| Title | : | Green Arrow, Volume 2: Triple Threat |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1401238424 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781401238421 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 |
| Publication | : | First published January 29, 2013 |
King Leer's fortress, buried deep within a frozen moutainside, hides the true nature of his work, genetically modifying animals of all species - including humans - in order to take over the world. His work is funded by the gold mine he has seized and rules the native people through starvation by polluting the enviornment. Can Oliver Queen stop King Leer before he releases his creations
upon the world, or will he end up as one of Leer's experiments?
Collecting: Green Lantern 7-12
Green Arrow, Volume 2: Triple Threat Reviews
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Hold your nose and step carefully around this garbage.
There's nothing good about this book. Nothing.
And it pains me to say this because not only is the writer a woman, but we share the same name!
The art is awful. It's like someone decided to draw squiggly lines all over everyone's faces. And GA's costume included these bug-eye goggles that looked like something out of a steampunk novel.
Blech. Terrible.
But here's the deathblow, there was no cohesive storyline. It didn't exist.
We don't need no stinking plot!
I mean, I'm pretty sure the author meant to convey some sort of meaning to the pages, but it just didn't happen.
Here it goes:
Something, something, genetically altered triplets, Green Arrow is an ass, sex in a plane, drugged & kidnapped, one of them lets him go (off page?), something, something, he falls in love, something, something, polar bear, weird wolf-looking bad guy, cowboys in a saloon, he's an ass again, another bear, blows up a gold mine, loses girl, something, something, depressed robot, something, something, new Robin Hood-like characters, something, something, he's still an ass, then something, something, bad guy from China, new mechanic/sidekick, something, something, Chinese zombie grandparents, Chinese superheroine saves him, something, something, Hey! Is that Hawkman?!
The end.
There. Now you don't have to wonder what you're missing out on by not reading this.
And did I mention he's an ass?
Green Arrow is like a kid who gets the shit kicked out of him for calling somebody's sister fat. You're secretly rooting for the kid who's doing the ass-kicking, and you're also secretly laughing at the obnoxious kid...who is now spitting out dirt and sporting a black eye.
Don't read this. It sucks. -
Green Arrow in The New 52 got off to a rough start. Writers tried to reinvent the character into something new, while also getting rid of everything we liked about the character.
Krul was dropped from the book and it was handed to Ann Nocenti.
I don't know why they did that.
Nocenti's first run actually had some potential in it (for the first few pages). There could have been an interesting story with these three strange triplets who make Queen an offer he can't refuse.
What we get instead is utter nonsense. The three issue arc reads as if there are just huge pieces of the story missing, each one just gets more random and insane than the next. The whole goddamned first arc makes no sense. Here is how it reads...
Issue #1
Oliver Queen is on the roof yelling to himself. Out of nowhere three ladies attack him and then instantly declare their admiration for him. "Come with us so we can make you new weapons!" they say.
"Okay" GA replies and pretty much walks away from everything to go muck about with strangers in the north.
Once they get there, they tie him up and crash his plane. We don't really know why. Something about who loves daddy most and deadly sins. (It will never be explained)
Issue #2: With no explanation, Green Arrow is now free and kicking wolves in the face. Evidently one of the evil triplets set him free because she loves him? (it will never be explained) Daddy shows up and tells the other two to beat the shit out of her.
Green Arrow decides not to kill the wolves, some random asshole who talks like one of the REDWALL moles shows up spouting gibberish, and then the triplet who loves GA shows up. How she got away, why they let her leave, whole the mole guy is, never explained.
She asks Green Arrow to fix her crazy daddy,(how is never explained) so they go back and all of a sudden everything is cool with everybody. GA and the Triplet do some bangin' and go to look at Daddy's mutant animal collection. Some bullshit about ecosystems is said, and making metal animals to survive what is coming. (which is never explained) Green Arrow doesn't like what he sees so he attacks Daddy (Leer). Leer sets a robo-polar bear after them, (but the robo-polar bear was supposed to be like a new body for the dad?)
Green Arrow runs off, Leer is yanking his traitor daughter by the hair, and then she's on a snow-mobile escaping with Green Arrow on the next page.
Issue #3
Arrow and Triplet are attacked my eskimos.
But they're good eskimos so it's okay.
Oh, and now they're both out there because they want to find the bear. (I guess so it doesn't mess with the eco system?)
Then Arrow and Triplet find a "Wild West Town" in the middle of the arctic. I guess they're looking for gold. But they're like 1800's fucking cowboys in 2013. Evidently the bear has been captured and people have been getting it drunk for their amusement, and it is a well established thing, even though the bear has been loose for a day and a half tops.
A bad triplet swaps places with the good triplet, more banging happens. Leer shows up and Green Arrow thinks he was betrayed by good Triplet (who has no idea what is going on, much like the reader), so they break up.
Green Arrow blows up a mountain and flies away in a helicopter. Nobody knows what happened to the bear.
Oh, and, evidently the whole point of all of this was that they wanted his blood or something. (It is never explained).
Edit
Issue #4
Green Arrow stops a girl from committing suicide. She is all mad and tells everybody she is a robot.
Green Arrow finds a guy who is selling robots and is like, "I will buy some".
Then he finds the parents of the girl he saved. Something about her being crippled and telling her she was adopted. Green Arrow seems to think whatever is going on is partly their fault, because they told her she was adopted.
Green Arrow goes back to the robot guy and drops this bombshell to a room full of robots, "Hey listen up. I don't think you guys are robots. I think you might have once been human. Still are."
Evidently the guy selling Robots found people who wanted to be robots (like some weird fetish thing) and put a chip in their brains to make them robots. So Green Arrow is like, "I think maybe you should knock it off?"
The girl he saved in the beginning then just sorta runs off (It is never explained why, or what she plans on doing with this new). Then Queen goes to a meeting where people have their body parts replaced with robot parts and is like "Weird"
im not going to describe the rest.
It's really just too stupid for words.
If it wasn't for the TV show, Nocenti would have gotten the entire book cancelled. -
Man, the Arrow TV Show has spoiled me. Every time I read this book I compare it to the show, but even if I didn't, this is a complete waste of time.
The stories are disjointed, I don't care about the outcome, I don't car about Green Arrow, I don't care about Queen's shenanigans with his company. Also, his tech-genius (or whatever) feel like they don't exist (really the CW should pat themselves in the back for coming up with Felicity Smoak).
Green Arrow looks like a douchebag. You know these people who always wear sunglasses even when they are inside a building and you can never see their eyes? Well, Green Arrow has it even worst, every time I saw him with the bloody thingies on I couldn't help but laugh. I'm sure that wasn't the purpose.
The art makes Oliver look like a 50 year old man. They are trying to make Oliver look super cool but it completely backfired.
And, isn't this supposed to be a new introduction to people who haven't read Green Arrow in the past and don't know shit about the character? Because it doesn't explain anything about where Oliver came from or his motivations to become a vigilante.
I am a very generous person, if you look at my ratings in my profile you'll see that I have only given one star to three books. So, imagine what a waste of time this is. -
Holy crap, it got worse.
The artwork is horrid, the plotting is even worse - seriously there are HUGE plot gaps that occur between issues and we're just meant to accept they happened. At the end of Issue 7 Oliver is caught and imprisoned, at the start of Issue 8, not only is he free, but he has been set free by one of his captors because she is supposedly in love with him! Don't you think this huge plot point should have been explored? I'm not sure whether it's uninspired or just merely lazy writing.
It's not just this storyline either. The other stories suffer from the same gaps. Plots are abandoned or resolutions never addressed - even with the one-offs.
I read a new writer has been assigned. If they don't lift the game, this will be my final Green Arrow for a while, which breaks my mother-effing heart. -
I think I'm embarrassed to claim to have read this. I need a shelf for "series in-progress but not for much longer". Whatever the writer and artist thought they were doing, they violated Niven's Fourth Law ("It is a sin to waste the reader's time"). If you are using words to tell a story, make sure they are sensible and clear and self-consistent and actually advance plot and character development. I'm no visual artist, but if you are using pictures to tell a story, make sure they are sensible and clear and self-consistent and actually advance plot and character development. Finally, if you are in the business of merging words and pictures, please make sure they are sensible and clear and self-consistent and actually advance plot and character development.
Because hardly anything in this volume was sensible, or clear, or self-consistent, or actually advanced plot or character development.
Enough opinion. Here's some facts. This is the 2nd volume of The New 52 version of the Green Arrow. New 52 history is supposed to be different than before, but I continue to be unclear about the what the New 52 version of the history of Oliver Queen-slash-GA is. This volume has made nothing clearer.
OQ continues to be a playboy, and one making foolish strategic choices for his company. GA makes foolish strategic choices; he readily accepts that attackers were giving him a "weapons demo", romancing attractive frenemies, setting himself up for failure. Plus, GA shows up 10 minutes after OQ leaves, and starts solving OQ-problems. In The Great White North! In Futureworld!! In China!!! (How does EVERYONE not suspect that GA is really OQ?) Oh, and minor point -- not everyone is skinny with (choose one) large breasts or bulging muscles.
New enemies: Weird sexy blond female triplet weirdoes without names. The weird ultra-bipolar psycho scientist/eco-terrorist father/creator of the weird sexy blond female triplet weirdoes without names. The Dark Arrows bandits. Confused cyborg/robot robot cyborgs (don't worry, it was confusing in person, too). The evil (stereotype alert!) Chinese Oliver Queen (complete with super-villain costume, super-villain skills and completely irrational super-villain double life (stereotype alert!) ). Most not-rich people. Most of Queen Industries board of directors. Maybe Ollie's deceased father.
Does GA have any NOT-NEW enemies? -
We have three storylines here. In the first one he runs afoul of a villain who has genetically engineered a hot set of triplets. 3 hot barbie doll blonds. Of course, there are sexual overtones there. Then it goes beyond that when Green Arrow has a tryst with all 3..at once. I knew comic books have a bad rep of being male fantasies, but I was little shocked to see that actually happen. Of course, it happened off-panel, but still. And a female wrote this at that, so it wasn't just a male writer letting his fantasies run wild. Arrow later has more trysts with one of the triplets, but just had the foursome once. (Tryst. Tryst. I like saying that. The word isn't used enough. Because your tryst, your tryst is on my list. But I digress...)
Next storyline we see some people who no longer wish to be human, so they agree to be turned into robots. Or at least I think they did, some of them may have been tricked by the guy who was selling them as robot servants.
Final story sees Oliver going to China to do some business for Queen Industries, but he ends up fighting Chinese Ghosts instead. But duh, what'd he expect? Haven't we all ended up fighting ghosts when we didn't expect it at some point?
The art is a bit distracting at points and not my favorite. Not terrible, just not great.
Overall, this is okay, but I think the character has so much more potential than how he's been utilizied in the New 52 so far. I really miss the old Mike Grell series. If you are a big Green Arrow fan pick this up, but only if that's true. If you don't know Green Arrow, don't pick this up as an introduction. Like I said, not terrible, but not really good either.
(If you notice, most people hated this volume. And I probably would have rated it lower, but, y'know..three hot chicks at once on a plane. In a mainstream comic. That has to count for something, right? Right?) -
Wow, when the author and artist change from Volume 1 to Volume 2 so does my enjoyment! This collection of stories is so terrible that I ended up just skimming the last 2 issues because I did not care at all what happened. This volume contains two separate story arcs; the first one was silly and pointless, but the second one was needlessly complex and soooo boring. The second arc also has Green Arrow fighting out of costume and as Queen for most of its duration which is a comic book pet peeve of mine. The worst feature of this collection for me by far is the art. The representation of the characters is horrible, and Oliver and the Green Arrow’s look is inconsistent through the entire volume. These inconsistencies lead to a total disconnect between me and the character, making these lame stories even more unreadable.
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*Book source ~ Library
Green Arrow is set upon by triplets and lets his cock do the thinking. After which he goes to China and screws the pooch. Not literally, thank goodness though after that first storyline I wouldn’t be surprised.
Ok, seriously? This has got the stupidest superhero story I’ve read yet. Other than Green Arrow/Oliver clearly letting his testosterone run the show, I had no idea wtf this entire thing was about. The artwork’s not bad if we’re talking about everything except Green Arrow. Oliver Queen looks normal, but Green Arrow keeps hulking out more and more. Soon he’ll actually be Hulk-sized. Supremely ridiculous and I’m done with this series. -
WOW This shit pissed me off enough that I'm going to make an entire video now how New 52 nearly KILLED Green Arrow with this garbage.
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Atrocious. Simply awful. It's one thing to reference Shakespeare, but it takes a certain kind of idiot to not only try to do King Lear in three issues of a comic book, but to repeatedly call out "we're doing Lear" every three pages. And then not do it at all well. And then follow it up with a 'topical' piece about the 99%ers, because, well, it's Green Arrow and isn't he relevant to that? Not in the story they tell. And then it sets up story beats that aren't followed up on. Just like the Lear arc did. You've got all of these pieces up in the air - you can't call it juggling because that intimates that they're touched again after they're thrown up the first time; instead most are splattering to the ground, forgotten because we've moved two pages further on.
The rebooted Oliver Queen is a disgrace to the previous versions. He's a rich boy sex fiend who has done nothing to earn his title, and spends his time bossing people about without any explanation and narrating his actions like he's got a twitter horde following him. The writing here is trying way too hard and just doesn't work at all. The art is okay but when combined with the text it's hyperkinetic, like a child with ADHD; too much stuff and none of it works together.
Maybe this is all setup - maybe at some point Green Arrow will realize just how much of a jerk he is and reform. If so, there might be a decent arc of his storyline somewhere down the line. But until that point, it's not worth the time or effort to read. -
I'm only reading these as I'm a completest and want to be "filled in" as I'm excited about Jeff Lemire taking over the reins. I liked this volume way better than the first and actually quite enjoyed it. Never been a fan of Green Arrow, but the clean shaven (no goatee!) look makes him much more easier to take seriously. I like where the plot is going for him on a personal level, the stuff with his business. All the villains here are new ones, so we don't meet up with any old faces but that's ok because I loved the "Skylark" triplets. Awesome semi-villains! The robot people was a fun storyline and, finally, I adore Suzie Ming, great female superhero! I like Chinese mythology/history so really enjoyed that little adventure and the cliffhanger ending that came out of nowhere was interesting. There is a mention in this volume where someone asks GA didn't he go off to join the Justice League and since I'm a regular reader of that I enjoyed the reference and can place timeline wise where I am in the grand scheme of the JL universe. Lots of artists worked in this volume, so quite some different styles but I was pleased with pretty much all of it. Didn't really think I would be, but I'm actually looking forward to the next volume which I'm reading next.
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Just when you thought New 52 Green Arrow couldn't get any worse, Vol. 2 appears. Inconsistent art throughout. The characters suffer from flat writing. This Oliver Queen decides to share his secret identity with some more folks than usual, and is unlikable and not in a cool anti-hero way. Pass on Green Arrow until he is rebooted... again.
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The first volume in this series was okay and I was hoping it would improve but alas its just getting worse. The stories are disjointed and uninteresting. The art is a mix of bad to okay. Perhaps because I’m reading this while trying to work through the CW network’s “Arrow” television show, which I’ve actually been enjoying (even with some of the young adult love triangle drama), is raising unfair expectations.
I have some of the older Green Arrow collections on order. Maybe I’ll take a break from the New 52 Green Arrow and look at his predecessors. -
Green Arrow Vol. 2 collects issues 7-13 of the DC Comics series written by Ann Nocenti with art by Harvey Tolibao, Freddie Williams II, and Steve Kurth.
Green Arrow is taken captive by beautiful triplets and must try to save Queen Industries from a hostile take over by a Chinese businessman.
This was really bad. I don't think the author understands Olliver Queen. The art was way too busy. This has been an incredibly disappointing start to the New 52 volume. -
On a atteint des sommets dans le médiocre avec ce tome. Dessins moches, héros plutôt mous et histoire ridicule. A fuir.
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Triple Threat has Green Arrow face against some new villains who are out to target his company and his alter ego. He first encounters three sisters who work in unity, with a raging father who is out to kill Arrow and spread the world of his enhanced animals, hoping to create a new era of mega-organisms. Then there's a girl who claims to be robot, despite her human appearance and scarring, and Queen detects there's something more sinister going on in the neighborhood. Then, Queen travels to China due to an escalating issue from the previous adventures that lead to his company to be owned by a crooked businessman who wants his secret tech. Now he must find a way to win back his company, and work with China's own superhero to stop this man from further damage.
If the first volume was to give us a glimpse into the vigilante antics of Green Arrow, this one attempts to one-up the stakes and character. And while that does work, establishing Oliver Queen as a billionaire who's trying to do good, the story suffers in the execution. Like the first volume, it appears most of these are one-off face offs with lower criminals. Though the overarching story has the actions of each conflict pass over and impact the following sagas. My main issue was that the first half about that deals with Skylark, while easy to get into, the flow seems to follow some weird jump cuts to the next events within there. Some of these events are more of "don't show, but tell," with minor expositions but also doesn't develop its villains that well either. It's an interesting story arc, but done awkwardly. The following issues were done better, but also felt a little rushed on how they end. I did enjoy Suzie Ming's character, and hopefully she appears in future reads. The art is just okay, not my preferred style, but passable, though at times, it looks a little messy by merging with the background.
So Triple Threat was an okay read, with the second half of this collection done much better than how it starts off. And the ending implies of a new crossover for Green Arrow and that holds potential for a very exciting volume. -
I'm currently making my way through all of the volume 2's of the New 52 DC comics that are on a group Comixolgy app. I decided to read the series that I enjoyed the least first so that I could go ahead and get them over with. This volume is worse than the first volume of Green Arrow and is the worst thing that I've read in the New 52 so far.
Harvey Tolibao provides the art for issues #7-9 & #11-12. There are a few great looking panels scattered among his work. Most of these are panels that contain the villains The Skylarks and one or two that contain Green Arrow. Some of his other panels are mediocre and lack much detail, but the majority of the art drawn by Tolibao is just plain terrible. It seems like he drew the main outline of the characters and clothing and then let a 3 year old scribble on top of his art to provide the details. there are plenty of lines where there shouldn't be any. Some of the panels of Green Arrow have all of the excess lines on his upper arm that make him look extremely hairy. It is really bad.
Steve Kurth is the artist for issue #10. He has the best art in the book hands down. His art is good enough to get a 3 1/2-4 star rating. It is just too bad that he only draws one issue. All of his art looks the same. There isn't any that is better or worse than the rest. His stuff is almost as good as the best panels put out by Tolibao.
Freddie E. Williams II draws issue #13, the final issue in the book. Most of Williams II's art is even worse than the scribbly looking art Tolibao produced. To me, none of it looked good until I got to the very last page. That is one of the best looking pages in the book. Having seen that he can produce art that looks like that, I wonder why the rest of his art doesn't look nearly as good. The overall art score is 1 1/2 stars. This is one of the worst books for art out of all the New 52 titles.
Now for Ann Nocenti's writing. I thought that the writing would improve greatly with her joining the series, but boy was I wrong. The first issue started off promising, but soon I soon began questioning the motivations of the main character. Three beautiful triplets called the Skylarks attack Green Arrow and he decides to go with them to their base because he wants to have sex with the 3 of them. I could see myself doing that, but I'd like to think that a superhero, especially a billionaire playboy like Oliver Queen, would be able to resist the urge and not walk into such an obvious trap.
When I started reading the 2nd issue in this book, #8, I had to back out of the story and check to make sure that I was reading the correct issue because I felt that I had skipped a whole issue. Since I was reading this volume as single issues, that was entirely possible. This was not the case though. The story just jumps and the reader is left to fill in the missing parts for themselves. The rest of that issue and the following one both feel like there is plenty of material missing as well. This first story arc concludes with issue #9, but never feels complete or satisfactory in any way.
Issue #10 is a standalone story that could have been left out completely because it had absolutely nothing to do with the previous arc or the following one. It also does not feel complete. When Nocenti took over the writing duties following volume 1, it felt like she was in a rush to get some story down and completely erase the direction the book was headed in that first volume. The head of Queen Industries is a big part of the first volume, but is only shown hastily in the first issue of this series and is quickly written out of the story and discarded so that someone else can take over the company.
That person is the main villain of the story arc that begins in issue #11 and runs though the end of the volume to issue #13. This story is also full of holes and rushed. Nocenti should have picked one of the three stories that she tried to tell and developed it across the whole 7 issues. That would have been long enough t tell one cohesive story and allowed time to build up some suspense of Oliver losing his company and who was behind it. Instead, we get three utterly forgettable stories. Also, some of the dialogue in this book just seems downright goofy.Writing gets 2 stars.
After averaging the art and writing scores together, the book gets a 1.75 star rating which I rounded up to 2 stars. This volume is extremely poor and is the worst overall volume produced by DC under their New 52 banner. Stay away at all costs. -
I really don't know what to make of this second New 52 volume of Green Arrow. It's a bit closer to Oliver Queen than the first two story arcs were, but Ann Nocenti's idea of dialogue and inner monologue doesn't seem to flow properly with the action that's going on, with lots of superfluous caption boxes making everything a huge slog to read. But then I found myself actually enjoying what was going on.
The first story arc with the Skylarks and King Leer is extremely odd, and comes to an abrupt conclusion, but actually sets up the next few issues quite well, as well as giving Oliver a bit of character depth that he's been lacking.
The second half of the trade involving Oliver's trip to China follows up on plot points from the first arc very well, and seems to be a straight forward James Bond story until we get ghosts and evil statues and a resolution that doesn't make sense to finish it off. The addition of Suzie Ming doesn't do anything for the plot either, though she's got a bit more life in her than most of the other characters in the series.
And then there's two done-in-one issues in the middle, one of which I really enjoyed about the nature of humanity and robots, and then one hamfisted look at the Occupy movement which is far too blatant to be effective.
Artistically, Harvey Tolibao has come a long way from his work on Silver Surfer and Green Lantern: New Guardians, invoking an almost Kenneth Rocafort type of style which really works well for Ollie's adventures.
So this trade has completely confused me. For everything it does right, it does something else wrong, but it's a marked improvement on the first volume. If Nocenti could just work out exactly what story she's trying to tell, I think this could actually go somewhere interesting. -
Well! That's about all I can take from Green Arrow's new 52. I didn't hate the first volume at all. It was half decent (with the first half being a steaming pile) but utterly harmless.
This is just something else. It's a black void. The art changes with each storyline - and sadly there are too many - from a gritty, nightmarish style to a more vanilla, cartoony style and back again. The effect is jarring, but not so jarring as the genre shifts (from sexual thriller to existential science fiction to Kung fu) that happen here.
Green Arrow needs some serious tender loving care. Give me consistency, mystery, and a little bit of pathos. What does Oliver want? What does he care for? What makes him tick? I didn't get any of that from a single page.
The storylines are abysmal and disjointed. He screws triplets, then he gets chased by a pack of beasts, then a dwarf helps him...then he's helping a robot find her way, very Blade Runner...then he's in, oh, I wanna say China, and battling ghost statues. I mean it's like someone dreamt about GA and then wrote down bits and pieces directly after, and not at all in the great David Lynch way that makes you wonder. For there is nothing here to think about but objects and colours.
I was absolutely disengaged. I remember starting this over a month ago, and I had to force myself to finish it tonight. It was my Everest. But that's it. The last two graphic novels I've read are this and "Blackest Night" aka "Too Many Cooks." Maybe it's time I go to Marvel? -
I don't even... This has to be the worst thing I've ever read. It feels like fan fiction by a 16-year-old who borrowed from some obscure folk tales and threw in GA characters before putting some stream-of-consciousness writing through Google Translate a couple of times. There is nothing redeemable here. The plots feel like something from Axe Cop, without the sense of irony. The art is terrible. The characters constantly do things that are completely out of character for them given volume 1. I have no idea how this got published.
Deus ex machina Chinese superheroine Suzie Ming (while in the middle of a fight alongside GA against some random demon corpses that came out of nowhere) : "Green Arrow, I must ask you something. China's pride and ambition know no bounds. As we match America's power, our two countries need peaceful cooperation at the top. No conflict can escalate, no matter what. Can I count on your help in this?"
Green Arrow: "Anything you wish, you can count on me."
Then the "story" goes on, with no hint as to this conversation's relevance.
WTF? -
I actually thought about a two. Then other reviews I saw reminded me this was horrible.
The first story arc feels like a setup to move Green Arrow from one bed to another.
In many ways the Dark Arrow, which is designed to look like classic bearded Green Arrow, shows the problem. The New 52 version of Ollie is shallow and oversexed! The classic Green Arrow is a man concerned with the welfare of mankind. Even if you did not agree with his politics at least he stood for something. I had no problem with them including the Occupy movement in this book, since that would fit Green Arrow's personality. What I have problems with is he stands for nothing. -
Completely unreadable. The story has huge holes in it. Oliver is tied up. Now he is in the woods fighting wolves. How did he get out? No one knows. But it's ok because a midget speaking gibberish is here now. Who is he? No one knows and it doesn't matter because you couldn't read what he was saying anyway and now he's gone. Hoping the art work might help make sense of things? Nope because the action sequences aren't easy to make sense of either. Green Arrow is one of my favorites but the new 52 version to this point is a bust.
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Una absoluta perdida de tiempo, si es que alguien puede acabar el tomo y sobretodo una absurda perdida de dinero el invertido en el.
Lamentable, deslabazado, sacacuartos, absurdo y la etapa mas negra en cuanto a calidad para el arquero esmeralda en mucho tiempo.
Mejor esperar a los tomos que recopilen la etapa en la que Jeff Lemire tomo las riendas de la colección. -
It's rare that I stop reading a comic book/graphic novel once I start, but this volume falls into that category with a resounding thud. Terrible storytelling that follows no line of logic, plot, or character. And the art... I won't say that I can do better, because I can't, but damn, this volume has me thinking "well, maybe."
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This book is an insult to comics. Just terrible. I hope Lemire does a better job then Nocenti. There is almost no way that it can't be better. Everything that was ever interesting about Green Arrow was pissed away and replaced with boring writing.
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A very jumbled and confusing read that had an absolutely miserable ending to it.
