I should had probably started reading Green Arrow with something else. I kind of knew was I was getting into and still...My first contact with Green Arrow was the CW tv show (which is pretty cool) therefore I always picture Stephen Amell in the role. And frankly, he's much more interesting than this one. Also, there's no Felicity Smoak in the comics. Felicity FTW!, btw. Anyway, it wasn't bad but it wasn't good either. The villains are laughable morons and the art change for the final issue was b...

Whoa...what happens when mix awful writing with stocky art? You get...this? What is this? This takes everything Green Arrow was and throws it out. I'm not the hugest fan of Arrow the TV show anymore but least that tried something new. This didn't try anything new. It was terrible. This is terrible. Skip this and go right to Lemire's run.

It's a younger Green Arrow this time around who has his own “Batman Oracle” to help him while he deals with overpowered super villains and then a lover super villain couple. He's still alter-ego billionaire playboy, Oliver Queen, who is at odds with some of the higher ups, adding minor tension to the tales. I suppose he's something like a Bruce Wayne character in that regard.The super villains tale (who liked to post on Youtube) was more interesting than the latter one. One could certainly argue...

The best I can say for this is “eh.” It was a page turner, and the artwork is good, but otherwise, it’s just okay. Of course, I’m spoiled by the great storytelling on CW’s Arrow, so I’m biased but still. I wouldn’t recommend this, but it wasn’t terrible.

I've mentioned that Green Arrow is my favorite character ever, so it's quite a shame that I've only read this one now. After reading though, all I can say is that this is the worst New 52 volume I've read as of right now. I've read a few other Green Arrow comics and I'm a huge fan of the TV show, so I have a good background of him. This volume didn't do him justice, not even one bit. He was unlikable, and more so were the supporting characters. No one will ever beat Felicity. Back to Oliver. He

Oh I'm sorry. I seemed to have taken a wrong turn into the kids section of the New 52. This just seemed like a silly cartoon. Dumb villains, dumb story. Poor effort.

If you’re going to reboot a character from the ground up, you better replace what you threw out with something of substance. This was not it. I’m amazed at how bored I was reading this.Green Arrow has a reputation among DC fans for being the social activist in the superhero community (and for being a brooding diet Batman if you watched the early seasons of Arrow). Starting with the New52, the writers decided to toss everything recognizable about the character out the window and start from scratc...

Green Arrow #1Super rich superheroes who are more vigilante than hero (a DC specialty) are tough to enjoy, but their increasing willingness to break laws, to employ their riches to behave like a state with a state, to surveille, to torture, to coerce -- all illegally -- all with the breezy justification, "At least we're the good guys," is making their ilk almost unreadable for me.When Marvel pauses to consider their "privileged" heroes, it feels like there is much more criticism going on, a reco...

Oliver Queen is a billionaire playboy by day, daring vigilante known as Green Arrow by night… hey wake up! I know, it’s kind of cliché to have the superhero be a billionaire playboy what with the far more popular Batman and Iron Man already representing that niche but look, Green Arrow’s different: he has a bow and arrow! Hmm. Ok, how to interest the reader… he puts different pieces of tech on the end of his arrows so they do different things, say an ice arrow or an airbags arrow. No? How about

So Green Arrow is not the best thing to come out of the New 52, but it's not the worst thing, either.It lives in the Land of Meh.As other people (Sam) have pointed out, the Billionaire Playboy/Costumed Avenger thing has already been done. And, let's face it, done better. In a world where Iron Man and Batman reign supreme, Dan Jurgens is going to have to work hard to carve out a niche for Oliver Queen. Did he manage to do it in The Midas Touch?Ehhhh. Not so much.I will say that Jurgens tried to m...

Above average art and some snappy dialogue, but also some distinctly un-interesting (and in a lot of cases, redundant) secondary characters and villains.Still, gotta love the final reveal of what those canisters on Ollie's belt the whole time actually were!

Of the Nu52 books, the very best have reintroduced the characters in conjunction with well-known villains, excepting Snyder's Batman. So I have to ask- where is Merlyn and why is DC not setting him up as GA's arch-nemesis from the start?Some of these reboot books seem to be Rewriting their characters with a Marvel spin- Superman feels more like Peter Parker/ Spider-Man than he does the Man of Steel- and GA is no different. what we're getting in this book is like the early 90's Punisher, only G-r...

It happened by accident.I had ordered a stack of Incredible Hulk back issues on Ebay. As an added bonus the seller tossed in a copy of Green Arrow: Quiver. I was just starting to get back into comics, and I had never paid any attention to DC. But, it was free and it was written by Kevin Smith. I figured I’d give it a shot.By the end of the month I had picked up every single Green Arrow trade I could get my hands on. Kevin Smith did an outstanding job bringing Oliver Queen back into the world of

Not the best, not the worst GA story. I did not go into expecting anything spectacular, and I believe that helped me enjoy the (mostly) mindless violence. Have to agree Oliver is too much of a rich jerk here though.

UGHHH. I picked this up because I started watching the TV show Arrow and I thought I'd give the comics a try. This is vol one of the New 52 reboot so THEORETICALLY it should have been approachable to me, a first time Green Arrow comics reader, because that was like, the whole point of the New 52. But it was not. There was no explanation about who Oliver's support team is? I would have accepted a one panel text box. Where did they come from?? On the show, his Batcave friends are my favorite part....

I enjoyed my first foray into the New 52 Green Arrow series. It starts off with Green Arrow battling an "internet fight club" of supervillains who have become internet celebrities by filming their destructing acts and posting the videos online. They film a murder to draw Green Arrow out, wanting to film his murder as well. He isn't down with that plan and reacts accordingly.Then we see the duo of Midas and Blood Rose after Green Arrow (and Oliver Queen) as well in another decent story.The art is...

What an absolute train wreck, the fact that DC thought this was a good idea to introduce new readers to Green Arrow is baffling. I was so done with it mid way through I had to skim through some pages to put me out of my misery.

I'm not sure why people are hating on this, personally it's good to me. Sure that this wasn't really the best start but I like this one better than the flash. And I'm really excited to be able to pick up next volume next week!

This series serves as a reboot for Ollie in the new 52 and starts off with him teaming with Naomi, his computer expert and Jax, his gadgets guy and him fighting a bunch of villains who wanna livestream and provide people entertainment and also there is the case of too many villains like Rush, Supercharge, Dynamix and more and its so awesome to see Ollie go against a buncha villains but then he meets Blood Rose, whose a robot assassin and her lover Midas, who is monstrous looking and can melt thi...

Not the best New 52 collection, but not the worst either. This reboot starts out slow, with Green Arrow taking on some seriously lame villains that double as wannabe Youtube stars. Meanwhile, Oliver's boss (the CEO of Queen Industries) is constantly nagging at him for not pulling his corporate weight. Neither storyline is all that interesting, although the back-and-forth behind Arrow and his helpers (Naomi and Jax) is kind of fun and the art is solid. Fortunately, things pick up in the second ha...