Ollie an Oracle stand-in. That’s right… the new Green Arrow is the old Black Canary. Only as Steve Jobs.
It’s a terrible comic—Ollie lectures the bad guys about wasting their lives and yada yada when he’s fighting them—but it’s so bewildering, it must be read.
And Dan Jurgens? With George Perez inks? It’s classic nineties DC, only with an idiotic “new media” bent.
If DC were really committed, Ollie’d have a Facebook.
CREDITS
Living a Life of Privilege; writer, J.T. Krul; penciller, Dan Jurgens; inker, George Pérez; colorist, David Baron; letterer, Rob Leigh; editors, Sean Mackiewicz and Pat McCallum; publisher, DC Comics.