Green Arrow #73 - DC

This issue starts Ollie's fall from grace. Well at least as far as being the Mayor of Star City goes. When we found out that he was going to be "outed" for something, I thought it was going to be his identity. Actually, it was for all the money that he's been using to fund the Outsiders. When he was on the island, he used some of his influence to manipulate the stock market, a bit, and made billions of dollars. But since the Outsiders are considered terrorists, by most of the world, this will be a major political scar for him. Connor is back this issue also. Just in time for all the fall-out. But Connor is confused about why Ollie isn't fighting back harder that he is. Well it turns out that he's taking a dive. He cut a deal with Nudocerdo, the crooked cop who's running for Mayor. "There's no less than thirty programs that will keep this city being the Star City that he built. Needle exchanges. Free clinics. Drug counseling. Low-income housing. Nudocerdo agreed to lock in the funding . . . lock . . for every program and none of it can be touched for 15 years. All Ollie has to do is not fight and let them win. They also agreed to leave Mia alone." They also have another problem. There have been a bunch of low level bad guys, but guys with meta powers, blowing thru town the last couple of weeks. It turns out that Brick is trying to put some muscle back together. Which means that his truce with Ollie is probably over. Which is another thing that Connor is surprised about. Ollie let him keep a crime syndicate afloat, as long as he kept the peace in the glades. But it looks like that's not going to be the case anymore. Especially now that Merlyn has shown up in town for Brick. But on the last page, Ollie get's a new ally also, Black Canary is back. For how long and to what extent, we'll have to wait and see. But I don't care, she's back in the book. And that's incredible enough. I say this every month, but this is really turning out to be a fantastic book. And what's really fantastic about it is that it's so consistent from month to month. Story, art, pace, characters, everything about it is phenomenal. I've always liked this, I mean these, characters, but now I truly look forward to this book every month. If you aren't picking this one up, you're really missing something special.