This issue picks up directly after
Cry For Justice #7. In it Star City has been destroyed. With thousand's of lives being lost. That alone is enough to drive Ollie over the edge. But . . in the process of all of this . . Prometheus permanently maimed Ollie's son, Roy by removing his arm. And, in the wreckage of the city, Lian was also lost . . crushed under the falling buildings. Losing his grand-daughter like that was just too much for him to take. So, at the end of
Cry For Justice, he took it upon himself to go to Prometheus' hideout, and . . shoot him in the head. However, nobody else knows that yet . . except for Ollie. So he goes back to the real world and begins looking for the second guy responsible for all this carnage, the Electrocutioner. He's the one that put Prometheus' device in place and activated it. So in Ollie's eyes, he's every bit as responsible for what happened as Prometheus. I like the line Ollie uses when he's talking about Prometheus. 'Prometheus' specialty had always been an uncanny knowledge of his opponents . . he studied our abilities, skills and tendencies. He took into account my proficiency with the bow. He was well aware of my hand-to-hand combat training. But Prometheus never grasped that vital piece of information. He never knew that at my core, I wasn't a hero. I was a hunter.' And that line right there really summed it up, for me, as to just how cold Ollie had become.
Anyways, he finds the Electrocutioner, but then loses him because he and Dinah have a fight over motives and means. And that's when Hal and Barry return from Prometheus' hideout with his body. Shade ended up taking them there when they asked him to help them find Prometheus. But the interesting thing is, Shade says that they are the second people that he's brought there. Is he talking about Ollie? Or someone else? And, since Ollie left him there, it appears that someone has taken off with Prometheus' helmet. That was the source of all of his knowledge. With it, someone else may be preparing to attack the JLA. Anyways, Ollie grabs Prometheus' key off his dead body . . it's the way that he transports himself, and says that he's not done until he finds the Electrocutioner. So . . next week in Green Arrow #31 . . not only is Ollie hunting down the Electrocutioner, but the JLA will also be hunting him. This was a fantastic issue, with an incredible story by JT Krul. The art was shared by Mike Mayhew, Diogenes Neves and Fabrizio Fiorentino. If this is what the rest of the
Rise and Fall of Green Arrow is going to be like . . we're in for a heck of a ride.
This issue picks up directly after Cry For Justice #7. In it Star City has been destroyed. With thousand's of lives being lost. That alone is enough to drive Ollie over the edge. But . . in the process of all of this . . Prometheus permanently maimed Ollie's son, Roy by removing his arm. And, in the wreckage of the city, Lian was also lost . . crushed under the falling buildings. Losing his grand-daughter like that was just too much for him to take. So, at the end of Cry For Justice, he took it upon himself to go to Prometheus' hideout, and . . shoot him in the head. However, nobody else knows that yet . . except for Ollie. So he goes back to the real world and begins looking for the second guy responsible for all this carnage, the Electrocutioner. He's the one that put Prometheus' device in place and activated it. So in Ollie's eyes, he's every bit as responsible for what happened as Prometheus. I like the line Ollie uses when he's talking about Prometheus. 'Prometheus' specialty had always been an uncanny knowledge of his opponents . . he studied our abilities, skills and tendencies. He took into account my proficiency with the bow. He was well aware of my hand-to-hand combat training. But Prometheus never grasped that vital piece of information. He never knew that at my core, I wasn't a hero. I was a hunter.' And that line right there really summed it up, for me, as to just how cold Ollie had become. 
Anyways, he finds the Electrocutioner, but then loses him because he and Dinah have a fight over motives and means. And that's when Hal and Barry return from Prometheus' hideout with his body. Shade ended up taking them there when they asked him to help them find Prometheus. But the interesting thing is, Shade says that they are the second people that he's brought there. Is he talking about Ollie? Or someone else? And, since Ollie left him there, it appears that someone has taken off with Prometheus' helmet. That was the source of all of his knowledge. With it, someone else may be preparing to attack the JLA. Anyways, Ollie grabs Prometheus' key off his dead body . . it's the way that he transports himself, and says that he's not done until he finds the Electrocutioner. So . . next week in Green Arrow #31 . . not only is Ollie hunting down the Electrocutioner, but the JLA will also be hunting him. This was a fantastic issue, with an incredible story by JT Krul. The art was shared by Mike Mayhew, Diogenes Neves and Fabrizio Fiorentino. If this is what the rest of the Rise and Fall of Green Arrow is going to be like . . we're in for a heck of a ride.
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