Another O'Neil text, but one with a far more distinguishable colour-pallet to its name.
After his run on Batman, O'Neil and frequent collaborator Neal Adams jumped onto Green Lantern/Green Arrow. While that might seem like an odd pairing at first, what with the pair only having the green motif to share between them, O'Neil managed to pioneer one of the medium's most iconic relationships during this period.
Founded with the intent of exploring the Nixonian United States, the series saw Oliver Queen and Hal Jordan embark on a Fear and Loathing-style road trip across the country, with Queen taking the position of the left-wing social justice activist, and Jordan that of the conservative stalwart. The pair would spar verbally (and physically) throughout the series, with the book at times looking more like a social critique of seventies America more-so than a simple superhero comic.
It's undeniably brilliant though, and while an image of a drug-addled Speedy may dominate reflections of the book, there is so much more to it than that. Another intelligent work, from one intelligent writer.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
