Oliver Queen is growing up

Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunter collects the 3-part miniseries that Mike Grell wrote the late 80s in one person and recorded.
The cycle differs considerably from the previously published classic Green Arrow-stapling.
Oliver Queen leaves Star City and begins with Dinah Lance in Seattle a new life. In this new life is no more room for childish / childlike proportions that existed previously in the booklets. Queen has taken leave of his not serious trick arrows and now is fighting against criminals, as they are more typical of the city: Dealer, murderers and organized criminals. He's thinking about his future and would like to have children; an idea advocated by Dinah, who still has more responsibility than our green hero, can not get warm: I would bring children into the world, but no orphans, she says, referring to her dangerous life as a crime fighter.
In so far as Queen has become older, the book result in a more mature crowd turns. Conflicts may arise here and lethal violence is clearly illustrated more explicitly than in the previous issues.
Dinah Lance has in this story arc, unfortunately, only the very minor role of the damsel in distress that can be captivated by the drug smugglers, whom she has come to the track, at the first opportunity, is tortured and can only wait for Oliver Queen freed. For the emancipated heroines of DC Universe me wants this reduction did not like, but that is perhaps a matter of taste.
Taste is certainly also the pencil coloring that Mike Grell has made. Thus it is not dependent on a colourist, so that the entire book is his product. Not that this coloration also their charm and their benefits would not, it is simply unfamiliar.
The Longbow Hunter is a mini-series, which is very independently created and implemented so that it is always worth reading. That the history of comics, or at least the Green Arrow-book series, revolutionized how it is in some places claims seem a bit exaggerated to me. But a development here is unquestionably recognizable and Mike Grell was his time in my estimation, significantly ahead.