Some of you guys aren't seeing the big picture here. If superheroes kill off all their bad guys, then they won't have any bad guys to fight. There won't be a comic anymore. If Batman killed the Joker he'd just sit around in his cave and play Angry Birds.
The defining attribute of Green Arrow's 'politics' is that he's anti-establishment, whatever the establishment happens to be. If you read Marx's writings you'll find that there is nothing inherently 'evil' about them. Communism, like Capitalism, sounds great in theory, but the practical reality of both is less than ideal. Any political or idealogical system has flaws that can be exploited by those who aren't very scrupulous. Green Arrow is against anyone who profits at the expense of others, this doesn't make him a Marxist anymore than it makes him a Klingon.
Cage works better as the voice of reason/everyman on a team of superheroes than he does as a solo operative. He's become sort of a Green Arrow type character who cares more about actually improving conditions for people than about wearing his underwear on the outside and punching space aliens in the face. He helps bring a bit of realism to a team book. However, his powers are simply too generic and uninteresting to justify a solo book. His history is also a bit cliche' (secret prison experiments are so 1970s). In addition, the Heroes For Hire had a terrible cast of villains. Not a single interesting one in the bunch. I love the character, but I only love him when he's got a bunch of goofy superheroes around him for contrast.
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