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The Arrow
BANNED FROM PROTECTORS, RICK PALMER FIGHTS CRIME THE ONLY WAY HE CAN...TO THE DEATH!
24 pages, Comic Book
Published October 1, 1992
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Roland Mann
66 books36 followersRoland Mann is a writer, editor, speaker, and professor. As writer, he is best known for his work on Cat & Mouse, a comic which ran for nearly two years, garnered critical acclaim and led Roland to other work. Other titles Roland wrote include Rocket Ranger, Miss Fury, Planet of the Apes: Blood of the Apes, Krey and Demon’s Tails.
As editor, Roland is best known for his time as a Malibu/Marvel Comics editor where he edited The Protectors line of comics and many Ultraverse titles. While there, he developed a knack for finding and promoting new and budding creative talent. Roland also served as Editor and Publisher of Silverline, a line of independent comics that included such titles as Switchblade and The Scary Book.
Roland received a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Spalding University, a Master’s degree in English from the University of North Alabama, and a
Bachelor of Science in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi. In addition to his work in comics, Roland has been a newspaper editor and an advertising flunky, but more recently he has taught English at the university level. He is also a frequent speaker at writing workshops/conferences where many find his sessions encouraging.
Roland’s first novel, Buying Time, was published in 2010 as were his graphic novel adaptations of the classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He also recently wrote a story in the graphic novel anthology Martyrs. Roland is on the Faculty at Full Sail University where he teaches Creative Writing.
As editor, Roland is best known for his time as a Malibu/Marvel Comics editor where he edited The Protectors line of comics and many Ultraverse titles. While there, he developed a knack for finding and promoting new and budding creative talent. Roland also served as Editor and Publisher of Silverline, a line of independent comics that included such titles as Switchblade and The Scary Book.
Roland received a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Spalding University, a Master’s degree in English from the University of North Alabama, and a
Bachelor of Science in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi. In addition to his work in comics, Roland has been a newspaper editor and an advertising flunky, but more recently he has taught English at the university level. He is also a frequent speaker at writing workshops/conferences where many find his sessions encouraging.
Roland’s first novel, Buying Time, was published in 2010 as were his graphic novel adaptations of the classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He also recently wrote a story in the graphic novel anthology Martyrs. Roland is on the Faculty at Full Sail University where he teaches Creative Writing.
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March 10, 2019
Honestly, I am going to be very surprised if I find anymore information of this book that isn't in a Wikipedia page. I searched everywhere for this comic when I looked it up. I learned a few things like Marvel Comics paying off Malibu Comics and integrating with them, then a cold end from the story from there. From what I've gathered, that implied that Marvel since then, threw the Protectors series down the drain. I even looked up the Protectors, and well, it ended on a rather bad note, then it was cancelled.
I remember getting this book as a kid in some small, dinky shop off the shore of a lake. Was like two dollars when I gotten it. I looked up the price now and, well, it didn't really change, if any. I tried to find a lead on 'The Ferret'. Nothing came up. All I saw with a paragraph or two on Malibu Comics, but nothing on 'The Ferret'. I'm writing this story on the comic because when I went to look it up, Goodreads didn't even have the book in the database. The Protectors volumes went up to 20 before it ended.
And here, we have The Arrow, a one-shot comic on possibly the first American superhero that uses archery as his primary weapon. I guess it didn't look that cool at the time, because then you get the Green Arrow and Hawkseye and they appear to be more popular. Must be because they used other gadgets with their bows than Arrow did. He shot arrows and for some reason, villains with actual superpowers just took it. Just dang, he even killed a kid with his arrow, even though it was by accident.
Okay, for the review of the whole comic. I never read the Protectors, so I have no idea on what's going on there. But from the comic itself, well, it did its typical service of cheesy punchlines and fighting words like "I got an arrow for you too, pal!" right on its cover page. The lining and inking was well done. Honestly, I don't really care for his costume though? While simple = easy, even then, he didn't really have anything that stand out to me.
He was just your typical blond, blue eyed man. Yes, in the mist of all these dark haired heroes with brooding personalities, he had a different look, but still had that brooding personality too. He wasn't really interesting in knowing about. He decided in the one-shot to become an anti-hero. There was anti-heroes already swindling about such the Punisher and Batman, possibly taking a good amount of spotlight off of the Arrow.
Anyway, the story was okay for the time. Involved scenes of what made the Arrow who he is and him choosing officially his methods of destroying crime from then on, learning after killing a kid to remain calm and focused. They somehow did it with a guy who only uses arrows and nothing else against actual superheroes, but he did it.
That's really all there is to this.
Not the worst, but not the greatest. Had a okay set up on its own, making it easy to understand without needing to read other comics to do so. It was obvious that Marvel at the time didn't want competition barking up on its tree, so it paid out the Malibu Comics and made the whole thing disappear off the face of the Earth, no pun intended for the ending of the Protectors.
I remember getting this book as a kid in some small, dinky shop off the shore of a lake. Was like two dollars when I gotten it. I looked up the price now and, well, it didn't really change, if any. I tried to find a lead on 'The Ferret'. Nothing came up. All I saw with a paragraph or two on Malibu Comics, but nothing on 'The Ferret'. I'm writing this story on the comic because when I went to look it up, Goodreads didn't even have the book in the database. The Protectors volumes went up to 20 before it ended.
And here, we have The Arrow, a one-shot comic on possibly the first American superhero that uses archery as his primary weapon. I guess it didn't look that cool at the time, because then you get the Green Arrow and Hawkseye and they appear to be more popular. Must be because they used other gadgets with their bows than Arrow did. He shot arrows and for some reason, villains with actual superpowers just took it. Just dang, he even killed a kid with his arrow, even though it was by accident.
Okay, for the review of the whole comic. I never read the Protectors, so I have no idea on what's going on there. But from the comic itself, well, it did its typical service of cheesy punchlines and fighting words like "I got an arrow for you too, pal!" right on its cover page. The lining and inking was well done. Honestly, I don't really care for his costume though? While simple = easy, even then, he didn't really have anything that stand out to me.
He was just your typical blond, blue eyed man. Yes, in the mist of all these dark haired heroes with brooding personalities, he had a different look, but still had that brooding personality too. He wasn't really interesting in knowing about. He decided in the one-shot to become an anti-hero. There was anti-heroes already swindling about such the Punisher and Batman, possibly taking a good amount of spotlight off of the Arrow.
Anyway, the story was okay for the time. Involved scenes of what made the Arrow who he is and him choosing officially his methods of destroying crime from then on, learning after killing a kid to remain calm and focused. They somehow did it with a guy who only uses arrows and nothing else against actual superheroes, but he did it.
That's really all there is to this.
Not the worst, but not the greatest. Had a okay set up on its own, making it easy to understand without needing to read other comics to do so. It was obvious that Marvel at the time didn't want competition barking up on its tree, so it paid out the Malibu Comics and made the whole thing disappear off the face of the Earth, no pun intended for the ending of the Protectors.
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