YMMV / Green Arrow (2011)

• Arc Fatigue: Whatever caused the falling out between Ollie and Roy. It's alluded to numerous times, and talked about without adding any detail. And just when you think they'll elaborate... they don't. It finally was explained in Green Arrow (Rebirth), nearly six years after it was first alluded to!
• Contested Sequel: Andrew Kreisberg and Ben Sokolowski's Kingdom. Even before it started it drew ire simply for following Jeff Lemire's run, which was thought by many to have saved the series from the slump Green Arrow was stuck in after the New 52 reboot. It didn't help that both writers - while experienced comic-book creators - were also writers for Arrow, which has a divisive relationship with the comic book fanbase. The main fear was that they'd turn the comic into a carbon copy of Arrow - a worry that was seemingly confirmed when Kreisberg and Sokolowski dropped most of the book's supporting cast except for John Diggle (a character originally introduced on the show) and introduced Felicity Smoak in the first issue, establishing the Power Trio featured on the show. However, they also attempted to reintroduce several elements of the classic series that had been missing since the New 52 reboot, including Oliver's friendship with Hal Jordan, the character of Mia Dearden and Oliver's mouthy 'man of the people' characterization.
• Creator's Pet:
  • Felicity Smoak's introduction in the above mentioned Kingdom arc was not well-received. This was, in large part, because she was introduced at the same time all of the old supporting cast - which already included two computer experts - were completely dropped from the series. This, combined with the creators gushing about bringing her in, resulted in her quickly being labelled a Creator's Pet by those not fond of Arrow in general or elements unique to the show being introduced into the comics in specific.
  • To a lesser degree, the villain Cupid, who was created by Andrew Kreisberg during his run on Green Arrow/Black Canary and was also introduced in the Kingdom arc for no reason other than Kreisberg wanted her in there.
• Don't Shoot the Message: "What Goes Up..." carries a genuinely sweet message regarding the struggles of transgender people, showing that it's important to let other people live in the way that they believe they should live and the importance of not forcing societal norms on other people. All of this is undone by the fact that out of all the metaphors they could have possibly used, they chose to use people who believe themselves to actually be robots, which circles everything the comic has to say straight back around into offensive territory.
• Strangled by the Red String: Ollie and Tarantula, who Ollie starts commenting on how he's falling in love with her in-spite of their on-panel interaction at that point had basically no romantic element, not even any flirting. She disappears as soon as the arc is done though, which combined with other odd things (like Ollie brutally killing some of the Skeletons, at least before they were revealed to be zombies), makes the whole arc a giant Bizarro Episode.