Thursday, March 04, 2010

Green Arrow: Blackest Night #30

Spoilers ahoy!!
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Holy crop this was good!
First, the cover is a homage to an old cover:
 

A homage, and gorgeous!   on the homage, Ollie is saying 'The blackest night falls from the skies, the darkness grows as all light dies!'
The art inside is equally gorgeous.  Except Mia is in her old red costume, and if this is in continuity, where's her black costume?  And except for a couple of panels of Dinah, where she looks like shes' had neck broken.  And the rest where her boobs look dangerously close to spilling out.  (What is with bad boob clothing this week?).  Connor's mum also looks black - I thought she was asian.  Maybe i'm wrong.  And the final shot is one of Dinah's arse.

Black Lantern Ollie is a complete bastard, and not just when he's trying to be.  Not remembering Dinah's name but remembering her curves?  Sleaze.

And then Connor turns up!  Hurrah, I've missed him.  And Mia, who proves how awsome she is.  she's not distracted, she knows BL Ollie isn't the real him, and she coldly gets on with stopping him.  Because what else can she do?  Connor is not so focused, neither is Dinah.  Connor knocks Ollie's beard and chin off his face!

Then...they kill Ollie.

This issue was fantastic.  It garners many plus points.

2 comments:

Sea-of-Green said...

I agree! The characterizations were very well done. YES, Ollie as a Black Lantern SHOULD be a complete and utter bastard. That's a big part of Ollie's naturaly charm, after all. :-)

SallyP said...

It was very well done. I've been pleased with the extra cross-over issues for the most part.