deense-deactivated20100830 asked: Inspired by another poster, what do you think of the Ollie/Dinah relationship? https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/4/755646537#

Urgh, I know this is going to upset some folks, but I was against the marriage from the start. It did very little for Ollie and really damaged Dinah, and even though some really great creators worked on the stories and did a great job, I think it was a case where GREEN ARROW and BIRDS OF PREY are better as two separate books.

Ollie and Dinah aren’t like Clark and Lois to me. They love each other, they desire each other, but it’s not the kind of mythic romance that Superman and Lois have had, in my opinion. Dinah, alone, on the streets, on a motorcycle kicking ass, and Ollie, on the rooftops, alone, firing arrows at bad guys, these are the essence of those characters when you take them individually. Put them together and it can be a great story, but now it’s a very different vibe, it doesn’t feel as electric to me as it should.

I know this upsets people but I stress it’s JUST my opinion. It was not my choice to take Dinah out of Bop. I was asked if I wanted to write any of the marriage or ongoing books and, I’ll be honest, I just didn’t feel it. It deflated my interest, rather than inflated it.

That said, I LOVE them as a sparky sometimes-on/sometimes-off couple. I’ve only gotten to write that twice and it was a blast each time.

One problem is that most of the writers who have written them are GA fans much more than BC fans. So even if they like Dinah, Ollie is their joy. So we get stories that favor the spotlight in that direction, just as I might do on Dinah if I were writing them together.

It never seems to come out equal.