Green Arrow ? Part Two

In 1987, with the release of the Mike Grell storyline The Longbow Hunters and the series that followed, Green Arrow took on an even darker edge than before. In the storyline, Dinah is captured and tortured to the extent that she loses her famous sonic cry and is made sterile. Green Arrow teams up with a woman named Shado to save Dinah and eventually murders Dinah’s attackers, going against a long standing Green Arrow tradition of using trick arrows to prevent killing. Shado drugged Ollie in order to conceive a son with him, a child she named Robert.

 

Eventually, the events depicted in Longbow Hunters began putting an enormous strain on Dinah and Ollie’s relationship, particularly after they tried to conceive a child and discovered they could not have one. After discovering Ollie kissing a woman in their apartment, the two broke up because Dinah felt she could no longer trust Ollie.

 

Even though the break-up of Dinah and Ollie was the last Grell issue, life continued to rain bad news on Oliver Queen. Shortly after the break-up, his longtime best friend, Hal Jordan, went crazy and tried to remake the universe. Ollie shot Hal in the chest to prevent him from doing so.

 

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