I've never liked the character of Mia, but I still don't like this. There are genuine health hazards -- to other people -- involved in being HIV+ and in combat, and "combat" most definitely describes what superheroes like Green Arrow do.

How many times have street-level characters like her been wounded, shot, stabbed, etc? How many times have they had to go back into the burning building to carry out survivors anyway? Heck, in the current Green Arrow run alone, the reason Mia was in the doctor's office in the first place was to get stitched up.

Kee-ripes, there's a scene where Connor Hawke (Green Arrow's son) deliberately shoots an arrow /through her shoulder/ to nail a hostage-taker standing on the other side.

The message you should send HIV+ people is /not/ "It's OK to go out and be in a job where you routinely bleed on other people, and anybody who tells you otherwise is just tryin' to put you down." And yet, having an HIV+ superheroine does just that.

A real detriment to the AIDS cause, there is usually some "superhuman" agenda behind the scene. I don't want media, a teacher, or anybody else soapboxing to my kids (if that's what it is). We need to be very careful about how adult issues are conveyed to minors.

Ultimately that falls on the household. Unfortunately, we have too many households with no parental control. AND too much media, and activists, with big mouths.

I have long had the notion that Green Arrow could be done as a film with success, and had the beginnings of a plot in mind circa late eighties.

* Hoping I remember his name correctly.