GREEN ARROW/BLACK CANARY #5

Child Support

April 2008

Written by Judd Winick

Pencils by André Coelho

Inks by André Coelho

Cover by André Coelho

Synopsis

In New York City, Dinah Lance (aka Black Canary) continues to search for the source behind the attack on Conner Hawke.  Meanwhile, Dr. Mid-Nite confirms that Conner is brain dead.  Oliver Queen (aka Green Arrow) refuses to leave his son’s side.  He tells Conner about the time he learned he was gong to have a son, his decision to leave Conner behind, and then his search to find him.  He decides he wants to give up being a hero to take care of Conner.  Dinah convinces Ollie to marry her, since their original wedding never actually took place.  Afterwards, they return home to find Conner’s nurses have been killed.  And Conner has been taken away.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Like the last review, I think I need to address my conflicted state of mind about this book.  I like Winick’s writing and I like what he has done with the situations he is writing about.  The powerful emotion of Ollie trying to deal with Conner’s situation and his own guilt about not being there for his son has proven to be a good emotional core for the book.  What Ollie is going through is emotional stuff.  As for individual scenes, I like the proposal scene with Dinah and Ollie and the actual wedding from Diana performing the ceremony to Superman watching over them to make sure they are safe.  However, I am just not sure the coma and the kidnapping is the right way to go for these characters.  Neither Green Arrow nor Black Canary strike me as characters who need the underlying tragedy to become the core of who they are.  It just does not feel like these characters at all.  And it does not strike me to be the right content for a superhero book.

Part of me is glad Conner was kidnapped because the open-mouth look the artist was given to draw (or chose to draw, I suppose) was starting to annoy the crap out of me.

The cover states Winick for Judd Winick, the writer, and Conner, for what I assume would be Amanda Conner, who is credited on the inside as one of the cover artists, but not the interior work.  Since the interior art does not look like Conner’s work, I am guessing that Coelho was a last minute addition.

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