First of all, we find out that with this issue this title will revert back to a solo book. From now on this is just going to be Green Arrow's book. I'm sure we'll see Dinah, but . . Ollie's got a pretty rough journey ahead of him . . between the events here, what's happened in
Cry For Justice, plus we don't know yet what's going to happen when he makes his final stand in
Justice League #43. But all in all . . he's got a lot of hurdles to overcome. Anyways, we saw in Blackest Night #5 & #6 that Nekron was responsible for all the heroes that have died and returned in recent years. He was giving them a second chance so that he could call on them whenever he needed to. And in #6 he made them all bearers of the Black Rings . . including Ollie. Now this issue is the fight that he then has with Dinah, and the rest of his clan, as he's fighting the inner struggle against himself. He can see and hear what his body is doing, but . . he doesn't have any control over the actions. In fact, the more he thinks about Dinah, Conner and Mia as he's fighting them, the more ammunition the Black Lantern Green Arrow has to verbally throw at them. And the Black Lantern Green
Arrow tears them apart from the inside out. The problem is, he doesn't look dead like the rest of the Black Lanterns who've returned from corpses. But that doesn't mean that he can't rebuild himself every time he's hit by one of his brethren's arrows. Finally, as he's chasing the 3 of them down, he exerts enough influence to alter the trajectory of one of his arrows. Instead of hitting Dinah, whom it was aimed for, he diverts it enough to hit the hose on a nearby liquid nitrogen tank. Dinah quickly comes up with the plan, and Conner uses it to freeze him in place. Dinah knows that Ollie had to have exerted the influence to effect the arrow. 'Ollie's really something. Even dead, he saved us.' And then they turn around and see the rest of the Black Lanterns. 'Yeah . . but, for how long?' I thought JT Krul did a great job with the story here. The interaction between Black Lantern Ollie and Dinah, Mia and Conner was terrific. You could just feel him tugging at their hearts with every word that he muttered. Also Diogenes Neves did a fantastic job with the art. As you can see, we get 2 terrific covers this month. One by Greg Horn, the other by Mike Grell. This was a great issue, and I can't wait to see what happens next. Unfortunately . . there's only 2 more issues listed for this book . . #31 & #32. It doesn't say that #32 is the final issue, but . . there's nothing listed for May. Please . . say it isn't so!
First of all, we find out that with this issue this title will revert back to a solo book. From now on this is just going to be Green Arrow's book. I'm sure we'll see Dinah, but . . Ollie's got a pretty rough journey ahead of him . . between the events here, what's happened in Cry For Justice, plus we don't know yet what's going to happen when he makes his final stand in Justice League #43. But all in all . . he's got a lot of hurdles to overcome. Anyways, we saw in Blackest Night #5 & #6 that Nekron was responsible for all the heroes that have died and returned in recent years. He was giving them a second chance so that he could call on them whenever he needed to. And in #6 he made them all bearers of the Black Rings . . including Ollie. Now this issue is the fight that he then has with Dinah, and the rest of his clan, as he's fighting the inner struggle against himself. He can see and hear what his body is doing, but . . he doesn't have any control over the actions. In fact, the more he thinks about Dinah, Conner and Mia as he's fighting them, the more ammunition the Black Lantern Green Arrow has to verbally throw at them. And the Black Lantern Green 
Arrow tears them apart from the inside out. The problem is, he doesn't look dead like the rest of the Black Lanterns who've returned from corpses. But that doesn't mean that he can't rebuild himself every time he's hit by one of his brethren's arrows. Finally, as he's chasing the 3 of them down, he exerts enough influence to alter the trajectory of one of his arrows. Instead of hitting Dinah, whom it was aimed for, he diverts it enough to hit the hose on a nearby liquid nitrogen tank. Dinah quickly comes up with the plan, and Conner uses it to freeze him in place. Dinah knows that Ollie had to have exerted the influence to effect the arrow. 'Ollie's really something. Even dead, he saved us.' And then they turn around and see the rest of the Black Lanterns. 'Yeah . . but, for how long?' I thought JT Krul did a great job with the story here. The interaction between Black Lantern Ollie and Dinah, Mia and Conner was terrific. You could just feel him tugging at their hearts with every word that he muttered. Also Diogenes Neves did a fantastic job with the art. As you can see, we get 2 terrific covers this month. One by Greg Horn, the other by Mike Grell. This was a great issue, and I can't wait to see what happens next. Unfortunately . . there's only 2 more issues listed for this book . . #31 & #32. It doesn't say that #32 is the final issue, but . . there's nothing listed for May. Please . . say it isn't so!
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