I can't believe this is my favorite Rebirth book, but here we are. Percy has a great hand with the characters and their dialog. The stories, especially the one focusing on Emi, are quite good. Nothing ground breaking, sure, but fun, with great action. And the art is still fantastic. This is just a book that looks great.

Gonna be honest didn't really like the chapters with Emiko because she kind of bothers me, so I kind of just skimmed hers as fast as possible, but getting back to the Arrow X Canary chapters!? DAYUM! Hawt! Bitch! THIS! IS! WHY! I! CAME! HERE! TODAY!The chapters flowed, each scene progressed quickly and transitioned so well, It kept the tension high, and I appreciated that. This is definitely a series I will be paying closer attention to because it has engaging characters and it actually keeps me...

A visual treat and a action packed thrill ride. First I have to say the artist team on this book did an outstanding job. The visuals on this book are amazing. The lighting and shading effects are done well. The colors are extremely done well in this series. To me the underwater train panels were like nothing I have seen recently in comics. Green Arrow, Volume 2 for DC rebirth feels like an adventure in the vain of Romancing the Stone or a James Bond film. Oliver Queen's sassy humor and wit are h...

I requested Green Arrow Volume 2 before reading Volume 1 otherwise I wouldn’t have requested it - that first book is DIRE! But I’m glad of my impetuousness (for once!) as Island of Scars turned out to be miles better than the first volume and not a bad comic considering Rebirth’s overall quality! The book is divided up into three stories which get progressively better as they go along. Unfortunately, the first, featuring Ollie’s half-sister Emi, is definitely the worst. She’s a cheap Damian Wayn...

Muah muah muah, I love you Dinah, oh not as much as I love you mr queen. HahahahahhaSo there are 2 arcs in this, the first was about clock king or at least I think that’s clock king and emiko queen and shado, while the second was about an island with a tribe delivering heroin from Shanghai to Seattle on a train and Ollie, Dinah and Diggle have to stop it. The story is really good and the art is amazing (drawn by Otto Schmidt).This book wasn’t as good as the first but was still really good, I jus...

Green Arrow Vol. 2 Island of Scars collects issues 6-11 of the DC Comics series written by Benjamin Percy and art by Steohen Byrne, Juan Ferreyra, and Otto Schmidt. After the events of Vol. 1, Green Arrow, Black Canary, and Diggle find themselves back on the island Olliver Queen was stranded on and discover that the Ninth Circle have roots settled on the island. A pretty generic story that seemed more focused on setting up a large action piece later in the volume than the story or making much se...

3 story arcs, all a little different. The art is still great and I'm still enjoying the Green Arrows world. Probably not as good as Volume one but still had a blast reading this.

So ridiculous but oh so fun!World: I like the art, I like Otto's art better but this is still really good. I like the characters, so full of life and personality. The sense of motion? Great. The splash pages? Great. The world building here is solid, it's over the top very 007 in it's world view and villains but man is it ever a fun world to be a part of. Doesn't make sense but man its fun. Story: The Emiko story was good, I liked that Percy spent time on her and gave her side. The pacing for tha...

This volume has three stories. One featuring Emiko and Shado taking on the Yakuza with flashbacks to a story with Emiko and Ollie. Another with Ollie, Dinah, and Digg on the island. And a story on an underwater transpacific train.I don't think I'm ever going to love Ben Percy's writing. He has these action beats he's trying to hit and doesn't care about explaining how we get there even if it doesn't make any sense. It's like the X Games version of writing. All flash and no substance. How did Emi...

A 3.5, the storyline doesn't provide a consistent quality and certain plot points feel like retreads. The series is so much better than the new 52 take on the character, that is a huge compliment. The Arrow is a great character and deserves a better arc for the next chapter. The rebirth started strong before falling into melodramatic storytelling, I just want more action as this series has been delivering on a darker Queen version that clicks together well.

Enjoyable but little to disjointed for me. This volume contains 3 different arcs. First was all about Emi. Second about the island. Third about Canary, Diggle, and Oliver on a moving train filled with people and an assassin trying to kill an important figure. Emi's story arc was fun at first but kind of a letdown. I love her character, she's badass and awesome fighter. However they didn't do her justice here. Just a lot of backstabbing and silly fights that really added to nothing. This felt lik...

Gosh, what an ordeal that was.I've read lousy comics over the years and then some but Benjamin Percy's reach historic heights! The guy really plays his audience for morons and delivers pathetic plots full of holes, incoherences and dumb tricks. First two issues are on Queen's half sister Emi, a character I'd had never heard of before Rebirth and that I hate already. During the course of a miserable story involving an improbable engineer who designed a watch that kills its owner if not wound up-y...

A lot of fun, especially the undersea train sequence! I love the smiling, social justice warrior Oliver Queen drawn by Juan Ferreyra and Otto Schmidt. And of course the Black Canary is badass as always. Glad to see her rock star days still get a mention. The stories move with a quick clip. "We're back!"

I couldn't really get into this. When the best story isn't even about Green Arrow and there is an entire issue devoted to Green Arrow and Black Canary rolling around on a beach, something has gone wrong somewhere.

This was marginally better than the last volume. I quite enjoyed that one but it wasn't super impressive. This one is a bit more cohesive, the storyline is more interesting, and there's a bit more of the Dinah I know and love in it.This one starts with the end of Emiko Queen's story with her mother. It features a flashback to a villain using pacemakers to control children and, later, Oliver. It was a pretty cool plot though it confused me because it seems Percy can't make up his mind about wheth...

Green Arrow, Volume 2: Island of Scars is a collection of books that don't run together and are instead more in the mode of a collection of individual tales and not all where Green Arrow is the main focus. In this volume is also an appearance by The Black Canary, not the kiddie pop version we are currently seeing wander in and out of Batgirl comics, but the real Canary. Here, she is not Barbara Gordon's singing sidekick, no here, she is a sensuous and deadly woman. This is the real Black Canary,...

3.5 starsVol. 2 opens with a story centering on Emiko and Shado, with a villain whose methods for control over rich Seattle teens were not very well explained - my interest almost immediately started waning. I think Emiko is a good character, but she was not necessarily well served by this section.However, things rebounded once the remainder of Vol. 2 began to focus on Arrow / Canary / Digg after they were thrown into the Pacific at the end of the previous volume. That section began to hum along...

Weeeeeell, this is a strange one...Three stories in one:- Clock King .. not even worth mentioning.. sucky story :(- then we go back to the island where Ollie stranded in Vol.1 ... pretty fun, but still not the best- Luckily we get a good, fast action, thrilling last chapter where Ollie, Dinah and Dig try to prevent some diplomats from being offed.All in all a fun book but definitely not the best GA book out there.. A solid 3*, with some great artwork in there ;)

A little inconsistent but overall a fun title so far.

[Read as single issues]After the explosive first arc of Rebirth's Green Arrow, we get three smaller stories that build to get the Arrow family home after being shipwrecked on an island at the end of the last volume (Oliver has no luck with islands).First is a two part Sins Of The Mother story that focuses on Emiko as she deals with the fact that her mother's not actually very nice. This is paired with flashbacks to one of her first solo adventures against the Clock King, and is beautifully penci...