Source: ifanboy.com
8. Justice League: The Rise of Arsenal
Any Young Justice fans in the house?
Any of you got a thing for that ultimate bad boy Roy Harper, aka Speedy, aka Arsenal, aka Red Arrow? Well, I’m about to ruin all of that for you. In the early seventies, as part of the socially conscious Green Lantern/Green Arrow run, it was revealed that good ol’ Roy had a serious heroin addiction. I’ll wait while you make your “Speedy†jokes now. Good? Cool.
So Roy kicked the addiction and eventually went on to become a founding member of the Titans before upgrading to honest to goodness Justice Leaguer. But after all that, someone for some reason decided they wanted to drag him back down. And that is how we got Rise of Arsenal, a story in which Roy relapses into heroin, has a drug trip freakout, appears to beat a group of drug dealers into submission with a dead cat, and suffers from erectile dysfunction. Also, at one point, Batman roundhouses him in the jaw and shouts “I’m your friend!†which I’ll concede is a pretty great page.
Sleep tight, Roy Harper fans!

