Green Arrow: Road To Jericho

December 10, 2007 | Trades

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Green Arrow: Road To Jericho
Judd Winick, Scott McDaniel, Andy Owens
DC Comics
$21.99/$17.99 US (Paperback)
**** (out of five)

Broken, bloodied and beaten, Green Arrow was left to die as his city crumbled around him.
Thing is, he’s just too stubborn to die.
DC Comics’ One Year Later event, which fast forwarded all of its series 365 days, showed us a new Oliver Queen, one who blended his night job as the bow and arrow wielding vigilante Green Arrow with a new day job: Mayor of Star City.
How Oliver managed to come up with the plan to get that job, and how Green Arrow remade himself as a much more dangerous combatant, though, remained a mystery — until now.
Road To Jericho, written by Judd Winick and drawn by Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens, reveals how Oliver went through extensive training with some of the world’s deadliest fighters, including some on the wrong side of the law, to help hone his abilities in the wake of getting beaten down by Merlyn and Dr. Light.
This whopping and highly enjoyable 10-issue collection also contains an interesting little superhero team up with Batman and culminates with an all-out battle against Deathstroke and a shocking scene that ends with Ollie, the most notorious womanizer of a hero, on one knee.

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