By
Elizabeth Airelle
"We Are Family--Come On Everybody And Die!"
This issue starts off before Roy
was kidnapped by the Blight. He is trying to cheer Kori up. Her crew has been
taking out many of the enemy forces but she does not understand the motive for their
attack on her planet. DePalo and Kori
take a moment to talk alone. He tells
her he has never questioned her before but he is concerned about her
relationship with Roy. He thinks it will lead to heartache for Arsenal. Kori
disagrees with him, saying she went to Earth to be alone and that he is
different than any human she has met and will not let anything hurt him or her
friends.
Jason and Isabel have a moment
alone. She states how crazy it all is and what was he thinking asking her out.
He states that he is more of a street fighting vigilante and this is all new to
him as well. She tells him that if she
has to die anywhere is the universe with anyone she could do worse than him. He
promises he won’t let anything happen to her.
They walk in to find Roy and
K’tten arguing. He thinks he can find a way to save power for the ship. She
finds it so insane that it might work. When it does she is surprised to find that humans are not as dumb as everyone
says they are. They suddenly are breached when the Blight teleports directly
onto the bridge. While Jason protects Isabel, Arsenal protects Kori from the
transformer beam.
The flashbacks end and we now cut
to where we left off in the present. Roy
had been explaining events to Komand’r. She finds her sister being intimate
with Arsenal to be a humiliation to her family. The Blight interrogator warns
Blackfire that she is not to overstep her bounds as she is a prisoner as well.
Roy then states he remembers why he let himself get captured so he could grab
onto Komand’r. A second later they are transported on to the Starfire ship.
We learn it was all a part of Kori’s
plan. The ship makes a full about into the Blight’s mother ship. They cannot
attack them without damaging their own ship. Blackfire thanks him for saving
her. Against the ideas of Jason and Orn,
Starfire and Blackfire are left alone for the first time since the arc has
started. They hug it out. Blackfire
apologizes for her ruse. She had to pretend to work with the Blight in order to
stay alive long enough for Kori to arrive. Kori states she never doubted her
and she is thankful she is alive. Kori understands that Kommad’r was only a
child in charge of an entire planet when she was traded into slavery. Blackfire
says she will never forgive herself.
Meanwhile, below, the Tamaraneans
are prisoners to the Blight and are in bad shape. The leader is using them to
keep his race alive. When the Blight invaded they discovered humans were on the
planet as well. An Earth colonel and his wife it looks like. They came looking
for something called “The Thirteen.”. The leader kills him and states it is
only a myth and if the Thirteen did ever unite the entire Omniverse would be
destroyed.
Roy and Jason have a moment alone and Jason worries about the sacrifice he made to be used to go undercover to free Blackfire. Roy tries to shrug it off but Jason pushes the issue. Roy states that after he woke up in vomit with his best friend beaten to a “bloody green pulp”, and seeing all the damage in the wake of his bad choices, other things do not get to him so easily.
Blackfire and Starfire decide to go
alone to take the biggest risk to save their planet. Kori asks if she dies for
Red Hood and Arsenal to avenge the hell out of her! It ends with the two
sisters flying off together to save their home.
This has been the best issue in the
arc for me. It puts Arsenal in the
spotlight and we got a quick mention on his past with his fall out with Green
Arrow. We got to see that Roy is very
smart. Since the series began he has
made his own weapons and has figured out how to use alien ships quickly (Crux’s
ship and now this one). So he is not just some wisecracking sidekick. It feels
like pre Rise and Fall Roy Harper is back.
Starfire understanding and
forgiving her sister was awesome, not as awesome as them flying off together
though. I’m glad she can put it behind her and start to move on. Even though this is Red Hood’s he took the
back seat. We saw more of him and Isabel but with Jason and Kori both telling
her they won’t let her get hurt; it makes me think she might not live through
this.
The biggest thing was the art. It looks like it was rushed and it was. Roy and Kori were drawn well I thought and next time Timothy Green draws for the book I hope he is not given a mere two weeks to pencil and ink the entire thing as was the case here, Bad DC Bad!. We also got a setup for a future arc about “The Thirteen” but that is going to have to wait because next month it’s Red Hood’s New 52 origin!
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