Some thoughts about Green Arrow #6

Who is trying to keep the Green Arrow family apart?

Ollie has been lost in different timelines and realities and all of this because someone just wants to make him suffer and is about time he realizes what is truly important in his life.

Okay, this was a decent enough chapter despite that is not what I consider ideal.

Joshua Williamson basically brings an end to this opening arc about Ollie being lost and it makes sense that it concludes here since this was initially just a 6 issues miniseries that got extended. Once again, Williamson shows that at the very least gets the basics of the character of Green Arrow despite of my initial fears that he was going to easily redeem Ollie of all of his mistakes by blaming a supervillain for them, there's a sort of redemption and a villain involved all right but ultimately Oliver still needs to confront his own responsibility about his actions which leads to a more satisfying and genuine development.

However, I still find some issues with like the fact that the villain who has been manipulating Ollie all this time was, well, Merlyn. Not a huge surprise here since he's Green Arrow's nemesis by now but on the other hand, Merlyn's motivations are fairly poor and doesn't make him a more interesting character by himself (not to mention that continuity is so messy right now that I'm not sure if he's still Malcolm Merlyn or someone else). Plus, while the closure Ollie got about his actions feels logical, I still feel like it went a bit too easy and there should be more exploration about it.

Sean Izaakse and Trevor Hairsine do a pretty good job during their section in terms of artwork but is just a joy to see Phil Hester back in Green Arrow, depicting many classic scenes and characters perfectly.

Fine read, let's see how things go next.