Some thoughts about Secret Origins #3

The early days from the Emerald Knight, a soldier and the boy who discovered Batman's identity told from a new perspective.

How does Hal Jordan deals with fear? What are the most important aspects from Kate Kane's life? What is what obsesses Tim Drake the most? All of them have a different point of view that it's not explored yet.

Third issue from this new volume focusing on new perspectives from some of the most popular DC heroes and while this issue is not as good as the previous one, is still worth checking out.

The first segment belongs to Robert Venditti and his take on the origin of Hal Jordan. Venditti takes a lot from Geoff Johns' own retelling but he adds an interesting twist to it, Hal's thoughts about fear remain the same but Venditti gives a bit more insight about such mentality as well as delivering a bit more depth to his family. Martin Coccolo is in charge of the art for this story and he does a quite good job at portraying both the action and the expressions of the characters, it was a pretty fitting choice and I would love to see more from this artist in the future.

The second section is handled by Batwoman's artist Jeremy Haun who surprisingly handles the writing in this issue and while this aspect is solid, is mostly things that we already knew about the character, in fact most of the scenes are pulled straight from Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III's Detective Comics run featuring Batwoman, sadly it doesn't offer practically anything new. The story is drawn by Trevor McCarthy who does an outstanding job by creating beautiful characters and settings with his own unique style.

The third part is about Red Robin's story written by Scott Lobdell. Lobdell retells a lot of the ideas he created on the issue 0 from Teen Titans but he does it with a different tone this time and emphasizes it on Tim's obsession for his objectives, is actually a pretty solid interpretation and one does has its advantages. Tyler Kirkham handles the artwork for this and his work is pretty aproppriate for this story since it follows the style from the previous Teen Titans series.

Overall, I would say that I liked Venditti's story the best by far, second place belong to Lobdell and third to Haun. It's a solid issue but I wish that some authors would have offered more suprising ideas.