Over the last few months, I’ve come to think of iFanboy as the home of Green Arrow/Black Canary, only because this seems to be the only community that actually likes this book.  I’ve been on board with this series from the get go, although I couldn’t really tell you why.  I think it has something to do with my secret man crush on Ollie Queen, but that’s for a different time and a different place.  I’m here to review a comic.  Not embarrass myself on the Internet.

This issue finds Winick picking up from where he left the last issue.  The fanboys on this site talked about just how awesome that issue finished up.  In a rise of anger, Ollie looks at the reader while speaking to Dinah, saying, “Get me my damn bow!”  It was awesome.  But this issue finds our intrepid hero playing more detective than bowhunter. 

And this is where I find some issue with the story that’s going on.  It’s not that it was bad per se, but I just wanted something else.  What suddenly seemed interesting and intriguing throughout the last issues concerning Connor’s shooting came off merely as a “meh” plot point in this one.  And while the action was plentiful toward the end of the issue, I stared at the last panel wondering if this was really where I had hoped the series would go.

I think it’s something you need to see to believe, but somehow, in just one issue, Winick has me questioning just what the hell this series is going to be about.  It went from being a great story about a great hero and his friends as they try to figure out who shot his son to a story about…well, I really don’t want to spoil it.  It’s definitely one of those things that you don’t see coming, yet you’re just not sure if it’s all that satisfying to begin with.

In regards to the art, Chiang again rocks.  It’s almost a shame that he’s leaving the book, but his style is just so great and really compliments what’s going on in the issues so well. 

Am I going to drop this book?  No, no I won’t.  But it’s been put in that precarious place of having to prove itself to me because, well, I can only buy so many books a week.  My hope is that I’m overreacting and that I’ll be proved wrong in the coming months.  Most likely, I’ll be writing another review 5 months from now, badgering people for not reading this book.  But for now, you can mark me down as cautiously optimistic.