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Green Arrow (1988) (Collected Editions)
Green Arrow, Vol. 7: Homecoming
THE EXCITING FOLLOW-UP TO THE INNOVATIVE GRAPHIC NOVEL
GREEN ARROW: LAST ACTION HERO
After a year of wandering the earth, Oliver Queen has returned to Seattle, and to the arms of his pretty bird. Dinah Lance is thrilled he’s back, but when he left he didn’t tell her if he’d ever return, and now there’s another man in the picture. Officer Kozynski had just convinced Dinah to go out to dinner with him when Green Arrow made his dramatic return. “Koz” is willing to bow out gracefully…but it turns out that he has more in common with Green Arrow than anyone knows. Now the local police chief thinks Oliver might be responsible for a vigilante killing, and Green Arrow is back to being a suspect-the very reason he left town in the first place…
Mike Grell’s defining run on the Emerald Archer continues here in GREEN ARROW VOL. 7: HOMECOMING. Collects issues #51-62.
GREEN ARROW: LAST ACTION HERO
After a year of wandering the earth, Oliver Queen has returned to Seattle, and to the arms of his pretty bird. Dinah Lance is thrilled he’s back, but when he left he didn’t tell her if he’d ever return, and now there’s another man in the picture. Officer Kozynski had just convinced Dinah to go out to dinner with him when Green Arrow made his dramatic return. “Koz” is willing to bow out gracefully…but it turns out that he has more in common with Green Arrow than anyone knows. Now the local police chief thinks Oliver might be responsible for a vigilante killing, and Green Arrow is back to being a suspect-the very reason he left town in the first place…
Mike Grell’s defining run on the Emerald Archer continues here in GREEN ARROW VOL. 7: HOMECOMING. Collects issues #51-62.
320 pages, Paperback
First published January 10, 2017
About the author
Mike Grell
669 books89 followersMike Grell (born 1947) is a comic book writer and artist.
Grell studied at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, and took the Famous Artists School correspondence course in cartooning. His entry into the comics industry was in 1972, as an assistant to Dale Messick on the Brenda Starr comic strip.
In 1973 Grell moved to New York, and began his long relationship with DC Comics. His first assignment at DC was on Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, a high-profile assignment for an artist with no prior experience illustrating a monthly comic book. Grell says he got that job because he was walking in the editor's door to ask for work, literally, as the previous artist was walking out the door, having just quit. These stories were written by Cary Bates and Jim Shooter. The Bates/Grell/Shooter run on the title is very well-regarded today by Superboy/Legion fans, who consider it one of the high-water marks in the character/team's history. Grell's work on SATLOSH is widely thought to be some of the best beefcake/cheesecake ever committed to comic book pages, and is affectionately referred to as the 'disco Legion' in retrospect by fans of the title.
A writer as well as artist, Grell cemented his status as a fan-favorite with his best-known creation, The Warlord, one of the first sword and sorcery comics, and reportedly the best-selling title published by DC Comics in the late-1970s.
The character first appeared in 1st Issue Special #8 (Nov 1975) and was soon given his own ongoing title (The Warlord #1, Jan/Feb 1976). In this book, Air Force pilot Travis Morgan crash-lands in the prehistoric "hidden world" of Skartaris (a setting highly influenced by Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar). For years thereafter, Morgan engages in adventures dressed only in a winged helmet, wristbands, boots, and breechclout, and armed with a sword and (years before Dirty Harry handled one) a .44 Auto Mag.
At DC, Grell also worked on titles such as Aquaman, Batman, and the Phantom Stranger, and with writer Dennis O'Neil on the re-launch of the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series in 1976.
[edit] Tarzan
Grell wrote and drew the Tarzan comic strip from July 19, 1981 to February 27, 1983 (except for one strip, February 13, 1983, by Thomas Yeates). These strips were rerun in newspapers in 2004 - 2005.
[edit] First Comics: Jon Sable Freelance and Starslayer
Cover to Jon Sable Freelance #7. Art by Mike Grell.Through the 1980s Grell developed creator-owned titles such Jon Sable Freelance and Starslayer. Jon Sable Freelance was published by the now-defunct First Comics. Starslayer, a space-born science fiction series, started at Pacific Comics, but shifted to First.
The titular character of Jon Sable Freelance was a former Olympic athlete, later a African big-game hunter, who became a mercenary. First appearing with a cover date of June 1983, Jon Sable Freelance was a successful non-super-hero comic book in an era when successful non-super-hero comic books were almost unheard of, and a graphically violent comic sold in mainstream comic book stores in an era when such was as rare. Jon Sable was a precursor to what would eventually be called, by some, "the Dark Age of Comics," when even long-established super-heroes would become increasingly grim and violent.
The character was heavily influenced by Ian Fleming's James Bond novels as well as drawing on pulp fiction crime stories. Also, many of the stories of Sable's hunting exploits in Africa were influenced by Peter Hathaway Capstick's novels. At a convention in the late 1980s, Grell stated that his idea for Sable was "something like a cross between James Bond and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer."
Sable was adapted into a short-lived television series and the character's origin tale, "A Storm Over Eden," from the comic book, was expanded and novelized by Grell under the title Sable, which was publ
Grell studied at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, and took the Famous Artists School correspondence course in cartooning. His entry into the comics industry was in 1972, as an assistant to Dale Messick on the Brenda Starr comic strip.
In 1973 Grell moved to New York, and began his long relationship with DC Comics. His first assignment at DC was on Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, a high-profile assignment for an artist with no prior experience illustrating a monthly comic book. Grell says he got that job because he was walking in the editor's door to ask for work, literally, as the previous artist was walking out the door, having just quit. These stories were written by Cary Bates and Jim Shooter. The Bates/Grell/Shooter run on the title is very well-regarded today by Superboy/Legion fans, who consider it one of the high-water marks in the character/team's history. Grell's work on SATLOSH is widely thought to be some of the best beefcake/cheesecake ever committed to comic book pages, and is affectionately referred to as the 'disco Legion' in retrospect by fans of the title.
A writer as well as artist, Grell cemented his status as a fan-favorite with his best-known creation, The Warlord, one of the first sword and sorcery comics, and reportedly the best-selling title published by DC Comics in the late-1970s.
The character first appeared in 1st Issue Special #8 (Nov 1975) and was soon given his own ongoing title (The Warlord #1, Jan/Feb 1976). In this book, Air Force pilot Travis Morgan crash-lands in the prehistoric "hidden world" of Skartaris (a setting highly influenced by Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar). For years thereafter, Morgan engages in adventures dressed only in a winged helmet, wristbands, boots, and breechclout, and armed with a sword and (years before Dirty Harry handled one) a .44 Auto Mag.
At DC, Grell also worked on titles such as Aquaman, Batman, and the Phantom Stranger, and with writer Dennis O'Neil on the re-launch of the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series in 1976.
[edit] Tarzan
Grell wrote and drew the Tarzan comic strip from July 19, 1981 to February 27, 1983 (except for one strip, February 13, 1983, by Thomas Yeates). These strips were rerun in newspapers in 2004 - 2005.
[edit] First Comics: Jon Sable Freelance and Starslayer
Cover to Jon Sable Freelance #7. Art by Mike Grell.Through the 1980s Grell developed creator-owned titles such Jon Sable Freelance and Starslayer. Jon Sable Freelance was published by the now-defunct First Comics. Starslayer, a space-born science fiction series, started at Pacific Comics, but shifted to First.
The titular character of Jon Sable Freelance was a former Olympic athlete, later a African big-game hunter, who became a mercenary. First appearing with a cover date of June 1983, Jon Sable Freelance was a successful non-super-hero comic book in an era when successful non-super-hero comic books were almost unheard of, and a graphically violent comic sold in mainstream comic book stores in an era when such was as rare. Jon Sable was a precursor to what would eventually be called, by some, "the Dark Age of Comics," when even long-established super-heroes would become increasingly grim and violent.
The character was heavily influenced by Ian Fleming's James Bond novels as well as drawing on pulp fiction crime stories. Also, many of the stories of Sable's hunting exploits in Africa were influenced by Peter Hathaway Capstick's novels. At a convention in the late 1980s, Grell stated that his idea for Sable was "something like a cross between James Bond and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer."
Sable was adapted into a short-lived television series and the character's origin tale, "A Storm Over Eden," from the comic book, was expanded and novelized by Grell under the title Sable, which was publ
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February 10, 2017
You don’t necessarily expect grim and gritty to fit nicely on an Errol Flynn invoker who sometimes uses an array of trick arrows featuring everything from glue to dead baby arms to boxing gloves (okay, I might have made one of those up…I mean, boxing gloves would be ridiculous; they’d throw off the balance!) as a means of vanquishing his ridiculously costumed rogues gallery (which, I should note, includes Clock King, who apparently lacks super powers, but has an extraordinarily good sense of timing…you can’t make this stuff up, people). And, yet, under the confident direction of Mike Grell and his artistic partners in crime, Oliver Queen steps far away from the world of the JLA to convincingly confront an array of street-level criminals and moral dilemmas, ranging from trying to figure out whether to stop a vengeful mother from killing a child molester recently released from jail to defending a conscientious objector. (Though I confess that I'm mildly disappointed that he neither swing from a chandelier nor swashed any buckles.)
Grell’s own background as an artist shows in his writing—he likes to get out of the way and let the art tell the story, which is, by and large, an effective means of conveying action in these stories where so much of it takes place in the shadows and back alleys of early 90s Seattle.
It shouldn’t work—Green Arrow is a ridiculous character just generally, because when thugs start busting caps into the backsides of innocent bystanders, those bystanders are not going to be psyched when a poor excuse for a Robin Hood cosplayer shows up with his twirly handlebar mustache and promises to protect them with a bow and arrow—and, yet, it does. The book is in some ways a product of its time, and it does feel every bit of its 20+ years of age, but it wears them well.
Worth checking out if you’re a superhero fan looking for something darker and a bit different, but have worked your way through all of the seminal (heh…I said seminal) Miller/Moore/etc. grim-and-gritty books.
Grell’s own background as an artist shows in his writing—he likes to get out of the way and let the art tell the story, which is, by and large, an effective means of conveying action in these stories where so much of it takes place in the shadows and back alleys of early 90s Seattle.
It shouldn’t work—Green Arrow is a ridiculous character just generally, because when thugs start busting caps into the backsides of innocent bystanders, those bystanders are not going to be psyched when a poor excuse for a Robin Hood cosplayer shows up with his twirly handlebar mustache and promises to protect them with a bow and arrow—and, yet, it does. The book is in some ways a product of its time, and it does feel every bit of its 20+ years of age, but it wears them well.
Worth checking out if you’re a superhero fan looking for something darker and a bit different, but have worked your way through all of the seminal (heh…I said seminal) Miller/Moore/etc. grim-and-gritty books.
October 8, 2017
Green Arrow gets down and dirty in moral societal quagmires. Like whether to stop a mother from killing the man who raped her child or pinning a copy cat crime onto a serial killer so he can be put away before he murders anyone else.
The art is dated but solid except for the first 2 issues by Shawn McManus. Everyone has these huge foreheads. The book looks like the Leader and Hector Hammond gave birth to a whole town of people.
The art is dated but solid except for the first 2 issues by Shawn McManus. Everyone has these huge foreheads. The book looks like the Leader and Hector Hammond gave birth to a whole town of people.
June 10, 2021
Several good stories, but the last two arcs juuuuuuussssssttttt dddddrrrrraaaaaggggggggggggggeddd oooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn...
Too much set-up for those stories.
Too much set-up for those stories.
July 23, 2026
2026 -wow oh wow. Loved almost every story. The cold opening is almost perfect. The sick rapist storyline hunt for Black Canary is great. The ending on the American dream. All so good.
2020 Review - Jesus, this is one brutal Green Arrow.
I really actually like this volume. It showcases Oliver trying to get back to being a superhero while working with Black Canary and living his life. It's mostly two part or maybe 3 part storylines of him doing so. A old friend comes back into his life to ruin things. A murderer gets out of prison and Diana isn't going to stand for that bullshit after he raped and killed multiple people including kids. Also have a storyline about protesting which works well for today's events.
There's a lot to unpack here and it almost all works. While the copycat storyline is the weakest for me it's still solid. The loose ends of a major character in the last volume come to close in a brutal way. I really liked the honesty of this book as it feels like Oliver is just a normal guy trying to do good. It makes it a lot more relatable than most superhero books.
Overall, very much worth the read. This is one of the strongest runs in Grell's very good run. A 4.5 out of 5.
2020 Review - Jesus, this is one brutal Green Arrow.
I really actually like this volume. It showcases Oliver trying to get back to being a superhero while working with Black Canary and living his life. It's mostly two part or maybe 3 part storylines of him doing so. A old friend comes back into his life to ruin things. A murderer gets out of prison and Diana isn't going to stand for that bullshit after he raped and killed multiple people including kids. Also have a storyline about protesting which works well for today's events.
There's a lot to unpack here and it almost all works. While the copycat storyline is the weakest for me it's still solid. The loose ends of a major character in the last volume come to close in a brutal way. I really liked the honesty of this book as it feels like Oliver is just a normal guy trying to do good. It makes it a lot more relatable than most superhero books.
Overall, very much worth the read. This is one of the strongest runs in Grell's very good run. A 4.5 out of 5.
September 24, 2024
A good volume made up of 6 two-parters ranging from good to quite good and underlining the quality of Mike Grell's plots - even the short ones - when he tackles the themes inherent to Green Arrow - mixing a bit of action, spy games, politics and reflections on law and justice, where I find him much better than the more "exotic" ones (yes, I'm thinking of the Shado arcs).
Significant improvement in the drawing. While I'm not a fan of Shawn McManus, Rick Hoberg illustrates most of the book with a a solid if not very demonstrative style. The icing on the cake: veteran Frank Springer draws the last 2 issues.
Significant improvement in the drawing. While I'm not a fan of Shawn McManus, Rick Hoberg illustrates most of the book with a a solid if not very demonstrative style. The icing on the cake: veteran Frank Springer draws the last 2 issues.
September 8, 2019
Though Homecoming has some good stories early on, it fizzles out as it goes on, in large part because Grell just can't maintain consistent quality on these short two-part stories.
Homecoming (#51-52). Picking up plot threads from the previous volume, "Homecoming" delivers a story that's both shocking and emotional, and which delivers Oliver home, for his next series of stories [4+/5].
The List (#53-54). Eddie Fyres is back and ... yeah ... doing some scummy espionage thing. As usual, that's not very interesting, with the only high point of this story being Ollie getting to show off his hyper-competence [3+/5].
Justice is Mine (#55-56). A great story about muddled motives. A cop is willing to execute the right man for the wrong crime, and when Ollie gets involved, he has to decide where his morals truly lie. In additional, Grell is constantly focusing on what we'd now call social-justice, so we additionally get a look at what sort of crimes people actually care about [4+/5].
And Not a Drop to Drink (#57-58). Ollie fights against radioactive terrorism. There's not a lot of depth to this story, and who knows what the motive of the baddies was [3/5].
Predator (#59-60). This story of a sexual predator returns to Grell's themes of vengeance and gives Dinah a chance to shine, but the unbelievable ending is deeply problematic. (Actually, there's a lot that's unbelievable about the whole story.) [3/5].
Signs of the Times (#61-62). I find it entirely bizarre that Grell wrote a story opposing the draft ... in the early '90s. And it comes across as pretty preachy too. I mean, all of his social stories are to a certain extent, but this is worse than most, in large part because it feels so horribly dated. There's a nice swerve at the end, when the story moves beyond the idea of a draft, but this still isn't very good [2+/5].
Homecoming (#51-52). Picking up plot threads from the previous volume, "Homecoming" delivers a story that's both shocking and emotional, and which delivers Oliver home, for his next series of stories [4+/5].
The List (#53-54). Eddie Fyres is back and ... yeah ... doing some scummy espionage thing. As usual, that's not very interesting, with the only high point of this story being Ollie getting to show off his hyper-competence [3+/5].
Justice is Mine (#55-56). A great story about muddled motives. A cop is willing to execute the right man for the wrong crime, and when Ollie gets involved, he has to decide where his morals truly lie. In additional, Grell is constantly focusing on what we'd now call social-justice, so we additionally get a look at what sort of crimes people actually care about [4+/5].
And Not a Drop to Drink (#57-58). Ollie fights against radioactive terrorism. There's not a lot of depth to this story, and who knows what the motive of the baddies was [3/5].
Predator (#59-60). This story of a sexual predator returns to Grell's themes of vengeance and gives Dinah a chance to shine, but the unbelievable ending is deeply problematic. (Actually, there's a lot that's unbelievable about the whole story.) [3/5].
Signs of the Times (#61-62). I find it entirely bizarre that Grell wrote a story opposing the draft ... in the early '90s. And it comes across as pretty preachy too. I mean, all of his social stories are to a certain extent, but this is worse than most, in large part because it feels so horribly dated. There's a nice swerve at the end, when the story moves beyond the idea of a draft, but this still isn't very good [2+/5].
January 27, 2017
After a slightly sub-par volume 6, I'm glad to see a return to form for the series, with more of the engaging stories and consistent art that had made the first five volumes such great reading. I read this 12-issue collection in one sitting, and I can't wait for volume 8, to be released in May 2017.
Mike Grell's writing is top notch - the mature themes are handled well and make for good reading. One of the things I like about Mike Grell's run on Green Arrow is that most themes are just as relevant & current today as they were 25-30 years ago, when the series was first published. The names of the countries and the players involved may change, but the basic situation remains the same.
More, please!
Mike Grell's writing is top notch - the mature themes are handled well and make for good reading. One of the things I like about Mike Grell's run on Green Arrow is that most themes are just as relevant & current today as they were 25-30 years ago, when the series was first published. The names of the countries and the players involved may change, but the basic situation remains the same.
More, please!
August 2, 2018
Oliver's back in Seattle, but even with a clearer head on his shoulders he might have trouble dealing with the problems that have been waiting for him.
Homecoming is such sweet sorrow...or something. This volume returns to the previous arrangement of shorter two part stories rather than the extended arc from the last volume, opening with the fallout from Green Arrow #50. Given that the blurb on the back of the book goes into a lot of detail about Kaz and his impact on Dinah and Oliver's lives, I thought he'd be around for more than just two issues, but here we are. This arc reiterates everything that Ollie learned on his travels and also goes to show that you really can't go home again.
Eddie Fyers returns in the next two issues, and he's getting to be like Shado for this title - whenever he's around, things get exciting. His banter with Ollie is always enjoyable, and seeing them begrudgingly working together always makes me smile. There's a clever twist at the end of this short arc too which I really appreciated also - Fyers keeps Ollie on his toes, and Grell keeps his readers on theirs.
The latter half of the volume is where we really get to see how much Ollie has changed in his year away; he’s always been strong in his convictions, but now he’s more sure of himself and his course of action than ever before, even when it’s possibly not the action he should be taking in the eyes of the law. This is most evident in the Justice Is Mine two-parter in which Lieutenant Cameron basically asks Oliver to kill someone who might escape justice otherwise, and Ollie barely bats an eyelid. Of course there’s a twist along the way but the point is clear. This also harks back to a one panel reference in The Longbow Hunters which is some very well-thought storytelling; I’m not sure if this is Grell being very prepared or just coincidence.
The …And Not A Drop To Drink story draws nicely on the Seattle setting even more so than ever before, but this is another ‘Oliver gets roped into a government scheme he really shouldn’t be involved in’ type story. It gets a pass for the amusing Singin’ In The Rain montage at the beginning though, which is very funny. We also get a bit of a rehash of the first arc of the series, with a sexual predator being released from prison and Ollie, Dinah, and a civilian getting roped into bringing him to justice one way or another which is another story we’ve had before, but with a new twist on things. Mike Grell reinvented Green Arrow, and now he’s reinventing stories he himself reinvented, so that’s something to note as well.
Things get political again in the final two issues as Ollie and Dinah find themselves in the middle of a protest rally against the draft. Some of Grell’s more political stories tend to have the entire first issue set up the premise, only introducing Green Arrow into the mix right at the last minute so that he can show his opinion on things in the second half of the story; this is one of those. It’s not as relevant anymore, thankfully, but the discussion of both sides is well presented so it’s clear that Grell isn’t using Green Arrow as propaganda, just to shine a light on important issues. It’s a fine line to tread, but Grell is usually very successful, and has been for nearly 80 issues at this point.
Like the previous volume, this one’s a bit bloated. The difference being that the variation in stories keeps things flowing a lot better, and bringing Ollie back to his roots with his new outlook on life has made everything old new again.
Homecoming is such sweet sorrow...or something. This volume returns to the previous arrangement of shorter two part stories rather than the extended arc from the last volume, opening with the fallout from Green Arrow #50. Given that the blurb on the back of the book goes into a lot of detail about Kaz and his impact on Dinah and Oliver's lives, I thought he'd be around for more than just two issues, but here we are. This arc reiterates everything that Ollie learned on his travels and also goes to show that you really can't go home again.
Eddie Fyers returns in the next two issues, and he's getting to be like Shado for this title - whenever he's around, things get exciting. His banter with Ollie is always enjoyable, and seeing them begrudgingly working together always makes me smile. There's a clever twist at the end of this short arc too which I really appreciated also - Fyers keeps Ollie on his toes, and Grell keeps his readers on theirs.
The latter half of the volume is where we really get to see how much Ollie has changed in his year away; he’s always been strong in his convictions, but now he’s more sure of himself and his course of action than ever before, even when it’s possibly not the action he should be taking in the eyes of the law. This is most evident in the Justice Is Mine two-parter in which Lieutenant Cameron basically asks Oliver to kill someone who might escape justice otherwise, and Ollie barely bats an eyelid. Of course there’s a twist along the way but the point is clear. This also harks back to a one panel reference in The Longbow Hunters which is some very well-thought storytelling; I’m not sure if this is Grell being very prepared or just coincidence.
The …And Not A Drop To Drink story draws nicely on the Seattle setting even more so than ever before, but this is another ‘Oliver gets roped into a government scheme he really shouldn’t be involved in’ type story. It gets a pass for the amusing Singin’ In The Rain montage at the beginning though, which is very funny. We also get a bit of a rehash of the first arc of the series, with a sexual predator being released from prison and Ollie, Dinah, and a civilian getting roped into bringing him to justice one way or another which is another story we’ve had before, but with a new twist on things. Mike Grell reinvented Green Arrow, and now he’s reinventing stories he himself reinvented, so that’s something to note as well.
Things get political again in the final two issues as Ollie and Dinah find themselves in the middle of a protest rally against the draft. Some of Grell’s more political stories tend to have the entire first issue set up the premise, only introducing Green Arrow into the mix right at the last minute so that he can show his opinion on things in the second half of the story; this is one of those. It’s not as relevant anymore, thankfully, but the discussion of both sides is well presented so it’s clear that Grell isn’t using Green Arrow as propaganda, just to shine a light on important issues. It’s a fine line to tread, but Grell is usually very successful, and has been for nearly 80 issues at this point.
Like the previous volume, this one’s a bit bloated. The difference being that the variation in stories keeps things flowing a lot better, and bringing Ollie back to his roots with his new outlook on life has made everything old new again.
July 12, 2021
Green Arrow Vol. 7 Homecoming collects issues 52-62 of the series written by Mike Grell with art by Rick Hoberg, Shawn McManus, and Frank Springer.
Oliver Queen takes on a crooked cop and child molester, partner with a long time for, and gets caught in the middle is a pro-war and conscientious objector protest/rally.
I have really enjoyed the view Olly takes on social matters and took on controversial topics that are still extremely relevant today. This volume took me by surprise with the first two issues be a different artist and I didn't like his style at all. But thankfully it was just the two issues and back to normal. Only a couple of volumes left in Grell's run and I will be very disappointed to see it come to an end.
Oliver Queen takes on a crooked cop and child molester, partner with a long time for, and gets caught in the middle is a pro-war and conscientious objector protest/rally.
I have really enjoyed the view Olly takes on social matters and took on controversial topics that are still extremely relevant today. This volume took me by surprise with the first two issues be a different artist and I didn't like his style at all. But thankfully it was just the two issues and back to normal. Only a couple of volumes left in Grell's run and I will be very disappointed to see it come to an end.
August 31, 2020
Good but not great. The two issue "Preditor" arch could have been so much more as a story of a rapist of children and the elderly is released from prison into Green Arrow's Seattle. There was the potential for an interesting story about vigalante justice in there but ultimately Mike Grell played it safe and the story, for me, suffered.
March 9, 2021
El primer arco narrativo contenido en este volumen es una historia sobre cazadores furtivos cuyo blanco es rinocerontes y elefantes. Es una lectura fluida pero pesada. Se explican las razones principales por las que estos animales son cazados, y entrega un final satisfactorio pero como tengo tiempo leyendo esta serie, fue también predecible. La última página particularmente me pareció simbólicamente interesante y digna de crear debate.
¡La flecha ha vuelto! Como se supone que es un título de superhéroes, nada puede ser normal. El retorno a Seattle fue emocionante en cada panel. Estoy un poco asustado por llegar al final de esta serie, porque en adelante compraré todo lo que se ha hecho de Flecha Verde con la calidad que presenta esta serie, con sus altibajos considerados.
Luego de ese capítulo, lo que queda es reconstruir y ponderar lo que ha sucedido en la ausencia de Oliver. Pero esto sucede de la mano de un artista que necesito acostumbrarme. Sus trazos son excelentes, pero algunas expresiones son tan caricaturescas que me sacan de la inmersión de seriedad verosimilitud que se ha construido visualmente con los dibujantes pasados.
Al final volvemos a lo regular. Resolver crímenes de manera creativa, a lo que vine desde el principio con la serie y no puedo pedir más.
¡La flecha ha vuelto! Como se supone que es un título de superhéroes, nada puede ser normal. El retorno a Seattle fue emocionante en cada panel. Estoy un poco asustado por llegar al final de esta serie, porque en adelante compraré todo lo que se ha hecho de Flecha Verde con la calidad que presenta esta serie, con sus altibajos considerados.
Luego de ese capítulo, lo que queda es reconstruir y ponderar lo que ha sucedido en la ausencia de Oliver. Pero esto sucede de la mano de un artista que necesito acostumbrarme. Sus trazos son excelentes, pero algunas expresiones son tan caricaturescas que me sacan de la inmersión de seriedad verosimilitud que se ha construido visualmente con los dibujantes pasados.
Al final volvemos a lo regular. Resolver crímenes de manera creativa, a lo que vine desde el principio con la serie y no puedo pedir más.
November 26, 2020
No quería que terminara el año sin retomar esta serie y hasta ahora ha sido un muy buen regreso tanto para mí como para Ollie. A pesar de que es un volumen que no sigue la historia principal (o al menos la más emocionante) del run de Grell, logró capturar mi atención en todas las historias que narra y me gusta mucho que toque problemáticas sociales tan pertinentes (en aquel tiempo pero también actualmente) y de una forma muy consciente. La justicia que se maneja aquí no es vainilla, se estira y se expande pero, eso sí, nunca se corrompe.
December 14, 2019
65/100.
Volumen compuesto por muchas minihistorias. Me ha gustado muchísimo más que el volumen anterior. De hecho, no me ha resultado nada tedioso... al principio. De hecho, creo que las 4 primeras historias son las más entretenidas. Donde encuentro mayor problema en lo de mantener el ritmo/la calidad es al final. Una pena.
Volumen compuesto por muchas minihistorias. Me ha gustado muchísimo más que el volumen anterior. De hecho, no me ha resultado nada tedioso... al principio. De hecho, creo que las 4 primeras historias son las más entretenidas. Donde encuentro mayor problema en lo de mantener el ritmo/la calidad es al final. Una pena.
January 22, 2025
A very strong four stars. Starting last volume, the quality became shaky, and that continued into the first third of this collection. However, Grell returned to early-run form with gritty two-parters, and Hoberg’s art is a consistently strong step up from some of the artwork in the last volume. The final story is perhaps the most resonant of all.
July 6, 2026
8/10:
There are a lot of very complicated societal issues addressed throughout these issues including the right to civil protest and the killing of convicted rapists/murderers. I loved watching Green Arrow and Black Canary work to tackle these things together (while also clearing Oliver Queen’s name from a murder scene).
There are a lot of very complicated societal issues addressed throughout these issues including the right to civil protest and the killing of convicted rapists/murderers. I loved watching Green Arrow and Black Canary work to tackle these things together (while also clearing Oliver Queen’s name from a murder scene).
December 17, 2022
En realidad serían tres estrellas y media. La
verdad solo me gustaron los últimos cuatro números (los del pedófilo y los anti-belicistas), pero estos me gustaron mucho y por eso sería la media estrella mas. También me agradó ver a Black Canary de regreso.
verdad solo me gustaron los últimos cuatro números (los del pedófilo y los anti-belicistas), pero estos me gustaron mucho y por eso sería la media estrella mas. También me agradó ver a Black Canary de regreso.
June 12, 2026
Damn good
Mike Grell is a master at his craft. The story and art combine to make up a story that hits hard. And gets bloody. This was my favorite volume yet. I couldn't put it down. Buy it. Its great!
Mike Grell is a master at his craft. The story and art combine to make up a story that hits hard. And gets bloody. This was my favorite volume yet. I couldn't put it down. Buy it. Its great!
May 25, 2017
Really good writing, not a fan of art of the times.
January 7, 2019
+: Dinah finally doing her thing
-: Oliver
-: Oliver
January 15, 2019
FINALLY
May 13, 2023
Vintage Grell as writer. First class.
July 7, 2019
Art wasn't as good as normal.
February 27, 2020
Honestly, this run is wearing a little thin. It was good to have Ollie back and I loved seeing Dinah suit up again, but it all feels a little done.
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We talk all things Green Arrow on this special episode of the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/ep...
October 2, 2023
I slowly plugged away at this over the course of a year. Mike Grell's is past its prime, though he hasn't given up on it yet. But should have.
Some of the stories were ok but I think the pacing needed improvement and the subject choices needed to be varied more. Quite a few struggles along the way just trying to read it.
Some of the stories were ok but I think the pacing needed improvement and the subject choices needed to be varied more. Quite a few struggles along the way just trying to read it.
December 9, 2018
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May 26, 2026
I didn’t like this volume as much as the first six. It’s a bunch of shorter arcs we’ve become used to with this series, but they’re not as powerful or memorable as others. I had to flip back through the book to remember what they were about. Not much else to say except I hope the final two books are better.
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March 28, 2016Futuro tomo recopilatorio que seguro incluya el #50 y varios más.
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