{"id":1875,"date":"2008-02-25T06:36:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T06:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2008-02-23T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T12:37:00","slug":"green-arrow-heading-into-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/02\/25\/green-arrow-heading-into-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Arrow: Heading into the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/green-arrow-heading-into-the-light.jpg\" alt=\"Green Arrow: Heading into the Light\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Judd Winick<\/strong>, <strong>Ron Garney<\/strong>, <strong>Tom Fowler<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Paul Lee<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84576-344-0<\/p>\n<p>Collecting issues #52, 54-59 of the monthly series this is a non-stop action bath, meant as part of the build-up to the <strong>Infinite Crisis<\/strong>, so all your enjoyment centres can focus on the craft and skill of the creators, because by the end of the book it won&#8217;t matter since that mega-crossover event will unmake and cancel out everything that has gone before.<\/p>\n<p>The plot concerns the hunt by Green Arrow and Black Lightning for serial rapist and super-psycho Dr. Light who wants to torture and kill the loved ones of all the heroes he can find. This is because he is a very psycho super-psycho, but also because he was lobotomised by the Justice League (see <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/nowreadthis\/?p=192\">Identity Crisis<\/a><\/strong>, ISBN: 1-34576-126-X) and since his recovery has been a bit tetchy.<\/p>\n<p>The hunt escalates into an all-out battle with imported super-villains Mirror Master and Killer Frost as well as old rival Merlyn, an assassin who hates being the World&#8217;s Second Greatest Archer. Whilst they occupy the good guys Light stalks Mia, (Green Arrow&#8217;s latest sidekick) who he thinks of as just a teen-aged girl\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>The action is intense, and the dialogue wonderful, but the story won&#8217;t appeal or even be understandable to new readers and the power of the cliffhanger ending is negated by the Cosmic Reset button of <strong>Infinite Crisis<\/strong>. The next volume will begin with the first <em>One Year Later<\/em> story-arc\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>After a sterling run of truly superb costumed-hero adventures this total surrender to mindless violence makes for a dreadfully unsatisfactory conclusion, but writers Judd Winick and J. Calafiore, plus artists Tom Fowler, Ron Garney, Ron Lim, Paul Lee, Dan Davis, Rodney Ramos and Bill Reinhold can&#8217;t be blamed for that. Page by page and scene by scene this is great stuff, but the imposed conclusion renders all their fine work irrelevant. This is one for completists only, I&#8217;m afraid.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2005, 2006 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Judd Winick, Ron Garney, Tom Fowler &amp; Paul Lee (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84576-344-0 Collecting issues #52, 54-59 of the monthly series this is a non-stop action bath, meant as part of the build-up to the Infinite Crisis, so all your enjoyment centres can focus on the craft and skill of the creators, because by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/02\/25\/green-arrow-heading-into-the-light\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Green Arrow: Heading into the Light&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-green-arrow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-uf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}