I love everything related to The Green Arrow, this story is really well done, the art is great, and this story is a great addition and "rebirth" of a well-known and loved character.

I have really been enjoying Ben Percy’s run on Green Arrow. It is action packed, yet features lots of character development and the stories are very interesting. This series has also been fortunate to have a consistent artist. This is the best Green Arrow series in a long time

After reading this latest installment of the Green Arrow series I'm left with mixed emotions. The positives: the artwork and colours were visually stunning and pleasing to the eyes. The story was quite relevant for our times and the underlining political and social commentary was timely. But at times heavy handed and here in lies the negative aspect as well as a quite predictable and unoriginal story plot.

ARC from Netgalley.
Green Arrow's cred with the city of Seattle is starting to come up. But when police are attacked and citizens are murdered with green arrows, Ollie has to go on the run. A corrupt politician runs and anti-Green Arrow campaign and threats start being assumed by the media as to who's next. When a football player dies while GA is present, people turn on him quickly, until the real culprit is discovered: Malcolm Merlyn, the original Dark Archer.
Add in the natural chemistry between Ollie and Dinah, the return of Emiko (now calling herself Red Arrow), Diggle saving Malcolm at the last moment, and the discovery that Seattle used to be Star City (see next Volume), and you have another well written GA story. This title has really grown on me in the Rebirth Era and I look forward to seeing how it continues to develop.
Recommend with enthusiasm.

Oliver Queen tries to invest a boyhood acquaintance in bringing down the CFO of Queen industries. In the end that failed. But Green Arrow and the gang had other crises to deal with. There was the killing of the homeless and the killing/ wounding of multiple figures with green arrows. They needed to find the archer. After working with the police chief, they found out that the Archer was Ollie's boyhood friend's father. And with the final confrontation with Merlyn, Diggle intervenes and saves Merlyn. That adds more complications to Ollie's life for the next volume.

'Green Arrow, Volume 3: Emerald Outlaw' by Benjamin Percy collects Green Arrow 13-17. Oliver still has no money, but he's still got his makeshift family.

There is a mayoral race in Seattle and one of the candidates wants to ban the Green Arrow. There is a rogue vigilante group called the Vice Squad, and they just want to rid the city of its useless elements. There is also a mysterious archer setting Green Arrow up to turn the city against him. Green Arrow and Black Canary seem to have their hands full this time around.

I live near Seattle and I love how Oliver's Seattle seems so much like mine. There are a lot of familiar landmarks. There are also similar problems. I also like this version of the Green Arrow. He has lost his fortune, but that has seemed to free him up. I like this story with it's politics and set ups. The surprises weren't overly surprising, but the story and the art kept me turning pages.

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.

First off - I found the art in this book really innovative and interesting. It starts out with a news reporter setting the stage and I was immediately sucked in by the artist's style. This was an interesting spin from the typical Green Arrow story line since it was set in Seattle. It worked through with the whole GREEN theme hehe. Overall, I found it very interesting and enjoyed the places where the story paralleled the show about Ollie and also enjoyed where it didn't!

Fantastic! Hal Jordan is back in a big way. Gripping and entertaining storyline. Terrific to eye-popping graphics. Superb coloring. I highly recommend it.

Being part three of an ongoing series that really has no right to be this tedious. He's down, but he's certainly not out - but once again this is a really weak story, with nothing new whatsoever. Have DC really forgotten they've put Ollie in this situation before - struggling to get a reputation and to have people on his vigilante side? Add in some right-wing bashing, just because, and you have a very forgettable read. Seeing as it forces its Seattle setting down our throat on every flipping spread, I'll say that the GA book should be like a Nirvana single, but this ends up like an L7 B-side.

Let's just say that during New 52 I was less than impressed with the Green Arrow books. The character was nothing like what I remembered. I wanted the Emerald archer from the year one books and the wedding album where he gets married to Black Canary. That guy was lost in New 52. Rebirth changed all that and brought back the hero I had been missing.

A big thank you to DC Comics and Netgalley for allowing me to read this for a review. I have really enjoyed this series and can believe all the things DC has done to Oliver Queen. First they took away everything of substance and meaning from Oliver. Next the writers did something I never thought I would see in the pages of a Green Arrow comic. They killed Oliver Queen!!! Of course if you are reading this I am going to assume you have read the previous book or don't care to. Oliver really isn't dead but the villains and the city think he is.

So what's left after taking everything and killing a character? Since Oliver is thought to be dead all that is left is the Green Arrow. Now the writers have made the Green Arrow the most wanted man in Seattle. Someone is out there killing people and making it look like the Green Arrow is the cause of it to ruin the image of hope the city has for it's Emerald Protector.

I loved this story. There is something about watching everything go wrong for Oliver and seeing exactly how he gets out of each situation that is so much fun. I really like how this series ties to the show in a sense that we get some of the same characters. I read Green Arrow before New 52 and don't remember Diggle or some of the other characters that pop up in this book so I enjoy the little crossovers.

This was an action pack ride from the very beginning to the end. We get some closure to the overall story that has been going on in the last 2 volumes but this still very nicely sets up the next volume and what I would guess, is going to be another big story arc. I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

The verdict is still out on Green Arrow with the public. Then someone starts killing people with green arrows. So Ollie has to catch the real killer. While this is going on, there's also a group called Vice Squad who is going around murdering criminals.

The Good: Otto Schmidt and Juan Ferreya make this book look fantastic. Better than it's looked in years. Ollie is returning to his bleeding liberal origins.

The Bad: The story isn't bad, but it's very predictable. I knew exactly where everything was headed as soon as it was introduced.

The Ugly: It's bad enough I have to hear about Trump daily in the news. I don't need Trump-lite running for mayor of Seattle as well.

They're still in Seattle, or more specifically Ollie, Dinah, Henry and Diggle are outside of Seattle making a secret camp in the forest.

A ton is going on in Seattle and basically, all of it is bad. There's a gang calling themselves the 'Vice Squad' that's doing lots of killing. There's Malcolm Merlyn, oh, and the bad guys want to turn Seattle against the Green Arrow and are doing a pretty good job of it I would say.

Also, heh, wonder who the politician Nate is supposed to be a stand in for?

Also, Emi's back. And then there's the end. The stuff with Diggle at the end. Yikes, double yikes.

I was given this ARC by Netgalley on behalf of DC Entertainment.

Green Arrow Vol. 3: Emerald Outlaw is a soundly thrilling Green Arrow story by Benjamin Percy, beautifully illustrated by Otto Schmidt, Juan Ferreyra, and company, and with what so many other comics often lack -- genuine shocks. I finished this book immediately wanting to go see what the next one would be about, and then held back simply to preserve what's already been a great string of surprises. We see here the Rebirth Green Arrow creative team coalescing and coming into their own in grand fashion.

So sweeping is Emerald Outlaw that Benjamin Percy's got Green Arrow fighting a war on two fronts, if not more, both his enemy Cyrus Broderick siccing Malcolm Merlyn on him and Merlyn framing Green Arrow for multiple murders, and also the Vice Squad militia killing Seattle's not-so-guilty. These two stories feed into one another exceptionally well, with Arrow Oliver Queen dealing with his own internal guilt along with external threats, and trying to win the trust of the police at a time his reputation's all but shot. Within these two stories Percy introduces a bevy of new characters who populate the Seattle landscape, and in many ways the world-building of this story makes it feel like Percy's first and not third Rebirth volume.

Green Arrow Vol. 3: Emerald Outlaw doubles-down on the good things in the first volume, The Death and Life of Oliver Queen -- it's got political elements, it has Oliver battling realistic threats -- and gets away from the loftier, esoteric material of the second volume, Island of Scars. Again, seeing the creative team come together here reminds of equally blessed partnerships -- Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins on Flash, Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason on Green Lantern Corps; if Benjamin Percy, Otto Schmidt, and Juan Ferreyra can do this a couple more times, we might just have a classic on our hands. And I only have to wait until November for the next volume ...