I stopped reading Green Arrow/Black Canary because it blew goats. The characterizations (especially Dinah) were godawful, and the plots (especially Connor becoming legally-distinct Wolverine and the whole Cupid bullshit) were fucking stupid.

I haven't been reading Cry for Justice because there is literally nothing in that book that intrigued me, and it felt like a huge step back in Hal's characterization to put him back in "Oh, I'm a total cock-monkey who listens to no one" frame of mind.

I dropped Titans a couple of months ago, but #21 ended up in my stack, and I didn't notice when I bought it. It has a new writer (Krul), so I figured I'd give it a read as long as I'd paid for it. The overall story itself was just as dis-interesting as I've found the book lately (hence the droppage), but I did get to grit my teeth and see fucking red. Wanna know why?

THEY CUT OFF ROY'S FUCKING ARM.

Roy Harper. The original Speedy. Arnsenal. RED FUCKING ARROW. Because making him a recovering drug addict, a single father of a daughter whose mother is a villain, and a man who is just finally, finally, FINALLY beginning to find his balance with Ollie again isn't fucking enough.

THEY HAD TO CUT OFF HIS GODDAMNED ARM.

Seriously, DC, what the fuck is your beef with the Arrow-Clan? You're letting Ollie and Dinah get written, respectively as an absolute asshole and an idiot; you've regulated Mia (and Dinah) to a back up in a book they used to headline; you've taken a giant dump on EVERYTHING INTERESTING about Connor, and now you've CUT OFF ROY'S FUCKING ARM.

I will grow a dick, just so you can blow me. You fuckers.