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It's a scary-good new direction for the Emerald Archer in this, the first volume from acclaimed horror novelist Benjamin Percy (Red Moon, The Dead Lands) and artist Patrick Zircher (Iron Man, Nightwing, Thor) !Oliver Queen is back in Seattle and he's not only got to keep the city safe, he's also got to look out for his half-sister Emiko, who's now under his guardianship. But balancing the life of a superhero and a family man is hard when horrifying threats like the mysterious Night Birds are snatching people out of the sky at random. Green Arrow must find out whether the Night Birds are indeed monsters from above, or if there's something even bigger and even more terrifying behind their sudden appearance in the Emerald City.Collects DC SNEAK PEEK: GREEN ARROW #1, GREEN ARROW #41-44 and GREEN ARROW ANNUAL #1.
About the Author
Benjamin Percy is an award-winning novelist, comics writer and screenwriter.
His new novel, The Dead Lands (Grand Central/Hachette, 2015) , is a post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga. He is also the author of the novels Red Moon (Grand Central/Hachette, 2013) and The Wilding (Graywolf Press, 2010) , as well as two books of stories, Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf Press, 2007) and The Language of Elk (Grand Central/Hachette 2013; Carnegie Mellon, 2006) .
He writes the Green Arrow series for DC Comics. His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space, and published by Esquire (where he is a contributing editor) , GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the Wall Street Journal, the Paris Review, Tin House, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, and many other magazines and journals.
His honors include an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Writers' Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.
His original crime series, Black Gold, about the oil fields of North Dakota, is currently in development with Starz and produced by Fremantle Media. The pilot will be shot by filmmaker James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now, Smashed) . With Oscar-winner Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) he is adapting his novel Red Moon into a series for FOX TV.
Learn more about him at www.benjaminpercy.com.
