Green Arrow #29 – Review

By: Jeff Lemire (story), Andrea Sorrentino (art), Marcelo Maiolo (colors)

The Story: I sense great custody battles ahead for Komodo and Shado.

The Review: Speaking as one who has told a lot of lies in his time—never to you, of course (wink!)—I can tell you that lying itself can be a very powerful form of truth-telling.  The lies we tell invariably reveal something about ourselves because even as they deflect attention away from things we want to conceal, they also expose things we wish were true, whether you’re saying you’re younger than you really are or recounting college exploits that never happened.

With that in mind, Komodo has been telling his daughter some rather interesting tall tales, inadvertently letting his motivations peek through their chinks.  In flashback, we see him telling a younger, less bloodthirsty Emiko, “Your mother’s name was Shado.  She was beautiful.  She was the love of my life.  We were meant to be together forever.  Then a very bad man killed her…a bad man named Queen.”  I tend to weary of villains driven by love gone wrong, but it comforts me to know that Komodo will be getting his comeuppance soon.