It's My Birthday* and I Can Post if I Want to
*Note it is not actually my birthday. It is in June but I won't be around.
The current series of Green Arrow/Black Canary leaves much to be desired, so I went looking for Ollie and Dinah in happier times, and there is a lot of it from the Grell run (and yes, unhappy times and torture and Ollie being a big man-child as he can be). I'm posting here some scans of some of one of my favorite features of the Grell run, that is, the clear passage of time as marked by Ollie's birthdays.
There are 10 scans, from Longbow Hunters #1, Green Arrow #10, #21, #51, and #63. The Longbow Hunters is in trade, alas the others are not.
First up: Dinah gives Ollie a present for his 43rd birthday (it's mentioned a few pages earlier:)
I think everyone knows what happened after that, so moving on....44!
And now we have a precedent...45!
*snort*
Birthday 46 is missing because I assumed it happened when Ollie was on his self-discovery trip around the globe. To be honest I didn't look that hard at those issues. But Ollie does come back, and Dinah gives him his traditional birthday gift. Warning: this art is terrifying.
And on to the last birthday we celebrate with Dinah and Ollie, number 48.
Ah, so that's why she dumped you Ollie! Forgetting her birthday...for SHAME! Actually, on the old s_d someone had a post entitled roughly "Sort of in the defense of Ollie Queen" and it was about how Ollie wasn't all the cheating bastard most people think him to be. It had a lot of Shado. I had it bookmarked but when the site went so did it. Would the original poster be willing to repost? Thanks in advance.