However, this time, the panel has Oliver’s thought: “…am I dead?” Through the following four panels, a stranded Oliver begins to realize he’s alone: “At first everything’s just a blank. Like the first issue, the first panel here is completely white. In the similar opening of the second issue, the reader views, yet again, a page with five panels. Oliver’s life, up to this point is a barren land devoid of any meaning and direction, with words and art getting that situation across to the reader. The reader knows Oliver is going to become a hero, yet the use of such symbolism in the art and colors transform the story into something powerful here and throughout the book. Oliver says, “You just have to view every obstacle as a challenge.” The arrow is ingenious use of symbolism and foreshadowing, as well as the barren, yet ominous wasteland these two “explorers” have set out upon. Once the page is turned, a double page splash depicts a desolate white wasteland of snow and a narrow path leading over a deep crevice. We then see a compass in the fourth panel and Oliver and his employee/friend Hackett looking at the said compass. The third panel, however, reveals the arrow to actually be the orienting arrow of a hand compass. The second panel appears to be a green tip of an arrow. The first issue’s opening panel is white and devoid of any object. The contrast between these two journeys is beautifully depicted in the contrasting opening panels of the first and second issues. His journey is one of survival and becoming the man he was meant to be: a good and moral one. When his other journey begins on a supposedly deserted island, Oliver has entered an entirely different world. When stuck on a snowy mountain, he simply calls in a helicopter. When the reader first meets Oliver, he is on a journey for no other reason than because he can and because he’s rich. Fletcher) collaborate in order to weave a yarn that poetically brings the reader on Oliver’s journey to becoming a superhero. These three creators (along with letterer Jared K. These and other choice words can be used to describe our “hero” Oliver Queen before his transformation into Green Arrow in the miniseries “Green Arrow: Year One” by writer Andy Diggle, artist Jock, and colorist David Baron. Playboy, ne’er-do-well, egomaniac, thrill-seeker, imbiber. Cover of the second issue of “Green Arrow: Year One”.

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