Ronan Cliquet's art is very nice, however, so even if the story feels messy, at least it's nice to look at. For Aquaman fans, this might be an interesting premise, but it doesn't really seem to serve Green Arrow/Oliver Queen at all and it feels at times like Brandon Thomas doesn't really know where he's going with things. And when it comes to those clues, there's thus far nothing in what's offered in the issue to explain how bringing dinosaurs from the past could create a timeline in which the Green Arrow is Aquaman and Aquaman is the Green Arrow and somehow only they realize this is wrong.
While most kick-off issues can be exposition-heavy, this issue doesn't do nearly enough in the way of explaining what's going on, something that leaves the reader struggling to put the pieces together for themselves with only the murkiest of clues. Unfortunately, in execution Aquaman/Green Arrow: Deep Target #1 is clunky and confusing. On its face the idea of an Aquaman/Green Arrow team-up is interesting, especially with the return of the Scorpio organization.
With this year being a year of 80th anniversaries, I genuinely wish we were getting something better for Green Arrow than this. DC #1 AQUAMAN/GREEN ARROW: DEEP TARGET #1
