1. Notes: 8 / 8 months ago 

    I’m a Green Arrow fan. I’ve been reading the series consistently for about a decade, stretching back to Kevin Smith’s post-“Quiver” story arc. I’ve collected and read every issue of the previous series (which started with Mike Grell’s outstanding take on the character and continued with Chuck Dixon writing the adventures of Oliver Queen’s son Connor Hawke), as well as the 1983 limited series. Through ups (Brad Meltzer’s exceptional “Archer’s Quest”) and downs (most of Green Arrow/Black Canary), I’ve stuck with the title. Why? Because I love Ollie.

    But this ain’t Ollie.

    This is Oliver Queen from “Smallville”, transported to the rebooted DC Universe. He’s young, he uses high tech gadgets, and he doesn’t have a goatee. There’s also a lot of Christopher Nolan’s Bruce Wayne in him, using a secret division within the company he owns to supply him with weapons and equipment. He’s a mish mash of “cool” concepts, plugged into a flagging title that has some name recognition.

    I’ve already written about the sorry state of Green Arrow over the last few years (in this blog post), and I’d hoped DC would use the reboot to erase some of the terrible writing and character development Ollie has suffered lately. Instead, they got rid of Ollie completely and replaced him with a totally different character.

    From what I’ve seen online, many younger readers are actually connecting with this new Oliver Queen. This tells me two things. First, DC Comics is succeeding in its goal of attracting new readers. And two, those new readers have terrible taste.

    As for me, for the first time since I started reading comics I’ve decided not to buy a Green Arrow #1. I did read it in the store, just to make sure it wasn’t worth my time. After all, I don’t read Green Arrow for the goatee. They could have totally changed his look and supporting cast, and I would have still read as long as it was still Ollie. 

    But, as I said before, this ain’t Ollie.

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