Crawling Through the Wreckage

I'd never read Green Arrow before, and I picked this edition, which bears the "1 Year Later" seal, beacuse I knew that this "year later" thing made comics easier to get into; I didn't, though, expect to understand everything. I was surprised to see I did; this comic is suprisingly easy to read. The tragedy that has happened to Star City is explained right away (making it easier for those of us who DIDN'T know), and the story builds up from there on: Oliver Queen has been elected the city's mayor, and Green Arrow hasn't been around for a year. A plot to kill GA by hiring Deathstroke will keep you interested enough, that is, if you can ignore gay weddings and infuriated speeches of a mayor that behaves quite unrealistically (as if he had taken power himself instead of being ellected). The afore mentioned plot (and it's execution), rampaging zombies, and a mobster with a brick body that suddenly grew a conscience and turned vigilante make this book more than worth a read, and, though not really a graphic novel by istelf, it is a really good post-Infinte Crisis series reconstruction. It sets the mood for the rest of the series. The art deserves special mention: Scott McDaniel plays with cartoonish drawings that just do the trick, and the pastel-like colloring also helps to give this series a signature art. As it's title indicates, this comic is crawling from the wreckage. As far as I'm concerned, it's seen the light.