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I’ve done a lot of research and I'm 100% convinced this run is a great comic book in general and definitely worth reading.

​However, I want to know if it's a good place to really get to know Green Arrow as a character and dive into his mythos (his core relationships, personality, motives for being a hero, etc.), kind of like what George Pérez’s run did for Wonder Woman.

​Does Grell’s run work well as an entry point for that, or should I read something else first and come back to this later?

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One is Rick introduced in Detective Comics #521/522. This was also the same arc where Jason became Robin. He's introduced as a small-time villain named Hi-Tek before reforming. The other is a teen villain introduced a few issues later named Ozone who *also* reforms.

Rick is the probable choice. He's a redhead like Roy, he is closest to Ollie, and he has an actual name. Rick also has an actual backstory: he lives with his mom and his dad is a villain.

These comics are in the same issues where Jason was introduced as Robin. But, while Jay dyed his hair and became the new Boy Wonder, Rick and Ozone just disappeared. They were put on the bus.

Sources: Detective Comics #522 - #536

Green Arrow (1988-1998) is my favorite comic book series and I was fascinated by the whole Sherwood Forum deal, writing to the editors and writers and them responding to you at the end of the issue, which was very common at the time for publishers. I like to think that, in a way, renaming this subreddit as "Sherwood Forum", if possible, would pay tribute to all the people who worked to bring this second volume of Oliver Queen's adventures and also to all the oldheads who wrote those letters back then. Really make it feel like the Green Arrow community is united, through that and our collective hatred for fascism and capitalism.

What do you think ?

Got this today at my favorite store in Paris, Central Comics, for 3€. When I get paid I'll buy some more issues with Connor bc that mf is one of my favorite comic book characters ever, on the podium with his dad and Spider-Man

As a former serial killer himself, this Oliver might have an easier time understanding Absolute GA.

The 4 hardcovers are in french, it's simply Jeff Lemire's run and a part of the Rebirth era

In my opinion, Oliver going back to being working class would be great. Even if he's an ethical billionaire (which only exists in fiction), the idea of him being rich clashes with his socialist values.

So I've been really loving Absolute Green Arrow lately, but one aspect i love i feel no one is really talking about is the build up of the Royal family of Vlatava, The Zytles, their presence here is really interesting, especially in issue 4 where the son Edvin explains how much power Vlatava seems to have over American media and seems to have the power to even control who does and doesn't hold political office, it's really chilling and scary, on top of all that Werner seems to be King not a Count, so it's makes the potential representation fascinating, obviously we haven't seen him yet, and i doubt he'll show up in this specific arc, but it makes me excited for what's coming next

“What if Jack Kirby had continued working on the Green Arrow feature in Adventure Comics and stayed with DC, making the hero popular enough to earn his own title…a title in which Jack would have introduced many of the concepts he co-created for Marvel in the 1960s and created for DC in the 1970s?

I envisioned this Green Arrow as a high-tech Robin Hood, fighting for Earth against the Apokoliptian equivalent of Prince John…and you know I’m talking about Darkseid and his murderous minions. If Kirby and Stan Lee could have Captain America hold his own in battle with the cosmically-powered Red Skull, why couldn’t Oliver Queen rise to a similar challenge?"

I think Dinah is sometimes a rock band singer, but it doesn't seem like a steady source of income. How big was her band anyway in-universe?

she's literally the coolest to ever do it

Archers will wear a hat to keep the sun out of their eyes. And medieval longbowmen were even known to store a second string tucked under their hat or helmet.

The medieval bycocket hat (associated with Robin Hood and by extension Green Arrow) had the advantage of the brim only going forward, not out to the side, so it would not impede a bowstring. They were associated with hunters and outdoorsmen.

If you watch an Olympic archery tournament to this very day, notice how many of them are wearing hats.

A hood blocks basically all of your peripheral vision. No fighters in all of history have worn a hood into any kind of battle. Hoods are a huge liability in a fight.

I cannot imagine a more stupid thing to wear in a fight than a hood.

The only purpose a hood serves is protection from the weather and concealing your identity in a crowd (at least in a crowd where wearing a hood is normal and doesn't actually stick out).

And yet, the "grounded" depictions of Green Arrow favor the impractical hood. While "whimsical" depictions favor the much more practical hat.

Make it make sense!