3.5 starsThis 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...

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 "...

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 bla...

This is a foundational comic from what nowadays is trend: the “what if superheroes get in contact with real world problems?” This comic deal with a lot of hard stuff, sometimes naïvely but with a sincere intention: to show how things are not white and black, but they must be confronted with clear ideals. And in the process, transformation will come.

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 a...

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 l...

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.

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.

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 30This collection assembles the issues from the 1970-1971 run - featuring the now-legendary pairing of writer De...

Well it was always going to suffer in comparison to the hype that proceeded my reading; I love Denny O'Neill's writing for batman and this book covers some important issues... but I the actual stories feel like an episode of The A-Team or Incredible Hulk and it also seems to be the shortest ever road trip to find America.

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...

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

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...

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 Ar...

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 j...

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 Jor...

this was an amazing read with the 2 iconic heroes- green lantern and green arrow- teaming up to face an evil too powerfull for just one of them. it expresses the two heroes relationships and their conflicts greatly.

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.

Green arrow and green lantern go on an adventure across the United States fixing problems to help make this a better country. They find an old friend along the way who helps them on their journey. I recommend this book because it has humor and action but it is written and set in the mid 1900s