Happy ArroWednesday!

Happy ArroWednesday everybody!

First up we have the  amazing Green Arrow series by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, and Marcelo Maiolo. Not a whole lot to go on from the solicitation except: “What startling secret is revealed on the island that gave Green Arrow birth?”. It definitely has my interests peaked and I can't wait to read this later today.

Next up, we have a new digital issue of the Arrow tie-in series. This week’s issue promises to answer “So what happened between Tommy and Laurel during the five years that Oliver was presumed dead? Find out in this steamy chapter!”. Sounds like we’ll be getting more character history fleshed out (no pun intended) in this week’s issue.

Finally, after you’ve scoured over every detail of this week’s comics, sit back and enjoy the latest episode of Arrow. Count Vertigo will be making his reappearance this week and he looks even more Scarecrow-ish than the last time we saw him. 

This is one of those perfect Emerald Storm kinda Wednesdays with two new comics to read and a TV show to watch. Look for reviews of the two comics later today and tomorrow (I'll be doing something else for the TV show later). It’s a good time to be a Green Arrow fan people, so go out and support the Emerald Archer!

Injustice Demo Reminder

Just a friendly reminder for anyone interested in the new game Injustice: Gods Among Us. The demo has been released on Xbox Live and PSN. I haven't seen anything about a Wii U version of the demo and there wasn't one up when I checked but I'll put something up if they release one later. For those of you with 360's and PS3's, go download the demo now! Seriously, there's no reason to waste time.

The demo gives you access to three characters and one stage. No, Green Arrow isn't one of the characters available in the demo but, come on, they aren't going to give us the good stuff for free. In the meantime though, you can get used to the controls and different fighting styles of Batman, Wonder Woman and Lex Luthor while fighting in Gotham.

Justice League of America "All I Know" T-shirt

Superhero Stuff has a bunch of new DC Comics shirts up on their site. One of them being this great "All I know I learned from comics" Justice League of America shirt. It has quite a few heroes and villains with some fun lessons they teach underneath them. As you can see, Green Arrow gets some love and apparently teaches you to "shoot straight".

 It would have been nice to get a better mix of villains in there instead of the plethora of BatFoes (seriously the Batman characters make up almost 50% of the characters on the shirt). Next time maybe we can get some Count Vertigo or Deathstroke on there!

*Images courtesy of SuperheroStuff.com

New Green Arrow Trades Incoming

DC Comics unveiled a list of upcoming hardcover and trade paperbacks yesterday. There's a lot of good stuff in there, both old and new. We already saw an announcement for a new edition of Year One a few days ago and it looks like Green Arrow's resurgent popularity is working for him because we're going to finally start getting some newer volumes of his older adventures to go along with the new stuff.

Here's the Green Arrow related books from the list:

(September Releases)

Arrow Vol. 1 TP

Writers: Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg

Artists: Mike Grell, Jorge Jimenez, Sergio Sandoval, Julian Totino Tedesco, Eric Nguyen, Omar Francia and Xermanico

Collects: Arrow #1-5

$14.99 US, 160 pg

Green Arrow Vol. 3 TP

Writers: Ann Nocenti and Jeff Lemire

Artists: Freddie Williams II, Rob Hunter, Tom Derenick, Art Thibert, Robin Riggs and Andrea Sorrentino

Collects: Green Arrow #0 and 14-20

$16.99 US, 176 pg

(November Releases)

Green Arrow Vol. 1: Hunter’s Moon TP

Writer: Mike Grell

Artists: Ed Hannigan, Dick Giordano and Frank McLaughlin

Collects: Green Arrow #1-6

$14.99 US, 160 pg

Justice League of America Vol. 1 HC

Writers: Geoff Johns and Matt Kindt

Artists: David Finch and Scott Clark

Collects: Justice League of America #1-6

$24.99 US, 176 pg

Infinite Crisis Videogame

DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Interactive announced a new PC game today called Infinite Crisis. It's a MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game being made by the fine folks over at Turbine. As the title suggests, the game will use the DC Comics event as the basis of the game's story and it'll allow players to choose alternate universe versions of their favorite characters. Only a small group of characters have been shown so far (got enough Batman in there guys?) and while Green Arrow wasn't one of the ones shown today, he's bound to show up in the final roster what with the TV show and rejuvenated comic going for him.

The game is scheduled to release some time this year for PCs. With this and Injustice: Gods Among Us (out in a couple of weeks), Green Arrow will see more videogame screen time this year than he ever has before!

Green Arrow Quiver Hoodie

Another cool find from Stylin Online. I know winter is supposed to be officially over but it's still hoodie weather where I am. This Green Arrow hoodie is the closest thing I've seen to some of the Superhero "costume" sweatshirts that are out there for other DC heroes. All its missing is the domino mask attached to the hood. 

Either way, its a fun hoodie with an arrowhead on the front and a quiver full of arrows on the back. It may not scream Green Arrow to the non-comic book fans in your life (that's either good or bad depending on your point of view) but we'll know and that's what matters, right?

New Green Arrow: Year One TPB Cover

DC Comics just released this image over on their blog. It's a brand new cover for the new edition of the Green Arrow: Year One trade paperback, drawn by non-other than Jock himself! It's a beautifully drawn image that bears a striking resemblance to the posters for the Arrow TV show. This is one of my all time favorite Green Arrow stories (plan on writing a review for each issue soon). It seems like a standard cover swap so I don't think there's anything new in this edition but if you haven't read this version of Green Arrow's origin then I highly recommend buying a copy. You don't even have to be a Green Arrow fan to appreciate the gorgeous art and well written story.

I already own it digitally, the old single issues, and the hardcover version but I might have to reach into the wallet once again for this new edition. I just really love that cover *drools*.