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New York, NY 10103 JENETIE KAHN, President & Editor-I n-Chief DICK GIORDANO, VP-Edltorlol Director MIKE GOLD, Editor KATlE MAIN, Assoclata Editor JIM CHADWICK, Director-Design Services JOE ORLANDO, VP·Creotlve Director OOD PAUL LEVITZ, Executive VP & Publisher BRUCE BRISTOW, VP·Solos & Morketlng PATRICK CALDON, VP & Controller TERRI CUNNINGHAM, Dlr.·Edltorlal Administration CHANTAL D' AULNIS, VP·Buslness Affairs LILLIAN LASERSON, VP-Legal Affairs MATTHEW RAGONE, Clrculotlon Director ~ BOB ROZAKIS. Production Director Dear Mikes, Dear Sherwood Forum (or can I call Thank you for this issue. Every I read so many comics that are you Woody), now and then I think we all require a mired in unchanging-ness, wherein In the past, this forum has dealt spirit quest, the editors and artists are afraid of with the complex issues of life. The Melissa Page allowing the characters to take a First Amendment, rape, violence, sex 236 New Salem Loop chance in their lives or change natu in comics, sex in real life, comics in Nortonville, KY 42442 rally with time. This has never been a real life, politics, left-wing comics writ problem with your version of Oliver ers, right-wing comics writers, trick ••••• Queen, and thus issue #40 was but arrows (an important issue), and my another turn of that particular wheel. personal favorite-Mike's knowledge People, This issue, however, stands out from or lack of knowledge about the men GREEN ARROW #40 was the per the rest. What a thing of beauty you strual cycle. fect "middle-age issue." Spiritual in have made. I was transfixed from first Until now, you have avoided the nature and natural in spirit. to last by the incredible artwork, the most controversial and shameful topic Heck, Ollie looks pretty darn good provocative poetry and the otherworld in comics-male pattern baldness. buck naked at his age (forty some ly feel of the issue as a whole. If this is Statistics say a blonde male in his for thing... ); such forte. what Oliver's self-quest is going to be ties should have noticeably thinning Loo Wolf like, I hope he never finds what it is hair. (Have you seen Jimmy Buffett in 2118 Ryan's Run East he's looking for, although I do already concert lately?). Maple Shade, NJ 08052 miss Dinah. Something that few in any media I have been witness to the mass cap choose to do is do without. I can think This very month, Ollie and italization upon t he traditions a nd of a dozen bald villains without working GREEN ARROW are both ... 46. beliefs of Native Americans, so it was hard. But, I will look like the Machine Give or take. with some trepidation that I got past Smith or Lex Luthor baby before I can the cover, however beautiful it was. think of even one thinning hero. Oliver melded well with the images Let's put realism into comics. I want • •••• put forth by his spiritual guide, and is to see how much hair is in Ollie's drain probably the DC character that lends after he showers. Dear Mike, himself most to this kind of treatment. F. Scott Key I understand why Oliver left Seattle I myself have always seen him as the St. Clair, MI but I'm not quite sure if I know why human embodiment of the Hunter he left Dinah. In Seattle (and probably that is represented in the mythos of so Let's put more realism into let any populated region of the U.S.) peo many cultures. ters of comment, F. Scott Key. ple will recognize Ollie as a traitor and Surely there have been other spiri I guess that's why Ollie couldn't bear tual views (Wiccan and Zen, to name * * * *. it. Am I to assume that Dinah stayed two) that have been expressed in the Dear Mr. Gold, behind to run the store? pages of GREEN ARROW before, Thank you for GREEN ARROW #40. After that crap that the President a lways with a well-informed and I'm a 54-year-old female attracted to was shoveling, I'd think t hey'd both respectful tone. This was no different. classic comics, opera comics and espe be ready to find a new nation to call "Spirit Quest" really did speak to my cially comics with artistic covers, so I their own. spirit. In our comics world of dirge-like can understand if not many GREEN The Presidential crap being shov meta-human soap operas, I have been ARROWs of this caliber capture what elled right now in reality makes me refreshed and renewed. Thank you. the mass market wants. What a pleas consider leaving America almost daily. Mike Grell, I wish you'd draw more ant surprise to find the storyline also (I don't want to support a war over fos often. Whoa! beautifully done. sil fuels; I ride a bicycle). I'd better not Grant Thornley Oh, sure, I buy into THE coming get started on that. 1426 W. Thome Ave., #3A wedding and Robin's new comics, but Mike Grell's a r t sure has under Chicago, IL 60660 the beautifully done comics that uplift gone some drastic changes since the whole medium are not often LONGBOW HUNTERS! I'm not com Thanks for your kind words, seen... not this well, anyway. plaining (although I follow his writing Grant. Always r eady to lea p on Tell Mr. Grell it was good for the more than his art). A nice, relaxed a n opportunity to hype some soul-we need that; it's important in and introspective story. I wouldn't be thing that won't be published for a today's mixed-up world. surprised to learn that Mr. Grell is long, long time, let me take this S. H. Mclnnes a follower of t h e incredible Puma opportunity to say that, as of this 210 Del Mar Ave. Blues series. writing, Mike is seven months Indialantic, FL 32903 Charlie Harris ahead of schedule on GREEN 2944 N. Euclid Ave. ARROW scripts in order to clear ***** Tucson, AZ 85719-2526 the decks for his upcoming three Dear Mike, part Prestige Format miniseries, THE PHANTOM was a book of such ••••• which he will be writing and quality that I read it each month in drawing. And before you ask, this silence. GREEN ARROW has always Dear Mike, one isn't Green Arrow-related. been a special book, but #40, "Spirit GREEN ARROW #40 has got my With luck, we'll have it in the next Quest," was an extra-special gift from vote for the Best Story of 1990 in the twelve months. Mike Grell and the crew. I enjoyed it Comics Buyers Guide fan awards. Not in blissful, natural silence. Anyhow, only was the artwork outrageous (and there was sound enough reflected in believe me, it was), but the story was ****** the story. also very well done. The search for self. I guess that the Before I take leave of you, I have a When is the Shado miniseries we've topic is nothing new in literature, but request. Mer forty issues of pressing h eard so much about going to be the way in which it was handled current social issues and intense soul released? The last I read, it was sup is definitely new. Oliver Queen has searching by our protagonists, not to posed to be out this summer, but I left the confinement of the city, he has mention government stooges and ninja didn't see it anywhere. Oh, well, I sup left the confinement of civilization and masters, I don't think I'm alone in pose if it's been delayed this long that has turned back to nature. The wanting to see even a single issue it's going to be a killer. guardian of the streets of Seattle has of Oliver acknowledging his past I have a response to the letter writ turned into a natural predator in the and beating the bejeezus out of a ten by Charlie Harris that you people wild, and I'm glad to see it.