A solid trade that any fan of DC Comics can pick up and enjoy. Rebirth continues to be just that for DC and a breath of fresh air for the superhero genre.

Brings back the spirit of Green Arrow that was found in the classic runs of Denny O'Neil, Neal Adams and Mike Grell

ARC from Netgalley.
3.5 Stars
I've never been much of a Green Arrow reader (or watcher for that fact) but with Rebirth, I thought I would give this title a fair shot. I'm not disappointed, though it would have been slightly better had I known a bit more of Ollie's history.
Rebirth brings back the team of Green Arrow and Black Canary, both as teammates and lovers. They seem to compliment each other very well, and the playful banter is nice. But all is not well... The Ninth Circle, a cult and terrorist group of sorts is trying to take down Queen Industries from the inside. While they do have masked and undercover agents like QI's CFO, most of these guys are "The Burned", an army of homeless people who have been converted both physically (seriously gross, like worse then the Cryptkeeper) and psychologically by their leader Dante.
Factor in a "faked death" by Green Arrow, a seemingly traitorous sister, and a chaotically evil looking ocean fortress called "The Inferno", and you have a nice ride of a graphic novel. Cliffhanger ending, but that's to be expected, that leaves Ollie alone on an island. What's his next step? Move on to Volume 2....
Recommend.

I found this, just OK. I liked that they finally brought Black Canary around. However, I don't like that they aged Emi up to a teenager. She's a much cooler character as a 7 or 8 year old. My problem with this book is that's there's way too much in it. The Underground Men, the Burned, and The Ninth Circle are all introduced and thrown away by the end of the book. If you're going to set up this evil, globe encompassing group, keep them the main focus for an extended period leading up a big confrontation a year or two from now. Ollie gets left for dead, loses his money and reputation, gets an opportunity to get it back, and throws it all away in a couple of issues. Some better pacing would do this series a lot of good. Everything doesn't need to be resolved in a single page. If you weren't wild about the previous 2 GA books, this one isn't going to change your mind.

'Green Arrow Vol. 1: The Death and Life of Oliver Queen' by Benjamin Percy with art by Otto Schmidt delivers what the title states, so hopefully that's not a spoiler.

Oliver Queen returns to Seattle. In his role helping the people of Seattle, he finds that the homeless are being preyed on by ghastly looking beings that seem to be burned. It ties in to his very fortune and family. Before he knows it, he is betrayed by those closest to him, and murdered.

But that's not the whole story. He now finds himself without his fortune, but he still has friends and he wants to solve the mystery of the organization that has taken his wealth to use for evil purposes.

I've always liked that Green Arrow is set in Seattle, and I appreciate that they get so many of the details right. It's good to see Black Canary back in the picture, and I look forward to seeing what Green Arrow's sister Emi will do in future issues.

The writing is good and the art is pretty good as well. The book includes some character, and cover sketches. Also included is a cover gallery with art by Green Arrow legend Neal Adams.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from DC Entertainment and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

This is not the Green Arrow of old, and not the green arrow of the TV show. And I like that. Some characters are still alive while others may fight for the wrong side, but it works. I want the next volume please.

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Oliver Queen is a socialite playboy who is the CEO of Queen Industries. While he leaves the company in the trusted hands of his CFO, he is a philanthropic do-gooder. As he glides through the dark streets of Seattle as Green Arrow, his legacy of charity bears his name. The children’s hospital, the homeless shelter, and a home for battered women.

While there is all this good happening in the city, Queen is having an internal struggle with the pursuit of justice. The surprise, but welcomed, encounter with Black Canary, the pop star superhero with lungs to kill, only fuels Arrow’s struggle.

when you are the man?” This question embodies the struggle Green Arrow faces. Especially after learning an evil underground bank has been using his money so fund sinister acts.sWhat Oliver Queen must do is a take a long look at himself; sis leadership; and his decisions. Every decision has a consequences that affects other people. In his pursuit of justice, Queen must first start with himself. Which maybe why we find him stranded on a deserted island.

Oliver Queen is the Green Arrow. Oliver is trying in to fight "the man" but he is also the man with the large fortune. Oliver and the Black Canary become aware of a problem in Seattle. He is searching the persons who are making the homeless women and children disappear. They are being sold on the black market. Who are these people? Why are they doing this?

The art work is great. The book starts off with an action scene grabbing my interest. The characters, story line and themes are fascinating. This is definitely a fun read. It reminds me of the original Green Arrow comics. There is an interesting conversation between Green Arrow and Black Canary about wealth isn't always the solution or is it?

Same old, same old – Green Arrow comes back to life, finds his companies doing dodgy things behind his back and people not liking his sociopolitical attitude, so goes on the rampage to clear his name. Yawn. Not so much a rebirth but a reprint. And the artwork really isn't up to scratch – never has Black Canary looked so meh as here.

From the publisher: The way the Emerald Archer lives his life will change forever, as Green Arrow is betrayed by those closest to him!

A budding relationship with Black Canary forces Ollie to confront the fact that you can't fight "the man" if you are "the man." And one by one, all of his friends leave him, and all the money in the world won't bring them back when he needs them most. The events of "The Death and Life of Oliver Queen" will rattle Oliver's status quo so much, his choices as a superhero will never be the same again.

DC Universe: Rebirth continues with this fresh take on GREEN ARROW from horror novelist Benjamin Percy and rising star artist Otto Schmidt! Collects GREEN ARROW: REBIRTH #1 and GREEN ARROW #1-5.

Green Arrow Vol. 1: The Death and Life of Oliver Queen, by Benjamin Percy, is the first collection of Green Arrow comics under the Rebirth banner. Oliver is at home in Seattle, where he is the face of Queen Industries and also the Green Arrow. He's got a pretty good relationship with his younger half-sister, and he's just begun a relationship with Black Canary, aka Dinah Lance. He even saved a group of homeless people from the Underground Men, a group of human traffickers. Along the way, he discovers that there is a much larger group working behind the scenes: The Ninth Circle. What they do, how they attack Green Arrow, and several betrayals form the basis of this book.

I didn't read any of the New 52 Green Arrow books, so I'm not really sure how this version differs, if at all. However, I do watch Arrow, and this seems to be an attempt to bring the comic and tv show in line a bit. Oliver has a half-sister, Emiko, who fights crime with him, Dinah Lance has joined him to fight as Black Canary, and John Diggle also makes an appearance, as does Shado. Additionally, there is a back-to-basics approach to this story that seems reminiscent of Arrow. None of these are bad things; in fact, I found this book to be entertaining and fast-paced. Percy does a good job with the characterization, particularly with Oliver Queen's more liberal, social justice seeking aspects, which have long been a part of this comics. It also has a nice reflection on the dichotomy of a rich playboy passing himself off as a hero for the common man. As far as the villains, the Ninth Circle was serviceable but seemed to function more as a foil for resetting Oliver Queen's life.

While a good read, Benjamin Percy's Green Arrow Vol. 1: The Death and Life of Oliver Queen works more as the opening arc in a much bigger look at who Green Arrow is and what his mission will be. I found it fun and highly readable. It should appeal to fans of the comic version of Green Arrow as well as fans of the show Arrow. It is also a great jumping on point for new fans. I highly recommend it.

I received a preview copy of this book from DC Comics and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I have been waiting so long for Rebirth and then it finally comes out and I not only have no time to read but I hit the biggest reading funk I have been in in forever. I bought Rebirth #1 the one shot special and have not had a chance to read it. This is my first book since Rebirth and I loved it. Thanks to Net Galley and DC Comics I was able to read and review this.

I have had the DC All Access app on my phone and it is one I open almost daily. I remember reading an article title. Oliver Queen is DEAD!!! and nearly fell out of my chair. How can you start off an event called Rebirth with killing off one of your bigger characters? I had to read this and was so excited when my approval came through.

This book takes us back to the Green Arrow before New 52. I read one or two books of New 52 and really didn't like what Oliver Queen had become. This is back to the Oliver Queen I have known and loved. The book begins with homeless people being kidnapped and sold to this group of rich power crazed people trying to take over the city and then more. While looking into these missing homeless people he runs into none other than Black Canary. This made me very happy to see them back at odds and back in each other's arms. Yes I'm a bit of a romantic and I love seeing these to characters as a couple. We also get to see John Diggle right along side Oliver in this book. I don't remember him being a character in the series before New 52 and I didn't read enough of New 52 to know if he was in there. I do know I really like the character in the show Arrow and I was thrilled to see him in this story helping Oliver after knocking the snot out of him.

This book was great and I can't wait for volume 2. This is a series I am going to keep up with and I am so glad to have a good Green Arrow Story line. I give this book 5 out of 5 stars and hope the rest of this series is just as good.

This volume of Green Arrow is somewhat of a mixed bag. I liked Black Canary, Diggle, and Ollie's unwavering sense of justice. However, Oliver Queen seemed to experience way too many setbacks in such a short time. I'm interested in how things turn out in the long run and how Green Arrow's story fits into the larger Rebirth narrative. Recommended.

**I received this book free from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.**

This was a surprising win for me. If I was basing my review on just issue 1, this would be a skip, but it gets much better!

My knowledge of Oliver Queen and Green Arrow is extremely limited, at least comic book wise. I’ve never read a Green Arrow book, although I have seen 3 seasons of the television show, Arrow. So throughout parts of this book I was a little confused.

The Death and Life of Oliver Queen collects issues 1-5 of the DC Universe Rebirth. In this collection Oliver has returned to Seattle and learns about a large amount of missing people cases that he must get to the bottom of immediately. Together with his half-sister Emiko and Black Canary, he begins to uncover an even greater threat… And it’s coming from his own company!

Overall the plot is very repetitive and predictable BUT if you’ve never read a comic book or watched a comic book movie (*cough* IRON MAN *cough*) then you might be surprised throughout parts of these issues. I’m only thinking about Iron Man because I just rewatched it last week. (Thank you, Hulu!)

It took me a couple of issues to get into this story and to really learn about who THIS Oliver Queen was going to be and at issue 4, I started to really enjoy it. I’m so grateful I was given access to this volume, because otherwise I might not have read it. And the ending to the collection makes me want to track back and pick up the next issues and start picking it up as it comes out.

The most enjoyable part for me was Black Canary. I loved her. She was honest and true and so in control that I found it hard not to see her as more experienced than anyone else in this comic. I love the team up between her and Oliver and I’m interested to see where that goes in the next volume. There was a great part when Oliver is so happy to see her kicking ass, it’s perfect. I loved it so much.

As for Emiko and her mother Shado, I didn’t get that great of an impression of them. They are characters I don’t think I’ve ever read about so I wasn’t really sure how to take some of their actions in this comic. I’m interested to learn more, but I’m not holding my breath.

Do I think you should add Green Arrow to your pull let? I have no idea. I’m not going to… Yet.

Do I think you should read Green Arrow Volume 1? You should give it a shot. It wasn’t a waste of my time and I did enjoy it. I have a hard time saying no to Black Canary, so I’ll take what I can get.

This is my first foray into the Rebirth comics, I have a bunch more to read before I can really tell what I think of the reboot as a whole and where Green Arrow stacks up in comparison.

Does this feel like New 52 to you?

Let me know what you think of Green Arrow and if it is on your pull list, let me know if I should add it to mine.

Oliver has his story retold in this kick off of Rebirth. I liked the familiar background story with new story line. Black Canary is always a plus in my book. . Great story with eye catching art work.

Benjamin Percy's first Rebirth volume, Green Arrow Vol. 1: The Death and Life of Oliver Queen, starts out with a lot of promise ... I like the dynamic Percy has set up among the cast and the end of this volume has an interesting hook. Otto Schmidt's art looks like nothing else DC Comics is publishing right now, cartoony and detailed and smart, and all in all it makes for riveting reading.

This may not be a Black Canary or Green Arrow origin story exactly, but it's definitely a Black Canary and Green Arrow relationship origin story (Woo!). The story starts and we get rebooted sorta, at least to the point where they meet for the first time. We get to read about their burn hot and bright and is anything but perfect relationship all over again. Awesome.

There were also some new characters while Ollie's life goes crazy and he goes up against something called the Ninth Circle, like the character of Henry. But there are some familiar and familiar-ish faces too, like John Diggle (although he in the comic reality isn't quite the same character as in the TV show). We see Shado and Emi from pre-Rebirth too.

Overall I liked what they did with Green Arrow and Ollie. I wasn't the biggest fan of the New 52 Green Arrow, so we'll see how this one goes.

I was given this galley through Netgalley on behalf of DC Entertainment.

DC is doing it again! Relaunching their universe and bring out a whole string of new #1 issues. In this particular case, Oliver Queen gets his life story retold in part. At the beginning of the tale, he is rich and moonlighting as a super hero when he runs into Black Canary and teams up with her to aid a boy who lost his mother. This leads to his discovery of treachery in his company and home life with multiple attempts on his life. And of course he gets marooned on The Island at the end of the volume. Why not something more original?