Green Arrow #137 - I'm really not sure what to make of this issue.  There was WAAAAAAY too much going on, but that's almost excusable, since it's Chuck Dixon's last issue, and he needed to wrap a few things up.  Connor goes back to the Ashram to try and take it back, he says goodbye to his "girlfriend" (with whom there's been NO romantic development, so I'm a bit confused here), and we see the beginnings of the direction Kevin Smith is going to take when he starts on the title in a few months.  I felt that the story could have been told over the course of three issues, yet it was packed into one and suffered because of that.  Hardly a fitting ending for a good writers run on a series.

Green Lantern #105 - Well, I gotta say that they did it well.  Parallax came back, but he didn't come back from the dead.  It turns out that the Parallax of this issue is from immediately prior to Zero Hour when Hal was doing his time jumping.  In one of his jumps, he noticed that he felt his presence in the modern times where it shouldn't be.  He decided to rectify that, for if his past doesn't come to fruition, then his future can't happen either.  Decent issue, I'm looking forward to the conclusion in two weeks.

JLA Year One #10 - J'onn's not a traitor, but someone else in the group is.  Way back, the group started to fight a group of alien invaders, but they missed one.  The one they missed hooked up with Locus to teraform the Earth to their standards.  The JLA stopped it, but the Aliens are still invading anyway.  This story line is great, but this particular issue didn't seem to have any lasting effects, it just was there to bridge the gap between the previous issue and the next issue.  Still a good read, if you're reading the whole series.

Legends of the DCU #9 - The only reason I picked this up was because it was a GL/GA story (even if it was Hal and Oliver).  Unfortunately, it wasn't all that great.  This is part three, and the conclusion of the storyline that has Hal and Ollie on different sides of a Civil War.  They finally get to talking and realize what's going on, but in this convoluted and meandering story, I'm not sure anything was really accomplished.  And the last line is so aweful, but I'm not going to ruin it for you.  Of the Legends of the DCU issues, these three have unfotunately been the worst.

Nightwing #25 - The best book I read this week, hands down.  This issue has Nightwing and Robin talking about their lives as costumed crime fighters.  Nightwing reveals that he's considering becoming a police officer and tackling the cities corruptness from the inside.  Robin, who's always said that he was going to quit the business someday, reveals that he's not so sure about that anymore.  Actually I'd say this would be a great place to jump onto the book if you havne't been reading it up to this point, and you should be reading it.  It's by far and away the best of the Batman family of books (Robin being a close second).

Superman Annual #10 - Again, the "concept" annual fails to live up to it's hype.  Clark Kent is looking into the case of a man sentanced to death, and comes up with some startling conclusions.  At the same time, Superman is being haunted by the only people he's killed, three Kryptonian villains that had to be stopped at any cost.  There's a few fight scenes while Clark looks for evidence, but there really isn't much to this story except the message that capital punishment is wrong.

Superman: The Dark Side:  Another place where the concept is great, the execution is poor.  Instead of coming to Earth, the infant Kal-El is abducted to Apokalips and raised as Darkseid's own.  I thought this looked REALLY interesting, but there was NOTHING interesting in this first book, in fact, it was more meandering than the Legends of the DCU story above.  I don't think I can afford to pick up the other two parts if it's going to be this bad.

In closing, I spent a lot of money this week, and I got a lot of not so good stuff.  I'm not that upset, even in the bad, there were a few shining moments of good...