#91 - This issue begins in the torture chamber of DeSaad, Darkseid's personal torturer. This is a part of the "Genesis" crossover, and Darkseid has captured Kyle in order to learn the nature of the power he is about to absorb, and to do that, DeSaad is going to test the limits of Kyle's strength. A lot of this issue is told in flash-back: Kyle talking to Jade about Donna leaving; talking to John Stewart about his trip to California; and the battle in which he was captured by Darkseid's forces. In the end, DeSaad lets Kyle go, and Kyle is about to kill him when DeSaad tells Kyle that if he does kill him, he'll never find his way home in time to help with the upcoming cataclysm. Kyle, being a hero, chooses to go back home, but promises revenge for all the pain that DeSaad caused him. Green Lantern shows up a lot in Genesis, which just came out, so if you really want to read it you could probably find it at your local comic shop. It started off good, but wasn't all that great in the end. Donna also has a pretty big revelation at the end of the series that will lead to major ramifications in Wonder Woman.
Green Arrow #125 - Part one of a three part crossover with Green Lantern, so I'll cover it here. The issue starts with a prison break by a man named Kotero who seems to be able to manipulate people against each other. Then it cuts to New York where Connor's been spending time with his mom and step dad, a former gun smuggler supposedly turned straight, when he stops a drive-by (actually more of a fly-by with really sophisticated weapons) with the help of Green Lantern. They fly off to the Statue of Liberty and discuss the GL/GA team of the past, and how they are continuing the tradition. It now cuts to a couple different scenes of two different men on TV spouting hate messages, Austin Phipps a white-supremicist and Cyrus Bramlett an extreme anti-racist. Their programs spark hate between neighbors, between people that seemed to be good friends. Eventually it leads to a sort of riot with Kyle and Connor in the middle.
#92 - The Phipps and Bramlett programs are being picked up by a major network, with good reason, ratings. But the owners of the cable stations they were on were coerced into selling the rights by Kotero. It seems he had kidnapped their families and was blackmailing them into first showing the programs, then selling them to GBS. GBS is going to kick off the season by showing a debate between the two, and showing it live in Central park. After stopping a riot and finding out who was behind the fly-by in the last issue (Connor's step-father), Connor and Kyle head over to Kyle's apartment where they are met by a very disturbed Master Jansen (Connor's traveling partner), who claims that after watching both of the hate-mongers on television, he noticed something wrong with it, but he couldn't put his finger on it. Kyle's neighbor happens to be pretty good at video editing, so they give him the tape, and he discovers what was wrong with it, both people are the same person, with a bit of computer editing, and it turns out to be Kotero, who turns out to be one of Oliver Queen's (the original Green Arrow) deadliest enemies. This series is concluded in Green Arrow #126, so I'll be putting that up as soon as I get the issue.
Green Arrow #126 - Connor and Kyle confront Armitage (Connor's stepfather) about his involvement with Kotero. It seems that the fly-by was arranged by Kotero using guns sold by Armitage. That's the extent of his involvement, and he doesn't know anything else about Kotero's plan. The two boys take the tape with the proof that Kotero is both Phipps and Bramlett to GBS, and they tell them where the Satellite uplink for the the debate is going to be. It seems that there are two places where it will be broadcast from and so Kyle and Connor split up. Connor faces Kotero while Kyle saves the families of the network execs. In the end, everything is shown, the illusion is broken and friends that hated each other just yesterday are back to being friends.
#93 - It's Halloween in Greenwich Village and Kyle is the only one out of costume. The artists took advantage of this and in the background you can see everyone from Batman and Superboy to Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandius (from The Watchmen, tied with The Dark Knight Returns for the best comic book I've ever read). Anyway one of Kyle's neighbors, Li - half of a lesbian pair - shows up looking for her "room-mate" Lee and one of their friends. Kyle offers to help look for them and finds their friend, dead. She was wearing a Green Lantern outfit, so she did have some taste. Kyle changes into his costume and begins looking for the killer when he's attacked from behind by the man. Kyle's knocked unconscious and almost killed when he's possessed by Dead Man, a dead guy who was given powers to do stuff like that. At first Dead Man doesn't know that he's taken the body of one of the most powerful people in the universe and misses the chance to take the killer down. Dead Man/Green Lantern follows the guy to an apartment where the killer is holding Lee. He starts raving about how his wife left him for a woman and how it is his divine duty to kill all lesbians for they are evil. Dead Man manages to save Lee, but the killer gets away. Dead Man chases him to the alley where he killed the girl and then changes tactics. He possesses the body of the dead girl and accidentally kills the man, but being dead himself, his morals aren't quite the same as anyone else's, especially when dealing with sick demented killers like this. The issue ends with Kyle, Jade, and Li trying to console Lee about the ordeal, while Dead Man looks on musing about how lonely his life is, but how great it is see people in love like Li and Lee are.
#94 - Kyle gets an agent so he doesn't have to spend half of his time looking for work, and can get more done. His first assignment is to do some watercolors of Hawaii for a travel brochure, he accepts and decides to get some first hand experience of the place. When he gets there, though, he meets with a not so friendly welcome. It seems many of Hawaii's legends have some grounding in fact, including Menehune. Normally these creatures are builders and creators, but one has decided to be a destroyer and has gone on the rampage. Kyle has his hands full until Hawaii's own superhero - Superboy - shows up and puts the creature in his place. The two start talking and Kyle has to explain to Superboy what exactly a secret identity is. Superboy was born to be Superboy, he is a clone of Superman and was created to be a superhero, he has no need of a secret identity and is amazed at the very idea of a superhero being an artist. Kyle agrees to give him a few pointers and in the meantime one of Superboy's old enemies, the Silver Sword, is back and in league with a very dangerous person. I don't claim to know a thing about Hawaiian mythology, I'm just taking this out of the book. Apparently the goddess of fire, Pele is still around and she's ready to take Hawaii back as her own realm, and she's got the Silver Sword working for her. Back to our heroes, Superboy doesn't have the natural talent for art that Kyle does, so being the impetuous person that he is, he gives up almost immediately and as he's storming off, he's attacked by Silver Sword and knocked unconscious. Kyle turns around and sees this but is caught off guard and knocked unconscious (What, AGAIN?!?!?!) by the Sword. They awaken dangling over a pit of lava to see the goddess Pele telling of how she's going to return to rule and this and that and blah, blah, blah. Pretty much the gist of it is that she's going to sacrifice the two heroes. The boys are pushed into the lava and that's the last we see of them until the story is concluded in Superboy #47.
Superboy #47 - The boys survive, partly due to SB's tactile telekinesis, and partly because GL was able to get a shield up on time. By the time they get out, Silver Sword and Pele are gone. They are found in the tourist center and Pele claims that she has returned to rule her people. When Superboy and GL show up and dispute this, it gets ugly and many innocent people are put in danger. Silver Sword, even though he's a villain, doesn't want this, and looses faith in his goddess. He takes down Pele, almost sacrificing himself in the process. GL finishes up his project and goes home, leaving a very lonely Superboy in Hawaii.
#95 - While working on a project, Kyle gets a message from a distant planet, a message consisting of a few, very ominous words, "More will die." Being the hero type, Kyle can't refuse and goes to the moon of the planet Luth. He is a bit surprised when he gets there, as all he finds are robots running the city. He is taken to one of the Overlords, who tells him that something has been killing his people. It turns out that there are twelve overlords, and they are the only organic beings on this planet, served completely by the robots. They have become fat and lazy and don't even know what has been killing them. Kyle finds the source of the trouble; a spider like alien that seemed to have accidentally crashed on the moon. He realizes, though, that the creature is not killing out of malicious intent, but to bulk up in order to be able to feed it's yet unborn children. Kyle can't bring himself to destroy the creature, which puts him at odds with the overlords. The robots are commanded to destroy the GL, but Kyle defeats them easily and takes the alien's offspring to their home. This leaves the overlords helpless, their servants are gone and they might actually have to work for themselves.