Ann Nocenti Hangs Up "Green Arrow," Unsheathes "Katana"

[Mr. Holmes]

I've read all those things, and I stand by what I said. YJ was fine, but it was actually a huge regression to all the growth he was getting under Kessel's run to keep in with the sitcom tone of the book (which I enjoyed when I was a kid, but don't really anymore). Adventure Comics was also fine, especially with Francis Manupal's art which perfectly conveyed the "country, Americana" tone. But there was nothing that interesting about the character again. He's just a Clark-lite. Also, I've always hated the Lex-clone retcon.

Lobdell's Superboy is the most unique he's ever been. He has an abstract conscious, giving him a unique and detached POV on human society. Like something from a Warren Ellis comic, but without the right execution.

[T Hedge Coke]

This triplets and Lear stuff was telegraphed too soon but it was funny and exciting. The issue about cyborg and robot fetishism was heart-twisting, sad and sweet and thrilling, and highlighted something I hadn't considered with this new armor-y techn boy GA. My only real complaint, so far, is that no locale outside Seattle resembles anything of the real world, but that's DC all over, and not a Nocenti/GA-specific problem.

[ian33407]

If she had an artist like Sorrentino to work with from the start, I think she could have reached the level of the TYPHOID mini with Van Fleet.
No offense for the others artists but they really doomed her run, and I feel very sad because her come-back to comics feels like a flat-start now.
KATANA seems very exciting and I've no doubt she'll do something interesting with CATWOMAN, I personnally dream of a DOOM PATROL and a CREEPER titles written by her ..