![]() ![]() My heart sank every time I turned the page to be confronted with yet another mass of tedious text-filled word balloons to fruitlessly slog through. The pages are overflowing with waffly chatter, little of it interesting, remotely funny, clever, or relevant to what’s happening in the scene. It looks like the DC editors also believed the press about Smith’s sparkling banter because he’s been allowed to go hog-wild with the dialogue here though none of it is worth reading. ![]() I even thought that was an apt comparison though I don’t know whether Smith’s movies like Mallrats or Dogma stand up today as well as the timeless Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction do – I suppose the fact that I’ve been repeatedly drawn back to, and continued to enjoy, Tarantino over the years and become completely indifferent to Smith from my late teens on is an indication that they won’t. I grew up in the ‘90s so I remember Smith being talked about in the same breath as other auteur writer/directors like Quentin Tarantino whose scripts were notable for their snappy dialogue. Ollie Queen’s dead, he’s not dead, he’s sorta dead, there’s another Green Arrow, there’s still another one – who can fucking follow, let alone care?! In TEN absurdly overwritten issues it takes Kevin Smith an age to get around to producing anything resembling a story and when he does it’s somehow even more boring than the meandering nothing that preceded it. Kevin Smith followed up Green Arrow: Quiver with Green Arrow: Sounds of Violence which wrapped up his run on the series.Snootchie motherlovin’ bootchies, what a fucking shitshow the first volume of Silent Bob’s Green Arrow was! It is a light, fun look at a character that needs to be light and fun, but he also still needs some bite. I don’t always love Kevin Smith’s stuff, but his Green Arrow does work. This rights the wrong of having him initially killed and brings back the lighter (aka non-’80s and ’90s) Green Arrow. This also permits the completion of Green Arrow’s return and having Ollie official rejoin the DC Universe. This is a fun, retro story and also has ties to Neil Gaimen’s famous The Sandman comic. The series is rounded out by a throwback to the old DC cartoon character Stanley and his Monster. It also allows for a reunion for his buddy Hal Jordon who is now the Spectre and smartly gets around the Parallax/Green Arrow awkwardness with a fresh start approach. This segues into the whole Hollow storyline which explains how he is alive. It first re-introduces Green Arrow and then goes into the mystery of how he is missing the ten years before he died. His work on Daredevil: Guardian Devil was ok, but I think Green Arrow was pretty decent. Kevin Smith was already starting to wear thin (in my opinion) by the time he was handed Green Arrow. The replacement Green Arrow (Connor Hawke) wasn’t bad but he was no Ollie. I always liked the Green Arrow and despite being a Marvel reader, I would casually read the solo Green Arrow series. The series was relatively well-received and also collected in Absolute Green Arrow by Kevin Smith which featured his entire run. Written by Kevin Smith and illustrated by Phil Hester, Green Arrow: Quiver is Kevin Smith’s follow-up to his run on Marvel’s Daredevil. As the world learns Green Arrow is back, Oliver is about to learn the cold hard truth and must find out how he survived the explosion or if he really did. Killed in a plane explosion, Oliver cannot possibly be alive, but he is and no one has told him that he isn’t supposed to be. Oliver saves a girl named Mia and sets out on his normal crimefighting in the city, but Oliver doesn’t know he’s dead. Waking up with amnesia and found by a man named Stanley, Oliver finds everything seems…off.
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