So I was chatting with a friend earlier in the week and the subject of The Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special came up. More specificially, we talked about how the reviews for the special, for the most part, have been overwhelming negative. Now, both of us have been harsh critics of Winick’s work with Green Arrow and Black Canary for quite a while now. So all the recent complaints on the blogosphere about how Judd wrote Dinah Lance as a helpless bimbo and Oliver Queen as a shallow liberal stereotype were no surprise to us.
And it was at this point she lamented, “I need a t-shirt that reads ‘I Hated Judd Winick Before It Was Cool’.
Well, I can’t afford to make t-shirts but I am pretty handy with Photoshop. By the end of the evening, I had icons made of Green Arrow and Black Canary saying her slogan.
I posted the icon to my journal and used it to answer a few posts around the blogosphere. To put it mildly, it struck a chord with the annoyed and the frustrated left in the wake of the Wedding of Doom! And this lead me to think; there’s a whole lot more characters Winick has messed up. And a whole lot of icons that people might want made for their character of choice.
So here it is; the complete works of an evening’s labor. Something for everyone, I think.
Are you a Kyle Rayner fan who was saddened to see your favorite hero’s book slowly turned into a platform for Judd Winick’s personal pet issues? We have an icon for you!
Are you a Jade fan who was shocked to see your favorite heroine get stripped of all personality; first as a generic girlfriend to Kyle and then as a generic female in Outsiders? We have an icon for you!
Are you a Green Arrow fan who has loathed every single thing about the last four years and how your favorite hero went from being a Hemingway-quoting man of the people into a Bill Clinton caricature with a goatee? We have an icon for you!
Are you a Black Canary fan who despised The Wedding (not very) Special and how your favorite heroine was turned into an empty-headed bimbo with all the fighting skills of a trout? We have an icon for you!
Are you a Connor Hawke fan who grew depressed as your hero became more and more of a bit player, with little of the spark he had in the good old days under Chuck Dixon? We have an icon for you!
Are you a fan of Mia Dearden, who was sickened that her entire past was rewritten for the sake of a Very Special Episode of Green Arrow? We have an icon for you!
Are you a Black Lightning fan who hated how the man who once retired from superheroics when he thought he couldn’t use his powers safely was turned into a cold-blooded killer in defiance of decades of characterization? We have an icon for you!
Are you an Arsenal fan who can’t stand how your favorite character was turned from the competent leader of two separate Titans teams into the biggest idiot ever? We have an icon for you!
Are you a Nightwing fan who was annoyed that your favorite character was written so badly out of character that you couldn’t tell if the man calling himself Nightwing was Dick Grayson or Jason Todd in disguise for several months? We have an icon for you!
Are you a Dr. Light fan who was flabbergasted that the man who once decried the lack of Asian female protagonists in popular culture would take one of the few Asian female heroes DC Comics has, depower her in the most degrading way possible and then leave her bleeding to death on the floor without ever resolving her story? We have an icon for you!
Are you a Deathstroke fan who is disappointed that the once moral mercenary has been transformed into yet another generic ninja villain with no code of honor at all? We have an icon for you!
Are you a Captain Marvel fan who can’t believe that Judd Winick has been selected to rewrite Captain Marvel and Shazam for the 21st Century while Jeff Smith’s stories are taking place on another Earth? We have an icon for you!
Are you a Mary Marvel fan who is irked that, for some reason, Mary wasn’t good enough to be considered as the next heir to the title of Captain Marvel (despite years of stories to the contrary) and that she was left falling to her doom with no resolution in Winick’s Shazam series? We have an icon for you!
These icons are free for anyone to use, so long as credit is given where credit is due. Use them in good health and spread the word of why you use this icon wherever you may go on this wacky place we call the Internet.
Tune in next week! Same Matt Time! Same Matt Website!
Visit our blog at: http://www.livejournal.com/users/looking2dastars/
