It was interesting to see Arsenal introduced into the series and for the most part, It wasn't a bad volume. I just think they really flopped hard at the end. It ended in a way that didn't even leave me remotely interested in continuing the story. Volume 4 starts the race with the bang and barely crosses the finish line at the end.

Wow this series is just so pure unapologetically fun. World: The art I love so much. It's the type of art I like that's full of character and emotion. It's awesome. The world building here is fantastic. It's detailed and a great extension of what Percy built since issue 1. This truly feels like a season of television and that's a great thing. The topic of the pipeline...props. Not a lot of books would go head on to that topic but Ollie makes sense to go right into it. Good job. Story: This is ju...

The book starts off by bringing Roy Harper into the fold. Queen industries is trying to put a pipeline through the native American ancestral lands where Roy grew up. A group of right wingers have come into bust the heads of the peaceful protesters. Interspersed is Roy and Ollie's history of how they met and ended things. The art in this is iffy. It's nowhere in the class of the two regulars on the book, Juan Ferreya and Ollie Schmidt.Next up is the burn it all to the ground story where the Ninth...

Green Arrow Vol. 4 The Rise of Star City collects issues 18-25 of the DC Comics series written by Benjamin Percy with art by Juan Ferreyra, Eleonora Carlini, and Mirka Andolfo. The Ninth Circle is throwing Seattle into chaos and destruction with the belief that the city was built on ley lines and trying to create a new Star City.I'm not sure what is with Benjamin Percy's fascination in trying to make Green Arrow a supernatural book. Green Arrow is best when he is the champion of the people and f...

Enjoyable. Some issues were a little too wordy. Hopeuflly this ninth circle arc gets a wrap up soo. The art is still some of the best going around.

Roy Harper is back!!! Honestly, an awesome A+ run of Green Arrow. The artwork is amazing, Arrow Fam is front and center, and that ending actually took me by surprise. 👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good shit go౦ԁ sHit👌 thats ✔ some good👌👌shit right👌👌th 👌 ere👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my selｆ 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠＯOOＯOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good shit

Okay, DC, sort yourselves out. How many versions of this volume are out there? For the purpose of this edition, I will only discuss issues 18-20 and the annual. So let's start. Vol 4 follows Roy Harper, as he returns to the reservation he was raised on to help his brother and the people of the reservation protest peacefully against the construction of a pipeline that is supposed to go through their territory. As history has and still continues to show us, the police look the other way when a mil...

This was good but man oh man, did it get a little too wordy. So first half is mostly about Arsenal and his revamped origins for Rebirth storyline with Ollie. We learn how he became Red Arrow/Speedy but also how he fell into his drug addiction, while also getting a current storyline to help bring the heroes back together. The 2nd storyline is about the four horseman coming to Star city and basically destroying everything important to green arrow. A mixture of superheroish and political warfare be...

Good soup

I never thought I would like the Green Arrow, he always just looked like an annoying rich guy who had nothing better to do than party. But I love the him in these rebirth comics so much that I just can't put these down.

This series feels like a guilty pleasure, and I’m a little annoyed that I like it as much as I did, but here we are. This volume is heavy with liberal politics, as the previous installments were: Green Arrow steps in to help a group of indigenous protesters trying to stop a destructive oil pipeline; a fascist mayor allows Seattle to face literal destruction so it can be completely privatized by an evil corporation. I may be left-reading here, but it felt to me like the politics got a little bett...

Not much storywise, but the ideas behind political takeovers by corporations is interesting.

2.5* that I don't feel like rounding up.A tad better than the previous volumes- not an insurmountable task, mind you- the book still suffers from Benjamin Percy's absence of any writing skills.After introducing Arsenal back in the fray in a not too bad 3-parter-though his over-agressive attitude toward Oliver quickly gets boring-the Star City plotline starts. Nothing mind-blowing but roughly decent once you've admitted the unsubtle evil bankers part. There's action, dark plots uncovered and Seat...

This huge Volume is divided into two large stories.Story #1 - Roy Harper, now known as Arsenal, used to be Speedy, Green Arrow's sidekick. Fans are familiar with Speedy's fall from grace (involving drug addiction, particularly heroin) and the story of it, but flashbacks are mixed here. These glimpses into his past help provide feelings and motivation during the current day plot. Queen Industries is cashing in on an oil pipeline, but there have been protests due to the pipeline needing to divide

[Read as single issues]Before we get to the Rise of Star City, we open with a three parter that reintroduces Roy Harper to the Green Arrow mythos, giving some backstory as to how he relates to Oliver in continuity now and the reasons why he left in the first place. It swerves a little dangerously towards cultural appropriation/adopted white boy tropes, but it's a decent little story with the same political heart as the rest of the book, and a good way to get Roy involved in things going forward....

I'm tired of the Ninth Circle, but as others have pointed out, this all plays like a season of the tv series, circling back to the Big Bad and involving subplots and secondary characters with their own sidestories. I enjoyed seeing Roy Harper's past relationship as Ollie's sidekick given a modest and modern update via flashback, and his interaction with Thea, er I mean Emiko, was fun. I love that no one wants to call her Red Arrow, but I wish she'd get a hooded costume ala the television show, m...

What to do with a failing comic - get even more hyper political and alienate half your audience? Stay classy, DC.

My bottom line with this series? I find it FUN to read, in spite of, and because of, its cheesy puns and banter. There's a self-deprecating over-the-top crunchy liberal script and comical villains, you know, the kind who wear flowing robes and demon masks. The book could be trigger-ey, since basically every type of high-profile terrorist attack we've witnessed in the past decade or two occurs in Seattle as part of the uber villains' plan. I enjoyed learning about Roy's past, and the creators at

Felt a little bit of a mish-mash of shorter stories that didn't flow completely, and the rise of Star city felt slightly rushed, but still good, and we seem to be building towards something now...

I liked this okay but so far the Green Arrow Rebirth series hasn't really done it for me. The Ninth Circle is still trying to take over Seattle, and we find out more about Queen Industries being in the middle of it all. Roy Harper returns and we have the usual friction between team mates. I like the art but don't love it.Overall this is good, but falls short of being very good. I will continue with the series, though.