DC Retroactive: Green Lantern - The 70s #1

Part of a series of one-shot titles wherein DC told stories revolving around their biggest characters, like Superman and Batman, wherein they were set during the '70s, '80s, and '90s, DC Retroactive: Green Lantern - The 70s #1 sees a back and forth story between Hal Jordan and Oliver Queen. The issues were told in similar ways to how the characters and their stories would have been done back then, even bringing back some writers and artists who worked on the characters from those times. With this 70s set Green Lantern issue, you have legendary writer Dennis O'Neil telling the story and with art by Mike Grell, both having done work on the iconic Lantern/Arrow comics from that decade. In it, the Green Lantern prevents an alien ship from crashing into Earth while Green Arrow searches for a rogue archer who is hurting anyone who even talks to him. Hal saves the ship and learns that the alien is from the same species as Abin Sur, his ring's previous user, while Oliver figures out that the archer is someone who had attended the same spiritual monastery as he once had. While Hal saved the alien from the ship's destruction and armed soldiers, it had severe wounds from which it could not survive and thus died in a mission of finding a peaceful race. Once Oliver confronts Argy, the rogue archer, he refuses to fight him and finds a way of helping the troubled man. When the two heroes meet each other and catch up on what's happened, Jordan reveals that he put the alien's body in the ship and set it to drift in space while Queen explains Argy's motivation is that he just wanted to be loved. Being set in the '70s and involving both of the green colored heroes, there''re some social issues that their stories addressed much like their team up from that era. The Lantern's story is all about how violence will keep us from attaining peace while Arrow's is the need to help those with mental health issues. O'Neil's writing is spot on at not only telling their separate stories but also the messages they send and how similar they are. My one complaint would be that the Green Lantern story's ending is a little rushed and a little odd, though still gets its message across. The pacing is good and thanks to the editing it knows just when to switch between the two stories without taking you out. The art and coloring by Grell is great, with attention to detail and the right colors to use in its environment. Though for a comic that is supposed to be set and harken back to '70s, you'd at least expect it to look like how it did back then. Regardless, DC Retroactive: Green Lantern - The 70s is a delightful and insightful homage to an important era for both characters. Over all: 100%

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