After the events of "Justice League; Cry for Justice" Star City is in ruins with thousands of people dead and homeless, Green Arrow has killed Prometheus and Red Arrow has been left badly injured by Prometheus. That is the basis for the new Justice League mini-series "Rise of Arsenal."
The beginning of the story takes the reader back to "Cry for Justice" when Red Arrow aka Roy Harper is attacked in the watchtower by Prometheus. During the fight Prometheus manages to severely injure Red Arrow and decapitate his right arm. After loosing an enourmous amount of blood Roy collapses and goes into acoma.
When Roy wakes up he finds everything has changed. Star City was leveled by Prometheus and during the struggle Roy's daughter Lian was killed after the building she and her parents were living in was destroyed. Roy is of course heartbroken by this shocking change of events and cannot bring himself to this death. Meanwhile Roy has dreams & visions of his old friend corey (who died of an overdose several years back) and his wound does not seem to heal because of nanomites that are eating away at his wound. After leaving the watchtower medical facility Roy travels down to the now devastated Star City where he retreats to his own house where he, his wife and Lian lived. In there he finds looters and confronts them. After almost loosing to the looter Black Canary arrives and offers to spend time with Roy to help him get over his pain. However, something is still amuck with Roy as he continues to have visions of Corey. Something isn't right here.
I found myself crying during this issue. Even though I am not a parent I still felt Roy's pain. To me the worst thing in the world is when a child dies before a parent and I think that the death of a loved one is one that most people can relate to. The one scene in this issue that got to me was when Roy saw his daughter's lifeless body in the morgue (talk about gut wrenching).
This issue shows the breakdown of a true hero and how the loss of a loved one can drive a person (even a hero) to the lowest point. DC comics has a nack for doing this and is something that will be seen within the next few issues of this miniseries.
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