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Green Arrow

Saint Keggers

02:50 / 07.09.01

Just wondering if anyone else is reading Kevin Smiths take on G.A.
I was apprehensive when I first heard he was doing it..but man was I rewarded. I love each issue so far..I especially enjoyed the characterization he gave to Batman.
He most definitly should write (in my opinion) the next Batman movie.

(you guys have no idea how hard it was for me to write this and not load it with spoilers)

Tom Coates

09:16 / 07.04.02

I've not been keeping track of Green Arrow - isn't it supposed to be one of DC's most popular books?!

Haus Of Pain

13:49 / 07.04.02

Just my thruppenny bit, but isn't Kevin 'hyperbole' Smith just a tad immature. His concerted effort to inject a particularly stale brand of realism into superheroics bores the shit out of me and seems to point toward high levels of geek-guilt.
IMO, Smith's strips have always felt neo-eighties in a bad way; you know, 'grown-up' comics without super-powers, and characters with names like "onomatopaeia" (sp?).

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

14:01 / 07.04.02

I have mixed feelins about Kevin Smith's Green Arrow stuff. His take on the characters is dead on, with nice dialogue and keen insight into any character he uses. The problem is that he doesn't quite seem to know where he is going. His 10 part story arc took a character who has NO supernatural elements involved and seemed to have "Dr. Strange" type magic flying all around the story by the end.

I'm starting to think that when it comes to comics, it might be a good idea to give him a plotting partner or an editor feels strong enough to say, "no" when he wants to start throwing in everything he can find into his stories.

I know he's leaving in a few issues, but wouldn't it be great if Greg Rucka took over the book? Green Arrow only worked for me when Mike Grell stripped away all the super-hero stuff (trick arrows, the Justice League, etc...) and made Ollie a middle aged man who was great with a bow and crappy with his personal life.

Utopia

14:06 / 07.04.02

He most definitly should write (in my opinion) the next Batman movie

and take that honor away from frank miller?

Regrettable Juvenilia

16:50 / 07.04.02

Kevin Smith comics make me want to tear out my eyes. Or, better, his.

Jack Fear

18:53 / 07.04.02

Kevin Smith Writes Comic: Fatbeard Ejaculate Flies.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

18:53 / 07.04.02

I'm disturbed by the amount of sex and innuendo there is in green arrow, it feels kinda icky reading it when there are near constant references to him going down on people.
I kinda liked smiths run on daredevil, but green arrow was a superfriend, he had a leg squeezy action figure

HE DOES NOT FUCK

seriously, that would be like a porno with rubix the cube and Q-bert, ruining my childhood

Steve Block

05:38 / 08.04.02

I dumped the series after the first arc, although a better than average super hero book, I just didn't care for Green Arrow the way I did Daredevil. I also found myself getting out of depth in DC backhistory, so Smith evoked the feel of pre-crisis ever so well.

Tom Coates

09:20 / 08.04.02

Is it actually true that it's the biggest seller - or is it made up?

Steve Block

13:13 / 08.04.02

Looks like it is true, judging by these figures. It does rise from low and then drop throughout the run though, but even in Febuary only two special DC books (Batman 10 cents and Dark Knight 2) beat it.

Remarkable. It looks comparable to Morrison's JLA numbers.

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