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Comic Book Question of the Week: GREEN ARROW or HAWKEYE?

Both series are phenomenal, but do you have a preference? Come vote!

The Big Two have seriously been bringing their "A" game when it comes to their lead archers. With Jeff Lemire/Andrea Sorrentino taking over GREEN ARROW and Matt Fraction/David Aja bringing an all-new solo series for Clint, the two accurate characters have proudly stepped back into the spotlight. Sure, both have a totally different vibe and a completely unique and oh-so-fine look, but we're curious to see which book you're enjoying more. Have the nonstop laughs turned you into a Hawkbro? Or has this engrossing new take on Ollie quickly become one of your favorites? CLICK HERE VOTE!

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Voting will remain open until Thursday morning (ET). Check the homepage shortly after for a feature with the poll results. Commenting below will not count towards the poll. So, once again, click here if you'd like to vote! Oh, and if you're not reading either of these books, you should probably rectify that.

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Olllie's JLU Incarnation is one of the bright moments of the show.

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hawkeye!

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Some people aren't exactly answering the question correctly.

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Pre reboot? GA all the way! Post reboot? I'm enjoying Hawkeye.

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I'm currently reading Hawkeye but I'll pick up Lemire's GA when it comes out (and if I have enough money to spare). Both are awesome though. But I like comic Hawkeye more than comic GA but live-action GA is slightly more enjoyable than live-action Hawkeye.

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In general GA. But for these particular series Hawkeye. It's been good from the start and excitingbAND fun. GA is starting to get good, but was terrible at the start, and its rarely fun, just exciting and riveting even though GA is a fun character.

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Green Arrow.

I think it would be awesome if they were to due a crossover between the two!

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@kryptonsabbath: You must not br reading them they're massively different books...

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green arrow

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While green arrow is a great character and he's fun in JLA, Hawkeye has been a consistent good read while green arrow was not doing so well until Jeff Lemire took over.

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Hawkeye!

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Clint, no doubt !

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Hawkeye - For bro beer's, hanging out macking the ladies, and causing trouble, and somehow living through it.

Green Arrow - If i don't want to crap my pants every time something bad happens. He seems more safe, and level headed.

My personal choice - Hawkeye. Always has been.

However, Clint doesn't have a TV show guys. Kappa

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Ah man this is a really good question especially depending on which versions of the characters are being used.

The guys over on marveldcforum.com have talked about this match in a section called fight club. They choose to focus on pre-relaunch versions of the characters, but I think some of their points will still contribute to the debate.

http://marveldcforum.com/index.php?topic=14.0

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Right now Fraction's incarnation of Hawkeye is great, but Green Arrow is pretty good too.

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I felt relief seeing I could vote I can't pick. They're both really good.

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I love both series right now. In all honesty, once you get past the bow and arrows, they're very different characters.

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AW MAN!! I LOVE BOTH!!!

CANT...DECIDE!!!

Alright I pick Hawkeye... Sorry Green Arrow ;[

I DON'T KNOW! This is like Sophie's Choice.

Lemire and Fraction are equally my top two favourite writers at the moment and both series' are equally wonderful.

Gun to my head, I'd probably give it to Hawkeye... and then second guess myself.

I DON'T KNOW.

There's an option for loving both equally!

@jaken7 said:

@k4tzm4n Hey, I asked you this in your AMA thread. Awesome that it's the question of the week! :D If I recall, your response was Hawkguy but barely. I'm reading both, and I'd have to give the nod to Hawkguy as well, but I'd probably have a bigger margin of preference. I'm excited to see what the community thinks though.

Man, where has that thread been, anyway? I feel like I haven't seen it in well over a month.

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I DON'T KNOW! This is like Sophie's Choice.

Lemire and Fraction are equally my top two favourite writers at the moment and both series' are equally wonderful.

Gun to my head, I'd probably give it to Hawkeye... and then second guess myself.

I DON'T KNOW.

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unique looks? that's a stretch. blond? both. blue eyed? both. white? both.

The comment is about the art team behind the titles and not the actual character design.

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@maxicere: I'm not sure if you're being facetious or not, but Green Arrow written by Jeff Lemire is in fact, Green Arrow. "Arrow" the series is based on the TV series of the same name...the poll is asking about the Lemire version.

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AW MAN!! I LOVE BOTH!!!

CANT...DECIDE!!!

Alright I pick Hawkeye... Sorry Green Arrow ;[

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unique looks? that's a stretch. blond? both. blue eyed? both. white? both. i thought this question would be who is your favorite or whom could beat the other. new 52 green arrow (save for the first story arc) has sucked. gave it chance after chance, writer after writer. now hawkeye? the art took some getting some use to and that first story also was not good for me cause i wasnt expecting this to be a "im a street hero without a costume" hawkeye book (in which case i would never have picked it up) but stay on for kate bishop and because of her i got to see what the writer was doing with the story and got use to the art. despite it not being my style of comic, i can still see why its appealing and the story telling is superb. reminds me a little of the current daredevil series.

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haw bad is it i dont read either. but 25 titles on my pull list is pricey enough

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green arrow

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My (((Prodigy))) account, for some reason I haven't figured out (but is probably related to CV's recent updates) won't work anymore.

So I came back to this account for the first time in over two years just so I could vote for Hawkeye.

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Was never a big fan of either. (maybe Ollie's JLU incarnation)

But their solo books have been really good as of late.

So... tie!

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Edited By k4tzm4n  Moderator

Why can't I have both?

Check the poll. There is an option for loving them equally.

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Why can't I have both?

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Wife reads GA. That said - I've always thought Ollie had more depth to him as a person/character than Clint. Like him or not, agree with him or not - Ollie really isn't someone to have a middle of the road opinion over. That's more dynamic than what can be said for Clint.

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I gotta go with Clint on this one.

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Hawkeye

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Never been much interested in Green Arrow as a character but I plan on reading the trades from the new creative team. So my vote is Hawkeye since I love the current comic and the movie version!

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@maxicere: You sir, have no idea what you are talking about.

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Hawkeye is the easy choice here.Green Arrow HAS WAY too much dialogue.

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Probably hawk eye

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both are awesome but ive gota give it to the Hawk!

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HAWK-GUY forever and always but seriously where's the choice for pizza dog?

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If the choice was pre new 52 GA then he would most definitely get the nod but ever since the reset he has been one of the most poorly handled characters and the current run sucks too (yeah thats right I said it) but on the other hand I hate hawkeye with a burning passion so neither gets my vote

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Hawkeye, simply because it has been consistently good.

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Honestly, I don't read either book too far into it, something about a badass normal with a bow is meh to me, I mean don't get me wrong I appreciate their characters over a lot of costumed freaks, but idk something about trick bows and a whole super hero who gets people with nothing but bows never appealed to me, funny thing is I do archery in real life, maybe that's why, if I knew martial arts, I'd probably be disinterested in Batman or something but instead I'm a bat-addict. From what I've read though I'm going to say Green Arrow because I was digging the direction they went with him, but I think I have to admit that Hawkeye has better writers. I'm still biased toward Green Arrow though cause the Queen Enterprises subplot is typically interesting enough. ( I like business, politics, and econ what can I say)

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Hawkeye, but Green Arrow is great.

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Hawkeye, he is made of pure awesome after all.

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@k4tzm4n Hey, I asked you this in your AMA thread. Awesome that it's the question of the week! :D If I recall, your response was Hawkguy but barely. I'm reading both, and I'd have to give the nod to Hawkguy as well, but I'd probably have a bigger margin of preference. I'm excited to see what the community thinks though.

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Pre-reboot I woulda said Green Arrow, but since the reboot and the Hawkeye solo(ish) book, I'm going with Clint.

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I know Hawkguy is the cool thing to love right now (don't get me wrong, i like it, too) and will probably win this poll, but I'm voting for Green Arrow. Hawkguy, while fun, is a little too hipster to be my fave. I prefer the dark/noirish Green Arrow Lemire has been bringing us. That and OH MY GOD, Andrea Sorrentino's art is flat out amazing. I've never been one to buy variants before...but I've picked up every single black and white variant of Sorrentino's Green Arrow covers thus far.

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Green Arrow!

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Hawk eye !!!!

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Well, as Hawkeye is just Marvel's version of Green Arrow, I guess I'd have to go with the original and pick Green Arrow in this.

From what i've read, whilst GA came out first, his personality was more based on Batman (rich guy, gadgets, even an Arrow-mobile etc). It was only when Hawkeye was created, with the unique twist (for back then) that he was more of a hotheaded rebel with a more complex hero personality, then GA became more like Hawkeye....

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i think hawkguy will win, but idk which i will choose

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