Green Arrow: Rebirth

Don’t think I’ve ever done a write-up for a single issue of a comic book. But this #1 of Green Arrow / Rebirth—it earns that ‘rebirth.’ First, of course, I didn’t at all see the last Percy arc of Green Arrow going off the rails in any way. I mean, if anybody’s going to appreciate a werewolf-thing happening, right? Mix some Slade in, and I’m jimmying the lock on the local comics shop on Tuesday night. But, this new GA, man. It’s firing on all cylinders. If you’re looking for a solid write-up, this’ll definitely do. As for what so worked for me? I never even realized I had something near a fetish for dialogue balloons without the outline. But, doing it like that, it flattens everything out in a way that’s very cool: This, with the coloring, is doing something kind of . . . kind of like what Hawkeye did when Fraction and Aja were on it. And past them as well, some. It’s a really controlled . . . something, I don’t know. Color-talk always loses me fast. But I know when it works. And it’s working here, double-time, and it’s somehow syncing up with the line-less balloons to make these pages just something to study, and appreciate. Also, I like Ollie looking like the Ollie in my head: Troubled, that signature fancyboy goatee, and something just generally “moneyed” about him, I guess I’d say. Also, my favorite panel/sequence, it’s almost immediate: Why I excise this one to show, it’s . . .  . . . → → →

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