GREEN ARROW/BLACK CANARY #9

A League Of Their Own, Part 1:  Rubber And Glue

August 2008

Written by Judd Winick

Pencils by Mike Norton

Inks by Rodney Ramos

Cover by Cliff Chiang

Synopsis

While Green Arrow and Black Canary try to determine how and why Plastic Man had been captured, Speedy and Dodger stake out the site of his captors.  However, the captors decide they don’t want to run and come out to face them.  Speedy and Dodger try to fight them off, but they are outnumbered.  Elsewhere, Green Arrow realizes that Speedy missed her check-in time and is ready to go after her, when Batman arrives to join them.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

There really is not much in this issue; expect more of the same:  Team Arrow continues the search for Conner and/or Conner’s attackers, finds a few tantalizing pieces of information, but are essentially no closer to finding an answer.  Given what Winick and Co. are providing each month, whether you like this book may just depend on how you feel about the overall pace.  For some, the pace of the book may annoy the hell out of you.  For me, I am enjoying what Winick is doing and I think the pace of the overall story is fine. 

This book reminds me a little bit of Battlestar Galactica.  Or any other “mythology” type shows on television.  Frankly, I think the idea is inspired.  Instead of Earth, Winick has them searching for Conner and along they way there are obstacles to overcome, strange and different characters to encounter, and other wacky adventures.  It gives the book a foundation, moreso than just a book about Ollie and Dinah.  However, and I can’t stress this enough and I have said it before, the decision to make Conner and invalid and make him the search, was not the way to go.  Winick has crafted a very fund and engaging action/comedy book, but at the heart is a tragedy and month after month it brings the book down at least once in its tone.  And that undercurrent hurts what should be a fun book. 

Wasn’t it just last review I was discussing bait and switch.  And here we have it again, with a bunch of characters never before seen using a familiar name of the League of Assassins.  It allows Winick to use the name, sell some comics of people expecting Ra’s al Ghul or Talia or, hell, even Cassandra Cain, before he debuts his own creations.  I am guessing the hope is that people will be enjoying the comic enough that they either won’t notice or won’t care. 

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