Green Arrow Vol. 2: Island of Scars (Rebirth)

Writer Benjamin Percy and artist Otto Schmidt bring Green Arrow together with dynamic heroine Black Canary to deliver a layered and impactful storyline. With fun action and exceptional plot points this continuation of the Rebirth continuity of Green Arrow is a must have and has a sense of finalism that will allow readers to jump off early without forcing them to slog on through multiple volumes. That being said its such an interesting read you'd be a fool not to continue after this.

The story follows on exactly where the first volume ended. The art is stunning and again some of the best I've ever seen, if you enjoyed volume 1 you will enjoy this, if you haven't read either but you are interested in reading green arrow I highly recommend both. For me it's probably the best title to come out of rebirth so far.

A birthday gift much loved by 16 yr old request

Bought as a gift but he loved it.

The second volume covers the end of the first arc and leads on to a pretty fun arrow/canary team up. No real mention of anything rebirth specific yet so this book stands alone really well. Loving the banter and fast pace action layouts. I think they could be onto a really good thing here.

Green Arrow (2016-) Vol. 2: Island of ScarsGreen Arrow (2016-) Vol. 2: Island of Scars  collects issues #6-#11 of this Rebirthed series, which, for me anyway, still seems to be struggling to find something or other, The New 52 series started off appallingly badly, got better, then lost direction again, and is still trying to find it.The scripting and characterisation don’t work for me at all with the current writer, though the artist at least knows what he is doing. Maybe if the writer wrote less and let the art carry more of the story it would help.The stories/plots themselves also swing from small and human to big and, well, out of scale. The writer seems to be writing what he thinks a comic book should be, rather than taking the characters and writing what flows from that.I am old enough to remember when the Green Arrow was a back-up feature/character, until Mike Grell made him a star in his own right, but he made the stories fit the character, not the other way round. This writer manages to do good stories every now and then, but then they seem to get away from him. This is still not a Green Arrow that I find entertaining.