Reviewer: Jesse Baker
Story Title: A Perfect Life
Written by: Geoff Johns
Penciled by: Carlos Pacheco
Inked by: Jesus Merino
Colored by: Moose Baumann
Lettered by: Rob Leigh
Editor: Peter Tomasi
Publisher: DC Comics
The cover says “Infinite Crisis” tie-in but it’s not. Granted, Mongul’s doppleganger son is here but we are given very very little connection to his appearance in IC #1. The book is also our first gratuitous Green Lantern/Green Arrow team-up of the relaunch, which is doesn’t mesh with the current goings on in JLA, unless you go and say this story takes place in the period after the destruction of the Watchtower but before the current “World Without a Justice League” storyline.
The basic plot is simple; as Mongul is planting the created “Black Mercy” plants on Earth and it’s up to Ollie and Hal to stop him. Oh and we get a lot of references to Hal being confused that this isn’t the Mongul that helped nuke Coast City off the face of the earth. And we also get more rambling about how the yellow impurity thing is no longer canon via Hal stabbing Mongul multiple times with green constructs made from his ring.
Of course, things don’t go that simple for the heroes and since we have the Black Mercies in play, they grab ahold of Hal and Ollie, transporting them to fake dreamworlds where Ollie raised his son Connor Hawke and where Hal’s father is alive.
