Green Arrow and Black Canary #28 - DC

Last issue we learned a little about Cupid's back-story. But this issue, Ollie, Dinah and Mia hear it . . right from the horses mouth. First they have to get through their fight with Cupid and Dark Arrow. They've confronted them on top of a building at the same time as Cupid is targeted by her former life . . Cobalt. Meanwhile, downstairs, Lt Hilton has the building and the entire area surrounded by police, hopefully to prevent thier escape. Anyways, this Cobalt is some super-secret organization that's tasked with protecting the United States from enemies without and within. Cupid, Carrie, was an operative for this group. One of thier best, actually. But then on a mission in Georgia, Russia, she saw a lot of collateral damage from one of their missions. And in that damage was a whole lot of kids. This started her descent. Seeing what she was going through, her bosses decided to try an experimental drug on her. Basically, the drug was supposed to ' . . make the unpalatable palatable again.' Honestly, her superior, Ross, was trying to help. The problem came in the side effects. It increased adrenaline response and aggression . . it induced memory loss, 'She had no idea who she was anymore.' . . and it had an impact on the Ventral Tegmental Area of the brain. 'MRI studies done on people newly in love show their VTA's lit up like Christmas trees. The ATE compound heightened the effect. Big time!' She disappeared shortly after that. However, when she resurfaced, and seemed to have a deep obsession with Green Arrow . . they quickly resurrected Hannibal Bates, Everyman, and locked him into his last identity, Green Arrow. This was their way of drawing Carrie out into the open. Although, I don't know why they couldn't just follow the 'real' Green Arrow. That's when Ollie puts the rest of the pieces together and remembers that he had shot her husband through the apartment wall. That's when Carrie became so obsessed with him. Anyways, they learn all of this after Carrie and Bates escape again . . from one of the Cobalt agents. But on thier way out to find her, they discovered that she may have killed Lt Hilton in the process. The issue ends with them standing over his bloodied body. I think Andrew Kreisberg has been doing a fantastic job with this book. I love the way that he's been using the back-up story to enhance, or perpetuate the main story of the book. This time he uses it for the agent to tell the story about Carrie. I think it's brilliant. If you get the 8 extra pages, why not use them? I also think he's doing a great job at giving us the insight into what makes all of these characters tick. I also love the look of the art with Bill Sienkiewicz doing the finishes over Mike Norton's layouts. It looks fantastic. Renato Guedes does the art for the back-up story. Overall, I really love the look and feel of this book right now. The only bad news is, it looks like this story is going to get wrapped up next issue. Which will lead us into the Green Arrow Blackest Night story in issue #30. Right now . . it's 'Top Secret'. But then we get a new creative team, and direction, starting with issue #31. JT Krul will be taking over the scripts. With a couple of different artists on the first couple issues. It should be interesting.