Oliver Queen's return as Green Arrow marked the beginning of a defining period for the character, with both Kevin Smith and Brad Meltzer producing some really seminal material in the wake of his resurrection, something Smith himself had orchestrated.
Killed off while attempting to stop a terrorist attack in Metropolis, the majority of the nineties saw Ollie's son, Connor Hawke, as the main Green Arrow. 2000's Quiver storyline would later resurrect the character, with Smith in particular placing a massive emphasis on the hero's history pre-Mike Grell. Later, Meltzer wrote The Archer's Quest, a book that analysed the trope of comic resurrections and delved deep into Ollie's history. It's a series that every comic book fan (new and old) should read, and one that exemplifies all the best things about even the medium's most mocked cliches.
Connor may have been a worthy replacement for GA, but there's only one Ollie, and he's too valuable a part of the DCU to be axed off permanently.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
