My first Green Arrow story. Aww ^_^. I've seen him in team books but never on his own.
My dissatisfaction with the book stems from the fact that the story is too generic. It could have been adapted to any other super-hero, tailored to his particular strengths and weaknesses. There is nothing surprising here except the ridiculousness of The Riddler's riddles.
There are some good parts, mostly dialogue. I loved the 'phone' conversation between Batman and Ollie and the way Green Arrow and Arsenal are gossiping about Nightwing. ( )

Overall not my favorite green arrow volume so far, although I'm sure to come across some I like even less as I really start to dig into the character.

A lot about this volume felt pretty redundant of what has already happened. Particularly so since Green Arrow already had a demon showdown, which made some sense because it's DC and they like to go epic, but was really out of character for Green Arrow himself (IMHO). The only really interesting part about the whole thing was Green Arrow's plan at the end, if that hadn't been ruined the whole story could have been ultimately a lot more interesting.

At this point Green Arrow's angst levels are getting kind of annoying. It was interesting at first for a super hero to realize how stupid he used to be - bringing children in as sidekicks and expecting tiny little masks to disguise your identity is beyond belief. At this point Winnick has taken it too far though. Star City is not the real world, they can do certain things that wouldn't work out so well in real life.

As far as the art goes, besides the fact that I got Mia and Dinah mixed up a couple of times, I liked it. Nothing terribly interesting in and of itself, but it matched the feel of the story very well. There was just enough color and line variation to not look flat, but nothing even trying to be super realistic either.

My favorite part was probably the exchange between Batman and Blood.
Blood: Is he [superman] still looking for a weak spot?
Batman: It appears so.
Blood:He won't find any.
Batman: I know. But he hates magic. It's best to let him go through the motions.
I don't know why, but the idea of Superman and magic in the same sentence made me giggle. ( )

Another decent installment in the ongoing saga of the Green Arrow. The real highlight of this volume is Oliver's relationship with Mia, who seems to be growing up despite his best efforts. They have to hack it out over both Oliver's infidelity and her desire to take a more active role in crimefighting; the latter of these reaches an excellent climax, and I look forward to seeing what is done with this in future volumes. The main plot of the book, a group of overly legalistic demons taking over and sealing off Star City, is a good one, though I think the pacing is off a bit; one less chapter of eventually-irrelevant buildup about the Joker, and one more chapter about the heroes trying to hold together their coalition army of cops and criminals would have been better.

Oh, and the short story that opens the volume with Connor Hawke bonding with Roy Harper manages to be utterly cliche and unfunny. And it's contradicted by the main story, which states that Roy is still so injured as to be in hospital. Some good art could save it, but for the first time in these GA volumes, we get someone other than Phil Hester and Ande Parks on art duties (though they're back for the main story, and as good as ever, of course), and Manuel Garcia has no ability to draw attractive faces.

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