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nearit's review against another edition
1.0
I once sat on a panel about comics art and told a room full of people that they didn't get to have aesthetic opinions unless they'd read at least one truly awful fantasy novel. If you were to take that dumb joke seriously, reading this might pass for an attempt to re-assert my critical credentials. Either way, I suspect the joke is on me in the end.
Green Arrow: Port of Call - New Orleans flows like a blocked toilet. Despite being two comics and one movie deep into his career at this point, Smith still hadn't discovered that you can do a second draft and it's hard to say whether the lines that are designed to assure you he's had sex are more or less tragic than the ones that are there to test how many DC comics you've read.
Hester manages to find a couple of attractive images in this mess, but in the spirit of collaboration he also finds compositions that are as dramatically clueless as the script he's working from.
Don't read this comic, and leave Assasins of Gor on the shelf too. Whoever you are, you deserve better than this
Green Arrow: Port of Call - New Orleans flows like a blocked toilet. Despite being two comics and one movie deep into his career at this point, Smith still hadn't discovered that you can do a second draft and it's hard to say whether the lines that are designed to assure you he's had sex are more or less tragic than the ones that are there to test how many DC comics you've read.
Hester manages to find a couple of attractive images in this mess, but in the spirit of collaboration he also finds compositions that are as dramatically clueless as the script he's working from.
Don't read this comic, and leave Assasins of Gor on the shelf too. Whoever you are, you deserve better than this
birdmanseven's review against another edition
3.0
This was equal parts good and weird. It had some really solid moments. The scene with the JLA was great. I also enjoyed seeing Barry and Hal, plus that random Jason Todd cameo. I'll definitely be checking out volume 2.
We discussed this run, plus the Green Arrow's complicated history in a special episode of the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/episode-233-green-arrow
We discussed this run, plus the Green Arrow's complicated history in a special episode of the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/episode-233-green-arrow
maggierobots's review against another edition
5.0
Nice to remember when Kevin Smith wrote a comic I didn't find utterly insulting.
quinnster's review against another edition
2.0
I guess it would have helped to have known the Green Arrow mythos a bit before I delved into this one. The whole time I felt confused then caught up then confused again then caught up again. Back and forth. Guess I'm just not a huge GA fan.
internpepper's review against another edition
2.0
This was recommended as a follow-up to Green Arrow: Year One. Some time has passed and apparently Oliver Queen died. Naturally, it’s a comic series, so he wakes up alive and well, but confused and suffering from memory loss. He also still thinks it’s the 80s. This apparently kickstarts volume 3 of the Green Arrow comic series.
While the dialogue was witty at times, I felt that it was trying way too hard and the dialogue was overkill almost constantly. I think the art was great, but the story got bogged down in other obscure references, plot threads that didn’t seem to go anywhere, and villains with weak motivations.
While the dialogue was witty at times, I felt that it was trying way too hard and the dialogue was overkill almost constantly. I think the art was great, but the story got bogged down in other obscure references, plot threads that didn’t seem to go anywhere, and villains with weak motivations.
captwinghead's review against another edition
2.0
Look, this dialogue is... bad. I've heard better dialogue in porn.
I get the sense Smith wanted to draw on the classic Green Arrow comics with this one. In a (slightly) clever method, he had Oliver forget the past 10 years and continue talking like he would have decades ago. Unfortunately, that's only part of the problem.
Read this comic and drink every time Ollie says "fat cat". Also, drink every time a woman in unnecessarily sexualized. Bad enough Mia was introduced as a teenage prostitute. There was a period of time I think every single DC book had a prostitute or a teenage runaway being abused by older men. I do not understand why this happened so often??? Anyway, Mia's fifteen and left an abusive father and met a pimp. She was repeatedly sexually abused and yet she's still sexualized in the art. Every person she comes into contact with mentions her beauty, even the gay man. And then we're shown her sleeping in her underwear. Why was any of this necessary?
On top of that, people don't talk like people? Mia gives a tirade that sounds like a middle aged man trying to write empowering dialogue for a teenage girl. The effort was there but I felt like I was reading a well meaning text book. Then Dinah's line "I'm probably just PMS-ing", you know, like we constantly say things like that as women.
The cherry on top was Ollie's line of "In my experience, when a guy punches you in the face and takes your pants off, he's either hazing you or dating you." Why? Why the implication that gay men subdue their partners? And I got the sense Smith thought he was being progressive with the old guy and Ollie jokingly hitting on him but when Ollie has a"no homo" freakout because the other leaguer's hugged him, that's not progressive. Strangely enough, I read a 1989 comic that featured Roy Harper showing 10x more progressive views on gay men. So, this is all just Smith.
I get the complaints that this book was all dialogue. Normally, something like that really wouldn't bother me... if the dialogue was good. Unfortunately, this is one of those books where I got the sense the writer was so focused on proving how funny they are and not all that concerned with the story.
I get the sense Smith wanted to draw on the classic Green Arrow comics with this one. In a (slightly) clever method, he had Oliver forget the past 10 years and continue talking like he would have decades ago. Unfortunately, that's only part of the problem.
Read this comic and drink every time Ollie says "fat cat". Also, drink every time a woman in unnecessarily sexualized. Bad enough Mia was introduced as a teenage prostitute. There was a period of time I think every single DC book had a prostitute or a teenage runaway being abused by older men. I do not understand why this happened so often??? Anyway, Mia's fifteen and left an abusive father and met a pimp. She was repeatedly sexually abused and yet she's still sexualized in the art. Every person she comes into contact with mentions her beauty, even the gay man. And then we're shown her sleeping in her underwear. Why was any of this necessary?
On top of that, people don't talk like people? Mia gives a tirade that sounds like a middle aged man trying to write empowering dialogue for a teenage girl. The effort was there but I felt like I was reading a well meaning text book. Then Dinah's line "I'm probably just PMS-ing", you know, like we constantly say things like that as women.
The cherry on top was Ollie's line of "In my experience, when a guy punches you in the face and takes your pants off, he's either hazing you or dating you." Why? Why the implication that gay men subdue their partners? And I got the sense Smith thought he was being progressive with the old guy and Ollie jokingly hitting on him but when Ollie has a"no homo" freakout because the other leaguer's hugged him, that's not progressive. Strangely enough, I read a 1989 comic that featured Roy Harper showing 10x more progressive views on gay men. So, this is all just Smith.
I get the complaints that this book was all dialogue. Normally, something like that really wouldn't bother me... if the dialogue was good. Unfortunately, this is one of those books where I got the sense the writer was so focused on proving how funny they are and not all that concerned with the story.
auntie_social's review against another edition
3.0
Okay, I admit I only bought this book because a) I'm interested in Green Arrow, but mostly as a side effect of being a big fan of Black Canary, and b) because Kevin Smith wrote it. It's not my favorite book ever, but it was certainly entertaining. Especially the Ollie/Hal interactions are well written and interesting.
purplebubblesinmytea's review against another edition
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
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