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Title: Green Arrow: Quiver by Kevin Smith ISBN: 1-56389-802-0 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (23 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Welcome To The Resurrection
Comment: Unless you have been living under a rock for the past five years or so, you would know that Kevin Smith is one up-and-rising film director and comic book writer. While I've generally enjoyed his films and his comic books quite a bit, I think the attention (worship and adoration is more like it) given him is really a little above what a mortal should be receiving! Seriously, I like the man a lot for his wit and his obvious gift for dialogue. But not all the fawning over him! Check out his View Askew website or any issue of Wizard Magazine for all the endless fawning over the man. Yuck! OK. Having gotten all that out, let me move on to an objective review of his Green Arrow work.
Firstly, we see the writer and artists really having fun with this work. Their obvious joy in turning out the pages are so infectious that you feel it as a reader. This is obviously the work of fans who totally love the title character, Oliver Queen. That's not a bad thing. In fact, I think one of the reasons comic characters grow boring and old is because they are usually assigned to work-for-hire creators who have no more passion for writing the book. Not the case here. Kevin, Phil and Ande loves the book.
The story starts out with a really good "prologue" chapter introducing the dramatis personae (so that even someone with little prior knowledge of Green Arrow can get into the story). Then it hits the reader with a punch in a last page appearance of a haggard, dirty and smelly Oliver Queen (who was believed dead for several years already!). Then we are treated to a Rip Van Winkle take on the character who is slowly trying to piece together his life (he still thinks it's the 1970s!!!). The greatest thing with this story is really the intimate conversations Ollie has with his bewildered friends and family - Hal Jordan, Black Canary, Connor Hawke, Roy Harper, and the JLA. Kevin Smith puts every bit of his genius with dialogue into all these scenes. You'll laugh and cry with the characters. You know they are still comic-book characters but then they are comic-book characters who have grown with you over the years... almost like close friends. This is also the first time I read a "resurrection" story in a comic without feeling cheated.
My one complaint is in the characterization of Mia. She's a 15 year old who was raped by her father and then her "uncle" and then sent out on the streets to be a prostitute. I was expecting the liberal, social-conscious Green Arrow to take up her case and make a big deal out of it (the 1970s Dennis O'Neil version would have). But then we are treated to one rescue scene and in the next chapter, she simply comes across as just another smart-talking girl with no emotional scars at all. I mean, this kind of thing scars a person for life - what more a 15 year-old. It's this kind of writing that makes comic-book lose its "realism" and prevent it from gaining the respect it should garner. I've always thought that while the superhero genre allows all kinds of mind-blowing, out-of-this-world antics, the characterization and emotions and personalities should always be as "real" and "identifiable" as possible. That's what makes fantasy potent - otherwise, it's just unreal nonsense. Maybe Kevin was too caught up with writing all the reunion scenes. Maybe he was putting in too many cameos in the story (the Phantom Stranger appearance is really quite needless). Or maybe he was just having too much fun and didn't want to get into the overtly "dark" themes like child-rape and child-prostitution. I think that would have made a powerful theme, though. Here we have this girl who was abused, and we also have another kid who is abused by the villain of the story for occultic motives and we have Green Arrow, who was never much of a good father himself. These themes could have been tied up together more seriously to make a stronger and more potent story.
Complaints aside. This is really a very good comic-book. And the production values for this hardcover version is the best I've seen so far. Phil Hester and Ande Parks did great work with their slightly cartoony but very energetic art. And Alex Sinclair's colours make everything beautiful here just like he did over on Jim Lee's Batman. Finally, it's a great feeling that Oliver Queen, the original Green Arrow, is alive and well... and in good creative hands.
Rating: 5
Summary: Green Arrow is back
Comment: I had never read a Green Arrow story but I was somewhat familiar with his background history because of his appearances in Batman (who I am a big fan of) and JLA. I always thoguth he was a somewhat predictable supehero suffering from a Robin Hood Complex. I decided to read Quiver just because of Batman's role in the story....and after reading it, I am a Green Arrow fan. The story moves at a right pace with art that perfecly complements it. It begins with Oilver Queen's resurrection and his subsequent "examination" at the hands of batman (which was very entertaining by the way). It is a great story and shows why Green Arrow is an integral part of the DC universe and not just another Robin Hood wannabe superhero.
Rating: 5
Summary: Green Arrow is back from the grave, and better than ever!!
Comment: I've been reading comic books since almost a year ago, and i've got some pretty good ones, i'd have to say; but Green Arrow: Quiver is the best one!!! Ever since i started reading comics i saw Green Arrow comics but thought best not to jump in it, especially since i haven't read the issues before he actually died. I was in Borders before going to movies, and on a quick impulse, i bought it! I started reading it INSIDE THE MOVIE THEATER, and I COULDN'T STOP!!! Even when the lights were turned off and the comercials started, i couldn't stop reading!!! the book had to pried from my hands when the movie started, because i just couldn't stop! I enjoyed the movie, but i ould have enjoyed it more had i not started reading Quiver. Through out, the movie my mind keep racing back to what i had just read and thinking hat ould happen next. i didn't really see the movie, cause i as thinking about Quiver and how much i wanted to keep reading! That night i didn't really sleep, at about two am my mom had to take the book from me and hide it so i would go to bed, but i didn't really sleep cause i as going over the story in my head over and over again, remembering every line, every stupid joke, every scene. though i didn't really like the drawing (i would have enjoyed it a little bit better if the drawings had been more realistic)it didn't bother all that much (though it as hard to get used to)ith hat the story arc being so great!!!
i recomend it, truly. i say buy it, read it, and read it over and over again, just like me! when you begin to read it, you are at once caught up in the drama and situation. i think every should buy it, anyone who's into comics, and even those who don't like comics would appreciate the story. i wasn't drawn to it by the name of the writer (Kevin Smith, God bless him and his writing i was drawn by the Emerald Archer, and Kevin Smith did not dissapiont me, he raised my expectations of great comics. now every time i read the name Kevin Smith as the writer of a comic i jump at it once!
the story is very different from what you get from ordinary comics, but that doesn't mean it will always be remembered. Great story, man. from 1 to 10, i give it 100!!!!
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