Thoughts on the reveal of Arsenal from "Arrow: Season 3"

Colton Haynes as Arsenal (via Entertainment Weekly)

DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, Big Dog, Skybound, IDW, Top Cow, Zenescope, Syndicate Press, Aspen Comics. All of those names are comic companies. I grew up loving comics. My favorite of which is Detective Comics, more widely known as DC. Of all their heroes, Green Lantern followed closely by The Flash and Green Arrow. 

While the Green Lantern movie (2011) was, in my opinion, terrible. The television show Arrow, which is going into its third season, is something I greatly enjoy. Not just me though, my wife, friends and even my 59 year old mother have fallen for Oliver Queen. As much as I love Ollie, I was hoping to see Speedy, Red Arrow or Arsenal. With the introduction of Roy Harper in season one, I got a taste for that. Even more so in season two. 

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Finally seeing Roy don his own red bow and quiver in the finale of season two was amazing. I am pretty sure I scared all my neighbors with my shouts of glee. Yes, glee. He may of still only been wearing his red hoodie, but it was major progress. 

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So here we are. Entertainment Weekly unveiled the above image just before San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) 2014. I have to say, I am hugely impressed. It is less Speedy and much more of a fusion between Red Arrow/ Arsenal from "Young Justice" and the version from "Red Hood and the Outlaws", the DC New 52 publications. 

The suit has a nice mix of Ollie's suit, the leather from the new Flash show and the previous versions of the character mentioned previously. It is interesting to see where DC and the CW will take the character seeing as they are skipping (at least in title) the previous two iterations. October can't come soon enough!