#Old friends by quiver of arrows series

What am I supposed to say to that? Hopefully it’s years off”. The joyful gimmick around which Smith hangs much of his plot is that Oliver doesn’t realise he’s been dead, pitched beautifully as he meets his former Justice League colleagues: “My death? I don’t know. The preceding page is also clever, seemingly inconsequential, but with clues as to what happens later. With its stylised theme, Hester’s art is far nearer cartooning, yet effective use of shadow gives it a necessary darkness, and his cameo page of Sandman makes you wonder what he could have done with that character.īefore reintroducing Oliver, Smith takes us around his friends, constructing him via their impressions and knowledge, catching up with their current circumstances and only then presenting the ragged figure seen in the sample art.

#Old friends by quiver of arrows series

In 2001 there was still a rigid demarcation line between the cartooning applied to series based on animation and the ‘realistic’ style of standard superhero comics. Several aspects mark this as a departure, but the most immediate is Phil Hester as artist. Quiver is a revival founded on a mystery and carried out to high standards over ten episodes. He was then an independent film maker with a string of successes, and a known comic fan responsible for the excellent Daredevil story Guardian Devil. It took them six whole years to realise Connor was dull, at which point they turned to Kevin Smith. In 1995 DC killed Oliver Queen to replace him as Green Arrow with his son Connor.