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Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters
Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters - Book One: The Hunters
Green Arrow and Black Canary try and settle into their new civilian lives in Seattle as florists, but can’t seem to avoid getting drawn back to their old lives of crime-fighting. There’s a slasher on the loose, as well as a city teeming with drugs and violence. As the two heroes start their own investigations, Green Arrow finds he’s not the only archer in town…
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First published January 1, 1988
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Mike Grell
658 books82 followersMike Grell (born 1947) is a comic book writer and artist.
Grell studied at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, and took the Famous Artists School correspondence course in cartooning. His entry into the comics industry was in 1972, as an assistant to Dale Messick on the Brenda Starr comic strip.
In 1973 Grell moved to New York, and began his long relationship with DC Comics. His first assignment at DC was on Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, a high-profile assignment for an artist with no prior experience illustrating a monthly comic book. Grell says he got that job because he was walking in the editor's door to ask for work, literally, as the previous artist was walking out the door, having just quit. These stories were written by Cary Bates and Jim Shooter. The Bates/Grell/Shooter run on the title is very well-regarded today by Superboy/Legion fans, who consider it one of the high-water marks in the character/team's history. Grell's work on SATLOSH is widely thought to be some of the best beefcake/cheesecake ever committed to comic book pages, and is affectionately referred to as the 'disco Legion' in retrospect by fans of the title.
A writer as well as artist, Grell cemented his status as a fan-favorite with his best-known creation, The Warlord, one of the first sword and sorcery comics, and reportedly the best-selling title published by DC Comics in the late-1970s.
The character first appeared in 1st Issue Special #8 (Nov 1975) and was soon given his own ongoing title (The Warlord #1, Jan/Feb 1976). In this book, Air Force pilot Travis Morgan crash-lands in the prehistoric "hidden world" of Skartaris (a setting highly influenced by Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar). For years thereafter, Morgan engages in adventures dressed only in a winged helmet, wristbands, boots, and breechclout, and armed with a sword and (years before Dirty Harry handled one) a .44 Auto Mag.
At DC, Grell also worked on titles such as Aquaman, Batman, and the Phantom Stranger, and with writer Dennis O'Neil on the re-launch of the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series in 1976.
[edit] Tarzan
Grell wrote and drew the Tarzan comic strip from July 19, 1981 to February 27, 1983 (except for one strip, February 13, 1983, by Thomas Yeates). These strips were rerun in newspapers in 2004 - 2005.
[edit] First Comics: Jon Sable Freelance and Starslayer
Cover to Jon Sable Freelance #7. Art by Mike Grell.Through the 1980s Grell developed creator-owned titles such Jon Sable Freelance and Starslayer. Jon Sable Freelance was published by the now-defunct First Comics. Starslayer, a space-born science fiction series, started at Pacific Comics, but shifted to First.
The titular character of Jon Sable Freelance was a former Olympic athlete, later a African big-game hunter, who became a mercenary. First appearing with a cover date of June 1983, Jon Sable Freelance was a successful non-super-hero comic book in an era when successful non-super-hero comic books were almost unheard of, and a graphically violent comic sold in mainstream comic book stores in an era when such was as rare. Jon Sable was a precursor to what would eventually be called, by some, "the Dark Age of Comics," when even long-established super-heroes would become increasingly grim and violent.
The character was heavily influenced by Ian Fleming's James Bond novels as well as drawing on pulp fiction crime stories. Also, many of the stories of Sable's hunting exploits in Africa were influenced by Peter Hathaway Capstick's novels. At a convention in the late 1980s, Grell stated that his idea for Sable was "something like a cross between James Bond and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer."
Sable was adapted into a short-lived television series and the character's origin tale, "A Storm Over Eden," from the comic book, was expanded and novelized by Grell under the title Sable, which was publ
Grell studied at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, and took the Famous Artists School correspondence course in cartooning. His entry into the comics industry was in 1972, as an assistant to Dale Messick on the Brenda Starr comic strip.
In 1973 Grell moved to New York, and began his long relationship with DC Comics. His first assignment at DC was on Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, a high-profile assignment for an artist with no prior experience illustrating a monthly comic book. Grell says he got that job because he was walking in the editor's door to ask for work, literally, as the previous artist was walking out the door, having just quit. These stories were written by Cary Bates and Jim Shooter. The Bates/Grell/Shooter run on the title is very well-regarded today by Superboy/Legion fans, who consider it one of the high-water marks in the character/team's history. Grell's work on SATLOSH is widely thought to be some of the best beefcake/cheesecake ever committed to comic book pages, and is affectionately referred to as the 'disco Legion' in retrospect by fans of the title.
A writer as well as artist, Grell cemented his status as a fan-favorite with his best-known creation, The Warlord, one of the first sword and sorcery comics, and reportedly the best-selling title published by DC Comics in the late-1970s.
The character first appeared in 1st Issue Special #8 (Nov 1975) and was soon given his own ongoing title (The Warlord #1, Jan/Feb 1976). In this book, Air Force pilot Travis Morgan crash-lands in the prehistoric "hidden world" of Skartaris (a setting highly influenced by Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar). For years thereafter, Morgan engages in adventures dressed only in a winged helmet, wristbands, boots, and breechclout, and armed with a sword and (years before Dirty Harry handled one) a .44 Auto Mag.
At DC, Grell also worked on titles such as Aquaman, Batman, and the Phantom Stranger, and with writer Dennis O'Neil on the re-launch of the Green Lantern/Green Arrow series in 1976.
[edit] Tarzan
Grell wrote and drew the Tarzan comic strip from July 19, 1981 to February 27, 1983 (except for one strip, February 13, 1983, by Thomas Yeates). These strips were rerun in newspapers in 2004 - 2005.
[edit] First Comics: Jon Sable Freelance and Starslayer
Cover to Jon Sable Freelance #7. Art by Mike Grell.Through the 1980s Grell developed creator-owned titles such Jon Sable Freelance and Starslayer. Jon Sable Freelance was published by the now-defunct First Comics. Starslayer, a space-born science fiction series, started at Pacific Comics, but shifted to First.
The titular character of Jon Sable Freelance was a former Olympic athlete, later a African big-game hunter, who became a mercenary. First appearing with a cover date of June 1983, Jon Sable Freelance was a successful non-super-hero comic book in an era when successful non-super-hero comic books were almost unheard of, and a graphically violent comic sold in mainstream comic book stores in an era when such was as rare. Jon Sable was a precursor to what would eventually be called, by some, "the Dark Age of Comics," when even long-established super-heroes would become increasingly grim and violent.
The character was heavily influenced by Ian Fleming's James Bond novels as well as drawing on pulp fiction crime stories. Also, many of the stories of Sable's hunting exploits in Africa were influenced by Peter Hathaway Capstick's novels. At a convention in the late 1980s, Grell stated that his idea for Sable was "something like a cross between James Bond and Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer."
Sable was adapted into a short-lived television series and the character's origin tale, "A Storm Over Eden," from the comic book, was expanded and novelized by Grell under the title Sable, which was publ
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April 30, 2019
"Underground. The future built on the skeletal remains of the past. Bright and shiny on the surface, but gutted and decaying underneath. Buried and forgotten, because no one likes to look at rotten beauty."
I really don't where to start with this one. The illustrations are not exactly the kind that I enjoy the most. They are not bad, but the still isn't of my preference. I like more... unrealistic? drawings. That is mostly responsible for the low rating of this one.
The story - as developed in this issue - has a bit of mystery (obviously) and sparkle of romance. We are following two different assassins that somehow intertwined with each other.
The premise that one can lose itself, one's essence and identity, is really good and one that applies to everybody. The necessity of taking a break or a step behind in order of finding your path again is easily relatable.
I'm eager to find out more about this story in the next issue and see the direction this takes because as of right now I'm lost.
I really don't where to start with this one. The illustrations are not exactly the kind that I enjoy the most. They are not bad, but the still isn't of my preference. I like more... unrealistic? drawings. That is mostly responsible for the low rating of this one.
The story - as developed in this issue - has a bit of mystery (obviously) and sparkle of romance. We are following two different assassins that somehow intertwined with each other.
The premise that one can lose itself, one's essence and identity, is really good and one that applies to everybody. The necessity of taking a break or a step behind in order of finding your path again is easily relatable.
I'm eager to find out more about this story in the next issue and see the direction this takes because as of right now I'm lost.
August 18, 2025
Wow I forgot how intense and deep this story is. I made the utter mistake of staring Grell’s main GA run without going back and re-reading the longbow hunters story, it’s been a really long time since I’ve read this and I barely remember anything from it. And now I’m starting to think that this has some of the answers for things mentioned in the plot of the main series…so it’s catch-up time! First off, the art…amazing, just out of this world so good and I love how at times it will take us out of the panel to focus on specific characters faces or descriptions from other characters. So creature and it’s all plotted out so well. As we join Ollie and Dinah in this issue it’s the start of a new beginning, they have moved to Seattle and are opening up a shop called Sherwood’s florist that has their house designed like a medieval tower built into it, it’s so rad! But Ollie can’t help but look to the news about the slasher making his easy across the states, already up to their 19th victim, while at the same time a “robin hood” killer is making their mark on the town, and as they are up to 4 victims already of older people it’s not making a lot of sense. But maybe it never does, when it comes to hunters in this ever changing world sometimes there are those who just like to see people die.
Unfortunately for Dinah’s shop, the plot has a way of moving things forward in the most aggressive ways, such as someone overdosing on cocaine literally falling through their window as they were trying to prepare the shop to open. Dinah immediately takes care of her and stops her from hurting herself as Ollie calls for help. From this encounter Dinah was able to go to the hospital with the girl and get some more information on her supplier so she can follow it up herself and possibly take down the entire ring, while Ollie stayed back and cleaned up and setup their house. This is a project she feels like she needs to take on herself and Ollie isn’t going to get in the way, by the time she gets back the entire house is almost setup. With three distinct levels to the tower, one dedicated to Dinah, one to Ollie, and the top floor for both of them. In Ollie’s area a painting of Robin Hood is placed on the wall, it reminds him of a time when things were simpler, life was sweeter, and death was further off. I mean with how many plagues and the life expectancy for people around that time, I’m not sure how true that is, but it’s the thought that counts. This provides an amble opportunity for Ollie to go back into his own origin story. He actually knew the guy who did the trick shooting for Robin Hood in one of the movies, and he actually met and practiced archery for him one day on a yacht due to mutual friends with his family. There is a very interesting comment from the trick shooter about only using an old longbow because he wasn’t a good enough archer to use the complicated stuff so he stuck to the basics. That was the same day Ollie got a little too tipsy and was thrown off the boat, where he washed ashore on an island that would test him and refine him into the hunter he is today. He had to learn how to hunt and craft a bow on his own and how to kill animals to survive. I believe this is a slight retcon on Grell’s part, but the day finally came when “pirates” came to shore and Ollie fought them off and used their boat to deliver them to the authorities and get back home himself. In this version Ollie reveals they weren’t so much as pirates, as two guys checking on a marijuana crop who would of been seeing anything as green with how much they smoked, lol, but the news cycle took the story and Ollie became exactly what they wanted to be…green arrow. And it was fun up titans he point it cost him his fortune, friends, and almost his son. Geez I really need to go back and read hard traveling heroes. Ollie has been searching for that part of him ever since, he needs to get back to basics. Ollie suddenly found that he was talking to himself, only for Dinah to come back down in her blonde wig and black canary stockings to enjoy a bit of their time tonight.
Elsewhere a group of cops are setting up a sting and using their own disguised as a sex worker to try and lure in the slasher. Unfortunately for them they lost an officer that night and the slasher added another victim to the toll.
Later on as we see Dinah and Ollie lying in bed, he asked her to marry him. But she refuses, she doesn’t want to ruin a good thing. What could they possibly get out of marriage that they don’t already have. Ollie admits that he is feeling his age and looking forward and thinking about having kids of his own, he loves Roy but he would love to have kids with her. But that’s something Dinah isn’t looking towards, she doesn’t want to bring kids in this world simply because she loves them to much. She loves Ollie and she’d love to have a kid with him, but with how much they fight and deal with…she won’t make orphans. Later in the day we see Ollie hard at work in the shop int heir house making sharp tipped arrows…all while elsewhere the Robin Hood killer, and their complicated arrow structure compared to Ollie, take another victim. This time an older gravedigger who was sent into a grave he just finished. Dinah comes down to see Ollie and give him an earlier birthday present, she won’t be around in the next couple of days, due to the investigation, and wanted to give it to him earlier as he may need it. It’s a new costume and she designed it with the weather they are now dealing with directly in mind.
As the night comes around we see Ollie do what he does best, he hunts for the hunters. We know he has taken an oath not to kill, even animals (except for that one time), so it’s great seeing the interesting other ways he uses arrows to take down crooks. In order to find the slasher he is looking for he decides to start by taking down a small street gang trying to hold up an old couple for money. He immediately sends an arrow into the hand of the one holding a knife, another into one’s ear, and another right in the seam of the pants below the crotch…threatening to send another an inch higher. He immediately has their attention as they try and demand that he can’t do this and they have rights. But a bit of slight interrogation and a flick of the arrow in the one’s ear, and he has them singing. He lets them know he is looking for a specific guy, a guy who likes knives and women. At first he is confused, but he points out that they would have seen him whether they know it or not and he lives here, knowing every corner he has to. Then one of their memories starts to light up, he mentioned a dude that cut one of their guys last month, a tunnel rat that can be found underground where he lives. Green arrow sends one final arrow that splits the arrow in the seam of the crotch in half, he for what he needed and the crook immediately feinted, lol.
Elsewhere a group of older businessmen are getting concerned, they have a DEA on the works and of and if is to go wrong then they are going to start loosing their protection. I’m fairly certain that this group has a lot to do with this “Robin hood” killer going around. Hilariously we see as the police come and pickup the street gang and take a report from the old couple who were almost mugged. The street gang describes GA as this horrifying force with piercing emerald eyes and a flaming arrow, while the old couple describes a nice Robin good figure out of a movie. We jump back to Ollie as he makes his way underground, following the trail leading him to the sewer Ray that could be our slasher. He finds his den and immediately finds newspaper clippings telling the story of everything he needs to know. There was once a group called the tunnel rats that were sent to war, but based on the photo and the necklace of ears around one of them…there was one that liked it too much and once that switch was flipped it was never turned off. Suddenly Ollie is bashed over the side of the head and his lantern goes down and flames spread around him. The slasher has been watching him, and he letting him know that he can’t be stopped as this is his world. He doesn’t kill Ollie outright, instead leaving the flames to take their course and goading Ollie to stop him of he can. We get flashbacks to the slasher’s time in the war, the unsanctioned missions his unit would take and the horrified looks on his other soldiers faces as they found him with a sex worker all slashed up as they decide to cover it up to cover their own tracks and send him deeper into the war in the hopes he doesn’t make it out. Obviously that has backfired. Ollie stands up and makes his way out from the underground, knowing he has to be quick or the slasher will take another life. But suddenly we see an old man roll up in a car and step up to a phone booth on the same block as the sex worker that the slasher will be going for. He immediately makes a call to the older concerned man we saw earlier as they immediately begin taking about the victims of the Robin Hood killer and that someone is intentionally killing them off. Suddenly as lightning crashes in the distance we see our Robin Hood killer with the same distinct bow tip, a masked woman with a dragon tattoo running up her arm. At this very intersection on one street is the old man getting back into his car, her target, and on the other is the slashed running up to his next victim. Ollie runs as fast as he can, but this archer is faster and sees the disturbance and somehow understands. We see flashes of a woman’s face, we have seen this woman throughout the issue and this is very likely the first sex worker the slasher ever killed in Vietnam. Ollie draws his bow but as he yells out to the man to stop, suddenly the man already has an arrow in him…and it’s not from GA. Suddenly the car crashes as well as a second arrow goes into the driver and the archer runs off! No evidence left behind except for the bodies. As the issue comes to an end we see Ollie is left behind with more questions than answers, but the body count doesn’t slow down. According to the paper the slashed claimed a 20th victim that night, even if it really wasn’t the slashed and instead the woman’s pimp finishing the job himself.
“Sometimes the killers are never caught. Maybe they’re jailed for other crimes…or fall victim to others like themselves. Who knows? Something’s there are no answers…and only more questions.”
Unfortunately for Dinah’s shop, the plot has a way of moving things forward in the most aggressive ways, such as someone overdosing on cocaine literally falling through their window as they were trying to prepare the shop to open. Dinah immediately takes care of her and stops her from hurting herself as Ollie calls for help. From this encounter Dinah was able to go to the hospital with the girl and get some more information on her supplier so she can follow it up herself and possibly take down the entire ring, while Ollie stayed back and cleaned up and setup their house. This is a project she feels like she needs to take on herself and Ollie isn’t going to get in the way, by the time she gets back the entire house is almost setup. With three distinct levels to the tower, one dedicated to Dinah, one to Ollie, and the top floor for both of them. In Ollie’s area a painting of Robin Hood is placed on the wall, it reminds him of a time when things were simpler, life was sweeter, and death was further off. I mean with how many plagues and the life expectancy for people around that time, I’m not sure how true that is, but it’s the thought that counts. This provides an amble opportunity for Ollie to go back into his own origin story. He actually knew the guy who did the trick shooting for Robin Hood in one of the movies, and he actually met and practiced archery for him one day on a yacht due to mutual friends with his family. There is a very interesting comment from the trick shooter about only using an old longbow because he wasn’t a good enough archer to use the complicated stuff so he stuck to the basics. That was the same day Ollie got a little too tipsy and was thrown off the boat, where he washed ashore on an island that would test him and refine him into the hunter he is today. He had to learn how to hunt and craft a bow on his own and how to kill animals to survive. I believe this is a slight retcon on Grell’s part, but the day finally came when “pirates” came to shore and Ollie fought them off and used their boat to deliver them to the authorities and get back home himself. In this version Ollie reveals they weren’t so much as pirates, as two guys checking on a marijuana crop who would of been seeing anything as green with how much they smoked, lol, but the news cycle took the story and Ollie became exactly what they wanted to be…green arrow. And it was fun up titans he point it cost him his fortune, friends, and almost his son. Geez I really need to go back and read hard traveling heroes. Ollie has been searching for that part of him ever since, he needs to get back to basics. Ollie suddenly found that he was talking to himself, only for Dinah to come back down in her blonde wig and black canary stockings to enjoy a bit of their time tonight.
Elsewhere a group of cops are setting up a sting and using their own disguised as a sex worker to try and lure in the slasher. Unfortunately for them they lost an officer that night and the slasher added another victim to the toll.
Later on as we see Dinah and Ollie lying in bed, he asked her to marry him. But she refuses, she doesn’t want to ruin a good thing. What could they possibly get out of marriage that they don’t already have. Ollie admits that he is feeling his age and looking forward and thinking about having kids of his own, he loves Roy but he would love to have kids with her. But that’s something Dinah isn’t looking towards, she doesn’t want to bring kids in this world simply because she loves them to much. She loves Ollie and she’d love to have a kid with him, but with how much they fight and deal with…she won’t make orphans. Later in the day we see Ollie hard at work in the shop int heir house making sharp tipped arrows…all while elsewhere the Robin Hood killer, and their complicated arrow structure compared to Ollie, take another victim. This time an older gravedigger who was sent into a grave he just finished. Dinah comes down to see Ollie and give him an earlier birthday present, she won’t be around in the next couple of days, due to the investigation, and wanted to give it to him earlier as he may need it. It’s a new costume and she designed it with the weather they are now dealing with directly in mind.
As the night comes around we see Ollie do what he does best, he hunts for the hunters. We know he has taken an oath not to kill, even animals (except for that one time), so it’s great seeing the interesting other ways he uses arrows to take down crooks. In order to find the slasher he is looking for he decides to start by taking down a small street gang trying to hold up an old couple for money. He immediately sends an arrow into the hand of the one holding a knife, another into one’s ear, and another right in the seam of the pants below the crotch…threatening to send another an inch higher. He immediately has their attention as they try and demand that he can’t do this and they have rights. But a bit of slight interrogation and a flick of the arrow in the one’s ear, and he has them singing. He lets them know he is looking for a specific guy, a guy who likes knives and women. At first he is confused, but he points out that they would have seen him whether they know it or not and he lives here, knowing every corner he has to. Then one of their memories starts to light up, he mentioned a dude that cut one of their guys last month, a tunnel rat that can be found underground where he lives. Green arrow sends one final arrow that splits the arrow in the seam of the crotch in half, he for what he needed and the crook immediately feinted, lol.
Elsewhere a group of older businessmen are getting concerned, they have a DEA on the works and of and if is to go wrong then they are going to start loosing their protection. I’m fairly certain that this group has a lot to do with this “Robin hood” killer going around. Hilariously we see as the police come and pickup the street gang and take a report from the old couple who were almost mugged. The street gang describes GA as this horrifying force with piercing emerald eyes and a flaming arrow, while the old couple describes a nice Robin good figure out of a movie. We jump back to Ollie as he makes his way underground, following the trail leading him to the sewer Ray that could be our slasher. He finds his den and immediately finds newspaper clippings telling the story of everything he needs to know. There was once a group called the tunnel rats that were sent to war, but based on the photo and the necklace of ears around one of them…there was one that liked it too much and once that switch was flipped it was never turned off. Suddenly Ollie is bashed over the side of the head and his lantern goes down and flames spread around him. The slasher has been watching him, and he letting him know that he can’t be stopped as this is his world. He doesn’t kill Ollie outright, instead leaving the flames to take their course and goading Ollie to stop him of he can. We get flashbacks to the slasher’s time in the war, the unsanctioned missions his unit would take and the horrified looks on his other soldiers faces as they found him with a sex worker all slashed up as they decide to cover it up to cover their own tracks and send him deeper into the war in the hopes he doesn’t make it out. Obviously that has backfired. Ollie stands up and makes his way out from the underground, knowing he has to be quick or the slasher will take another life. But suddenly we see an old man roll up in a car and step up to a phone booth on the same block as the sex worker that the slasher will be going for. He immediately makes a call to the older concerned man we saw earlier as they immediately begin taking about the victims of the Robin Hood killer and that someone is intentionally killing them off. Suddenly as lightning crashes in the distance we see our Robin Hood killer with the same distinct bow tip, a masked woman with a dragon tattoo running up her arm. At this very intersection on one street is the old man getting back into his car, her target, and on the other is the slashed running up to his next victim. Ollie runs as fast as he can, but this archer is faster and sees the disturbance and somehow understands. We see flashes of a woman’s face, we have seen this woman throughout the issue and this is very likely the first sex worker the slasher ever killed in Vietnam. Ollie draws his bow but as he yells out to the man to stop, suddenly the man already has an arrow in him…and it’s not from GA. Suddenly the car crashes as well as a second arrow goes into the driver and the archer runs off! No evidence left behind except for the bodies. As the issue comes to an end we see Ollie is left behind with more questions than answers, but the body count doesn’t slow down. According to the paper the slashed claimed a 20th victim that night, even if it really wasn’t the slashed and instead the woman’s pimp finishing the job himself.
“Sometimes the killers are never caught. Maybe they’re jailed for other crimes…or fall victim to others like themselves. Who knows? Something’s there are no answers…and only more questions.”
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March 5, 2026
Amazing ! Terrific! I’m glad I stopped at issue 7 on the main Grell run and came to read this one. It’s a must to understand !
Here is the gist of this great amazing story!
- Oliver and Dinah are in Seattle now trying to start a new life. The story does a great job of giving you the origin story of Oliver and how he is no longer wanting to punch people with an arrow boxing glove, but rather return to basics. He just wants to shoot arrows, enjoy the hunt of hunter other Hunters, and let his instinct drive him.
- Dinah has a story too, becoming involved with a 17 year old doing crack. She is supportive and tracking a lead that could lead to the cocaine drug dealers. She also tells Oliver she doesn’t want to marry or have kids because she doesn’t want to give up her life as a superhero. And she doesn’t want her kids to be orphans.
- PLOT 1 : Oliver is tracking down a prostitution killer who turns out to be an ex marine guy gone crazy. He tries to burn Oliver alive but he survives. As Oliver tracks him down, an UNKNOWN arrow strikes him, protecting the woman he was about to kill and finishing the stream of deaths (19). Oliver doesn’t know but a woman wit a dragon tattoo kills him. Unfortunately, the hooker is killed by her pimp.
-PLOT 2: The drug traffickers are becoming rattled since there is “someone” that’s tracking them down. This could be Oliver, but they might be confused since he tracking the killer down. There’s Dinah. And now the unknown dragon tattoo lady, which is my guess. She has killed 4 of them and at the end, she kills the Slashr and one of the drug homies. So is she a hero or ? Who is she?
Themes:
- this theme of hunting. Hunting for survival , for fun, or hunting the hunters
- there seems to be an occurring picture of an Asian woman. We don’t know yet what it means.
AWESOME !
Here is the gist of this great amazing story!
- Oliver and Dinah are in Seattle now trying to start a new life. The story does a great job of giving you the origin story of Oliver and how he is no longer wanting to punch people with an arrow boxing glove, but rather return to basics. He just wants to shoot arrows, enjoy the hunt of hunter other Hunters, and let his instinct drive him.
- Dinah has a story too, becoming involved with a 17 year old doing crack. She is supportive and tracking a lead that could lead to the cocaine drug dealers. She also tells Oliver she doesn’t want to marry or have kids because she doesn’t want to give up her life as a superhero. And she doesn’t want her kids to be orphans.
- PLOT 1 : Oliver is tracking down a prostitution killer who turns out to be an ex marine guy gone crazy. He tries to burn Oliver alive but he survives. As Oliver tracks him down, an UNKNOWN arrow strikes him, protecting the woman he was about to kill and finishing the stream of deaths (19). Oliver doesn’t know but a woman wit a dragon tattoo kills him. Unfortunately, the hooker is killed by her pimp.
-PLOT 2: The drug traffickers are becoming rattled since there is “someone” that’s tracking them down. This could be Oliver, but they might be confused since he tracking the killer down. There’s Dinah. And now the unknown dragon tattoo lady, which is my guess. She has killed 4 of them and at the end, she kills the Slashr and one of the drug homies. So is she a hero or ? Who is she?
Themes:
- this theme of hunting. Hunting for survival , for fun, or hunting the hunters
- there seems to be an occurring picture of an Asian woman. We don’t know yet what it means.
AWESOME !
March 7, 2021
Wow, this first book of the series reminded my why I love GA. It was a masterclass both in storytelling and the art which is so different from any other comics of the late 80s I’ve read. Completely a game changer.
The more mature, more in-touch-with-reality aspect of it all is something I’m so on board with. How they integrated Roy’s addiction, Ollie’s past and his experience in the island was awesome. On top of that, him and Dinah (both as a couple and as separate individuals) being able to be quirky, poke fun at each other, flirt, and have a serious and intimate talk was golden. Probably one of my favorite parts was, Dinah telling Ollie: “We give each other exactly what we need... companionship... privacy... support... independence... commitment... freedom.” It was so refreshing to see our heroes in a more down-to-earth setting and conversations.
And of course, isn’t Shado the coolest? Talking about cool things... how cool is it that Black Canary was the one to give GA his hood.
The more mature, more in-touch-with-reality aspect of it all is something I’m so on board with. How they integrated Roy’s addiction, Ollie’s past and his experience in the island was awesome. On top of that, him and Dinah (both as a couple and as separate individuals) being able to be quirky, poke fun at each other, flirt, and have a serious and intimate talk was golden. Probably one of my favorite parts was, Dinah telling Ollie: “We give each other exactly what we need... companionship... privacy... support... independence... commitment... freedom.” It was so refreshing to see our heroes in a more down-to-earth setting and conversations.
And of course, isn’t Shado the coolest? Talking about cool things... how cool is it that Black Canary was the one to give GA his hood.
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January 2, 2025
This was a really good first issue in the arc, the artwork first of all was stunning consistently. No real prior knowledge was needed which is always nice. The writing was fun and the “villain” was creepy. Overall I’m excited to jump into the next two issues.
February 24, 2020
The completely directionless and mostly pointless green arrow series of the last decade need to look at this to see how a good comic book is done.
April 6, 2023
I feel like the story is a little disorienting to me, someone new to Green Arrow. But it's interesting and the art seems extraordinary.
October 3, 2015
I am a life long comic book reader. However, I really only read Batman, Superman, Justice League & Dark Horse Star Wars comics.
I only became interested in Green Arrow after watching the new TV series currently airing season 4. To be honest before watching "Arrow" on TV I always thought the character was a bit of a cheesy Robin Hood dufus, with his dumb over the top trick arrows.
I did some research about Green Arrow comics and this story line was suggested to me check out. I really went into this with virtually no expectations, and turns out I really liked it!
The art is simply beautiful! I also really like the layout of the pages, sometimes it is a bit jarring but I think that blends well considering the subject material. The story is pretty good and much more sophisticated that I thought it would be.
I cannot wait to get into book 2 and 3.
I only became interested in Green Arrow after watching the new TV series currently airing season 4. To be honest before watching "Arrow" on TV I always thought the character was a bit of a cheesy Robin Hood dufus, with his dumb over the top trick arrows.
I did some research about Green Arrow comics and this story line was suggested to me check out. I really went into this with virtually no expectations, and turns out I really liked it!
The art is simply beautiful! I also really like the layout of the pages, sometimes it is a bit jarring but I think that blends well considering the subject material. The story is pretty good and much more sophisticated that I thought it would be.
I cannot wait to get into book 2 and 3.
Want to read
March 28, 2016Primera edición española. Tomo 1 de 3.
May 12, 2024
Tengo la segunda impresión, que debe ser más o menos igual que la primera. También tengo la historia completa incluida en un coleccionable de Salvat.
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