Green Arrow 67 Review (Spoilers aplenty)

[Slumber Hulk]

Brief Synopsis (Nothing but spoilers):
GA's training continues on the Island with Natas, the master assassin who trained Deathstroke. Their training is initialy sparing (showing a good progression from GA being totally pwned to getting in some good shots on his trainer) then moves to Surprise Attack (always be on guard) then to stalking/hunting your prey. All of this with the background of 1) Conner starting to worry about GA "crossing the line" by being trained by an evil assassin and 2) Star City being messed up during OYL. Eventually, Natas leaves, and leaves us the cliffhanger of him sending an army of assassins to kill Green Arrow.

Well, I enjoyed it. I like that GA has been getting more training. He seems to be in a grey area regarding using "evil" tactics for "good" purposes. I think Natas really hits him where it hurts before he leaves revealing that GA's business practices, although altruistic (hustling money from defense contractors), end up putting regular people out of jobs. Natas poses the question, if you are good can you truly win if you aren't prepared to go all the way and have no guilt?

I think GA will rise to the challange heroicly.

[Taskmaster]

I'm looking forward to seeing Ollie, Connor, Mia and the rest of their crew against this army of assasins, but I do wish that there were some familiar faces amongst either side, maybe Bronze Tiger, Richard Dragon or Deadshot on Ollie's side or Bane, Black Spider or Zeiss on the opposing army

[Jack]

Great issue, I thought. I like how it's still clearly Ollie, despite all the changes.

"Tuckman... You said you did a lot of political operative work before you sold out and went corporate, right?"

"Yes. I'm pretty sure I didn't describe it as "selling out and going corporate," but before that I..."

[the4thpip]

I haven't read these issues, but it sounds very similar to what Black Canary experienced OYL in BoP.

[Damo]

Yup, which is something I don't care for. EVERYBODY is Kung Fu Fighting. I liked Ollie as Robin Hood with exploding arrows. He stood out from the crowd with all their ninjary. Now... not so much, alas.

I'd like this story a lot more if it wasn't Green Arrow, to be honest. =/


I also agree with the call for "more familiar faces" among the martial artists, but not the ones mentioned for the good guys.

Deadshot's kinda busy with Secret Six stuff during the 52 period, and Bronze Tiger and Richard Dragon... this stuff ain't their bag, man. If Ollie was having a crisis of self, not knowing who he was, then I could see him learning from Richard. But Richard doesn't hand out lessons to anyone wanting to kick butt, they're for people that have lost their way. Meanwhile Tiger's lessons are pretty much for troubled kids, which works well with his past.

But no "known faces" at all is just LAZY. Zeiss and Black Spider would work for the enemy army, along with folks like Shrike, Lady Vic, Brutale, and Tigress. Blazes, just pull out a stack of Dixon books and take your pick of people to put in.

And Ollie knows ONYX, a gal so kickass that she can spar with Cassandra Cain! Maybe Natas is meant to be better, but she was League of Assassins, she knows dirty, and she's a high ranked butt-kicker. She really should have been helping Ollie out.

[Damo]

So, what week did we say was the start of Green Arrow's big grueling training exercise?

Because it's week 24, the year isn't even half over, and he's apparently already back and starting his election campaign.

And at least some of the time he was gone he had to spend getting better from having an arrow go through his heart.

Man, he must have gotten some great training.:rolleyes:

[90'sCartoonMan]

Let's not forget he was helping Ralph track down that cult a month(?) back. And the last arc in Green Arrow happened after Infinite Crisis.

Wow, Ollie couldn't have been training for more than two months, three if you want to be generous.

Is possible he went back to Star City to run for mayor and still continued to train there?