Green Arrow’s legacy in the DC universe is a funny thing. Despite being one of the publisher’s most consistently published characters — and one of the few who survived the drastic reboots and remakes between the Golden and Silver Ages largely intact — he hasn’t always possessed the same prominence as DC’s other mainstay characters. While a certain eight-season television series may have given a subset of fans their own set of preconceived notions about the Emerald Archer, the pages of DC Comics have proved that there’s much more to him that deserves to be honored and appreciated. Luckily, this week’s Green Arrow 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular reveals that value, providing a dynamic, excellent, and heartfelt celebration of what sets Oliver Queen and his “Arrow fam” of family and friends apart from their surrounding superhero world.
