Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Green Arrow #32

I was only going to read and review Brightest Day #0 tonight, but when I saw this comic, I HAD to give it a read as well, especially considering the score JT gave it over at his blog. So did I agree with the infamous Jason Man, or not??? Let's find out!

Green Arrow #32: Writer: JT Krul. Artist: Federico Dallocchio.
Last Issue: score out of 10.

This comic skips around a bit in the beginning, so in order to keep it simple I'm going to tackle it in as linear a fashion as possible. Picking up from last issue, Green Arrow has the Electrocutioner lined up in his sights and is ready to put an arrow through his brain when he decides to instead show mercy and not kill the man who planted the bomb that decimated Star City. Speedy is understandably upset about this turn of events, but in the end she goes along with GA's decision. GA takes the Electrocutioner and turns him over to Green Lantern, Black Canary and Flash, before turning himself over to the Star City police for the murder of Prometheus. After GA is cuffed, the smug(and crooked)top cop of Star City walks over to GA and unmasks him, revealing Oliver Queen?!? I can't believe it! OK, enough sarcasm for now. The cops are all shocked(because apparently they're idiots)and Ollie gets locked up. Eventually Black Canary heads over to see him and does what she should have done YEARS ago, she breaks up with Ollie, leaving her wedding ring behind before turning her back on him and leaving. The scene then shifts to Ollie's trial, which is being secretly observed by several super-heroes, with the notable exception of Black Canary. The trial eventually goes to the jury, and Ollie is found not guilty of the second degree murder of Prometheus... Wait, how is it second degree? If ever a murder was premeditated, this was it! The judge isn't exactly pleased that Ollie is basically getting away with murder, and warns Ollie that from this point forward he is banned from Star City, and that if he shows up in the city limits, he'll be locked up. Ollie sneaks out a back door and runs into his bestest friend in the whole wide world, Hal Jordan. Hal tries to cheer Ollie up, especially in light of Dinah no-showing the trial, but Ollie seems at peace with everything. This issue ends with Hal and Ollie shaking hands with Ollie promising his long-time friend that he'll be back on his feet again in no time.

Huh, I really liked this comic actually! JT and I seem to be on different planets when it comes to these past two reviews! There were so many things that were just perfect to me in this comic that I think I lost count. The scene with Ollie and Dinah in the jail was especially well done, because it touched on SO many of the themes from the old 1980's-90's Green Arrow series that I had just recently read through. Dinah basically(finally!)told Ollie off, and rubbed his nose in his whole, “By killing Prometheus I crossed that line...” argument by reminding him that he's killed plenty of people in the past(which is true, he was like the frigging Punisher back in the day!). I personally loved the way JT Krul kept referencing back to Ollie and Dinah's days in Seattle, and using those old comics as ammunition for Dinah against Ollie. Besides that, I LOVED what Ollie said to Superman in the courtroom! Wooooo baby was THAT awesome! Basically Ollie muttered under his breath while looking at Supes(who was there as Clark Kent)something along the lines of, “NOW you show up.” That line was just pure Ollie to me. On one hand I can understand Ollie's frustrations about Supes never showing up during the Cry for Justice debacle(I mean he IS Superman, you'd think he would have realized what Prometheus was doing), but on the other hand, Supes was on an entirely different planet, and was in no position to stop Prometheus's plans. But still, that was just such an Ollie thing to say... I definitely thought there was a lot to like here, and I'll be eagerly anticipating the new Green Arrow series that starts up in June.

Score: 9 out of 10.Well I hate to say it, but it's about time Dinah told Ollie off...

24 comments:

  1. See, now Dinah breaking up with Ollie was the ONLY thing I liked. I hated that Ollie's whole life was ruined, everyone knows who he is and he can't go back to Star City. Which is even MORE lame since Deadman brought it BACK!

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  2. Even after JT told me Green Arrow was unmasked, after reading this issue myself I was still shocked and still pissed. Like, WTF? I think something else could have been done about his whole murdering of Prometheus...and as for Dinah and Ollie breaking up *applauds* about damn time. She's a free bird now!!! Fly Dinah spread your wings. lol.

    It's funny how we talked about how bad Ollie treated her in your other blog. Now look, our wishes came true! lol. Well at least mine. lol.

    Oh and JT, now that you say that about Deadman bringing back Star City, maybe some issues down the line GA/Ollie will be allowed back.

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  3. Eh, the whole thing with Ollie's ID being revealed doesn't bug me that much, because like I said before, I SWEAR his ID was practically public knowledge back in the day. Falisha makes a great point though, how did the cops even learn about Prometheus's murder? You'd think the heroes would have kept it to themselves of something... I don't get why the JLA allowed Ollie to take the fall like a common criminal. I will admit that in retrospect, that DID bother me.

    As for the Star City forest, if you check out the teaser for GA #1 in the back of Brightest Day #0, it looks like Ollie is going to be living in the Star City forest, which is pretty lame if you ask me... I mean, they might as well rename Ollie Robin Hood, because it seems like he's becoming a complete clone of Robin Hood. He's an outlaw, battling against a crooked guy in power(that cop), he's beloved by the common folks and he's based out of a forest... Hmm, could they be any more obvious?

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  4. Hmmm agreed, why the hell WOULD they tell the authorities? You'd think they'd not allow Ollie to be prosecuted or at least make it done by his peers or something.

    LAME. He better not be living in the Forrest like an animal. I mean how long can that be interesting, like three issues at the most? It's like Ollie is Tony Stark now or something.

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  5. I just don't see how something like that got back to the authorities, hell some of the JLA folks didn't know it happened, right? And besides if Ollie had a REAL good lawyer, I would've had him plead insanity. I mean he lost his granddaughter. I'd blame it on something Lol.

    Lmao. Living in the forest? The hell is wrong with these people. I tell you sometimes these writers make the wildest events happen. I mean come on don't you think some wandering person is going to be going through the forest one day and see him, turn Ollie in for some cash. Hell I would. Get that money!

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  6. Well, you know I hated this story ;) It's just, so, well, stupid...

    I think they're going to do a grim and gritty single person hard traveling heroes myself.

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  7. Ugh, I wrote this big long comment and then Blogger ate it... Oh well.

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  8. Damn that sucks, wanna give us the gist? Tomorrow probably? Lol

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  9. Like I remember now? :p

    Umm, let's just say that I agreed with everything you guys said, and that you're both awesome! :-)

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  10. Wooooooo that works, you forgot the part where you mentioned my blog is betterer than yours is :D lol

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  11. I'm fine with that sir. And JT stop being greedy with the attention lol.

    Such an attention whore. Geez. Lol. :D

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  12. Hey, don't push it there JT! :P

    I love how complimentary my nicknames are(the Comic Book King, Genius, the Most Awesome Person in the History of the World, etc), while JT is the King of Comedy, Jason Man and now the Attention Whore! ;-)

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  13. Lmao. I don't know what to say about that. He brings it upon himself by his actions!! But I still love my attention whore lol.

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  14. Lol you guys forgot, "The guy with the best of all comic blogs, King of the Entire World, Guy that singlehandedly saved X's blog with comments galore and Falisha's King." :D *runs again*

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  15. Hey, the Attention Whore strikes again!!! :D

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  16. Lmao, That's Co-King of Comics, Jason Man and William Hand :P

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  17. I don't know, Attention Whore has quite the nice sound to it... :P

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  18. Lol alright you can have that and I'll be the king of comics :P

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  19. Damn you and your constant attempts to usurp my title!!! *shakes fist angrily* I shant give up my hard fought comic book title without a duel JT! Choose your weapons!

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  20. Okay then you knave! (Heard that in some Medieval movie I choose...a X-Man seeking missle. You? ::D

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  21. Umm, I'll go with a rocket launcher I think... Or maybe a tank. Or better yet, a battalion of tanks!

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  22. Um...can I change my vote to Nuke? :D

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  23. Mmmm, nope sorry, the weapons have already been chosen. En garde!!!

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  24. Lmao @ Saying En Garde! with a tank. Too bad I neglected to tell you my heat seeking missle is the size of Texas, oh and it's right behind your tank buddy boy. :P

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