Green Arrow #71
	Story Title: 'Seeing Red' (Part Three: Change Partners) Writer: Judd Winick Penciller: Scott McDaniel Inker: Andy Owens Colorist: Guy Major Letterer: Pat Brosseau Cover by: McDaniel & Owens Asso. Editor: Tom Palmer Jr. Editor: Mike Carlin Published by: DC Comics
	Reviewed by: Bruce Logan

A big, long, action packed, blow out of a fight scene. THAT, at its core is what this third installment of the ‘Seeing Red’ arc is. However, as with others before is, that is not all what it is. Along with the issue long fight scenes between Green Arrow and the Red Hood and Batman and the Brick there are also a couple of other plotlines, one rising from this arc and the other one a continuing carry over from this series’ first OYL arc, namely the ones involving Speedy and Deathstroke respectively.

The two hero-villain fights are pretty straight enough and, thanks to Red Hood and Brick exchanging notes about their respective foes, pretty well balanced. Both villains know about the usual trademark fighting styles and moves of the hero they are facing and have made the appropriate preparations to both nullify and possibly counter them. This includes Red Hood’s getting a katana and the Brick a breath mask (amongst other things).

At the same time, rushing to assist the two old farts, Speedy gets sidetracked by a call for help from the building in front of her, with the smoke billowing out of it acting as a the proverbial neon sign for our young heroine. How, this is one time where the adage ‘Where there is smoke there’s fire,’ doesn’t quite hold true, as Speedy realizes a little too late. Suffice to say, one just needs to take a look at (and/or read) the solicit for the next issue to get an inkling of fate in this issue.

As for the continuing plotline i.e. the one involving Deathstroke, well, with his pawns in place, Ol' One-Eye Wilson makes his move, taking his new ‘friend’ Drakon along with him when he breaks out of Alcatraz. What this entails for Star City’s Guardian is something that is a tale for the next arc.

When it comes to action scenes, Scott McDaniel is TEH MAN. Not only is there a choreographed fluidity to his pencils, there is a ‘leaping off the page’ life to it. This issue is no different in that regard. That said, the coloring (in the shading department) could have done with a tad less of black.

Conclusion: It’s become an every-month practice now. Every month I pick up both the Outsiders and the Green Arrow issues (both written by Judd Winick) and every month (after reading them) I come off wishing that one of them was more like the other. No three chances for guessing which one I want to change to be like the other.

RATING: 8/10 (Almost 8.5)