Green Arrow #1

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[mullon]

If he doesn't have the beard then what's the goddamn point?

[jlroberson]

JURRRRGENS!!!

[kamino_neko]

The costume is very Smallville. I like it, but it's kind of weird seeing it in this context.

And good lord is Ollie young.

[pyrotwilight]

Oh that's OLLIE at the end. Regardless of words I see a redhead in an arrow book and say OH HEY ROY.

[aaron_bourque]

I'M REALLY TRYING TO GROW A GOATEE HERE, TAKE ME SERIOUSLY

[majingojira]

I'm more intrigued by Substitute Oracle Naomi.

Intrigued that she exists, mostly.

[omgwtflolbbqbye]

The tip of the arrow on his belt buckle looks unfortunately curved in that first panel.

And by unfortunate I of course mean the opposite.

[thehefner]

So, I'm genuinely wondering if their apparently ploy to win over the Smallville audience over to comics is actually working. I mean, that's clearly what they're doing here, right?

[harpers_child]

when did Roy bleach his hair? if that's Ollie, when did he lose the bet and have to shave off his beard?

the face in that last panel is a little walter kovacs.

[sigmund_droid]

I dub this BBB


Blond Batman with Bow

that's not a good thing...

[big_daddy_d]

Honesty? I like this book. Loved the action, the pacing, and story. Not to mention the new toy Ollie has to play with. I'm a GA fan, always will be. But more than that I'm a bigger Roy Harper fan and almost everything in this book screamed Roy Harper.

1. He looks exactly like Roy.

2. He has secret agent esque adventures, which is Roy's style.

3. Uses a weapon other than bow and Arrow like Roy.

Plus just the overall vibe. Of course being a company man is Ollie's thing. Having a team that feeds him info via wireless communication, eh more fit for Roy in my opinion but I can see Ollie using it too.

Plus another thing..while he looks like Roy in his own book...in Justice League International he looks like Connor! So..really is there an artist who can draw Ollie to look like fucking Ollie?!

P.S. - As much as I really hope Lian, Connor, and Mia make a return, I do hope Galahad and The Queen make a return as well. Queen was a great villain and it's a shame to lose her.

[tsunamiwombat]

See people are saying they don't like Ollie here and I feel the exact opposite. He seems like an actual damn hero, someone who wants to help people, not a cavorting philanderer.

I get that the Erol Flynn thing is part of his charm and I do like to see a guy enjoying his work and I hope he does have that part to his personality, but a reset of the Ollie whose this constant sanctimonious asshole who cheats on his wife every other issue? yes PLOX.

[darkblade]

Seriously, Batman loses Oracle and Ollie gets one without the whole fridging problem. I need to go make a hole in my wall now.

[sparkysharps.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm sure there's a story here, and there's characters doing things to move it along, but the only thing I can register is, "Where is your beard? Where is your beard? WHERE IS YOUR GODDAMNED BEARD?"

There are exactly two superheroes I can literally not envision without a beard, and Green Arrow is one of them.

[jlroberson]

"INSANE RICH MAN TERRORIZES THE NIGHT WITH ARROWS."

[cainofdreaming]

The Beard That Walks has no beard? What a silly, silly world.

[runespoor]

He doesn't make me want to laugh and he doesn't have a beard or a silly Robin Hood hat. He's... terribly, terribly young.

Frankly I don't see the appeal of making Ollie so goddamn young. That's like making Captain Haddock young. You don't do that.

Plus my usual problem with Dan Jurgens' characters, that makes them look oddly unsympathetic to me.

[kirke_novak]

No goatee? THEN I CAN'T BE BOTHERED READING THIS! TA!

[nyadnar17]

Maybe I need to read more of the issue, but I have no clue who that guy running around in the Green suit is. I mean sure people are calling him Ollie and he uses a bow, but I am not feeling any of the fun or swashbuckling I associate with the character. I mean the only other thing Ollie has going for him is old man snark and even that is gone.

Who is this guy?

[thedropout]

I like how even his tools are green. The man has a vision.

BTW, what keeps his mask on? Does he actually superglue it to his face?

[darkknightjrk]

Hmm. So, they basically got Tony Stark, dyed his hair blonde, and have him running around with a bow and arrow and the standard Batman gadgets?

On the nose, it isn't a BAD direction to take Ollie in, but I think they need to give some more dimension to Ollie's character in order to make it work--because right now, he kinda looks like Generic Hero #70175.

Wanted to read this one but the shop did not have it

[detective_deathman08]

Green Arrow really needs ome love, I hope this book answers his cry for justice.

[thokstar]

Is Naomi supposed to be an alt version of the daughter he fought in his Flashpoint one-shot?

I can't decide if reusing that character is stupid or brilliant or both.

[jlroberson]

I think we're supposed to assume that every character's treatment in NuDC is based on what Barry Allen thought of them, as he's the one that basically remade the universe.

So judging from that: damn, Barry hated Ollie.

[philippos42]

I suspect Jurgens is phoning it in at this point.

Ollie has had the beard since 1970. It's practically part of the trademark. Replacing him with generic blond Dan Jurgens hero seems foolish to me.