What a dumb comic.
I mean, Krul’s a bad writer with bad dialogue and bad ideas. There’s nothing as strange as Ollie being Steve Jobs this issue, instead it’s Krul turning Paris Hilton into a supervillain. And then Green Arrow has a completely inappropriate conversation with her about whores or something.
Maybe if the art team were something new and hipster, it wouldn’t be so off, but it’s Jurgens and Perez. You’ve got classic DC artists–guys who drew comics when eight year-olds could read them without wondering what Green Arrow meant by “nasty”–and then Krul’s desperately modern scripting.
Besides the lame running around on rooftops sequence–oh, and in the New DC Universe, at least as Krul writes it, GPS is far from reliable–the art’s okay. It’s not good, but it’s that DC superhero stuff I grew up with. It’s inoffensively uncreative.
But Krul definitely offends.
CREDITS
Going Viral; writer, J.T. Krul; pencillers, Dan Jurgens and George Pérez; inker, Pérez; colorists, Tanya Horie and Richard Horie; letterer, Rob Leigh; editors, Sean Mackiewicz and Pat McCallum; publisher, DC Comics.
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