Sunday, May 24, 2026

Green Arrow and Captain Britain

 


I love that, even in a life and death struggle, Ollie still uses a suction cup arrow.  Maybe is also has an electrical charge or something.  Hey, whatever it takes to get the job done!


Posted by Ross at 4:57 AM
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13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Jim Aparo would have made for a fun artist on a stateside Captain Britain series (always assuming, of course, that DC was ever crazy enough to let him go in the first place).

May 24, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Anonymous said...

BTW, Queen Elizabeth is now dead, and Charles is now king.

May 24, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Carycomic said...

@Anon838: Yes. But the title is a punny allusion to GA's surname.

@Ross: I think you're right. TASER electrodes can be pulled out, immediately, if the perp that cops are trying to stun is masochistic enough to tolerate the voltage for the first couple moments. But, a suction cup with a strong enough adhesive coating it might keep an electro-stun arrow on just long enough for that same perp to be rendered unconscious.

May 24, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Anonymous said...

Not when this would have taken place.

May 24, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Carycomic said...

Actually, yes, it would have. Because that's Captain Britain's original uniform from Marvel UK in the 1970's! Before Merlin redesigned the suit to resemble more of a cross between Union Jack and Iron Man.

May 24, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Carycomic said...

He even still has the Star Sceptre! A telescoping baton that was initially like a cross between Starman's cosmic rod and Daredevil's billy club. But, which was later transformed into a kind of magical micro-circuitry within the second outfit (for power-enhancing purposes).

May 24, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Mark said...

It's kind of odd, but just looking at Aparo's brickwork, I knew who drew it. I As always, such a great mashup!

May 24, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Anonymous said...

Yep! His work on the Adventure Comics version of the Spectre, in the pre-Bicentennial Seventies, always had great visuals. Especially when the Spectre grew giant-size! So, I can just image how Merlin would've looked as a giant astral projection conferring with the good captain.

May 24, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Carycomic said...

Ergo, here in the Ross-verse? This team-up probably occurred quite early in Capt. Britain's career. At which point, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was still alive. But, very, very elderly and, thus, in potentially fragile health.

May 24, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Scott said...

This is a team-up I wouldn't have thought of but it does seem natural. The question would be would this be like Green Lantern & Green Arrow or Green Arrow and Hawkman? Brian is a big science nerd (I think on par with Reed, Tony, Peter and Doom but like Peter does not show it to appear to be bragging). i am not sure how Ollie views science.

May 24, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Detective Tobor said...

CB: Arrow, you're a real prince!! GA: Not even close!!

May 24, 2026 at 11:59 PM
LuckyDay said...

Oliver Queen would claim he's for science and everyone that disagrees with him is against it in his newspaper column.

May 25, 2026 at 12:50 AM
LuckyDay said...

Ross, have you considered the unpublished issues of Amalgam comics?
Like, Captain Arrow meets Omega Flight?

May 25, 2026 at 12:52 AM

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