Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara looks at the first issue of Red Hood and the Outlaws!
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Originally uploaded April 14th, 2014.
ORIGINAL INFO: Red Hood and the two other characters who get screwed over.
RUMINATIONS: I still get the occasional hate or defense of this one. People who hate me because I don’t get Jason’s character, that I don’t understand his motivations, that Roy Harper is much deeper and more interesting here, that the way they portrayed Starfire here isn’t sexist in the slightest and it’s tooootally consistent with her characterization previously.
If you like the book, fine - you don’t have to agree with me.
But this book is garbage. It was several issues of garbage that people STILL tell me it gets better and I have seen no evidence of that changing. It was a series of really dumb, DUMB decisions made worse over time to the point that they decided to eventually pull Starfire out and give her a soft reboot to try to fix things… and it worked. Unfortunately, that book is being cancelled (the creative team were offered the chance to do more, but they only wanted to do 12 and apparently DC didn’t want to grab a new creative team). Given that the “DC Rebirth” that has been announced is making “Red Hood and Arsenal” into “Red Hood and the Outlaws” again, I fear Starfire will be returning to that book and regressing her much more colorful, interesting, and positive superhero material back to the way she was here.
And that hat will always be the dumbest, most idiotic thing about Arsenal’s design. The fact that in Titans Hunt, they decided to keep it for him even in his Speedy days feels like it’s a middle finger straight in my face.
Still, the fact that the "DC: Rebirth" thing is happening at really does feel like they're finally admitting that the New 52 is a failed experiment - they did bring in new people (I've heard many testimonials from people who weren't into comics who got into it thanks to the New 52), but overall it's not just the complete sacrifice of continuity that pissed people off (retcons happen. We get over it), but rather just the general TONE. This is not a DC Universe that I want to introduce new fans to, not the kind of thing I want to have my kids read someday. Hell, even if you wanted to keep the ultraviolence and sex, there isn't much here that I feel I could steer people towards... and as with Starfire, Demon Knights, Amethyst, and others the stuff I WOULD point people towards ends up getting cancelled.
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