"THE CHILDREN OF VAHKAR" part one! Following a hellish year in Seattle, Oliver Queen heads to the war-torn city of Vahkar to use his considerable resources to help its starving citizens. But Oliver soon finds himself in over his head when he discovers that Vakhar is being run by a mysterious new warlord known as NOTHING...and all the town's children have gone missing. Oliver Queen can't save the children of Vakhar...but can Green Arrow?
Marcio Takara does the art on this issue, and it is perfectly suited to the tale. Grim and gritty, Green Arrow is placed into a wasteland of ruins, and all of the characters look like they have seen better days. One can feel the dirt and sweat on all of the characters. Read Full Review
GREEN ARROW #39 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Marcio Takara, and Marcelo Maiolo features the main character trying to help a Middle Eastern country ravaged by war. There Oliver discovers bigger threats, including a gang of children that have taken over the area. Read Full Review
Green Arrow was one of the most consistent Rebirth titles so I was leery of the new creative team coming on board. This first issue is promising and suggests theres plenty of reasons to be excited about the new Green Arrow creative team. Read Full Review
Green Arrow #39 is a promising first step for the new creative team, capturing the adventure mixed with political commentary that makes a truly great Green Arrow story. Takara and Maiolo bring some impressive talent to the table too. This one gets a recommendation. Pick it up. Read Full Review
All in all, I am glad I jumped back on Green Arrow. The new creative team is delivering a very interesting story. Green Arrow is fighting against a new villain in Nothing and by the end of Green Arrow #39, the emerald archer is in some deep trouble.Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly create a good jumping on point for new readers and start this new story off with a bang, whileMarcio Takara andMarcelo Maiolo deliver some superb artwork. I hope the bi-weekly schedule does not throw Takara off of Green Arrow for the next issue. But, the story is interesting enough in its own right to hold me for another issue at least. Read Full Review
Fans who have fallen in love with Green Arrow's Rebirth run will hopefully enjoy where this issue is taking things. Read Full Review
The art was good in this issue. It helped the war torn towns look their part and gave awesome visuals to the last fight scene. Read Full Review
It's perfectly readable, but it's trying for a lot of the same social commentary as Priest's Justice League and Deathstroke. It's just not nearly as smooth about it. Read Full Review
This issue is fine. There's a lot of potential and good ideas. The art is solid. Ultimately, it doesn't do much for me but I am still curious to see where it goes. Read Full Review
This was a boring issue and it should be skipped. It's clear this is just nonsense filler work so you'd best save your money until the Bensons and Fernandez jump on. The story is paper thin boring, and the art is even weak. Read Full Review
I realize this issue is a placeholder to get to the Benson's run this summer, but it doesn't have to read so much like one. The story is cliched, the situation is over-explained and yet under-explained at the same time and while I liked the art, I would suggest you skip this. Read Full Review
Green Arrow #39 does not negate Percy's work on Green Arrow. It would be giving the creative team far too much credit to suggest they were even capable of that. Green Arrow #39 does stand, however, as a stark reminder of the sorts of comics that made DC Rebirth necessary in the first place. Read Full Review
Overall this was a very mediocre and dissapointing issue altogether, which sucks because it had some really good ideas but not enough time to really make these ideas work. This arc very much feels like the filler that it is until the new creative team takes over but they still could have put more effort into it. Read Full Review
I seem to be in the minority that wasn't that big on Percy's run (at least not enough to support it for 50 consecutive issues) so this was refreshing in a way. This is a very temporary team, but I like the direction they took the series. I like that the politics in this issue actually make sense in a real world environment, as opposed to Percy's run, where the stories are political simply because the villains are libertarians.
The dialogue in this issue, especially at the beginning, is a bit awkward. I'm not a big fan of the art, which was great with the last creative team. Oliver makes some weird facial expressions that make him look inhuman.
Overall, this was a solid Green Arrow comic.
New creative team, new direction, same old Oliver Queen with a bleeding heart, that just wants to help.
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