GREEN ARROW #1
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Art by DIOGENES NEVES
Cover by MAURO CASCIOLI
Variant cover by ETHAN VAN SCIVER
Size: 40 pages
Price: 3.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
Wow. Um yeah, what happened?
Man, Green Arrow was a favorite of mine growing up as a kid. I loved the Neal Adams art, loved seeing Ollie and Hal working to defeat some problem, loved seeing Ollie with my other favorite Batman in the issues of Brave and Bold with that great Jim Aparo art, but now?
Remember that Trevor Von Eden mini series back in the 80's, that was also good. Please package as a trade DC. Then, Mike Grell did his take. Which is alright, but he changed the character's personality. Changed his philosophy. Ollie killed. Hey it was the 80's, Reagan time, R rated action was in. I lasted about 20 issues, it wasn't for me.
Then Kevin Smith restored the fun loving Ollie. A great run? It was alright, I think I loved it more because this was the Ollie I remembered. It was fun and had some unexpected twists. Stanley and his Monster? But Brad Meltzer came on and gave us the best Green Arrow story to date. Why is it so good? Character. So many great character moments, and those last few pages are just great. Also he gave us Idenity Crisis, with Ollie front and for the most part center.
Then Judd Winick happened. A servicable writer who loves caption boxes. A straight forward comic book writer with a passion for cliche, the one who gave us back Jason Todd when we really didn't ask for him.
I stayed. I stayed through the relaunch along side Black Canary. I hope that it would get better, but as I said before. It was servicable. Nothing special. And then it all hit the fan a few months ago. Justice League: Cry For Justice #7 a total mess of a book. Followed by the final issues of Green Arrow and the Arsenal mini. Lousy story, writing and art.
But I was willing to give this book a shot, this was one of my favorite character, and it was starting over. But it sucked, man it was god awful. First the art. Great cover, heavily flawed interiors. Diogenes Neves shows no flair in storytelling, except for the arrow through the nose. It seemed that was the only visual kick he could dream up. The sloppy anatomy, look again the characters when they turn their heads. It ain't quite right. Plus the similarity in character design, same body types all over except for hair styles. That is ecept for GA, The commissioner (round and cartoonishly evil) and the clear as day new villian, Isabel Rochev. Who makes an eye rolling debut. Here's my problems with the story. the very cartoonish. Yeah its a comic, but lets not throw in every lousy cliche from the past 30 years. Her into is so 80's with that get up that screams I'm the villian. Yet, no one on that roof top bats an eye at how idiotic she looks. The commissioner gestures in such stereo typical ways its laughable. And there's no sense of time or place, is this all in a night? Where are the transitions?
And finally, Ollie's old company and city. In this day and age are we to believe a major company is still located in the worst city in America? I doubt it. It would have moved out of there in an instant. Plus the forest is shaped like a star in a city called star city. Can we get any more obvious?
Well I'll wait for the next reboot.
Art: 1 - Poor
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