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    Character » Green Arrow appears in 4303 issues.

    Oliver Queen was a spoiled, thrill-seeking playboy, until he was left stranded on a deserted island for several years. There, he trained to become a master archer in order to survive. After his return home, he used his new-found skills and his wealth to became the costumed vigilante known as Green Arrow.

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    #1  Edited By MrMiyagi

    So I decided to read some Green Arrow last night and my friend said I should start with Green Arrow: Year One...
    Well I've read all six of those issues and now I'm not sure where to pick up and start reading again.

    So where do I go from here? What should I read next?

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    #2  Edited By Nighthunter

    try Meltzer's or Smith's run on the character

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    #3  Edited By pixelized

    green arrow and black canary!

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    #4  Edited By Methos

    i;d reccomend the Silver Age set of Green Arrow / Green Lantern: Hard Travelling Heroes

    Amazing read

    M

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    #5  Edited By Nighthunter
    pixelized said:
    "green arrow and black canary!
    "
    why do you hate newcomers?
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    #6  Edited By Darkchild
    Methos said:
    "i;d reccomend the Silver Age set of Green Arrow / Green Lantern: Hard Travelling Heroes

    Amazing read

    M
    "
    WOW just finished that a few days ago. It truly was an awesome read
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    #7  Edited By pixelized
    Nighthunter said:
    "pixelized said:
    "green arrow and black canary!
    "
    why do you hate newcomers?
    "
    it's good now.
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    #8  Edited By Sovereign Vance

    LMFAO..MrMiyagi!!!

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    #9  Edited By Zoom

    Green Lantern/Green Arrow Hard Traveling Heroes was good, as were Smith and Meltzer's runs on the character.

    But the number one Green Arrow storyline in my book is Grell's Longbow Hunters.

    Stay far far away from anything that has Judd Winnick's name on it though.

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    #10  Edited By MrMiyagi
    Zoom said:
    "Green Lantern/Green Arrow Hard Traveling Heroes was good, as were Smith and Meltzer's runs on the character.

    But the number one Green Arrow storyline in my book is Grell's Longbow Hunters.

    Stay far far away from anything that has Judd Winnick's name on it though."
    Really? The Judd Winnick stuff is pretty bad?
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    #11  Edited By SUNMAN

    just stay away from green arrow and black canary, everything else is decent. 

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    #12  Edited By Hawkingbird

    Your mileage may vary with Winick's stuff. Try a couple of floppies before you get a trade.

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    #13  Edited By geraldthesloth

    I enjoyed Green Arrow:Quiver

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    #14  Edited By pixelized
    SUNMAN said:
    "just stay away from green arrow and black canary, everything else is decent. "
    negative
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    #15  Edited By Hawkingbird

    Also: You might want to try The Longbow Hunters. It set the status quo for Green Arrow Volume 2, which ran for 100 issues starring Ollie. If you like TLH, you can get some floppies for cheap.

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    #16  Edited By SUNMAN
    pixelized said:
    "SUNMAN said:
    "just stay away from green arrow and black canary, everything else is decent. "
    negative
    "
    LOL
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    #17  Edited By Zoom
    MrMiyagi said:
    "Zoom said:
    "Green Lantern/Green Arrow Hard Traveling Heroes was good, as were Smith and Meltzer's runs on the character.

    But the number one Green Arrow storyline in my book is Grell's Longbow Hunters.

    Stay far far away from anything that has Judd Winnick's name on it though."
    Really? The Judd Winnick stuff is pretty bad?"
    Oh yeah.  The Judd Winnick stuff is awful.

    Judd has a talent.  He can create comic characters.
    He also has a weakness.  He can't write other people's comic characters worth crap. 

    So while Winnick does introduce Constantine Drakon, who is pretty cool, he also is constantly making Green Arrow, Connor, Black Canary, etc say and do things that they would never do under any other writer.  And being a guy who has read about 3/4ths of the Green Arrow comics out there, it pisses me off a lot.  Plus, he just didn't write any good stories.  Everything he does on the book just seems pointless or ridiculous.

    Example: He gave a character AIDS.  Three issues afterwards, they never talked about it again.  It might as well have never happened.  This character is still around.  Presumably still has this life threatening disease.  But Winnick already gave the audience his two cents on AIDS so he doesn't feel it needs to be brought up again.

    Example 2: Winnick lets Dr Light and Meryln destroy most of Star City.  One year later, the city inexplicably has a modern day Berlin wall.  Green Arrow's solution?  Green Arrow has Batman make a trick arrow that turns the concrete wall into water that smells like milk and honey.  I shit you not.  He doesn't just break down the wall that should have never been there.  He asks his friend to make a deus ex machina device for him.  And he does it.  We're expected to believe that not only can Batman change concrete into nice smelling water but he actually took time out of his day (note: Batman protects his city from dozens of crazies, trains several young heroes and is part of two super teams) to freaking make such a worthless and complicated device for Green Arrow.

    Judd Winnick did not write a single good story while on GA or GA/BC.  Not one.
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