Showing posts with label Green Arrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green Arrow. Show all posts

Monday, December 09, 2024

DC Showcase: Green Arrow

Technically, he is a superhero without superhuman powers. Yet, he has a whole “Verse” half-named for him. Regardless of powers, a princess in jeopardy will be grateful for his bow in Joaquim Dos Santos’s animated DC Showcase: Green Arrow, which is very much worth catching up with on his reported in-world birthday (12/9).

Oliver Queen (a.k.a. Green Arrow) promised to pick up his girlfriend, Dinah Laurel Lance, from the airport. If you do not already know her secret identity, you will at the end of the animated short. Unfortunately, traffic is brutal, because of young Princess Perdita, who is making her first official state visit on behalf of the troubled Eastern European kingdom of Vlatava—at least was the Princess. By the time she lands, Perdita is the Queen. Presumably, that is why assassins target her, including Green Arrow’s old nemesis, Merlyn, a.k.a. the Dark Archer.

Queen immediately springs into action defending the Queen, even though he knows he will have some explaining to do to Lance. Thus launches a very cool series of animated action set pieces, across the tarmac and through the baggage handling system. Frankly, this installment of
DC Showcase could hang One More Shot, the Scott Adkins beatdown set entirely within an airport—and the two would pair up nicely.