This may not be a Black Canary or Green Arrow origin story exactly, but it's definitely a Black Canary and Green Arrow relationship origin story (Woo!). The story starts and we get rebooted sorta, at least to the point where they meet for the first time. We get to read about their burn hot and bright and is anything but perfect relationship all over again. Awesome.

There were also some new characters while Ollie's life goes crazy and he goes up against something called the Ninth Circle, like the character of Henry. But there are some familiar and familiar-ish faces too, like John Diggle (although he in the comic reality isn't quite the same character as in the TV show). We see Shado and Emi from pre-Rebirth too.

Overall I liked what they did with Green Arrow and Ollie. I wasn't the biggest fan of the New 52 Green Arrow, so we'll see how this one goes.

I was given this galley through Netgalley on behalf of DC Entertainment.

DC is doing it again! Relaunching their universe and bring out a whole string of new #1 issues. In this particular case, Oliver Queen gets his life story retold in part. At the beginning of the tale, he is rich and moonlighting as a super hero when he runs into Black Canary and teams up with her to aid a boy who lost his mother. This leads to his discovery of treachery in his company and home life with multiple attempts on his life. And of course he gets marooned on The Island at the end of the volume. Why not something more original?