We already have an older Hal Jordan (60) and it would make sense for them to go with an older Ollie too. (56)

I think Lillard and Kyle Chandler would be great together. (If they even keep Hal around)

I know this is a long shot and very unusual casting for Ollie I can also imagine a lot of you in here love Amell’s Green Arrow but how would you feel if this were to happen?

This needs a volume 2, why they've only ever published this one volume or no volumes of Green Arrow's Silver age adventure is a mystery

Hi all, I'm dressing up as Green Arrow for Halloween this year and decided I needed to research the character more in-depth and thoight it would be great to hop into some of his comics.

So I went out and bought the 80th anniversary trade, the Longbow Hunters trade, and a New 52 one-shot.

While i liked all of these (except for the New 52 one-shot honestly), I would like some recommendations for what I should hunt down next if I want to see some of Green Arrow's classic villains in action, as none of these really seemed to fulfill that.

I would like to know which comic I should hop into if I want to see Clock King, Count Vertigo, Brick, Merlyn, Onomatopoeia, Prometheus, or maybe even some who yall may consider underrated.

Extra points if Black Canary is in the comic too, love the romance dynamic tbh.

Thank you guys for any suggestions! Glad that Green Arrow has been my gateway into comic books in general.

I have been watching Young Justice and it kinda led to this weird train of thought.

In the previous continuity, which Young Justice takes some inspiration from, Roy loses his arm due to Prometheus cutting it off with a toxin-laced blade during a devastating attack that also destroys Star City.

In the current continuity, he still lost his arm but he later has it back somehow. That's never explained. Whether by some weird magic voodoo or if its a more organic replacement somehow. Either way, both versions having used a highly advanced weaponized prosthetic. But my train of thought went to the notion of Roy being cloned.

The clone had grown up with the founding members of the team and was later revealed to be a sleeper agent and mole for The Light; the main villain group. The clone later took on the name Will; based off of his middle name. The real Roy still had his arm cut off and used an advanced prosthetic given to him by Lex Luthor.

And that made me wonder of the notion of that being adapted into the main series. Not Roy being replaced with a clone but a clone of him being created. Someone akin to Will Harper of the Young Justice series but with a more diabolical streak compared to canon. Someone who represents all the "evil" that had lurked within Roy for all this time.

Someone who doesn't like or want to be tied down by the notion of fatherhood compared to Roy. Who holds up a mirror to Oliver's worst flaws and faults. A twisted perverse person who represents the worst of the both of them and their relationship with one another. A living walking Armory to Roy's Arsenal.

Or maybe Dark/Black Arrow. Personally, I like Armory. It provides a thematic naming foil to Roy's codename of Arsenal. And while it's a different character from a previous continuity (and Hannibal Bates/Everyman), I feel like its synonymous with Merlyn the Dark Archer.

Would anyone want to see this adapted somehow into the main canon story? Or that there's already a lot of clone drama that happens enough and should just be kept away from Green Arrow, and just in YJ? Please comment respectfully.

I've been trying my absolute best at making sense of the chronology of Green Arrow Vol 4: The Kill Machine by Lemire and Sorrentino. I just cannot do it, it feels like a mistake has been made. But I can't find anyone else talking about it, anywhere, and the AI answers that unfortunately pop up when I type it into google are incredibly useless, completely reversing the answer dependent on exactly how I phrase the question, or talking about a completely different storyline.

So, each issue starts with a scene of Ollie walking in the desert looking for Magus, then to a "Three Weeks Earlier" as his life is getting wrecked by Komodo. So far, so fine. The desert scenes follow into each other, so it's clear that each one follows the next, up until the final one where it starts at the beginning of the desert bit and rapidly connects the deserty dots up until the present, finding Magus. Okay.

The "THREE WEEKS EARLIER" flashback scenes (the rest of each issue) also clearly follow on from each other, and also have no gaps. Ollie isn't really given time to have any gaps as he's pursued, or falling off a building, or wounded or whatever constantly. So we have two storylines - desert Ollie and Komodo v Ollie, both continuing chronologically without significant gaps, separately issue by issue.

BUT. Then we have a desert scene starting an issue - following smoothly on from the one of the previous issue - and following it we get the caption "ONE WEEK EARLIER". It is this single line that has turned my brain into porridge. Because the flashback scenes are still perfectly continuing from the last issue. There's been no chance of any time passing. We know this for sure because Ollie reminds us at that point that "Argus only gave me TWO DAYS to clear my name" before they'd interfere, and he's told he's been out for "sixteen hours", so naturally this is a worry - "We're almost out of time, Henry!"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but for the narrative jumps to go from repeated "Three weeks earlier" to "One week earlier" means that 2 weeks must have passed. But no time is ever shown to pass longer than sixteen hours. And the desert scenes follow so continuously that no significant time is ever shown to pass - at least two whole weeks!

So:

Ollie is shot through with arrows and passes out (Three weeks earlier timeline)

Ollie wakes up 16 hours later (One week earlier timeline ???)

I've written too much on this but please help me out here. Am I being an idiot? Can anyone with the comic to hand have a look at it and make sense of it?

I know it's silly I can't just let it go, but the fact nobody else has mentioned it on the entire internet, it seems, I feel like I'm the one at fault. But I still can't make it work.

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Not how old she canonically is, but what is your preference?

og by milletude on tumblr!

I’ve done a lot of research and I'm 100% convinced this run is a great comic book in general and definitely worth reading.

​However, I want to know if it's a good place to really get to know Green Arrow as a character and dive into his mythos (his core relationships, personality, motives for being a hero, etc.), kind of like what George Pérez’s run did for Wonder Woman.

​Does Grell’s run work well as an entry point for that, or should I read something else first and come back to this later?

One is Rick introduced in Detective Comics #521/522. This was also the same arc where Jason became Robin. He's introduced as a small-time villain named Hi-Tek before reforming. The other is a teen villain introduced a few issues later named Ozone who *also* reforms.

Rick is the probable choice. He's a redhead like Roy, he is closest to Ollie, and he has an actual name. Rick also has an actual backstory: he lives with his mom and his dad is a villain.

These comics are in the same issues where Jason was introduced as Robin. But, while Jay dyed his hair and became the new Boy Wonder, Rick and Ozone just disappeared. They were put on the bus.

Sources: Detective Comics #522 - #536

Source: https://thequiver.tumblr.com/post/682648499282706432/oliver-queen-as-a-csa-survivor

Green Arrow (1988-1998) is my favorite comic book series and I was fascinated by the whole Sherwood Forum deal, writing to the editors and writers and them responding to you at the end of the issue, which was very common at the time for publishers. I like to think that, in a way, renaming this subreddit as "Sherwood Forum", if possible, would pay tribute to all the people who worked to bring this second volume of Oliver Queen's adventures and also to all the oldheads who wrote those letters back then. Really make it feel like the Green Arrow community is united, through that and our collective hatred for fascism and capitalism.

What do you think ?

Got this today at my favorite store in Paris, Central Comics, for 3€. When I get paid I'll buy some more issues with Connor bc that mf is one of my favorite comic book characters ever, on the podium with his dad and Spider-Man

As a former serial killer himself, this Oliver might have an easier time understanding Absolute GA.

The 4 hardcovers are in french, it's simply Jeff Lemire's run and a part of the Rebirth era