Batman Green Arrow: The Poison Tomorrow [Illustrated] [Comic]

Dennis O'Neil (Author), Archie Goodwin (Author)

Product Details

• Comic: 46 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics; illustrated edition edition (June 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0930289153
• ISBN-13: 978-0930289157
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,170,052 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Batman and Green Arrow make a very good pair., July 8, 2003

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Tom Knapp "Rambles.NET editor" (Lancaster, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Batman Green Arrow: The Poison Tomorrow (Comic)

Michael Netzer's art is very good, particularly in his depictions of Green Arrow and Poison Ivy. The story, by Dennis O'Neil, is solid and stands comfortably outside any of the usual Batman, Green Arrow and Justice League monthly titles. Highly recommended.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars serious, dark & unfullfilled..., September 9, 2001

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Nakhleh Abu Yaghi (Amman, Jordan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Batman Green Arrow: The Poison Tomorrow (Comic)

I looked up this book to judge Oneil's take on the Dark Knight & to read a rare team-up involving two of my favourite heroes, Batman & the Green Arrow. Both crusaders share the fact that they have no super powers but rely on wits & detective work to solve their mysteries...

The story respects that. The plot is coherent & the atmosphere is deadly serious & the characters are well drawn. You feel that Green Arrow has more to say to his dark friend but your desire for the stars to interact is left unfullfilled.

That was a good read, all in all, and could serve a primer for those two fine characters to meet up again & defy evil. Whether you get the full comraderie thing out of it is not certain...but the ending is dark & well deserved.

Here's for seeing them together again...

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Quite underwhelming, November 29, 2003

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This review is from: Batman Green Arrow: The Poison Tomorrow (Comic)

This is not a truly bad book, but one which is difficult to praise highly. It might have worked as the monthly issue of an ongoing series, but readers of a prestige format book hope to get more than this. Although it is is billed as a Batman/Green Arrow team-up, the latter's role is not that important: he's mainly here to evoke the 'socially-conscious' comics he appeared in during the 70s (this is at least what generally transpires from this work), comics which were also written by Denny O'Neil. The other half of that team, Neal Adams, opted not to rejoin his ex-partner on this book after having read the script, and one can understand why. In many ways, 'The Poison Tomorrow' feels more like the straight retelling of an existing story than a new tale in itself - its events progress predictably, with few surprises along the way and not many levels of interpretation; it also doesn't bring much to either the heroes or villain (Poison Ivy has limitations as a character, but she's been used more interestingly elsewhere). The conclusion is as solid as it could have been, the art is nice and sober, and the book does achieve most of its goals; but these might have been too modest...