Wanna Get Ficced?

When Winich finally relinquished control of GABC, my first thought was, "Hurrah! Now it won't suck anymore!". Congratulatoins, Kreisberg, on managing, in two issues, to inspire in me the ire that required the first five issues of Winick's run.

It can't be that bad, you're thinking. Winick completely decimated the character of Connor Hawke, introduced Dodger--the world's most useless character--and kept attempting to connect Deep Family Drama [tm] with Superhero Hijinks. And, in case, you haven't caught on, he had no talent with the blending. At all.

So how could Kreisberg make it worse? Oh, let me count the ways:

1. Dinah screams twice to distract the bad guy, rather than, say, kicking his ass.

2. The one time Dinah tries to fight, the arrows are apparently too fast for her martial arts skills. Skills that are supposedly so good that she requires no other weapons to easily kick ass. And, thus, because her skills suddenly fail her, she ends up with an arrow through the arm.

3. Merlyn is merely the issue-length villian, with the real villian being some unknown redhead who's apparently stalking Ollie.

4. And she has a thing for Ollie because he saved her from a rape.

5. And she carves a heart into her chest with one of Ollie's discarded arrows to show her gratitude.

6. The carving of the heart requires her to take off her shirt. Of course.

So, to sum up what's going on, apparently Ollie saved a damsel in distress, who's now gone batshit about it and thinks Ollie loves her. Because, of course, females who are sexually attacked or nearly sexually attacked and saved at the last moment, always have some sort of completely insane attachment to whoever saves them or helps them. And also attach themselves in a sexual nature to the people [men] who saved them.

And, also apparently, Dinah has forgotten all her years of training and ass-kicking because if she could actually kick someone's ass, Ollie wouldn't have to save her, and then Kreisberg and DiDio Ollie won't feel emasculated.

And we couldn't have that.


I read GABC because I like the characters. When they're in character. Which they are not. At all. No, wait, that's not true. Ollie's in fine character, but Dinah's apparently had a personality-ectomy and and frightened-damsel-injection, and now it's up to Kriesberg and DiDio Ollie to make sure his little woman is all safe and secure.

I sat through 14 issues of mostly-crap because I thought, "My god, no one can fuck it up worse than Winick", and here I sit, two issues into the new writer, wishing desperately for something with which to gouge out my eyes.

I'm not sure who's storyline this idea was. Kreisberg could have pitched it, or it could have come from the "OMG WIMMENS NEED TEH SAVINGS" part of DiDio's completely idiotic mind. I need to find out. I'd hate to take an epic shit in the wrong hat.