What a great way to end the month. Andy Diggle continues to surprise me with his stories. He's so amazing, and really, he's only been on the scene for a short period of time. I mean, a couple of years is nothing compared to some of our veterans. But he has a huge career ahead of him. And the artwork of Jock, is also incredible. It's simple, and understated, but . . it gets right to the point. Also the way he creates his story flow, with his frames . . . is genius. Another guy with a huge career in front of him. Well, as it turns out, the island that Ollie has landed on, is actually a long dormant volcano. Well, that and I guess it was used for some bomb tests back in the day. So basically it's considered a barren piece of land, and has long since been written off of everyone's maps. Come to find out, there's a woman, Chien Na Wei , China White, who is taking advantage of this situation. She's turned the whole island, with the unwilling help of it's inhabitants, turned slaves, in to the middle of her drug empire for most of the Asian coast, and our West coast. She's got huge Poppy fields growing in the volcano where no one can see them. It also turns out that Ollies not so friendly business associate, Hackett, is also caught up in the middle of all this. In fact he looks to be her right hand man. The whole deal is not explained, but from what I understand, it looks like he actually took the money that he stole from Ollie, to buy in to her operation. They end up going at it for a little while in the jungle. Great action scenes, by the way. Until Hackett shoots a mortar at Ollie, and ends up bringing a tree down on himself. The issue ends with Ollies ears ringing, and then when he looks down at his arm, one of his bones is sticking out. Which when he realizes it, and acknowledges the pain, take him out in a seat of white. This is an amazing story. We all know the origin of the Green Arrow. But it's nice that it's being re-told, with a bit of a twist. Fantastic!
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