When Green Arrow suddenly reappears on the scene in Star City everyone is dumbfounded. The man is supposed to be dead. It becomes even more baffling when those nearest to him realize that he's missing nearly a decade of his life. How is Oliver back and why? It's going to take the combined efforts of most of the Justice League to figure it out.

It's a solid comic arc for Green Arrow with an interesting choice for the "return from the dead" plotline. The plotting was solid and the male character development was solid. The characterization of the women had me less impressed - Black Canary blaming her emotional state on PMS felt so very 90s. If you're a Green Arrow fan, it's definitely worth reading but it may be helpful to know the larger DCU before tackling this one - or have a big DC fan on-call to answer any questions that arise. ( )

I've been meaning to read this book for about a decade now. Comic book - Kevin Smith, what could be better? This book was a little dated by two things: pop culture references and New 52. To the first, while some of the references seems tale at least I can say that I think I got all of them. As for the New 52, well this book is about 8 or 9 years before the DC reboot and many of the characters are both mature in age and in their story lines by which I mean lots of things have happened including "being bad" and "dying" for many, many heroes. Since almost all of my recent reading has been in the New 52 universe, the book has to stand on its own more than being a part of a larger universe (unless I can find other DC books from the early 2000s).
This book has everything that you would expect from a Kevin Smith project - the good and the bad. I really like Queen's life is not only more complicated but more complex giving the feeling that this is actually a book for adults. The main drawback is that Smith can be wordy. This is a superhero story after all, it would be nice if we had more action to go along with all of the speech making. ( )

Good, but not good enough to make me like Green Arrow. For some reason he's always rubbed me the wrong way--perhaps it's how literally his resemblance to Robin Hood is taken (a dude can steal from the rich and give to the poor without wearing a nonsensical little green hat, surely?), or that I already have my fair share of rich white dudes who fight crime, or maybe just that I was introduced to him at the wrong time. Whatever. The only thing I've ever found interesting about Green Arrow is his contentious relationship with Black Canary. ( )

Having never read a Green Arrow book before this was definitely interesting. I also love Kevin Smith, so that probably helped a lot. In this book Green Arrow literally gets the chance to start his life over. It will be interesting to see what he does with that chance as the series continues. ( )

Having never read a Green Arrow book before this was definitely interesting. I also love Kevin Smith, so that probably helped a lot. In this book Green Arrow literally gets the chance to start his life over. It will be interesting to see what he does with that chance as the series continues. ( )