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Green Arrow (2001) (Collected Editions)
Green Arrow, Volume 8: Crawling through the Wreckage
Oliver Queen, the Emerald Archer, defends Star City as a member of the Justice League, battling foes with his trusty bow and arrow One year after the events of Infinite Crisis, Queen finds himself in the unlikely role of Star City's mayor. How did he make the conversion from super-hero to politician? One thing's for sure--his archenemy, Deathstroke, is aiming for his assassination
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June 13, 2016
A year after a devastating attack on Star City, a massive wall has been erected cordoning off the seemingly unsalvageable part of the city from the rest that’s trying to rebuild. Uh… ok! Ollie Queen is now Mayor but is being targeted by the world’s deadliest assassin, Deathstroke - but not if Green Arrow can stop him first!
So Judd Winick basically lifted the Batman: Cataclysm/No Man’s Land storyline for Green Arrow. Same things happen in No Man’s Land where lawlessness takes over, the gangs rule, and lone vigilantes spring up to save ordinary citizens. Only difference is there’s no Bat-family just Green Arrow and some forgettable bozo called Brick.
But the copying doesn’t stop there as Winick essentially takes the same tack as Brian K Vaughan did in Ex Machina by mixing superheroes and politics - except it’s not as entertaining or clever. Is there anything original here? Nope! Deathstroke is delightfully evil as always though.
Scott McDaniel’s art looks so rushed and blocky - I hated it! I think he’s going for a Brave and the Bold look but it’s way more rough and yucky. Just awful, get it away from me!
Green Arrow: Crawling Through Other People’s Better Storylines is an uninspired and largely uninteresting read. Judd Winick borrows heavily from more popular comics in an attempt to make Green Arrow seem more compelling but all it does is make it look derivative, reminding the audience they’re reading a weak pretender.
So Judd Winick basically lifted the Batman: Cataclysm/No Man’s Land storyline for Green Arrow. Same things happen in No Man’s Land where lawlessness takes over, the gangs rule, and lone vigilantes spring up to save ordinary citizens. Only difference is there’s no Bat-family just Green Arrow and some forgettable bozo called Brick.
But the copying doesn’t stop there as Winick essentially takes the same tack as Brian K Vaughan did in Ex Machina by mixing superheroes and politics - except it’s not as entertaining or clever. Is there anything original here? Nope! Deathstroke is delightfully evil as always though.
Scott McDaniel’s art looks so rushed and blocky - I hated it! I think he’s going for a Brave and the Bold look but it’s way more rough and yucky. Just awful, get it away from me!
Green Arrow: Crawling Through Other People’s Better Storylines is an uninspired and largely uninteresting read. Judd Winick borrows heavily from more popular comics in an attempt to make Green Arrow seem more compelling but all it does is make it look derivative, reminding the audience they’re reading a weak pretender.
November 20, 2018
Green Arrow is back!
Guess who's the new mayor? That's right. Oliver himself. Another rich white dude to run a city, that's new! But wait, Oliver has a heart of gold. He wants things to change. Except, he actually goes out and stops crime and tries to change things. When Slade enters his city though, things are about to get a little scarier. Not to mention Brick, our old favorite evil gangster is getting attacked by zombie people. What's happening here?
Good: The art is solid, I really like the design and such here. I thought the storyline with the mayor stuff was okay. Not all that interested in the political side of things here. I enjoyed Green Arrow vs Slade a lot, and also the Brick stuff was interesting.
Bad: The time jump, one year later, is okay but feels disjointed. Especially compared to the send off of the last volume.
Overall it's solid good old green arrow stuff but nothing crazy. Hoping that Judd Winick run ends as strong as it started. A 3 out of 5 for this one.
Guess who's the new mayor? That's right. Oliver himself. Another rich white dude to run a city, that's new! But wait, Oliver has a heart of gold. He wants things to change. Except, he actually goes out and stops crime and tries to change things. When Slade enters his city though, things are about to get a little scarier. Not to mention Brick, our old favorite evil gangster is getting attacked by zombie people. What's happening here?
Good: The art is solid, I really like the design and such here. I thought the storyline with the mayor stuff was okay. Not all that interested in the political side of things here. I enjoyed Green Arrow vs Slade a lot, and also the Brick stuff was interesting.
Bad: The time jump, one year later, is okay but feels disjointed. Especially compared to the send off of the last volume.
Overall it's solid good old green arrow stuff but nothing crazy. Hoping that Judd Winick run ends as strong as it started. A 3 out of 5 for this one.
January 6, 2025
I love Green Arrow! It's been like 3 years since I read the previous volume, and 9 years since I started this series... (Yikes. Hard to find library copies.) But I don't feel like I really missed anything. It had more to do with Infinite Crisis aftermath (which I also have not read in years) than the storyline of previous volumes.
Anyway, it was fine. I will definitely hunt down the final volume in this run, which I have loved and read for the past decade.
Anyway, it was fine. I will definitely hunt down the final volume in this run, which I have loved and read for the past decade.
August 2, 2017
This was the best Green Arrow story that I have read in years, which is pretty sad when you think about it.
September 7, 2025
I really enjoyed this volume. It's part of the "One Year Later" event, and most of the story involves Green Arrow Vs. Deathstroke the Terminator. Add in Scott McDaniel on art and this is pretty damn good.
August 9, 2021
Green Arrow Vol. 8 Crawling Through The Wreckage collects issues 60-65 written by Judd Winnick with art by Scott McDaniel.
The DC Universe jumps one year ahead after the events of Infinite Crisis. Olliver Queen has a new role in Star City - The Mayor!
I remember when DC announced their issues would be jumping one year into the future brought a lot of excitement and curiosity to their books. I read these issues.orriginall as they were being published and we're my first solo title Green Arrow books. I only remembered a handful of things from this arc so it was fun to revisit. Olliver is a good fit for Mayor as he has ways championed people's rights and he got take up that fight in a very different avenue. They also used the one year jump as a way to spruce up Green Arrow's fighting ability with him conducting a major training regime. I really liked the art in the volume. It goes back to a more "cartoony" style but has a lot of detail and the action flow nicely.
The DC Universe jumps one year ahead after the events of Infinite Crisis. Olliver Queen has a new role in Star City - The Mayor!
I remember when DC announced their issues would be jumping one year into the future brought a lot of excitement and curiosity to their books. I read these issues.orriginall as they were being published and we're my first solo title Green Arrow books. I only remembered a handful of things from this arc so it was fun to revisit. Olliver is a good fit for Mayor as he has ways championed people's rights and he got take up that fight in a very different avenue. They also used the one year jump as a way to spruce up Green Arrow's fighting ability with him conducting a major training regime. I really liked the art in the volume. It goes back to a more "cartoony" style but has a lot of detail and the action flow nicely.
February 12, 2017
One year after Star City was partly destroyed by Merlyn, Ollie is back as the new mayor, with an agenda that locks horns with big corporations intent on making a profit without caring about the citizens.
Ollie is back? From where? Deathstroke will go to great lenghts to discover what happened when GA went awol. But that's for Vol.9.
So our emerald archer is back, with a new improbable ally: Brick, the ex-new kingpin of SC. Together they try to maintain order in the part of the city that's been cordoned off with a wall. Doing so they will confront with the aforementioned corporations' plot.
All things said, a pleasant read. Mix of capes and politics. Not out of the ordinary but good enough. Especially with Scott McDaniel as the new penciller. That was a relief for me after the poor duo Fowler/Ramos of last issues. McDaniel is not Phil Hester but there are some similarities in style. Enough for me to appreciate it as an improvement.
Ollie is back? From where? Deathstroke will go to great lenghts to discover what happened when GA went awol. But that's for Vol.9.
So our emerald archer is back, with a new improbable ally: Brick, the ex-new kingpin of SC. Together they try to maintain order in the part of the city that's been cordoned off with a wall. Doing so they will confront with the aforementioned corporations' plot.
All things said, a pleasant read. Mix of capes and politics. Not out of the ordinary but good enough. Especially with Scott McDaniel as the new penciller. That was a relief for me after the poor duo Fowler/Ramos of last issues. McDaniel is not Phil Hester but there are some similarities in style. Enough for me to appreciate it as an improvement.
July 7, 2015
The story begins with the aftermath of a terrible disaster in Star City - one that killed or injured thousands. With no Federal assistance, the city has erected a wall to quarantine part of it's population. Oliver Queen has become the new, controversial mayor of the city, and Green Arrow has returned after a year's absence.
I think that the set up here is interesting and well suited for this street level hero. The politics, with the backstabbing, etc., also works very well. But for me, this story becomes unbalanced. I don't want to spoil anything here - but the thing that Oliver's antagonists unleash on the city halfway through is strange, uninspired and does not work with the rest of the story.
I think that the set up here is interesting and well suited for this street level hero. The politics, with the backstabbing, etc., also works very well. But for me, this story becomes unbalanced. I don't want to spoil anything here - but the thing that Oliver's antagonists unleash on the city halfway through is strange, uninspired and does not work with the rest of the story.
February 1, 2016
Got this book because of Scott McDaniel's terrific art, AND because I'm a Deathstroke nut... and it instantly made me a Green Arrow fan!
Love the majority of this book, the action, the intrigue, the interaction between characters (especially between Green Arrow and Deathstroke... baaad blood here now!), not usually a Judd Winick fan, but he really reminded me why I love superhero comics with this book.
Sadly, I could only give it three stars because the second half, the one with the wannabe zombies, is a bit mediocre and blah, compared to the first chapters... not bad, just... blah.
Still, I do recommend this book! It's a fun read of the days before the ultra grim and gritty books of today.
Love the majority of this book, the action, the intrigue, the interaction between characters (especially between Green Arrow and Deathstroke... baaad blood here now!), not usually a Judd Winick fan, but he really reminded me why I love superhero comics with this book.
Sadly, I could only give it three stars because the second half, the one with the wannabe zombies, is a bit mediocre and blah, compared to the first chapters... not bad, just... blah.
Still, I do recommend this book! It's a fun read of the days before the ultra grim and gritty books of today.
August 23, 2024
i need a connor and mia mini series a la matt fraction hawkeye where they live in a crappy apartment, get beat up like all the time and their enemy is like the chicago police department or something idk it would be fun
December 11, 2018
GREEN ARROW: CRAWLING FROM THE WRECKAGE collects issues #60-65 of Green Arrow's third standalone series (that started with Kevin Smith's Quiver). It was written by Judd Winick and the story picks up one year after the events of Infinite Crisis. Star City is in shambles and Oliver Queen has been elected it's mayor to help rebuild it. His political opponents hire Deathstroke to assassinate him and he's dealing with gang wars brewing in the ghettos created by the rebuilding efforts.
I will be honest, it's not that strong a story and the political stuff gets really heavy handed and boring after a while (it was clearly meant to be a allusion to the victims of Hurricane Katrina). The real draw here is the Deathstroke storyline. The battle between him and Green Arrow in this book is one for the ages. There's a lot of action of course, but we get to see tactile strategic side of Green Arrow here used to take Deathstroke down that isn't seen a lot in his comics. The artwork is really good for these comics, better really than the story being told. Recommended.
I will be honest, it's not that strong a story and the political stuff gets really heavy handed and boring after a while (it was clearly meant to be a allusion to the victims of Hurricane Katrina). The real draw here is the Deathstroke storyline. The battle between him and Green Arrow in this book is one for the ages. There's a lot of action of course, but we get to see tactile strategic side of Green Arrow here used to take Deathstroke down that isn't seen a lot in his comics. The artwork is really good for these comics, better really than the story being told. Recommended.
March 18, 2021
A fun bit of Green Arrow. After a disaster Green Arrow had disappeared for some time believed dead however Oliver Queen has been elected mayor and he wants to save star city his way not selling out to the corporate world that would help the city and allow the rich to get richer whilst those who got hit by the disaster end up buried and forgotten about. Some people do not like this and hire Deathstroke to assassinate Queen so Green Arrow comes back for a bit of a showdown.
December 23, 2022
This is a fun story! One year in the future, with Ollie as mayor? Sign me up! You can really see how things like the Glades and the overall storyline might have inspired the Arrow TV show.
One question I had though, was what the heck happened to Merlyn from the previous volume? Last we saw he had Ollie pinned down with arrows through the chest and now we hear nothing about him? I'm confused about that.
One question I had though, was what the heck happened to Merlyn from the previous volume? Last we saw he had Ollie pinned down with arrows through the chest and now we hear nothing about him? I'm confused about that.
October 19, 2022
Really a 3.5. A solid book! Nothing terribly memorable (that applies to the story and the art), but a fun read that kept me flipping pages.
February 12, 2020
I started this run years ago and am just getting around to finish it now. It's cool to see Oliver gaming the political system and working on a broader plan. I always like it when Green Lantern shows up, so that was a nice bonus as well.
We discussed this run, plus the Green Arrow's complicated history in a special episode of the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/ep...
We discussed this run, plus the Green Arrow's complicated history in a special episode of the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/ep...
August 22, 2022
Reread edit: Years later after rereading this I enjoyed it much more. Deathstroke's involvement here was done incredibly well.
Scott McDaniel's art on Nightwing always impressed me but here it, along with Judd Winick's plotting and scripting are very uneven to say the least. The idea of Oliver Queen becoming "The Man" is a terrific one. However, how this breaks down is amateurish and goofy. On the art side, McDaniel looked rushed at times and look of Brick was awkward. The inclusion of Deathstroke was good but clichéd until the last pages. A decent twist. A side note/pet peeve: Why in the DC Universe are "secret" identities not easy to see through. It seems laughable. Overall a slightly below average trade.
Scott McDaniel's art on Nightwing always impressed me but here it, along with Judd Winick's plotting and scripting are very uneven to say the least. The idea of Oliver Queen becoming "The Man" is a terrific one. However, how this breaks down is amateurish and goofy. On the art side, McDaniel looked rushed at times and look of Brick was awkward. The inclusion of Deathstroke was good but clichéd until the last pages. A decent twist. A side note/pet peeve: Why in the DC Universe are "secret" identities not easy to see through. It seems laughable. Overall a slightly below average trade.
August 6, 2007
This book takes place as part of DC’s One Year Later story, where all their characters jumped forward a year. In that year, Star City was hit with a disaster that basically made it a shallow allegory of New Orleans. Oliver Queen becomes mayor of Star City to fix it back up. So, it’s splitting time between referencing Hurricane Katrina and badly copying Ex Machina. Also, there’s a weird zombie subplot that doesn’t make sense. Deathstrike shows up, and is somewhat entertaining. I think he’s also in Teen Titans, though, which is weird because he’s in jail for most of this story.
April 14, 2020
Puntaje: 4.4 Estrellas.
Hace mucho habia comenzado esta serie de Green Arrow y la tuve que parar para poder leer Infinite Crisis. La crisis fue demasiado y olvide continuar con la serie. Que bueno que me acorde y que por fin puedo seguir leyendo a Green Arrow!
Este run de Green Arrow es sin duda mi favorito. No he leido mucho de este personaje pero esta serie es mi recomendacion #1.
Hace mucho habia comenzado esta serie de Green Arrow y la tuve que parar para poder leer Infinite Crisis. La crisis fue demasiado y olvide continuar con la serie. Que bueno que me acorde y que por fin puedo seguir leyendo a Green Arrow!
Este run de Green Arrow es sin duda mi favorito. No he leido mucho de este personaje pero esta serie es mi recomendacion #1.
October 24, 2010
This book changes everything in Star City. It's more gritty and dangerous. And a lot more entertaining.
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February 3, 2013
good solid story, really enjoyable. i like the politics side of things just as much as the ga side. the vampire storyline was abit throwaway though.
March 7, 2013
That's the Oliver Queen I remember and love!
June 21, 2014
i thought the emerald archer was gone for good
June 27, 2016
Sam already said it perfectly ;)
April 21, 2017
The story isn't bad, but it didn't keep my focus either. The art is a mix of very good and very bad. Some frames are minimal effort, others are max. But what's with almost every character in this being drawn with Asian features like their eyes? That was weird.
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