Green Arrow #2

I wasn't wild about the first issue. Other than the facial hair confusion though, there weren't any glaring problems with the book. Issue #2 one-ups issue #1 though, significantly at that.  Green Arrow is definitely under the radar right now in the New 52, but this book has the potential to be great.

Side-note, last week I learned that writer J.T. Krul would be leaving this series after #3. He's supposedly going to start work on a new project, and between that and Captain Atom and Green Arrow, well, one of them had to be dropped. I'm sad to see you go, Krul. That said, I've heard good things about Keith Giffen, the new writer, so we shall see.

One negative aspect of J.T. Krul's writing, is his lack of development for any characters other than his protagonist for the story, although at least on Teen Titans, that changed from issue to issue. Here, Oliver Queen will always be the protagonist, which leaves little or no development at all for the rest of the cast. There's nothing distinguishing his behind-the-scenes crew from cardboard cutouts of characters.

Green Arrow #1

I'm going to make this clear: I have not read much Green Arrow. Maybe two issues in total. That being said, I really like what I have read, Ollie Queen seems like an awesome dude and I should read some Green Arrow. Somehow I just never got around to it. Also, on a sidenote, the idea for the Green Arrow movie, "Supermax" sounds really cool, where Ollie is stuck inside a Supermax prison with all the criminals he's put away, and he's trying to escape. They need to make that movie.

This comic has ups and downs. I'm going to start with the positives, the art is pretty darn good, Dan Jurgens has always been a solid artist so this is no surprise. Only issue is Ollie's facial scruff is inconsistent. I'm not sure where he was long sideburns, has short ones and is clean shaven, has a permanent five o'clock shadow, basically it looks different in every panel. If you can get past that, you're golden.