Looks great, but I'm still questioning the decision to add Arrowette to the Arrow family. She's never been that connected (plus she was one of the few characters who got to have full character arc before Bendis had her back in costume for no apparent reason).
And then there's Red Canary... the least exciting new character from the last few years.
Considering how big the family is, I think focusing on Mia, Emiko, Connor, Dinah, Roy and Lian would be perfect already.
I'm so excited to see Mia again after so freaking long.
I'm curious to see what Williamson does with her. I don't think she and Ollie have ever even met.
Williamson created Red Canary so that's probably more incentive on his part to use her.
Sin has her own thing going on with having a split-personality and being Sin, Red Canary fulfills a totally different archetype of being a pretty much average girl stumbling into being a vigilante and trying to honor Dinah.
GREEN ARROW #13
Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
Art by AMANCAY NAHUELPAN
Cover by PHIL HESTER
Variant cover by TIRSO CONS
DC Pride variant cover by A.L. KAPLAN
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Oliver Queen has become an AGENT OF AMANDA WALLER. Roy and the rest of the Green Arrow family want to know why Green Arrow would betray his family and friends and choose to work with Amanda Waller and her deadly plans for the heroes and villains of the DC Universe!
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Writer: Joshua Williamson
Artists: Sean Izaakse and Tom Derenick
He’s the go-to fill in guy. I really don’t like his art as I think the faces he draws look terrible.
When you see his name on the cover it means the team is falling behind or the book is on its way out. With GA they probably just needed time for the main artist to catch up.
What I’m blown away by is that he's been doing most of the art for Justice League vs Godzilla vs Kong. It seems like DC put so minimal effort into a book that has the potential to do well in trades for years to come because Godzilla and Kong will bring in casual fans. The writing and art have both been so bad.
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Okay everyone has met up and there is no hostilities. Happy reunions all around and some funny comments like Connor finally meeting his aunt and on how Cissie isn't a member of the Arrow family so she's out of the loop with the heartfelt reunions (we also got the reason why she's here, she did retire but Waller forced her back in with a brain bomb). Ollie and Roy finally reunites, and Ollie confirms he is trying to pull the long con on Waller so hopefully he succeeds at screwing her off.
I love everyone having snow costumes, even the girls (though all Red Canary has was mufflers, which was also cute).
I thought we had already seen Ollie finding out Roy was alive in an earlier issue.
Waller is really putting bombs in teen girls? Even if it's not the same bomb as the Suicide Squad, that's still a lot.
I like that they acknowledged Arrowette has no real ties to Ollie or the Arrow Family. I kind of expected Ollie to talk more about Bonnie King because he actually knew her. But I also like how they acknowledged Cissie retired so she wouldn't have put the costume on otherwise if they hadn't forced her into it.
Emiko has long hair now? And now gets the "Aunt Emiko" treatment!
Red Canary is still a fangirl.
I love how Mia's return got the full page treatment compared to the other girls because they knew we've been waiting for her to come back.
"They have Jade" - And they should care, why? I mean, it's Cheshire. Then again, she's Lian's mother and Roy can't let her go.
Guess Green Arrow is going to have to beat the "weakest Justice Leaguer" complaints by fighting the Sanctuary Constructs of the Big Seven.