The Best Green Arrow Stories Fans Havent Seen Adapted

The Best Green Arrow Stories Fans Haven’t Seen Adapted

Though The CW’s Arrow series may be off the air, there remains a plethora of influential Green Arrow stories to be told in live action format.

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The Best Green Arrow Stories Fans Havent Seen Adapted

The now-over hit CW series Arrow, starring Stephen Amell as the title character Oliver Queen a.k.a. Green Arrow, has managed to adapt a substantial amount of Green Arrow’s world in its 170 episode run. However, there remains a countless number of memorable arcs from the decade-spanning history of Green Arrow comics, which the TV series did not manage to cover.

Whether it is DC or Marvel, comic books have never refrained from acknowledging the problems that are prevalent in the real world (not involving super-powered villains) which still have an effect on its larger than life superheroes. 1971’s Green Lantern #85 and 86, more famously known as Snowbirds Don’t Fly, involves Green Arrow’s longtime teenage partner Roy Harper a.k.a. Speedy (portrayed by Colton Haynes in the series) becoming addicted to heroin while Arrow and Green Lantern are away dealing with other matters. This was a misuse of substance abuse that readers were not used to seeing in their superhero comics, which made the story all the more memorable. Snowbirds Don’t Fly was DC Comic’s commentary on the drug problem of the 1970s which still could have had an impact on a large number of current younger viewers watching Arrow in the same way.

A story-line that would have worked wonders with the expanded DC Universe that the CW was building by including other superheroes and supervillains such as The Flash, The Atom, Supergirl, and Deathstroke would be the crossover arc Identity Crisis. Published in 2004 by Brad Meltzer, Identity Crisis acts as a classic murder mystery, involving many of the DC Universe’s roster of characters, with both Green Arrow and The Atom (portrayed by former Superman Brandon Routh in the Arrowverse) playing integral roles. Though the much-praised Crisis on Infinite Earth’s event was a great showcase of CW’s DC characters, Identity Crisis is a story that takes the superhero crossover and does something truly unique with the concept.

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Another long-time partnership that Arrow was remiss in not including is the friendship between Green Arrow and Hal Jordan’s iteration of the Green Lantern. Spanning all the way back from the 1970s, Green Arrow and Green Lantern slowly transitioned from unlikely allies to close friends. The relationship would have been interesting to see translated, to say the least, given that Green Lantern is a hero who opts to do most things by the book while Green Arrow is much more of a hardened vigilante who does what is needed to protect others. Unfortunately, the “Hard Traveling Heroes” partnership would never come to fruition onscreen as Green Lantern would never make an outright appearance in the Arrowverse or The CW’s DC Universe as a whole. Though there have been numerous mentions of Ferris Air within The Flash and a subtle tease of a power ring in the Arrow series finale.

Like Batman, Green Arrow does not have the luxury of actual superpowers which allows the opportunity for more human storytelling and spotlights his shortcomings, compared to Oliver’s other superhuman compatriots. Though Queen occupies a world filled with aliens, sorcerers, and monsters, the demons that Green Arrow deals with are much deeper than the fantastical. Arrow was crucial at bringing Oliver Queen to the forefront in the public consciousness, even if a few of his most memorable tales continue to remain under the surface.

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