GREEN ARROW #13

Projectiles

August 2011

Written by James Patrick

Pencils by Agustin Padilla

Inks by Agustin Padilla

Cover by Josh Middleton

Synopsis

Years ago… Oliver Queen (aka Green Arrow) projected firing arrows into cadavers to learn what an arrow did to the human body.  Now…Federal Marshall Haley Donovan asks Green Arrow to help provide security for a prisoner transport.  As expected, the prisoner’s men attempt a break out.  Green Arrow tries to stop it, but the only way to do that is to kill the prisoner, something he refuses to do.  However, he is determined to go after him. 

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

This was actually a fairly decent story, if not for the first page (which doesn’t really make much sense) and for the whole flashback thing to the experiments with the cadavers, which doesn’t really have much of an impact to the issue at all.  Maybe it will mean something in a subsequent part of the story, but for the moment, for this particular issue, it seemed out of place.  This is especially true when you realize that Ollie was mostly aiming at people who were wearing armored suits.  Anatomy doesn’t really play a part in it.  That moment when Ollie realizes he can’t shot someone through head didn’t have to rely on the thing with cadaver.  However, that nitpick aside, I liked the issue, I though the villain’s religious fervor was strangely compelling and the callback to the death of Prometheus (and the Marshall’s reasoning for picking Ollie) was intriguing.  If the rest of the issue had been structured a little better, I think it would’ve been a winner. 

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