These all happened in Justice league: Cry for Justice which was written by James Robinson NOT JT Krul!

You should get your facts straight before you blast the man. Fact is his entire time on GA he was hamstrung by Editorial Directives.
Been a GA Fan since I first read GL/GA 76 when I was 8 and like the new book as well…sad to see JT go but interested to see what Dan and Keith do with the character.

As someone who has read the many different incarnations of Green Arrow, I thought The New 52 Green Arrow #1 did it’s job of presenting a younger, not as dark Oliver; gave a glimmer on why Oliver became Green Arrow; and shows that Oliver wants to shy away from lethal weapons. When Green Arrow, however, shot someone’s hands through with regular arrows seems to contradict his non-lethal approach.

Maybe this has been answered in other blogs or reviews, but isn’t the brunette in red-and-blue on the last page Donna Troy? At least, that’s why I’d like to hope as I want to see Donna Troy in The New 52.

@Chris – Green Lantern? its about Green Arrow isn’t it.

Good to see Krul off the book. Not like the book was in good hands before he got to it. Black Canary/Green Arrow anyone?

@olh:I enjoyed GA/BC series much more than this, the robin hood stuff and the issue #1 were just bland and boring. Some people can be bad writers yet still they can make the book relatable and fun, krul maybe a good writer, but his style of writing is dull for my taste.
But good luck to him on his Atom series, seems like a perfect fit for his expertise.

Giffen and Jurgens really need to ig deep to the core roots of Green Arrow. The Mike Grell era was the best of its kind, something closer to that would be awesome.

The only Green Arrow I’ve ever liked is Connor Hawke—someone at DC, please bring him back!
@catsmeow12 Connor Hawke is awesome, loved his dragon’s blood series. I don’t think he should replace the original Green Arrow. he can come back as Speedy or another superhero with arrows. Longshaft lol

And, as someone else noted above, this decision would have been made before the reviews / sales came out, keeping that from affecting the decision. However, like I said above, some of this week’s reviews will likely prompt very similar swap-outs. With more than half of the books so far getting reviews calling them mediocre to bad – and with a shrinking / shrunken market on top of that – I can’t figure out why a mixed bag of 52 books was a better idea of 20-some books by writers who have shown some consistent quality (Morrison, Johns, Simone, Cornell, Lemire). I mean, even though Simone’s getting bad reviews on Batgirl at least editorial acted in good faith (on choosing her, not on making Babs walk). The fact that Krul and Winnick’s books are being called mediocre instead of bad is pure luck, and I don’t understand why any creator whose work doesn’t usually wow people is on any title.

And sniperboy4, Daredevil was somewhere between a B and D list character for years, plus Waid’s run is partially reinventing him after Shadowland exhausted the long standing dark-and-brooding paradigm. Green Arrow was also a number one book under Kevin Smith and did great under Meltzer after. If Mark Waid, Greg Rucka, Jeff Lemire, Dan Slott, Paul Cornell, Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, or one of many other creators out there had been given free reign – or even a partially constrained editorial mandate – to relaunch the character this would probably have been a top reviewed title. I mean, Animal Man and Frankenstein are both ridiculous, D-list characters and check out the reviews on both titles. It’s all about the creators, not the characters.

“This does not bode well for the DCnU” A tad over dramatic, Ziyad. lol

OK maybe I’m not being entirely fair on him, other people are too blame too.

One thing Im sure of though is that his writing on GA did not interest me,it was dull. Anyway I do wish him well on Captain atom and future projects.

I don’t care for the opinion of illiterate low lives on the reboot

Murdered a young kid Lian Harper in cold blood – James Robinson (Cry for Justice) — pushed by Editorial
Had GA commit murderous acts and deeds – James Robinson (Cry for Justice)
Chopped of Roy/Red arrow’s hand, a grieving dad – James Robinson (cry for Justice) + JT Krul (Rise of Arsenal)
Had Black canary divorce off GA at the worst moment possible – (JT Krul – editorial cut his story from 5 issues to 2)
Booted away Mia and Connor out of the book for no good reason. (JT Krul)
Comes back with a new GA that is just a bad version of Iron Man.

hope Captain Atom reads better than Green Arrow. because it was very pedestrian, which a Green Arrow book should never be.

Like JMS on Superman and WonderWoman, DC over-hyped JT on Teen Titans and on Green Arrow. He never came close to living up to it

WHO does that? No Krul had just about done everything to p*ss me off. He was destroying the Green Arrow empire gradually but surely. Hate to see anyone lose their job really, he maybe a good writer but I don’t think this title was ever for him. I’m not familiar with the new guy Giffens, will have to see what he comes up with so far like sound of GA #4.

Krul’s stories weren’t even “meh” enough for me to go through the motions. I dont know if it was ever fair to him, since he had to write a one year Brightest Day crossover story that Im sure had a substantial amount of editorial influence, but even before then… and as Brian said, Arsenal was, um, not Scottish.

For those saying is has something to do with how books have been reviewed as they come out, I say hogwash. The stories for issue 4 were being worked on before last week’s books came out. And besides, OMAC was turrible, also by Giffen.

But Keith has said he’s done with JLI after 25 years. Hard to blame him, really.

Usually Nicenza would be a perfect go-to guy for taking over a title on short notice, since he’s in the same work ethic and quality class as Giffen. However, since his Legion book just got panned I wonder if that will affect things.

Also, this seems like the absolute worst possible time for DC to have treated Waid and Rucka in a way that landed them on Marvel books. If there’s two creators that should be on DC books for a reboot I’d put them above Morrison and Johns, even.