 | Green Arrow is Showcased in his own animated short! |
Green Arrow by George Perez
Showcase Presents: Green Arrow
- review
The third animated short from Warner Entertainment, Showcase Presents: Green Arrow came bundled with the deluxe edition of Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (reviewed here).
A character dating back to the 1930′s, Green Arrow as created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp was essentially a Batman-clone with bows and arrows instead of batarangs. Each was a bored playboy (Green Arrow was secretly Oliver Queen), each had a cavernous hideout, each had a characteristic array of vehicles (Arrow-plane, Arrow-car, Bat-plane, Batmobile) and each had a young ward assistant (Batman has Robin, Green Arrow had Speedy).
The plot is simply that Oliver Queen is late to pick up his girlfriend and fellow superhero Black Canary at the airport. It's no ordinary meeting, either. He's packing an engagement ring and is nervous that anything could spoil his big moment. as a lifelong macho bachelor, this is a tense moment. On the way to pick her up he spots an old foe in the crowd, the evil archer Merlyn (voiced by Malcolm McDowell). In some ways, happy for the distraction, Queen takes action. Changing to his superhero duds, he soon finds himself thwarting an attempted kidnapping of a foreign princess on her way to becoming the heir to the throne of her land.
The action is fluid and non-stop, a quality that I admire more and more in these Showcase animated shorts. The physics of the human form and fighting moves are very exciting and really carry the action well.
Read more at the Daily P.O.P. blog!
 | WordPress.com | Thanks for flying with WordPress! |
Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://subscribe.wordpress.com
No comments:
Post a Comment