There’s a cop character that I’m guessing is a big part of the show as we see his daughters deal with bullying at school. There’s the origin story of an Asian girl with white hair (no clue who she is), as well as the origin of Diggle, a former soldier, who I know is a character on the show, but that’s all I know about him. I think the idea of the comic is to read this in conjunction with the TV series and that’s why a number of them went over my head. The stories are instantly forgettable and throwaway: Ollie defeats corrupt businessmen and stops various suicide bombers from detonating (yup, there’s more than one here - imagination!). Also, while Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg and Mike Grell are credited on the cover, there are a few dozen writers/artists contributing work here. There’s no arc connecting them, they’re just random shorts featuring Arrow/Ollie Queen and various characters. The format of this volume is 19 short stories roughly ten pages in length collected together - given that length they were probably digitally released originally. I must’ve been sleep-requesting on Netgalley because I have no idea why I’d say I wanted to read this book - I don’t watch the Arrow TV show and I’m not even that big a fan of Green Arrow as a character! Anyways, I said I’d review it, so here goes.
