soOO YEAH this whole thing was totally a spur of the moment lol I saw a pic on twitter with a guy in this pose and it was like I got thunderstruck by the gods with the idea
Originally it was supposed to be only the suit ver but oomf hit me with the idea of him wearing the bottom part of starfire’s costume, SO HERE WE ARE
I can safely say it wins my personal contest of fastest art of the year
Also… should.. should I make this a lenticular card? Would you like it? 👀👉🏻👈🏻
“Man, Absolute Green Arrow #2 was pretty damn cool. I wonder what the internet thinks of…(sees posts of blorbo brainrotted crazy people throwing a tantrum)…right. I forgot that comic fandom spaces are fucking insufferable.”
This is a very bad faith and unkind take on people’s very justifiable anger and frustration towards the way that DC has and currently is treating Connor. Maybe you simply don’t know, but Connor Hawke has been severely neglected/side-lined/commodified by DC for decades. You can’t fault people for being disappointed when he makes an appearance in an absolute book (a universe that is introducing new and old fans alike to characters they never would have read comics for otherwise) only to be killed for shock value.
back after a little while with a new batfam drawing haha. ive been working on this one for a while and i’m finally happy with it. i love my boy so much <3 i’ll be back with another random piece in like a month probably xx
Connor Hawke is the son of Oliver Queen and Sandra "Moonday" Hawke. He is best known for his role as the Green Arrow, taking on the mantle upon his father's death and continuing as the Green Arrow after his resurrection. Connor was raised by his mother, and struggled in school due to being bullied for being mixed race (his mother is Black and Korean and his father is white). At around age thirteen Connor was able to talk his mother into letting him move to a Buddhist Ashram that his father had once stayed at, and there Connor entered the care of Master Jansen, learned martial arts and archery, and became a Buddhist monk. It was at the Ashram that Connor decided to continue the Green Arrow legacy. While serving as the Green Arrow, Connor teamed up with the Green Lantern Kyle Rayner and the Flash Wally West, Robin Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, and the Justice League.
While Connor is most known for his connection to the Arrow family, as this was what was focused on most heavily in Green Arrow Vol. 3- it is important to remember Connor has strong connections outside of the family as highlighted in Green Arrow Vol. 2! These characters include: Sandra "Moonday" Hawke, Nathan Hawke (Connor's "Gran"), Mastern Jansen, Eddie Fyers, Kyle Rayner, Wally West (and his wife Linda), Tim Drake, and Cassandra Cain!
As of June 2022, Connor has been confirmed as asexual, which solidifies his ace coding from both Green Arrow Vol. 2 and 3!
Reading list with RCO links under the cut!
Only three comics will be listed after the N52 because they are the only three that give us anything resembling an in character Connor Hawke- I will not now nor ever include Robin (2021) on this list.
The following is a chronological list of Connor's appearances:
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #0
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #91-105
Robin Vol. 2 #25
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #106-109
Showcase '96 #5
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #76
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #110
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #77
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #111-124
JLA #5, 8-12
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #125-129
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #96
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #130
Flash Vol. 2 #135
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #131-134
Detective Comics #723
Robin Vol. 2 #55
Nightwing Vol. 2 #23
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #135-136
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #104
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #137
Green Arrow Vol. 2 #1,000,000
Robin Vol. 2 #78-79
Green Arrow Vol. 3 #1, 8-11, 13-15, 21
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #162
Green Arrow Vol. 3 #24-25
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #164
Green Arrow Vol. 3 #27-32, 34-50, 52, 56-59, 66-68
Connor Hawke: Dragon's Blood #1-6
Green Arrow Vol. 3 #73-75
Green Arrow/Black Canary #1-7, 13-15
DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration
Green Arrow 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular
DC: Pride (2022)
The following issues have an unclear place in Connor's chronology and are presented here in chronological order by publication date:
black comic readers will say "buying black lead comics or black characters comics from dc doesn't stop them from getting axed and it's been literally 1200 days since dc has had a black ongoing so we're calling for a boycott to put pressure on dc by not buying comics and instead directly supporting black creatives" and here come the dumbest white people on the earth going "but dc is releasing pride month comics, do you hate queer people? but dc has female creators releasing comics, do you hate women? this boycott is so disorganised. i can't believe you hate queer people"
Debut/Early YJ- Cassie in her wig era, not much to say other then I got her vest slightly wrong -_- (I keep thinking it looks like Marty McFly's from Back to the Future)
Mid/Late YJ- Also not much notes, if anything this was peak Cassie era
Early Teen Titans- Ok now I can start talking. This outfit was the downfall for Cassie I swear. She has NEVER recovered. The crop top is cut in such a strange way. The pants is Fine, but the lack of stars on it makes it super boring compared to her last red pants design. Last her hair is just Out, usually it would be put in some type of ponytail.
So I mostly threw out most of the design, but I did keep the headband and while her hair is still out, I put some of it in a side pony. I pulled inspo from when she was WW in Sins of Youth because she was wearing Donna Troy's WG outfit, and Im surprised the original design didn't seem to pull some Donna inspo because she quite literally Died before TT03 stared and Cassie was devastated about it. So it wouldn't be shocking if she wanted to represent her in some way.
OYL- Hey are least she has star pants again. The heels are not it though. The tank is fine on its own, but so many times it clearly an excuse to draw attention to her chest (same can be applied with her previous outfit). Hair is out again sigh.
This is probably the closest to her original outfit compared to the other redesigns. All I really did is just made her less sexualized. The biggest thing I can say is I cut her hair to be more shorter because she is going through a pretty big depression during this era (big red arrow at the events of infinite crisis). So short hair = less maintenance = one less stressful thing to worry about.
Late Teen Titans- Goodness this outfit is also really bad and ugly, but I can't really pin point why. Is it the logo? The boring jeans? The same basic blonde comic book women hair? Idk \(-_-)/. At least overall it is hypothetically less sexualized. Hypothetically because she is still sexualized in other ways (ie posing or other casual outfits).
So yeah this was another "throw it all out" design. I tried to imply that her mental health is getting better because her system of support is growing (ie the new titans and the restriction of Kon and Bart), so she isn't exactly isolating herself as she was during the start of OYL. For whatever reason they changed it back to her first OYL design around 2010(?), but Im not doing that, she keeps this outfit until her time as WG is done (that sounds morbid but im not sure how else to word it)
Post comic canon(!)- hey look we are leaving the canon of post-crisis, sorta. In Titans Tomorrow Cassie is shown to become Evil Wonder Woman, but clearly we are not following the Titans Tomorrow timeline (I think there are other issues out there showing her as Wonder Woman *not counting sins of youth because technically it wasn't a "future" thing*, but 1. Im not too sure. And 2. If there are I haven't read them yet). But either way I think she would become a Wonder Woman for a short time, maybe for a year or two.
Personally this is my least favorite design, and probably will get minor tweaks in the future.
Bonus. The silver WW helmet bother me in that panel so I tweaked it a little. Take your pick
After Wonder Woman (Phoenix)- Personally I do think Cassie should have her own mantle (honestly I feel this way with all of YJ). I posted about my Phoenix design before and I still stand that Cassie needs a beautiful bird helmet. She still has short hair underneath the helmet. While not being WW she still wears the logo because Diana basically insisted that she continues to wear it because she still is carrying the message of being WW just without the name.
(I forgot to draw her armpit hair #fuckmychudlife).
Conclusion- im tired. Everyone love Cassie Sandsmark more.
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