"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark
There's a promo in this week's books for the new Green Arrow creative team, with the first look at Felicity Smoak's debut. Not so much bending as they did with Diggle, so I guess they fixed the issue about owning the likeness to the actors. I was half-expecting her to look like her old self, but then I suppose there would be no point in introducing her if she wasn't going to look at least a bit like Emily Rickards. Anyway, it should be fun to finally have Team Arrow in the comic books, since Fyff and Naomi sucked.
While I'm not thrilled with Andrew Kriesberg as a writer due to the quality of his past work, Arrow has been good enough that I'm willing to give this a chance. And it's probably Ben Sokolowski who's taking the lead, and his digital-first issues were not terrible. Sampere's art doesn't look as bad as I expected, glad he has Jonathan Glapion on inks.
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I like Arrow but his Green Arrow/Black Canary run was AWFUL!! So I'm not sure how to feel about this creative change.
More like five, and it's the last time that he's written GA in the mainstream DCU. So it's only natural to judge him based on that.
i've recently started watching Arrow, and its slowly pulling me back to reading DC. i sure hope "Earth-Arrow" officially becomes a regular comic series in the future.
The stubble was Cully Hamner's idea. It was drawn on him until the third issue of Nocenti/Tolibao's run. He was instructed to not draw ANY facial hair at all on the character. Then Freddie Williams was also told to keep his face completely clean.
They decided to bring back the stubble in Lemire's run, near the end. It's supposed to foreshadow his goatee/beard in the near future. Lemire opposed the beard, but staff decided it made him more recognizable.
Personally, I do miss the big curly goatee, but it doesn't fit his personality right now. He isn't a hipster in the New 52. I'm more of a fan of having a stubbly face for New 52 Oliver. He looks modern, but it still captures the slacker personality behind the character. Clean face SUCKS. Looks like a totally different person. I hate it in the golden age look and the recent version.
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Wow, what an end to a perfect run Lemire! I might pick up #35, not sure. I bet I won't like it that much. I am very curious though...
"You don't ever quit. Not even to your last drop of blood. You got folks relyin' on you then you just can't afford to." Sean Noonan-Hitman #47
Just noticed that Comicvine has the solicitation for Green Arrow #36! This time it does show a Bryan Hitch cover like solicited last month, wonder if they'll change the already shown cover from Garry Brown for #35.
And is that Felicity Smoak in a super hero costume???
GREEN ARROW #36
Written by ANDREW KREISBERG and BEN SOKOLOWSKI
Art by DANIEL SAMPERE and JONATHAN GLAPION
Cover by BRYAN HITCH
On sale NOVEMBER 5 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
Green Arrow can hardly catch his breath as he returns to Seattle to find new allies and a new mission. Some things never change, though, as Ollie is making new people want to kill him!