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Green Arrow (2016)
Green Arrow, Vol. 1: The Death and Life of Oliver Queen
Part of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling, all-new line of volume one graphic novels, DC Universe Rebirth!
By day he’s Oliver Queen, playboy socialite, CEO of Queen Industries and philanthropic do-gooder. But at night he patrols the streets of Seattle, where he champions the oppressed as a true social justice warrior. He is Green Arrow.
But how can you fight the man when you are the man? That’s the question left with Oliver after an electric, love-at-first-sight encounter with Black Canary, the superhero rock star who challenges everything he thought he knew about protecting the innocent. As if that weren’t enough, a sinister organization with ties to his nearest and dearest prepares to tear down Oliver’s financial empire, destroy his family’ s legacy and end his life.
Without fortune or friends, can Green Arrow defeat this unholy alliance of traitors? Or has death finally caught up with Oliver Queen?
Discover the shocking answers in GREEN ARROW VOL. 1: THE DEATH AND LIFE OF OLIVER QUEEN, the surprise hit series from writer BENJAMIN PERCY (TEEN TITANS), gorgeously illustrated by OTTO SCHMIDT (Korvac Saga) and JUAN FERREYRA (NEW SUICIDE SQUAD) and exploding from the blockbuster DC Universe Rebirth event! Collects GREEN ARROW: REBIRTH #1 and GREEN ARROW #1-5.
By day he’s Oliver Queen, playboy socialite, CEO of Queen Industries and philanthropic do-gooder. But at night he patrols the streets of Seattle, where he champions the oppressed as a true social justice warrior. He is Green Arrow.
But how can you fight the man when you are the man? That’s the question left with Oliver after an electric, love-at-first-sight encounter with Black Canary, the superhero rock star who challenges everything he thought he knew about protecting the innocent. As if that weren’t enough, a sinister organization with ties to his nearest and dearest prepares to tear down Oliver’s financial empire, destroy his family’ s legacy and end his life.
Without fortune or friends, can Green Arrow defeat this unholy alliance of traitors? Or has death finally caught up with Oliver Queen?
Discover the shocking answers in GREEN ARROW VOL. 1: THE DEATH AND LIFE OF OLIVER QUEEN, the surprise hit series from writer BENJAMIN PERCY (TEEN TITANS), gorgeously illustrated by OTTO SCHMIDT (Korvac Saga) and JUAN FERREYRA (NEW SUICIDE SQUAD) and exploding from the blockbuster DC Universe Rebirth event! Collects GREEN ARROW: REBIRTH #1 and GREEN ARROW #1-5.
149 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 10, 2017
About the author
Benjamin Percy
652 books1,136 followersBenjamin Percy is the author of seven novels -- most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow) -- three short fiction collections, and a book of essays, Thrill Me, that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. He writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire (where he is a contributing editor), GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and the Paris Review. His honors include an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Writer's Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the iHeart Radio Award for Best Scripted Podcast, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.
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February 20, 2017
Green Arrow and Black Canary are a couple again and they’re fighting bankers - this couldn’t possibly suck could it? It could. It does. Bah. Fucking Rebirth!
Benjamin Percy’s painfully hacky script utterly ruined what I (foolishly) hoped would be a half-decent Green Arrow book. The first two pages had me asking, disbelieving, “Really?” The scene: a rich, attractive Republican (read: NAZI) woman storms out on a dinner date with Ollie muttering “Liberal pig” followed by Ollie handing a hundo to a Dickensian street urchin whose mother is playing a guitar with the Woody Guthrie sticker “This Machine Kills Fascists” on it. Percy simplistically portrays this world like a fucking cartoon! There’s the rich and the conservative - they’re BAD - and there’s the poor and the liberal - they’re GOOD! It’s so ridiculous.
Then Ollie proudly calls himself a Social Justice Warrior (cringe!) and Dinah gives him shit about being white and privileged. Ugh, why? This cancerous left-wing bullshit ruins everything. So Ollie has to “prove” he’s good enough for self-righteous Dinah by showing her all his amazing charity work in Seattle (I guess Star City didn’t make the transition into Rebirth?). I just don’t know why she’d want to make him feel bad for being a heroic vigilante on top of his community work - what a bitch! And what’s she doing with her rock star money that’s so much better anyway?
Continuity-wise, it’s a mess. This is pre-New 52 Green Arrow and DC You-era Black Canary but they’ve also never met before so we get to see their romance from the beginning… and when did Ollie get a Japanese sister?!
The story is full of cliches. Ollie’s framed for a crime he didn’t commit, there’s a friend fighting friend scene, there’s a Japanese ninja lady wittering on about “honor” because that’s what Japanese people do right? And, I swear to Jeebus this is real, after Ollie speaks to his company’s CFO and leaves, the room darkens, a shadow crosses the CFO’s face, lightning cracks outside, and the CFO picks up a phone and says “It’s time.” Corny. As. Fuck. Can you tell he’s the villain??? There’s also some lame dialogue sprinkled throughout, the worst of which was Dinah saying “It seems like every time I get close to someone… everybody gets hurt, including me” (which she says twice). Faceplant.
The villains are awful. Percy bases them around Dante’s Inferno so there are characters called Dante and Virgil, the bank is literally called the Inferno, the group is the Ninth Circle (as in the Ninth Circle of Hell, where traitors go), and quotes from Dante’s poetry appear as well. Unimaginative, contrived drivel.
Why so much focus on Middle Ages Italian poetry? No idea. Percy just likes villains with a literary flavour I guess. Why do they burn their workers? No idea. Why are they stealing Seattle’s homeless and trying to frame Ollie? Look, this book is garbage, alright? None of it makes sense, they’re just bad guys being bad guys! Percy really didn’t need to literally demonise bankers either, they’re already the worst scum around without actually needing to be physically deformed and bankrolling supervillains - and anyway wouldn’t they make more money ripping off ordinary men and women like they’ve always done?!
I love artist Juan Ferreyra’s work (see his Dark Horse series Colder for some sensational art) so it’s a real shame he got saddled with such a shitty script. His work is very decent here but not nearly as impressive as it is in non-superhero comics.
Green Arrow, Volume 1: The Death and Life of Oliver Queen is utter rubbish. Derivative, bland and uninspired, I couldn’t have been more bored reading it. The ending is crap too with Percy looking to repeat Ollie’s origins yet again. I’m starting to view the Rebirth label on books as a warning to stay away from them!
Benjamin Percy’s painfully hacky script utterly ruined what I (foolishly) hoped would be a half-decent Green Arrow book. The first two pages had me asking, disbelieving, “Really?” The scene: a rich, attractive Republican (read: NAZI) woman storms out on a dinner date with Ollie muttering “Liberal pig” followed by Ollie handing a hundo to a Dickensian street urchin whose mother is playing a guitar with the Woody Guthrie sticker “This Machine Kills Fascists” on it. Percy simplistically portrays this world like a fucking cartoon! There’s the rich and the conservative - they’re BAD - and there’s the poor and the liberal - they’re GOOD! It’s so ridiculous.
Then Ollie proudly calls himself a Social Justice Warrior (cringe!) and Dinah gives him shit about being white and privileged. Ugh, why? This cancerous left-wing bullshit ruins everything. So Ollie has to “prove” he’s good enough for self-righteous Dinah by showing her all his amazing charity work in Seattle (I guess Star City didn’t make the transition into Rebirth?). I just don’t know why she’d want to make him feel bad for being a heroic vigilante on top of his community work - what a bitch! And what’s she doing with her rock star money that’s so much better anyway?
Continuity-wise, it’s a mess. This is pre-New 52 Green Arrow and DC You-era Black Canary but they’ve also never met before so we get to see their romance from the beginning… and when did Ollie get a Japanese sister?!
The story is full of cliches. Ollie’s framed for a crime he didn’t commit, there’s a friend fighting friend scene, there’s a Japanese ninja lady wittering on about “honor” because that’s what Japanese people do right? And, I swear to Jeebus this is real, after Ollie speaks to his company’s CFO and leaves, the room darkens, a shadow crosses the CFO’s face, lightning cracks outside, and the CFO picks up a phone and says “It’s time.” Corny. As. Fuck. Can you tell he’s the villain??? There’s also some lame dialogue sprinkled throughout, the worst of which was Dinah saying “It seems like every time I get close to someone… everybody gets hurt, including me” (which she says twice). Faceplant.
The villains are awful. Percy bases them around Dante’s Inferno so there are characters called Dante and Virgil, the bank is literally called the Inferno, the group is the Ninth Circle (as in the Ninth Circle of Hell, where traitors go), and quotes from Dante’s poetry appear as well. Unimaginative, contrived drivel.
Why so much focus on Middle Ages Italian poetry? No idea. Percy just likes villains with a literary flavour I guess. Why do they burn their workers? No idea. Why are they stealing Seattle’s homeless and trying to frame Ollie? Look, this book is garbage, alright? None of it makes sense, they’re just bad guys being bad guys! Percy really didn’t need to literally demonise bankers either, they’re already the worst scum around without actually needing to be physically deformed and bankrolling supervillains - and anyway wouldn’t they make more money ripping off ordinary men and women like they’ve always done?!
I love artist Juan Ferreyra’s work (see his Dark Horse series Colder for some sensational art) so it’s a real shame he got saddled with such a shitty script. His work is very decent here but not nearly as impressive as it is in non-superhero comics.
Green Arrow, Volume 1: The Death and Life of Oliver Queen is utter rubbish. Derivative, bland and uninspired, I couldn’t have been more bored reading it. The ending is crap too with Percy looking to repeat Ollie’s origins yet again. I’m starting to view the Rebirth label on books as a warning to stay away from them!
April 2, 2017
Another okay Rebirth title. It was cool to see Ollie and Dinah fighting crime together again, but the whole evil banker story was meh. I did think the ending was funny though.
February 6, 2017
Green Arrow is back! I mean I already enjoyed most of New52 run once Lemire got on. However this is more positive and fun which can be good for our Ollie.
The only negatives that hit me is the story is a bit safe. I mean the betrayals are easy to see, the double then triple crossing even easier to see coming, and it's a bit too basic at times.
Okay now that's out of the way let's talk good. Oliver is super fun and he should be, Emi is great and love she's back, Diggle is here but very different than the show and works, and Black Canary is THE BEST. The whole cast is A+ in my opinion. Also a HUGE plus is the art. This is probably some of the BEST art right now for Rebirth. I fucking love how it's easy to follow everything and everyone has a distinct look.
This is a great opening. Some new fans might be clueless who is who but they fill you in pretty quickly. I give it a 4/5!
The only negatives that hit me is the story is a bit safe. I mean the betrayals are easy to see, the double then triple crossing even easier to see coming, and it's a bit too basic at times.
Okay now that's out of the way let's talk good. Oliver is super fun and he should be, Emi is great and love she's back, Diggle is here but very different than the show and works, and Black Canary is THE BEST. The whole cast is A+ in my opinion. Also a HUGE plus is the art. This is probably some of the BEST art right now for Rebirth. I fucking love how it's easy to follow everything and everyone has a distinct look.
This is a great opening. Some new fans might be clueless who is who but they fill you in pretty quickly. I give it a 4/5!
March 31, 2017
3.5 stars.
This had a really promising start but it kind of waned a little as it reached its conclusion.
This is the first Green Arrow book I've read. I was very intrigued by the the first Rebirth issue because I like the idea of Ollie as an unapologetic Social Justice Warrior. It actually didn't come across as pretentious and douchey the way Marvel Netflix's Danny Rand does and I believe Oliver here. My friends know I couldn't get through more than seven episodes of CW's Arrow (or Error as we like to call it) but Percy's Oliver Queen is a character I can sink my teeth into. (Not literally of course although he really is quite gorgeous here).
This Ollie is protective over the downtrodden, doesn't make excuses for screwing people over and he's good at what he does. He has an actual personality and he's funny at times. I really liked him and I'm psyched to read more about him. I especially liked his relationships with Emi, Henry and Diggle.
I adore Dinah Lance in most things I've read but it seems she followed Babs suit here because I'm not a fan of Rebirth Dinah either. Her reactions to things were all over the place and it was honestly confusing. The Dinah I love reaches for what she wants. I just don't know if I think she would say some of the syrupy things this Dinah says like telling Ollie "It's up to you to not let me go". I will say, I can buy her making fun of him and kicking ass to avenge him. That was definitely in character.
I've never read anything with this Emi character but I really like her. I hope there's more of her in the next part.
It's hard to explain where this lagged for me. I enjoyed the action sequences a lot! Ollie's break in was really well done. The chase into the street was awesome! It just doesn't feel like a 4 star book because even with those great elements, I never got back up to that feeling I had at the beginning of this book. Maybe if I knew more about the character some of this would have more significance and this would be rated higher for me? I don't know but it's definitely a good book. Just not 4 or 5 stars for me.
The art and colors in this book were gorgeous! I've never seen Schmidt and Ferreya's work before but it was lovely.
I'm excited to read the next part!
This had a really promising start but it kind of waned a little as it reached its conclusion.
This is the first Green Arrow book I've read. I was very intrigued by the the first Rebirth issue because I like the idea of Ollie as an unapologetic Social Justice Warrior. It actually didn't come across as pretentious and douchey the way Marvel Netflix's Danny Rand does and I believe Oliver here. My friends know I couldn't get through more than seven episodes of CW's Arrow (or Error as we like to call it) but Percy's Oliver Queen is a character I can sink my teeth into. (Not literally of course although he really is quite gorgeous here).
This Ollie is protective over the downtrodden, doesn't make excuses for screwing people over and he's good at what he does. He has an actual personality and he's funny at times. I really liked him and I'm psyched to read more about him. I especially liked his relationships with Emi, Henry and Diggle.
I adore Dinah Lance in most things I've read but it seems she followed Babs suit here because I'm not a fan of Rebirth Dinah either. Her reactions to things were all over the place and it was honestly confusing. The Dinah I love reaches for what she wants. I just don't know if I think she would say some of the syrupy things this Dinah says like telling Ollie "It's up to you to not let me go". I will say, I can buy her making fun of him and kicking ass to avenge him. That was definitely in character.
I've never read anything with this Emi character but I really like her. I hope there's more of her in the next part.
It's hard to explain where this lagged for me. I enjoyed the action sequences a lot! Ollie's break in was really well done. The chase into the street was awesome! It just doesn't feel like a 4 star book because even with those great elements, I never got back up to that feeling I had at the beginning of this book. Maybe if I knew more about the character some of this would have more significance and this would be rated higher for me? I don't know but it's definitely a good book. Just not 4 or 5 stars for me.
The art and colors in this book were gorgeous! I've never seen Schmidt and Ferreya's work before but it was lovely.
I'm excited to read the next part!
February 6, 2017
I actually really, really liked this. Enough so that I'm considering going back and reading some New 52 Green Arrow. I only picked this one up because I decided to read almost everything that came out of Rebirth, and this is the first one that's been a real hit with me. I like how Percy writes Ollie, which fits with just about everything else I've ever read with him in it. The story works, though I'm sure that I missed some beats because I'm behind on this version of Green Arrow. Still, I never actually felt more than a step behind, and Percy did a fairly good job of keeping me caught up in a fairly natural way. And by the way, this is a gorgeous book. Ferreyra's art and, especially, his coloring is wonderful to look at. I love when I'm reading a comic and I pause before reading a page, just to admire how it looks, and I found myself doing that at least two or three times each issue. This is the first Rebirth title to exceed my expectations and make me want more, though I haven't found a dud yet.
April 5, 2019
I found this, just OK. I liked that they finally brought Black Canary around. However, I don't like that they aged Emi up to a teenager. She's a much cooler character as a 7 or 8 year old. My problem with this book is that's there's way too much in it. The Underground Men, the Burned, and The Ninth Circle are all introduced and thrown away by the end of the book. If you're going to set up this evil, globe encompassing group, keep them the main focus for an extended period leading up a big confrontation a year or two from now. Ollie gets left for dead, loses his money and reputation, gets an opportunity to get it back, and throws it all away in a couple of issues. Some better pacing would do this series a lot of good. Everything doesn't need to be resolved in a single page. If you weren't wild about the previous 2 GA books, this one isn't going to change your mind.
Received an advance copy from DC and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Received an advance copy from DC and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
May 8, 2022
This was really good omg!
I remember reading it as single issues when it was coming out and now again and I get the same excitement now, so it picks with Ollie as he meets Dinah finally in th enew continuity and then them facing off against some "Underground men" and something big happening to Ollie and the two in disarray as soon as they meet but what Ollie discovers is that people close to him like Broderick and all are members of some shadowy Illuminati-type group called "the ninth circle" and their ties with Queen consolidated and how he winds up in the middle of it is the crux of the story and then a massive team up between the Arrow family as they fight these people and some big choices for Ollie ahead!
I LOVED THIS VOLUME! Its packed with action and dos well to bring the team together like Ollie, Dinah and Emi and does well to introduce the new players Diggle and Henry Fyff and yeah its from new 52 last volumes but still good job here introducing them and then the new villains are cool and I feel like we will be seeing more of them in future volumes and its awesome, the art is the best part of it, its filled with that emerald energy and just every page is a delight to look at, some of the best dc comics ever easily. Plus the end <3!
I remember reading it as single issues when it was coming out and now again and I get the same excitement now, so it picks with Ollie as he meets Dinah finally in th enew continuity and then them facing off against some "Underground men" and something big happening to Ollie and the two in disarray as soon as they meet but what Ollie discovers is that people close to him like Broderick and all are members of some shadowy Illuminati-type group called "the ninth circle" and their ties with Queen consolidated and how he winds up in the middle of it is the crux of the story and then a massive team up between the Arrow family as they fight these people and some big choices for Ollie ahead!
I LOVED THIS VOLUME! Its packed with action and dos well to bring the team together like Ollie, Dinah and Emi and does well to introduce the new players Diggle and Henry Fyff and yeah its from new 52 last volumes but still good job here introducing them and then the new villains are cool and I feel like we will be seeing more of them in future volumes and its awesome, the art is the best part of it, its filled with that emerald energy and just every page is a delight to look at, some of the best dc comics ever easily. Plus the end <3!
September 11, 2016
I've said it before but i don't really give Green Arrow a chance, mainly because whenever he appears in other comics he always come across as a total asshole.
However i did quite like this one, thought the story was decent if not a little too heavy on the double crossing, to the point where i'm not sure if there was a person that wasn't being doubled cross. The artwork was amazing and the colouring was just a beaut, and it definitely stands out more than the story. It's a pretty solid volume and i'm interested to see where this one goes and it's well worth picking up especially for those new to Queen he's not as big of a douche as i first thought, ya won me over with this one.
However i did quite like this one, thought the story was decent if not a little too heavy on the double crossing, to the point where i'm not sure if there was a person that wasn't being doubled cross. The artwork was amazing and the colouring was just a beaut, and it definitely stands out more than the story. It's a pretty solid volume and i'm interested to see where this one goes and it's well worth picking up especially for those new to Queen he's not as big of a douche as i first thought, ya won me over with this one.
April 29, 2023
Surprisingly enjoyable for a rather generic story, there's not a great lot of depth, but it does the job and is consistently entertaining. Where it really shines is with the character dynamics. Ollie and Dinah, no surprise, work wonderfully together, and the other supporting characters play their parts well. Another aspect of note is the art which fits perfectly with the all-out-superhero-shenanigans vibe that the narrative is going for. Essentially bringing it back to square one, the cliffhanger nicely sets up the following volumes and starts off Green Arrow's Rebirth run with a bang.
July 26, 2017
So this is my first Afterbirth, err sorry REbirth story by DC. So we are treated to super-liberal, super-annoying, and super-judgemental holier-than-thou Green Arrow. DC's version of Hawkeye is a Bruce Wayne wanna-be. Lots of money, issues- superhero on the side. That kind of thing.
So basically Oliver Queen is fighting crime as the Green Arrow. He stumbles across this weird group known as the Ninth Circle. These guys are REALLY evil. Know why? They are *whispers* BANKERS. Yup. Bankers. This according to Oliver Queen is where the "really bad guys" come from. *ROTFLMAO* yeah? Take a trip to the ME sometime or maybe watch some history stuff on the Holocaust, or read about Stalin's Gulags, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, ISIS, narco-trafficers, human slavers...but nope..BANKERS. Jesus.
Anyways these evil Bankers are trying to find ways to keep the APR low so that they don't have to pay high interest rates..no I'm kidding. But it might as well have been. At least then I'd have been more interested. The Bankers are funding wars. Queen, Black Canary and some other nobodies fight them. Yaay. Pretty awesome. Oh and Oliver Queen gives some homeless kid a $100 then the kid ends up in Queen bath tub..being bathed...by Oliver Queen..in the bathtub. Because a 10 yr old is incapable of washing themselves. Now I'm not an expert, having never sired any spawn that I'm aware of, on kids and their bathing rituals, but I think it's kind of creepy that a grown man (a stranger to boot) thinking it's normal to do this. Apparently it is..since Black Canary is watching. My personal advice? I do NOT suggest you try this at home..even with children you know or are related too. This kind of thing can be completely misconstrued, if you know what I mean? Maybe you don't. Oliver Queen certainly doesn't.
What else is going on? Oh Oliver has a sister..who is a ninja...because their mom was a ninja. The mom is trying to kill Oliver. His sister is trying to kill Oliver, nah not really-she's just faking it...pretty cool. Nice twist. Ummm in between we find out Oliver's CFO has been helping the Ninth Circle _I knew the CFO was hinky when they showed him at work in a tuxedo. Uh...there are these things called BUSINESS suits. Grown ups wear them for real jobs. Tuxedos and Dinner Jackets are formal attire for formal events. Not work. What kind of jackass wears a Tuxedo to work? He's probably a Yale grad..that would explain the lack of taste.
So anyways..not impressed. Don't think much of Green Arrow...I like him better when he appears in other comics. I may check back in with Oliver Queen. As soon as he gets out of prison, where is he going to end up if he keeps bathing children.
So basically Oliver Queen is fighting crime as the Green Arrow. He stumbles across this weird group known as the Ninth Circle. These guys are REALLY evil. Know why? They are *whispers* BANKERS. Yup. Bankers. This according to Oliver Queen is where the "really bad guys" come from. *ROTFLMAO* yeah? Take a trip to the ME sometime or maybe watch some history stuff on the Holocaust, or read about Stalin's Gulags, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, ISIS, narco-trafficers, human slavers...but nope..BANKERS. Jesus.
Anyways these evil Bankers are trying to find ways to keep the APR low so that they don't have to pay high interest rates..no I'm kidding. But it might as well have been. At least then I'd have been more interested. The Bankers are funding wars. Queen, Black Canary and some other nobodies fight them. Yaay. Pretty awesome. Oh and Oliver Queen gives some homeless kid a $100 then the kid ends up in Queen bath tub..being bathed...by Oliver Queen..in the bathtub. Because a 10 yr old is incapable of washing themselves. Now I'm not an expert, having never sired any spawn that I'm aware of, on kids and their bathing rituals, but I think it's kind of creepy that a grown man (a stranger to boot) thinking it's normal to do this. Apparently it is..since Black Canary is watching. My personal advice? I do NOT suggest you try this at home..even with children you know or are related too. This kind of thing can be completely misconstrued, if you know what I mean? Maybe you don't. Oliver Queen certainly doesn't.
What else is going on? Oh Oliver has a sister..who is a ninja...because their mom was a ninja. The mom is trying to kill Oliver. His sister is trying to kill Oliver, nah not really-she's just faking it...pretty cool. Nice twist. Ummm in between we find out Oliver's CFO has been helping the Ninth Circle _I knew the CFO was hinky when they showed him at work in a tuxedo. Uh...there are these things called BUSINESS suits. Grown ups wear them for real jobs. Tuxedos and Dinner Jackets are formal attire for formal events. Not work. What kind of jackass wears a Tuxedo to work? He's probably a Yale grad..that would explain the lack of taste.
So anyways..not impressed. Don't think much of Green Arrow...I like him better when he appears in other comics. I may check back in with Oliver Queen. As soon as he gets out of prison, where is he going to end up if he keeps bathing children.
September 28, 2018
Nicely illustrated (liked Schmidt's issues more) and written in really good way. Never liked this character, but this kind of changed the way I look at him.
January 21, 2017
I received this from Edelweiss and DC Comics in exchange for an honest review.
This was actually quite a fun book. I've always viewed Oliver Queen/Green Arrow as a Bruce Wayne/Batman knockoff, you know, the rich playboy socialite by day, mercenary by night.
This story kind of knocks that concept on its head, and Benjamin Percy actually turns in a pretty good story. The artwork is pretty good, too.
I'll keep reading this one, I think.
This was actually quite a fun book. I've always viewed Oliver Queen/Green Arrow as a Bruce Wayne/Batman knockoff, you know, the rich playboy socialite by day, mercenary by night.
This story kind of knocks that concept on its head, and Benjamin Percy actually turns in a pretty good story. The artwork is pretty good, too.
I'll keep reading this one, I think.
October 14, 2018
My first Green arrow and Percy novel and it had its ups and down, more ups though. The start seemed a bit too simple. Once the Ninth Circle kicked in, it started to really move along nicely. The art was great especially further through the issues. My only concern is that Percys ending seems like a bit of a cop out. Dont get me wrong it was still an action packed ending just hope its not where I think its going.
July 26, 2017
Man, I really liked this. Interesting art and a decent story. Well done.
February 24, 2017
I'm biased because I've always had a thing for bow and arrow guys.
January 17, 2021
5 stars
Glad that Oliver was able to meet Dinah. Also nice that Oliver has a sister, Emiko. Hope that Oliver will be avenged. Good that Emiko was undercover.
Can't wait to read Green Arrow, volume 2: Island of Scars!!!!
Glad that Oliver was able to meet Dinah. Also nice that Oliver has a sister, Emiko. Hope that Oliver will be avenged. Good that Emiko was undercover.
Can't wait to read Green Arrow, volume 2: Island of Scars!!!!
March 20, 2018
(3.5) i liked the story, art was great I guess I can't complain. I don't have much experience with green arrow except I did read the new 52 book 1 and I didn't like it so in comparison this was better for me. It is a pretty straight forward book 1 with some intros and it gets right into the story which is mainly about ruining the life of Oliver Queen. I really like the villain Dante and his band the ninth circle, he is ghoulish and freaky and was drawn well. I have to give color guys a nod because both of them were fantastic. I will actually read some more of this series.
January 16, 2022
Plot definitely flattens from the middle but I’m bias. Oliver and Dinah own my little heart forever <3
September 11, 2017
I have a kind of personal affection for Green Arrow. He's not the greatest hero ever, I don't even think he's that popular, but I like him. Which supposes I can forgive a lot of things because of that fondness. But there are limits Benjamin Percy blithely crossed.
The plot was so crummy, lame and contrived I was that close to take it as a personal insult to my intelligence.
You thought ISIS, Hitler and Stalin were evil? Try again. You know what's the real eeeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiiiiilll of this world (sepulchral voice)?
Bankers.
Yep. Bankers. Bankers that founded a Junior Woodchucks club for evil bankers where for some reason they wear ugly masks and plot the end of the world to maximise profits.
To show he's a scholar Percy based the club upon Dante's Inferno (see, that's eeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiiiiiil). I don't see any other reason as to why evil bankers would refer to a 13/14th century italian poet.
When he doesn't throw his knowledge of 13th century poets at the reader's face to underline the eeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiiiiiiil side of today's bankers Percy writes lousy dialogues, defines lousy characters (Queen calls himself a "social justice warrior"- that speaks volumes- while Dinah spends her time being bitchy with him for no particular reason) and writes a pathetic and ridiculous script full of holes as much of air.
For example, you'd think those eeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiiiiiiil bankers would do their stuff casually, writing lines on a computer. No, no, no, my friend, that wouldn't stress their evilness enough. They dress as freaks, kidnap homeless people and kids to sell them to the highest bidder and create a kind of zombie army on the side. They even have a Giger-like secret base in the middle of the Ocean. So discreet...
While I might not consider bankers as a blessing of civilization the ridiculous caricature Percy makes of them definitely rubs me off. The guy might know of 13th century italian poets but he still has to learn of nuance.
There are other things that bother me in this totally new reader unfriendly piece of crap but at this point it's not worth dwelling on it.
Why 2* though?
The art and this only. Otto Schmidt and Juan Ferreyra are on the drawing board and both do a good job-my preference being for the more dynamic Schmidt. They deserve at least some credit.
The plot was so crummy, lame and contrived I was that close to take it as a personal insult to my intelligence.
You thought ISIS, Hitler and Stalin were evil? Try again. You know what's the real eeeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiiiiilll of this world (sepulchral voice)?
Bankers.
Yep. Bankers. Bankers that founded a Junior Woodchucks club for evil bankers where for some reason they wear ugly masks and plot the end of the world to maximise profits.
To show he's a scholar Percy based the club upon Dante's Inferno (see, that's eeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiiiiiil). I don't see any other reason as to why evil bankers would refer to a 13/14th century italian poet.
When he doesn't throw his knowledge of 13th century poets at the reader's face to underline the eeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiiiiiiil side of today's bankers Percy writes lousy dialogues, defines lousy characters (Queen calls himself a "social justice warrior"- that speaks volumes- while Dinah spends her time being bitchy with him for no particular reason) and writes a pathetic and ridiculous script full of holes as much of air.
For example, you'd think those eeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiiiiiiil bankers would do their stuff casually, writing lines on a computer. No, no, no, my friend, that wouldn't stress their evilness enough. They dress as freaks, kidnap homeless people and kids to sell them to the highest bidder and create a kind of zombie army on the side. They even have a Giger-like secret base in the middle of the Ocean. So discreet...
While I might not consider bankers as a blessing of civilization the ridiculous caricature Percy makes of them definitely rubs me off. The guy might know of 13th century italian poets but he still has to learn of nuance.
There are other things that bother me in this totally new reader unfriendly piece of crap but at this point it's not worth dwelling on it.
Why 2* though?
The art and this only. Otto Schmidt and Juan Ferreyra are on the drawing board and both do a good job-my preference being for the more dynamic Schmidt. They deserve at least some credit.
July 28, 2017
THIS WAS ALSO REALLY GOOD AND I DON'T EVEN LOVE GREEN ARROW
November 12, 2018
Zelenej šíp jednička je celkem zábavná akční jízda, která sice několikrát zkratkovitě poskočí v ději, ale ono je to možná dobře, protože tak Comics neztrácí tempo a jede jak mejdlo ve vězeňských sprchách.
Oliver bojuje proti podzemnim lidem, potká balck canary, zamiluje se, zjistí že zlá organizace je financovaná na pozadí jeho firmy, skoro umře, vrátí se a všechno zachrání.
Jednohubk, kterou si ovšem určitě přečtete znova až budete číst run komplet. Dvojka už je venku ajá se celkem těšim, protože tohleto je přesně mainstreamovej comics jak má bejt.
70%
Oliver bojuje proti podzemnim lidem, potká balck canary, zamiluje se, zjistí že zlá organizace je financovaná na pozadí jeho firmy, skoro umře, vrátí se a všechno zachrání.
Jednohubk, kterou si ovšem určitě přečtete znova až budete číst run komplet. Dvojka už je venku ajá se celkem těšim, protože tohleto je přesně mainstreamovej comics jak má bejt.
70%
October 27, 2016
Yeah........ I thought maybe I'd like it with the Rebirth issue. MAYBE. So the writing was a little finnicky and maybe it seemed unpolished. Maybe it'll be charming, and I'll fall in love with Ollie and Dinah. But no. My dislike grew the more I read it. The writing is lazy and juvenile, and I feel absolutely nothing for any of the main characters. The dialogue is painfully cheesy and cheap to a point where I caught myself rolling my eyes to nobody but myself. The plot's unoriginal, and the twists are predictable. I don't even know what's up with the art. Some of the paneling is haphazardly slapped together making it such an awkward read. I mean okay at least I got to the end... so two stars. But forreal come on.
January 7, 2017
[Read as single issues]
Oliver Queen's first Rebirth adventures begin here as he runs into Black Canary, and their relationship blossoms alongside the downfall of everything in Oliver's life as his sister betrays him, his ex-girlfriend betrays him, and his closest work colleague also betrays him. Not a good start for the Emerald Archer, but a great story.
This is a very different book to Ben Percy's previous run on the title; this feels like the Green Arrow everyone knows and loves, with a healthly spattering of the Arrow TV show for good measure. Add in the absolutely gorgeous and innovative artwork from Otto Schmidt and Juan Ferreyra and this is easily one of the strongest Rebirth debuts.
Oliver Queen's first Rebirth adventures begin here as he runs into Black Canary, and their relationship blossoms alongside the downfall of everything in Oliver's life as his sister betrays him, his ex-girlfriend betrays him, and his closest work colleague also betrays him. Not a good start for the Emerald Archer, but a great story.
This is a very different book to Ben Percy's previous run on the title; this feels like the Green Arrow everyone knows and loves, with a healthly spattering of the Arrow TV show for good measure. Add in the absolutely gorgeous and innovative artwork from Otto Schmidt and Juan Ferreyra and this is easily one of the strongest Rebirth debuts.
November 2, 2017
Arrow and Canary kicking ass, taking names, and righting wrongs on the dark streets of Seattle - what's not to like?
Well, the majority of Vol. 1 is really good - the action, artwork, story, and characters. Towards the end, though, it felt as if a lot of stuff was being crammed in and it started to lose some of the tightness or momentum. (Resisting the temptation to write "they missed the bullseye by a few inches" was tough.)
However, I think it's another promising title in DC's new Rebirth line.
Well, the majority of Vol. 1 is really good - the action, artwork, story, and characters. Towards the end, though, it felt as if a lot of stuff was being crammed in and it started to lose some of the tightness or momentum. (Resisting the temptation to write "they missed the bullseye by a few inches" was tough.)
However, I think it's another promising title in DC's new Rebirth line.
January 5, 2017
So at the end of the day, I think Green Arrow is in my top 3 favorite D.C. characters. I've loved him since Justin Hartley depicted him on Smallville. This had so many fun elements and I couldn't put it down. I'm really glad they've gotten back to the original Dinah/Ollie dynamic as I think they are amazing together. I'm excited for the next trade...
March 28, 2017
Those of you fellas looking for Arrow, as in something dark with Felicity Jones and Thea Queen in it starring Stephen Ammel (I may have misspelled that), will not find what you are looking for here.
No, this is a bright, lighter take on Oliver Queen, a.k.a. the Green Arrow, a.k.a. Goatee Man, with interesting art and a story with a bunch of plot holes.
3/5 Stars.
No, this is a bright, lighter take on Oliver Queen, a.k.a. the Green Arrow, a.k.a. Goatee Man, with interesting art and a story with a bunch of plot holes.
3/5 Stars.
February 7, 2017
Easily one of the best Rebirth entries, even if the plot quality dips a bit in the middle.
Full review to come.
Full review to come.
November 18, 2017
This was painful to read at times. The art was very inconsistent, the background were nice but the closeups were cartoon like. The plot was poor at best. Ugh
December 7, 2017
With Rebirth, Percy and the rest of the creative team find the freedom to create the arrow series that they want. Especially comparing Percy's previous work with New 52 Arrow to now, everything--from character to story--feels consistently well-developed as the different elements of the volume come together for a single vision.
There are moments throughout (volumes 2 and 3 as well) where dialogue and situations feel a little on-the-nose, but everything mostly works together quite well. Blending darkness and humor, Percy, Schmidt, and the rest have here a notably different version of Queen than the (fantastic) one which existed under Lemire's hand in New 52, but adjusting to the new direction, Percy is heading up some great storytelling with strong character dynamics and effective artwork.
There are moments throughout (volumes 2 and 3 as well) where dialogue and situations feel a little on-the-nose, but everything mostly works together quite well. Blending darkness and humor, Percy, Schmidt, and the rest have here a notably different version of Queen than the (fantastic) one which existed under Lemire's hand in New 52, but adjusting to the new direction, Percy is heading up some great storytelling with strong character dynamics and effective artwork.
May 30, 2018
Green Arrow is a fascinating paradox and an anachronism in the world of superhero comics. He's an ultra-wealthy hetero cis white male who hasn't had to work a day in his life, but circumstances led him to fight injustice in Seattle with a bow and trick arrows. That alone is nothing special, but in the '70s, Neal Adams took him in a very different direction content-wise. He's had an HIV-positive sex worker and recovering heroine addict as a partner and possibly as a lover, for example. He's cocky and prone to cracking jokes while the world is crumbling on top of him.
Benjamin Percy starts off GA's series in the Rebirth era with the perfect tone and amount of introductory exposition. And the art in most of the issues is gorgeous!
Benjamin Percy starts off GA's series in the Rebirth era with the perfect tone and amount of introductory exposition. And the art in most of the issues is gorgeous!
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