| Title | : | The Green Lantern/Green Arrow Collection, Vol. 1 |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1401202241 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781401202248 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 |
| Publication | : | First published March 1, 1971 |
The Green Lantern/Green Arrow Collection, Vol. 1 Reviews
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A classic 70s comic milestone.
Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams opened here a new age of storytelling, sending the two so different green heroes in a quest to find the heart of the real America, introducing in the comic world real and important themes like racism, poverty, social equality, bigotry, overpopulation and enviromental degradation.
Sadly dialogues aged not much as good as Adams' awesome photorealistic artworks, and storyline is sometimes too much wordy and melodramatic for the modern reader.
But for that, this miniseries too much ahead of its time is just a must read for all comic books fans.
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3.5 stars
"Listen, forget about chasing around the galaxy! Remember America? It's a good country, beautiful and fertile . . . and terribly sick! There are children dying, honest people cowering in fear, disillusioned kids ripping up campuses . . . Something is wrong! Something is killing us all! Some hideous moral cancer is rotting our very souls!" -- the righteous Green Arrow, on page 30
This collection assembles the issues from the 1970-1971 run - featuring the now-legendary pairing of writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams, who would later work together on the Batman title - in which the titular characters team up and hit the road together in a green pickup truck (similar to author John Steinbeck in his Travels With Charley) to find America. Although they are teammates on the Justice League, their broad and burgeoning political differences - Lantern is an Establishment-figure conservative, while Arrow is a liberal-leaning social justice warrior - make them the now-standard 'odd couple' duo. Notable at the time for its intentional burst of relevance - the various storylines involved slumlords, coal miners on strike, mistreated Native Americans, and dangerous religious cults - it is sort of interesting how the issues of 1970 will still seem sort of pertinent amidst the current upheaval of 2020. While it's not perfect - some of the dialogue and/or action scenes are inelegant by today's standards - having two dissimilar characters work together (with the occasional assistance by the lovely Black Canary - ALWAYS a welcome presence, as far as I'm concerned) towards a common goal will never truly fall out of favor as an effective storytelling device. -
3.5 stars
This was good fun. I recently read
Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave and the Bold and this was not as fun as that one. They're both light-hearted and have some quippy one-liners, but this one deals with some heavier issues. Green Lantern in particular has to deal with the realization that the world is not as black and white as he once thought. He questions authority more throughout these issues and eventually realizes that the Guardians and the government are not always right.
Green Arrow is his normal, radically anti-authority self, which I love. Black Canary was featured in two or three issues! Gotta love that.
The artwork is retro (because this was published in the 1970s), so that was interesting. The only drawback was that the dialogue was retro too. The punctuation and pauses in dialogue were pretty jarring, especially coming from someone who takes heed of the punctuation and bold letters when reading the dialogue.
I would recommend this to fans of old school Green Arrow, old school Green Lantern, old school Black Canary, retro DC comics, and superhero team-ups. And the cross-country trip that Hal and Ollie take is referenced in a handful of other DC comics. Can't hurt to know what's going on. -
When I saw this at my local comic shop, I battled with myself over whether or not to buy it. $30 was a lot for a comic I didn't know I'd like. Alas, my love of Green Arrow won me over and I bought it. I must say, I'm glad I did.
I'm not one for the old school comics since the writing seems so hoakey to me but wow, was I wrong (sort of). The writing is still pretty, uh, 70's, but if you overlook the excessive exclamation points and thought bubbles, the issues these two "emerald warriors" tackle are still pretty accurate for our day and age. Pollution? Check. Drugs? Check. Poverty? Check. Abuse? Check. I love Green Lantern and Green Arrow's conflicting ideals. And may I just say, the coloring is amazing. Beautifully rendered. I'd recommend this to anyone who is a fan of GL or GA. -
This was in 1970? Goddamn.
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3.5 stars
Damn Oliver cooked Hal, I like their dynamic so much. -
One of the most important superhero comics, although a product of its time that has dated, it still is very interesting to see how Dennis O'Neil tried to combine superheroes with social commentary and the counterculture of the era.
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I appreciate the effort here to bring superhero stories in touch with real social issues. These caught onto some themes that remain relevant, but their treatment is a little shallow. Mixed with the corny dialogue and still one-dimensional characterizations (Arrow is hot-headed and rebellious, Lantern is a filthy narc), I don't think these age too well.
But they're good for what they are, and most definitely a fan of Neal Adams' artwork now.
The last story in this collection sort of lost the mission, taking things back out to a super comic-booky story about supervillains and revenge. It didn't make a lot of sense and broke the thematic trajectory. Sort of a weird way to conclude this collection. -
8.5/10
I really loved this. The art was great as you would expect from Neil Adams and Dennis O’neils writing hits political talking points which was unheard of during the time.
The characters of green arrow and green lantern are really fleshed out and unlike most superheros at the time have a sense of personality and contrasting morals. -
GA: "Pretty Bird, that's the second time tonight you've saved my hide!"
BC: "I'd do it for anyone... a stray cat, a politician - just anyone at all!"
Green Arrow and Black Canary are 2 of my favorite comic book characters, so it was fun to finally read some of their legendary "Hard Travellin' Heroes" adventures. Green Lantern is such a bore though. -
Good intentions, little bit racist.
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Despite the age of this series Green Lantern/Green Arrow holds up remarkably well. The storyline is full of controversial issues, ranging from race equality to drugs, that are still relevant today. Forty years later and we still get hold up on things like this. This should say something to our race, but maybe not enough people have read this collection. The art holds up just as well as the storyline, too, and I'd go as far to say it's coloured and detailed better than some of the art in Green Arrow's New 52 series. So, I'd easily recommend this to fans of the title characters or people interested in reading superheroes tackling real world issues. If you can get past the somewhat ancient writing and dodgy one liners, there's something great in Green Lantern/Green Arrow.
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GA's bow folds in half! If it did that in the Silver Age comics I never noticed, but in GL#76 he's seen from the front in the new costume and the top of his quiver is visible; suddenly he turns and has his bow out with lines indicating it's unfolding as it comes from either inside the quiver or attached to the back of out and SNAP! Cooool!
GA is acting kind of like a jerk in the first two issues. Truncated this part to kill spoilers, but just a little bit preachy and exaggerated.
Still kind of a jerk in GL#77. Or maybe just acting unexpectedly. I'd expect him to be all over helping the oppressed fight their overlord in his barbed wire fort, or stop them if felt it was too dangerous, but not shrug "your funeral". Wasn't he ALL about the downtrodden man at the beginning of this storyline?
Love the Black Canary /Demons fight sequence in GL#78. Two color, 6 unframed "panels"; it flows so well you can almost see it moving. And the memory panel in the same issue, the same feel: 5 panels overlayed with a sillouhette of Dinah's face. Lovely! An inconsistancy in the story though: GL disposes of something but then Dinah still has hers... It'd be minor but 3 pages following depend on her having it..
So GA acts like a huge brat for most of this volume, but the art is great, the stories are fun, and I really enjoyed it. Onto to volume 2! -
Ever read a comic book clearly written by a hippie (in the nicest sense of the word)? More than a decade before Alan Moore did it with Watchmen, O’Neil began to dig away at the ideological ground of superheroes. In his introduction, written in ‘83, O’Neil writes, “Green Lantern was, in effect, a cop. An incorruptible cop, to be sure, with noble intentions but still a cop, a crypto-fascist: he took orders, he committed violence at the behest of commanders whose authority he did not question.” I love that, especially the “crypto-fascist” bit. Green Arrow, whom I have never read before, is one of my new favourites.
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This is one of the series that got my brothers and I into comics for real. It was the first series we "discovered" on our own rather than by reference from others. It was a breath of fresh air in a time when the success of The Dark Knight Returns had the comics industry tripping over itself to be dark, gritty, and suffocating.
It's political, what with Arrow proposing to teach Lantern about the complexities of justice by taking him on a cross country trip to find the soul of America and Ollie's "leftie' reputation, but subjects get covered without taking all the air out of the room and concluding that all is lost, everyone is corrupt, and the only thing for it is to brood. -
Really some of the greatest comics ever written. Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams were masters. I would still say that the stuff Neil Adams drew forty years ago blows away almost anything drawn today. Very clear social commentary and reflection at work here.
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Mi hermano me regaló esta novela gráfica para navidad y mientras esperaba el bus para volver a mi ciudad terminé leyéndolo y disfrutándolo. La verdad es que siempre he sido demasiado fanático de los cómics de superhéroes, y los personajes de DC siempre me han encantado. En este caso tenemos a dos personajes muy interesantes como Green Lantern y Green Arrow, que se ven envueltos en un viaje por carretera por Estados Unidos que los hará verse con más problemas que soluciones y que los hará cuestionarse sus roles como superhéroes.
La historia comienza cuando ambos se encuentran, al principio a lados opuestos de un mismo problema pero luego del mismo lado. Y así es como comienza esta historia que me sorprendió. Porque cuando uno piensa en cómics publicados en los años setenta, no espera ver problemas que están tan presentes en el tiempo actual como el machismo, el racismo, la pobreza, la sobrepoblación, el fanatismo racial, la contaminación y la explotación laboral, no porque no existiesen en ese tiempo sino porque no eran tan hablados. Pero en estas páginas ambos superhéroes verdes lidian con problemas como estos y se cuestionan sus propios privilegios y moralidades como defensores de la justicia. Otra cosa que destaco es que ambos personajes no son sencillos de tratar, no son copias el uno del otro, ambos tienen su personalidad y sus ideales. Hal y Oliver pelean muchas veces, tienen maneras diferentes de entender los problemas y buscar soluciones. Oliver es más un personaje poco ortodoxo e idealista que quiere hacer el bien sin importar los medios; por su parte, Hal es el personaje más down-the-book que quiere hacer las cosas con lo que considera correcto y legal, muchas veces dejando que su idea algo parcialidad de lo bueno lo guíe de manera más rígida que la de Queen.
Aun así hay cosas que ahora se considerarían problemáticas como Oliver Queen vistiéndose como un personaje nativo americano, que aunque tenía buenas intenciones, te hace preguntarte esta historia del "salvador blanco" y como ha cambiado con el tiempo.
El gran problema para mí del cómic y que lo dejó en tres estrellas en vez de más fue que su final fue demasiado abrupto y se siente como si no hubiese cerrado nada. Se entiende que los problemas que presenciaron ambos superhéroes no se acaban así de sencillo, pero me hubiese gustado algo con una sensación más de cierre a la travesía de ambos personajes.
El arte en el cómic es maravilloso, ese perfecto dibujo de cómic de los años setenta que se siente tan vivo incluso hasta hoy. Es algo que amé de la edición.
Héroes Errantes me sorprendió positivamente, es una historia que te hace reflexionar acerca de la forma en que los superhéroes se movían en ese tiempo en el mundo de cómic y como poco a poco se iban rompiendo estas historias y mostrándonos algo más realista, con personajes sufriendo problemas reales, cosas que no son sencillas de solucionar. Y eso se agradece demasiado. -
Puntaje: 3.2 Estrellas.
Héroes errantes es de esos números de la colección de novelas gráficas de DC que no me emocionaron por leerlos, pero si me terminó causando el suficiente interés como apra agregarlo al TBR. Green Arrow es uno de mis personajes favoritos de DC Comics, aunque esto se debe a historias muy específicas. No soy fan del personaje en sí, sino de algunas historias y personajes secundarios que lo rodean.
En este caso, Oliver Queen se irá de viaje por los Estados Unidos con su mejor amigo: Hal Jordan, aunque bueno, más que amigos parecen hermanos, en especial el tipo de hermanos que se la pasan peleando todo el tiempo.
Las personalidades de Hal y Oliver son completamente diferente y esto es lo que iremos descubriendo en este tomo. Además, los acompañará un ser muy peculiar: Uno de los guardianes de OA, es decir, el jefe de Hal Jordan.
La historia comienza con un derrumbe de paradigma que sufre Jordan, pues él ve el mundo en blanco y negro, es decir, solo hay gente buena y gente mala, nadie podría ubicarse en la mitad de estos dos espectros. Por otro lado, Oliver ha estado expuesto a muchas situaciones “grises”, por lo que comprende la realidad humana un poco mejor, en comparación de su amigo patrullero espacial.
Este tomo está compuesto por varias aventuras y peligros que viven ambos personajes durante su viaje, en donde incluso se encuentran con Canario Negro, un personaje de quien quiero leer más en el futuro.
Como tal, este volúmen es entretenido y dinámico, por lo que es muy difícil aburrirse al leerlo. Sin embargo, es la típica historieta de aventuras de los años 70, en donde cada cómic nos contaba una historia distinta y ya, no había un desarrollo muy importante en la trama. Ahora bien, esto no quita que pueda ser una historia disfrutable. A mí personalmente me gusta leer cómics antiguos y ver las diferencias en la narración que tiene con sus contrapartes contemporáneas.
Definitivamente, este no es un cómic para todo el mundo. Además, la historia no añade mucho a la mitología de cada personaje, por lo que yo la calificaría como una lectura de hobby, es decir, recomendada para quienes sean fans de Green Arrow o Green Lantern y quieran leer más acerca de estos personajes. -
Green Lantern/Green Arrow was one of the most influential comic book series of all time. It paved the way for things like Moon Knight and Watchmen and is largely credited with being the kick in the pants that got comics out of the Silver Age silliness that predominated them for a while. Comics, this series argued, could discuss modern issues in a meaningful manner. Comics could be tools for social change. While whether this book alone was the impetus behind more mature story felling or not could be argued, but its influence can't be denied. Snowbirds Don't Fly, after all, was an award winning arc that ended up being referenced by politicians. How is that for influence?
Volume 1 goes up to "Snowbirds Don't Fly" and is a good sampling of the title overall. Hal Jordan and Oliver Queen embark on a road trip across America to discover the human condition or something. It's a great excuse to expose the boys to the various things troubling people at that time, and to have them argue about it. And argue about it. And eventually learn something new about themselves. Partway through Black Canary joins in, though she never quite becomes the influential figure there that she arguably should.
While the stories come off as dated now, it's astonishing just how many of these issues are still prevalent today and how decent Ollie's takes on the bulk of them are... with the notable exception of how he handles the events in Snowbirds. The art is good and the storytelling fascinating. The series is sadly short, but maybe Dennis is right in saying that if it had lasted longer it would have lost its shine. -
Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams brought together two disparate green superheroes to try to draw out a moral tension between them. Green Lantern hews to a traditional privileged view on morality, implicitly trusting authority figures and upholding the status quo against "crime". Green Arrow, on the other hand, sees the structures of social inequality and exploitation as inherently criminal, and doesn't give a damn what the law has to say about it.
This is an interesting dynamic, and is handled with all the subtlety of a piano dropped onto the sidewalk from a thirty-story building. After beating up a bunch of poor Black youths for the crime of harassing their evil landlord, Green Lantern is confronted by an elderly Black man: "I been readin' about you... How you work for the Blue Skins, and how on a planet you helped out the Orange Skins... And you done considerable for the Purple Skins! But there's Skins you never bothered with- the Black Skins! I want to know... How come?" I dunno, it was 1970.
Every issue Green Lantern monologues to the reader about how he is for the first time conflicted on right and wrong (over a conflict with absolutely no moral ambiguity) and Green Arrow calls him a fascist. Also, because the superpower pairing of "ring that lets you do anything you can imagine" vs. "bow and arrow" is somewhat unbalanced, Green Lantern is constantly being depowered for stupid reasons. -
Tak dlouho člověk nadává, že je v kompletu jenom Báťa se Supíkem, až dostane tuhle zelenou dvojici a nadává znova.
Za mě je tohle jedna z těch věcí, kde se zub času podepsal docela docela výrazně. GL a GA se tu vydají na cestu Amerikou a GA se snaží GL ukázat, jak vypadá reálné zlo a že ne vždy se maskuje škraboškou jako tuctový padouch. Na několikrát tak dostaneme to samé. Green Arrow se chová konstantně na pěst (a párkrát ji zaslouženě dostane) a Green Lantern tu konstantně pochybuje jak o sobě, tak o svém poslání. Řeší se tu každodenní problémy dnešní doby - rasová nesnášenlivost, ekologie, chudoba - ale jako jediné k čemu se tu dojde je jenom to, že nic není jenom černé nebo bílé, ale je tu spoustu odstínů šedi.
Kresba naštěstí funguje i po letech a akční scény pořád mají ten správný náboj, byť se tu podstatně víc mluví než používá svalů.
Mohlo by se vám líbit, pokud:
- chcete v rámci DiCKKa konečně něco bez dvojice Batman/Superman
- máte chuť na něco staršího
Spíš vás zklame, pokud:
- jste doufali, že už konečně zjistíte proč jsou GL a GA kamarádi (tady o tom jenom mluví, když se zrovna nebijí navzájem, takže jako obvykle)
- vás na komiksovou archeologii moc neužije -
I guess this counted as progressive stuff in 1970 but it reads like typically cheesy 1960s comics writing with plenty of casual sexism in 2019. Every time Black Canary is in a story, the narration has to, at some point, refer to her physical looks and "soft femininity" as main attributes of her character. And that's not to mention the way Green Arrow talks to her. This whole thing is the white savior narrative blown up for 300 pages, with four white heroes swooping in to help minorities like black people and Native Americans, who are portrayed as stereotypically as possible, only living in run-down tenaments or in bars on reservations. Denny O'Neil writes Green Lantern in such a corny way that it's no wonder he's nobody's favorite DC hero. Hal Jordan just comes off like a total moron in this entire series. I have no clue why this book is considered great today but maybe you had to be there at the time. You'd be much better off reading anything by Alan Moore if you want thought-provoking comics.
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I didn't finish the whole series, but I might someday. The only reason I didn't finish is that I was reading digitally and had other things I wanted to read more before the service terminated. The series is fine for what it is and the time it released. In fact I almost feel rather bad for only giving it three stars, because when one considers this was written with children, pre-teens, and teens in mind, when complex and mature stories were censored by the company, it's about as good as one can likely expect. But at the same time, I feel it's only honest to rate the work not only according to its time, but to how it has withstood the test of time. Given the retro, unsubtle dialogue and plots, among other reasons, it doesn't really stand out as being as excellent as it once did. But even though it hasn't necessarily aged well, it was still remarkably poignant in places, and its legacy for acheiving what it did back in the 70s will always grant it a special place in the annals of comic book history and superhero media.
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Conociendo un poquito de Green Arrow y Green Lantern, siempre me llamo la atención este comic en el que comparten la titularidad, a Green Arrow siempre lo vi como más de izquierda, más moralmente gris por momentos, y a Green Lantern como una persona de blancos y negros, porque aunque siempre se lo pone como un poco rebelde, que sea un militar (o ex-militar dependiendo del momento), se nota en su forma de ver el mundo, donde la autoridad es la justicia y aquellos que la oponen son el enemigo. Esa misma dinámica es la que se explora en este comic, para mostrar distintas problemáticas de los Estados Unidos.
Lo primero que hay que considerar al leer este comic es que es de 1970, y con sus 50 años se puede entender la forma de narrar, y que aunque trata temas serios lo haga un poco inocentemente y un poco por arriba... pero la intención de mostrar esas cosas es buena, por más que la ejecución se quede corta. Es es sin dudas un comic icónico que vale la pena leer. -
An interesting piece of comic book history. Not exactly my favorite read, as the themes were more than a little "preachy," but this volume included real milestones since these stories actually took comic heroes out of comic problems and into "real world" problems. The main story arc: Green Lantern, Green Arrow, and a Guardian of Oa go on a road trip to better understand America. Along the way, they confront racism, poverty, overpopulation (the latter is actually on an alien planet toward the end), and more. This was one of the first (if not THE first) time that comics tried to tackle something beyond super villains. Again, comics have come a long way, and are now able to dabble in shades of gray and subtlety. But--ramming themes down the reader's throat aside--this is still worth a read, especially if you're interested in the evolution of comics as a genre.
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I love this whole volume-if only to laugh at the contradictory and shallow diatribes from Green Arrow, and how he manages to insult any group he tries to stand for.
He calls Hal a Nazi loudly and often for trying to talk squatters into leaving, for wanting to hear both sides before a lynching, and even for apologizing to his boss for something innocuous.
He’s nothing if not consistent in his “form over substance” brand of justice. Pairing him with the ever-apologetic and also slightly-odd Hal Jordan (who really carries them both in any fight) was a great move in my opinion. It’s also great that they go on a road trip around America so that Ollie can have an opportunity to insult every minority group with his white savior complex. -
Plagued by laughable art and unreadable heavy-handed if not contradictory social commentary (HITLER!HITLER!HITLER!HITLER!HITLUUUUUUUUR!!!!11111111!!!11!!!wait, why is Black Canary praying?!) from an author who, six years in the future, will write the definitive Batman story by making social critique WITH JUST ONE RIGHT SENTENCE. This There's no Hope in Crime Alley is not, young Jedi. The worst Dennis O'Neil tale to date for me.
