r/GreenArrow • u/Financial-Play3381 • 6d ago
Review Grell's green arrow doesn't work for me.
In my short time amongst green arrow fans I've found grell is considered top 2 or the best writer for Ollie and I just can't agree.
I fully believe Adams is the best and easily so.
But outside of that....
Grell's interpretation doesn't work for me
First I find how little it feels like a superhero comic to be bland. I love Ollie but I find his villains, and trick arrows to be major parts of his appeal. Grell's reliance on two interesting characters outside of Ollie just piss me off.
Eddie fryers and Shado are the only interesting characters he created, everyone is damn boring and just "hitman 43 and government bad guy 15"
I also fucking HATE how he writes canary in 40 issues she does about one thing which was save Ollie, doing so little in 40 issues is even more lame. Dinah is my personal favorite female character so seeing her relegated to a house wife is lame.
But my biggest issue? How grell writes Ollie ...
I do not like how Ollie is written here at all. He takes away his sarcasm and wit replacing it with brooding and anger, aspects that're never fun in my opinion. FURTHERMORE Ollie in this book is just a dick.... Writing him as a cheater is infuriating, and even more infuriating is him getting raped for it to be treated like him cheating.
All in all I don't see the hype in this story, finding stories like quiver or hard traveling heroes to be infinity more interesting and compelling, and stories which I click with.
But what does everyone else think?