This book is good, but the series itself could have been so much better. Krul’s work on the new Green Arrow is compelling, I can’t help but feel like this era ended much too soon. Sadly though, Five Stages serves as the end of an era for Ollie and Dinah. ![]() One might even argue that the evil Everyman wearing Ollie’s likeness is a bit of a prelude. The final Kreisberg-written scene takes place just before Ollie and Dinah are beamed up to the Watchtower for the first scene in Cry For Justice. It’s the best Blackest Night story they could have told for Green Arrow, and unlike most of the other Blackest Night one-shots I read, it has long-term ramifications.įive Stages does manage to include a bit of foreshadowing. He agonizes as he’s forced to reveal secrets to Dinah, and his son Conner, that he hoped would remain buried forever. The Blackest Night story is told from Ollie’s point of view, as his consciousness struggles to gain control of his body, which has been taken over by Nekron. His scenes toward the end of the book were really ominous. I’d have enjoyed seeing where they were going with that character. That especially sucks in the case of Lieutenant Hilton, or “Hilt” as he comes to be called. Sadly, what with everything that’s happened in the aftermath of Justice League: Cry For Justice, it may be a long time before we see some of these characters again, if at all. It looks like Kreisberg was trying to add to Green Arrow’s rather dismal rogues gallery, even throwing in a tragic and disturbing twist for the Lieutenant Hilton character. It’s a refreshing shift from shifting between Ollie and Dinah’s perspective for no apparent reason, as we saw in Big Game. The book moves back and forth between the present day, and Cupid’s origin story, the latter beautifully pencilled by Renato Guedes. Now Black Canary, Speedy and Conner Hawke must find a way to stop the zombified archer before he rips their hearts out…literally! Issue #30 takes us into the events of Blackest Night, as Ollie has become a Black Lantern. Along the way, we learn her origin story, and what exactly caused her mind to snap. With the help of the shape-shifting villain Everyman, who now bears Arrow’s likeness, she’s wreaking havoc in Star City. It picks up where Big Game left off, wrapping up the story line with Cupid, Green Arrow’s sadistic stalker. Sadly, this is the sixth and last volume of the series, collecting the final four of the 30-issue series (technically there were 32, but the last two only had Green Arrow’s name on them) starring the newlywed emerald archer and sexy siren. ![]() But in retrospect, it should have been higher. It was usually somewhere in the bottom half of my stack. Or at least Andrew Kreisberg’s version of it. I miss the Green Arrow/Black Canary monthly title. ![]() Ladronn.ĬOLLECTS: Green Arrow/Black Canary #27-30 6: Five StagesĪRTISTS: Mike Norton, Bill Sienkiewicz, Renato Guedes, Diogenes Nieves.
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