I'm also not a Hester fan for exactly that reason. Everyone looks the same and he makes Conner look white. (And I don't like Vess, either, because EVERYONE LOOKS THE SAME ARRGH with the same big eyes drawn the same way. And I'm not entirely thrilled with Dave McKean when he does normal comic-book art, even though I love everything else he does ever, because his women ALL LOOK THE SAME and have the same 80s shag haircuts, even. It's a bizarrely widespread problem and one of the reasons I love Y: The Last Man--it's a world comprised almost entirely of women, but everyone is individual and identifiable and omg <3.)

I read the entire Green Arrow series recently and Quiver is a huge tone shift backwards to the original incarnation of Green Arrow, before he was turned into a pinko in the seventies. So that's pretty much twenty years of canon wiped out... but that's par for the course for DC, and that version of Green Arrow had pretty much had his arc. So I'm not upset by the change. I like the current run's version of Ollie.

The older version, though, was leaps and bounds more adult and--this is probably key--a less typical DC hero. He killed people. He accepted that moral weight. He left off the mask--and yes, Ollie doesn't hide his identity, but the mask is still a symbol. I'm a superhero. I'm not like you. This is my badge.

Grell made something out of the ordinary, and that's now gone. So... mixed feelings, but what's done is done.