No Boinking for Green Arrow
The last issue of Green Arrow as crap. The only reason why it got two stars was because of the cover. It is a nice looking cover to display with a collection. Being Cliff Chiang on cover duty, this book looks nice too. Though is it truly good? Will it leave me with a "screw you" feeling that last issue gave me with it's Zatanna tease? Why I am I prolonging the review when there is no history or anything I really want to talk about?
Let's get to the review.
So the book opens up with Green Arrow and STAR labs (I'm not typing the dots. Its annoying.) scientist and Grundy's two times the great granddaughter, Chrissie Cavendish, exploring the destroyed Queen mansion searching for Grundy. The mansion looks more like a mansion than it did last issue and Chrissie had a formula. With this formula she thinks she can revert Grundy. Grundy then attacks and almost kills them. They escape Grundy by setting his head on fire and rest for the night.
We find out more about Chrissie and she tries to, in the words of Green Arrow, "boink" him. The next morning they continue the hunt which leads to Chrissie turning her back on Green Arrow and using the formula to join Grundy in his wonderful life. This leads to her becoming a monster and a Green Arrow/Grundy team up. The story ends with Grundy letting Green Arrow get away.
Overall the story really was nothing special. Nothing to get excited about though it was fun and we did get some good character moments with Green Arrow and really learned a lot of about Chrissie. Grundy though probably had the best moments. Bill Messner-Loebs gives us a nice, short, one and done story that seems so rare in modern comics. This played out much in a way a JLU episode would be. I know its stupid to make the comparison though I often like to think of comics as an episode. Just like how would it play out and would it be appealing to watch in action. Something to help you all understand my mindset at times.
The art by Eric Battle was crude yet still looked good. There was some panels that took me a while to figure out what was exactly going on though overall Battle did great with this issue! The flaws were not exactly terribly distracting. And his facial expression work with Grundy really stood out. I like this guy. The coloring by Guy Major was good. Overall a good issue. The other thing aside from a few overly crude panels that kinda brought this down was it was like the events of the last book were forgotten. Though according the DC Demand page (Gosh, those pages are nostalgic is a way) the story will be continued in Green Arrow #54 (December 2005). Really though when I think it about it this book was great cuz it forgot the events of last issue. So nevermind.
Really this a good and fun book. Nothing spectacular though it is fun.
Thank you and good afternoon.
-CrazyScarecrow, Reviewer of the new and the old.