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Story by Judd Winick
Art by Manuel Garcia
Inks by Steve Bird
Colors by Guy Major
Letters by Clem Robins

Published by DC Comics | $2.50

Every 20 issues or so of an ongoing title, we’re treated to something very special. The in-between story arcs single issue. Usually right after a major 4 to 12 issue story arc and right before a 2 to 3 issue story arc. It lets a few things happen: the dust settle from the shocking ending to the last arc; the main characters get to rest and relax a bit; and the regular artist gets a break. These are the kind of issues where the X-Men play baseball and that sort of thing. This time around, the single issue comes to us from the annals of Green Arrow.

After a particularly harrowing story arc where people died and Ollie and Connor were up against an undefeatable enemy, this issue brings it down a notch. Hell, it brings it down a few notches. Ollie Queen is in the issue for merely three pages, where he meets with his former sidekick Roy Harper, now Arsenal of The Outsiders, and explains that he’s been through a particularly rough story arc. He also asks Roy to take out his son, the other Green Arrow, Connor Hawke for a night out on the town. Not so Connor can relax, but because Connor’s driving Ollie crazy. Nice Dad, huh?

And this is is our in-between story arc issue — “Boy’s Night Out”.

Take two young superheroes who are both tied to Green Arrow in a father/son like way, throw them together and see what happens! One is reckless and drives fast! One is a Buddhist and doesn’t drink! Let the fun begin!

So, of course they go to a strip club. Where, of course, all the strippers know Roy (even though he doesn’t live in this town). Of course Connor is repulsed by all this, which of course gets Roy pissed, explaining that these women are just working and Connor should judge a book by its cover and all that. And of course, one stripper makes a comment questioning Connor’s sexuality.

Is there a single comic book Judd Winick will NOT bring the whole gay thing into? I mean, come on. I think it’s great to put it out there and get people thinking. But every book he works on? Enough is enough — we get it.

Needless to say, the boys move onto to a supermarket, foil a robbery and bond over their shared experiences with the great Ollie Queen Green Arrow and it ends with some humor.

These kind of issues are fantastic because NOTHING HAPPENS. And sometimes it’s just fun to read these heroes simply being people.

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