6 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Making Comics More Diverse: #3. Connor Hawke, the Mixed Race (and Possibly Gay) Green ArrowPosted in Articles, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive on 2013-01-27 02:38Z by Steven |
Cracked Magazine
2013-01-26
Since the 1970s, the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow has had sex with pretty much every female he’s been able to impress with arrow-based innuendo. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when, in the early ’90s, he discovered that he had a biracial son. He was named Connor Hawke, and he was meant to replace his father as Green Arrow to once again try to breathe new life into the character by adding some diversity. The problem was, they couldn’t seem to agree on exactly what Connor’s parentage was, so they decided to make him a golden-haired blackasian…
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