Last years DC Comics reboot should have positioned Green Arrow to become a major player in the DC Universe.
Suddenly,Iron Manwas one of Marvels best sellers thanks to his exposure in other media.
Green Arrow was ripe for this same push.
The title was derivative, uninspired, and uneven.
The biggest problem in the previousGreen Arrowruns by J.T.
Krul and Ann Nocenti was that Ollie was a total jerk.
Think Tony Stark in the first twenty minutes ofIron Man.
Now imagine that when Stark leaves the cave, he is still an unlikable prick.
Except when this version of Ollie returned, he was still an utter asshat.
Only now he was an asshat thats really good with a bow.
Nocenti gave it a try.
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Lemire wipes the slate clean withGreen Arrow#17 by destroying everything Ollie had.
There is no more Q-Corp, no more billions, no more supporting cast.
They were all destroyed by a mysterious villain named Komodo.
Theres a fevered pace toGreen Arrow#17, a fresh change from the dialogue heavy Nocenti stories.
Andrea Sorrentino is the perfect artist for this sort of story.
He created a dark and monstrous world inI, Vampirebefore being moved over toGreen Arrow.
He is one of the better action oriented artists in recent memory.
The idea that Ollie visually interprets two things at once, reality and targets, is impressive.
A slow motion comic?
Yeah, its that impressive.
As good as this issue is, its just a taste of what is to come.
Lemire needs to delve deeper into the mystery of Komodo and why he wanted to utterly destroy Ollies world.
Hopefully, Green Arrow will come out of this arc the hero he was always meant to be.
Judging from the first issue, this is the goal.
