So I've made a bit of a jump here: I've gone from an origin story to a death story in two volumes. Note to self: check into these things instead of just picking random volumes.
In this very recent storyline, Black Canary and Green Arrow are back together as a couple. They spend most of this volume taking down a supervillain named Cupid, who uses her love potion to control the minds of those around her--and who is fixated on Ollie as her next conquest. That story is pretty good, even if I only caught the second half. The art is so-so, but the relationship between Arrow and Canary is sweet and believable. The second-to-last issue collected here ends with GA and BC getting a call from Green Lantern to report to JLA headquarters, and heading off. The final issue in this volume is such a non sequitur that I have trouble even understanding its inclusion: we pick back up with these characters at the climax of the Blackest Night crossover event, when an evil force has taken control of any hero who's been brought back from the dead, including Green Arrow. Ollie watches helplessly from inside his own head as he attacks everyone he's ever cared about. To their credit, Ollie's friends and loved ones do their best to stop him--Canary even goes so far as to try her sonic scream on him--but none of it works. Eventually, though, the heroes are forced to, I assume, kill him in order to save themselves and the planet. Thus ends this volume, and once again I'm left wondering who as DC is responsible for organizing these collections, and what they were smoking the day they worked on this one....
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