Saturday 5 August 2017

Green Arrow: Island of Scars Review



Finished reading Green Arrow: Island of Scars, writer Benjamin Percy continues to develop Oliver and Dinah as a couple while also giving Oliver's sister Emiko her own spotlight story. The book opens with Oliver's sister Emiko and her mother Shado heading to Tokyo after the sinking of the Inferno at the end of the previous book, as Shado has to debrief the Yakuza due to being in their dept leading to Emiko to try and win back her mothers freedom which also remembering one of her first adventures in Seattle with Oliver where the two fought the Clock King. The second story opens with Oliver on a deserted island after washing up on soar after the sinking of the Inferno which allows for Oliver and Dinah to spend some time together. The next day the pair find an abandoned campfire where Diggle was attacked by a robot bear and taken to a facility on the island funded by the Ninth Circle. The final story sees Oliver, Dinah and Diggle taking a ride on a transpacific, underwater  train in order to get back home in Seattle. Only for the team to find themselves in the middle of an assassination of an Arab diplomat which leads to the team to try and apprehended the man responsible and safely get the other passengers and the selves back to Seattle. Overall this was a great book as it continues to build the relationships between the characters extremely well as Oliver and Dinah become more of a unit. While Emiko gets some great development by showing how she's grown as a person since first moving to Seattle to helping her mother in Tokyo. The art throughout the book is amazing as each artist makes each story come to life with a great accompanying tone and style to the different type of stories being told. 8/10.

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