This volume reminds me of comics from the early 90s, and in this case that is not a complement. The art is subpar and the story seems thrown together. In the 90s everyone was speculating and it didn't matter what crap was put out there, people were buying it and not even reading it. The idea was to buy it, put it up and hope it was worth money one day. Pretty much all of those comics are worthless now.In any case, not a whole lot to say about this one. You get an origin story, but its fairly wea...

Even worse than the last one. I can't wait to get to Lemire, he surely will be better than this.

DNF. Green Arrow is one of my favourite heroes in the DC universe, but this is straight up garbage. I managed to read the first 2 volumes of the “New 52” Green Arrow & even then is was a struggle. I’m actually embarrassed that I own all the individual comics for this title, had I been reading these as I was buying them I’d have gotten out of comics sooner. I wasn’t impressed with the writing & there were some good writers in here Judd Winick, Geoff Johns & Rob Liefield, there were more that I di...

I can only imagine what sorts of editorial havoc Geoff Johns and the rest of the DC dream-killers were wreaking when these issues were being published. Ann Nocenti continues to prove herself an extremely adept handler of this character and THEN ... they hand over WRITING DUTIES to none other than Rob freaking Liefeld! For those not familiar with this buffoon, Rob Liefeld was pretty much single-handedly responsible for the distinguished styles that made mainstream comics in the '90s awful. And no...

In DC’s vain efforts to increase readership, here are the time-tested concepts that they usually fall back on when they are creatively bankrupt. This volume of Green Arrow picks two off the list. The fact that Ann Nocenti comes from the Kevin Smith School of Turgid Dialogue makes this comic even less endearing. Drum roll please! 10. Tweak an origin story. By 'tweak", I mean do a wholesale re-write.9. Make Supergirl’s costume skimpier8. Have another one of Bruce Wayne’s childhood friends grow up

After spending 3 days trying to get past the ugly art and horribly pointless story about Hawkman, a sliver of light burst through the clouds!I turned the page and *Insert Angelic Choir Singing Here* suddenly Ollie's face didn't look like someone had scribbled all over it!It almost appeared as though someone who could draw had taken over the artwork.And as an added bonus...Ann Nocenti was no longer the writer!There was a dreamlike quality to these events, and I started to wonder if I had somehow

I still don't understand why this book is having such a troubling history and can't seem to find its own way. Although this volume is better than #2 it still suffers from annoying plot holes and ATROCIOUS artwork that is also littered with continuity errors. Oliver's hair changes between pages - on one he has a Caesar cut, and two panels later he has a floppy fringe (and no, it's not a flashback).I've said it before and I'll say it again - with Arrow being such a hit on CW, you'd think they'd be...

Yawn. The Hawkman Wanted storyline is cut short just when it might actually go somewhere, and the Harrow storyline is overblown and hardly interesting at all. The Zero issue isn't bad, and the Justice League material is infinitely better than any of Nocenti's issues, but this is just bland and boring for the most part. Thank god Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino take over with Volume 4.

Green Arrow Vol. 3 Harrow collects issues 0, 14-16, The Savage Hawkman 14, and Justice League 8 and 13 written by Ann Nocenti, Rob Liefeld, Geoff Johns, and Judd Winick with art by Freddie Williams II, Rob Hunter, Joe Bennett, among others. Green Arrow teams up with Hawkman to battle Thangarian bounty hunters, takes on a crime boss who has taken over the Seattle underground while Ollie was in China, attempts to join the Justice League, and we get a flashback of Ollie's origin. This was a somewha...

When will someone get the memo that being a champion of the people and being broke don't have to go hand in hand. I realize that if you want to separate Green Arrow from Batman the money would be about the only place you could start, but let's face it, Green Arrow could not afford to do what he does if he were not a billionaire. It's lazy story telling and completely untrue toward the character. I don't care how many times they've pulled this before.

Again, I'm enjoying this way more than I had thought. I particularly enjoyed this because it is a crossover edition. Green Arrow himself has 4-issues compiled here sandwiched between 1 from "Savage Hawkman" and 2 from "Justice League". As we left the last volume, Hawkman had just come upon the scene, under attack and wanted for murder. GA decides to help the underdog in the situation and Arrow and Hawkman become partners for the first few issues which crossover between a Hawkman issue and Green

At this point I should know that if Ann Nocenti's name is on a book, I shouldn't even bother. Her portions of this title are painful to read; badly scripted, poorly paced, and gratingly bad dialog (and random people just showing up - I mean why does a lady who is wanting to watch a parade show up in the comic three separate times for no more reason than to comment Green Arrow should be in the parade?). The new villain, Harrow, is dull, and this book actually includes a scene of a character (eith...

There's a point in Green Arrow Vol. 3: Harrow, where Ollie asks Hawkman, "Just what kind of mess am I stepping into?" and it's with the same trepidation readers should approach the New 52 Green Arrow. The same issues that plagued volume 1 and 2 of Green Arrow are still here: the lack of a cohesive story line, the horrible (and it really is quite horrible) artwork and bad characterisation. I guess the only saving grace of this volume is when Green Arrow crosses over with Hawkman and Justice Leagu...

I sat on this review for about two weeks before writing this. The reason I did this is that I was so appalled by this book that I didn't feel fit to adequately express how bad it was. I did not think that Volume 2 could be topped, but lo and behold the bottom was much further than I ever expected. Nocenti's storylines and writing are just pure garbage. It rivaled the worst of any GA fan stories. Every new book bought a new social dilemma that probably would not have worked well in a 2 story arc

I enjoyed the story of the Hawkman crossover and the issue of Justice League, but the rest of this was pretty much geabage. I'm so glad Ann Nocenti's run as writer is over. Writing gets 2.5 stars only for the items included that were not written by Nocenti. Freddie Williams II is the artist for the Nocenti written issues. In closeups, his characters look good as far as initial drawing, but when he tries to draw in the details it looks like a child did it. I'm pretty sure I said the same thing ab...

Cancel or re-reboot this series.UPDATE 11/5: "The series was originally written by J.T. Krul, who was later replaced by Ann Nocenti. Neither's run was well received by critics or fans, and beginning with issue 17, the series received a new creative team in writer Jeff Lemire and artist Andrea Sorrentino; this team has brought more positive reception to the book." Source This makes me happy as this book is the end of the creative teams I did not enjoy. There is hope in Lemire as he wrote some of...

Just not very good. There's no continuity, it's all episodic, and some of the writing is just plain bad. The third-person narration in the first issue of this volume was especially jarring. When is there ever need of third-person narration in a fucking comic book!? It has fucking pictures for muckfuck sake! First-person narration makes sense and of course is a staple of the genre, but third-person? That's fucking unforgivable. On top of that, Freddie Williams II should not be allowed near any pe...

Going to try this volume after I stopped reading vol. 2 after one issue in. It's a shame to see a lot of these New 52 series fail to find their footing and subsist on little more than a slightly new look to each character.Couldn't do it. Nocenti doesn't think that this character, or possibly comics as a whole, can be serious or can be plotted slowly and with for thought. It's fast, cheeky and wastes the character's potential. Green arrow was great pre-New 52 when Winick had his hands on him, but...

This made me think back to when Rob Reiner's director Marty DiBergi shared an album review with the band in This Is Spinal Tap: "The review for Shark Sandwich was merely a two word review which simply read "Shit Sandwich." There were no favors done by the apparent hodgepodge collection of this and that in this volume (with Nocenti, Johns/Lemire, and Winnick writing parts, respectively). Nocenti had already created a maddeningly arbitrary storyline, peopled with 1-D characters and '90s "extreme"n...

So we get at least 2/3rds of a Green Arrow/Hawkman team-up with no real conclusion.I am beginning to see an arc when Ollie is beginning to become a hero...but being over a year late it's a little late.Harrow, as a villian is just a guy offering money. And this art is not my style at all.