“When I look in your eyes, is that you baby? Or just a brilliant disguise?”

Green Arrow vol 2 #29 by Mike Grell and Dan Jurgens is the lost, and greatest issue of rock and roll comics to to ever hit newsstands. This comic fans is the issue where Green Arrow has his infamous show down with one Bruce Springsteen.
In the issue, Bruce Springsteen is a drunk ship captain that crashes The Argon Warrior, his tanker, in Alaskan waters, and the oil leaks out killing wild life. Thanks to the corporate heads at Argon, Captain Springsteen hides out in a secret cabin away from persecution, press, and police. It takes a man dressed like Robin Hood named Oliver Queen to track this mother down.



Here now, for reading pleasure are my favorite quotes from Green Arrow 29 and 30 followed by commentary:

"In addition to charges that Captain Springsteen may have been drinking when the tanker ran aground..."

If you hire Bruce Springsteen to drive your oil tanker, don't you kind of expect him to be drunk?

"And just where the hell are you going to go Springsteen?"

Probably to your daughter's bed room.

"Quit whining Springsteen. You've got plenty of food and booze-- just sit tight."

Is there ever such a thing as plenty of booze when Springsteen is involved?

"The search continues for Captain Springsteen, the commander of the vessel..."

Is anyone else getting the best re-imagining of Star Trek from that sentence?

"Springsteen is believed to have fled the state in fear of violence at the hands of outraged conservationists and angry fisherman."

That's what happens when the E Street Band rolls into town.









The issue ends kind of blah, Springsteen doesn't impregnate anything, but on the upside, Ollie doesn't wreck Springsteen's git box playing by shooting an arrow through his hand. The two- parter ends with The oil men getting away scot free, American Indians getting crapped on again, and Ollie leaving Captain Springsteen to his madness. Also a bunch of animals die from the oil spill. For rock and roll comix, these issues were sorely lacking in the rock and roll department. Yeah, Bruce is boozed up the whole time, but that's to be expected, I would have preferred the more traditional super hero team up where, Ollie and Bruce square off do to a misunderstanding, before they team up and rock the place. I eagerly await the movie adaptation of these two issues of Green Arrow.