Green Arrow #26 – “Ollie of Sherwood” – Mike Grell/J. J. Birch/Michael Bair
This one continues from last issue, with Oliver (Green Arrow) Queen still in the pub. The innkeeper tells him he shouldn’t stir up trouble by investigating Hawthorne’s death. He tells Oliver how Hawthorne’s daughter-in-law got into witchcraft after her husband died, and how it drove her to a premature death. Now Hawthorne’s granddaughter (Rowan) has followed in her mother’s footsteps and gotten into the whole “magic” thing. The innkeeper says everyone around there believes Rowan used magic to drive Hawthorne mad and eventually to kill him. Oliver isn’t convinced and
goes to Hawthorne’s manor house to look around. He checks the place out, picking up the dead man’s cane and looking at the plants (which have been watered recently). Dunston (Hawthorne’s lawyer) shows up unexpectedly and Oliver almost jumps him. Oliver tells Dunston that Rowan has been to the house to water the plants and harvest some herbs (and Oliver takes some parsley to kill the garlic taste in his mouth from the meal at the pub). Dunston wants Rowan found and put in psychiatric care; Oliver says he can follow her trail into the woods easily, but still isn’t sure she’s as crazy as everyone 
thinks. After suiting up, Green Arrow heads into the woods, following Rowan’s trail. But he soon starts hearing a voice and meets a man with antlers (Hern the Hunter) who tells him about the spirit of the greenwood and shows him visions of Robin hood and his Merry Men. Green Arrow has a vision of a dragon, which turns out to be a car that almost runs him over. Rowan shows up to bring him back to her cave and take care of him. Turns out his visions were drug-induced and Rowan knows why he’s there. Green Arrow tells her he knows she’s innocent and she gives him a speech about nature and witchcraft and how everything is connected. Dunston shows up at Rowan’s stone circle with a posse,
having followed Green Arrow, but Arrow won’t let them near Rowan. Green Arrow has figured out that Dunston was dosing Hawthorne with LSD—driving him nuts and making everyone think Rowan had bewitched him—eventually causing his heart attack. Dunston mixed the LSD with dimethylsulfoxide, which is absorbed through the skin (and leaves a garlic aftertaste in the throat). Green Arrow got a dose of the DMSO/LSD mixture when he handled the cane earlier, which is why Dunston followed him, since he figured arrow wouldn’t be in any shape to bring Rowan back. Rowan tells Dunston she’d have given him all the 
money, but that’s part of the reason he’s pissed off: he thought of Hawthorne as a father, but Hawthorne treated him like a servant. When Dunston tries to shoot Rowan, her dog leaps at him, driving him against a standing stone that breaks and crushes him. Before leaving, Green Arrow shoots an arrow into the heart of the forest, as a thank you to Hern the Hunter and the spirit of the greenwood.
Young All-Stars #31 – “Men … and Super-Men” – Roy and Dann Thomas/Lou Manna/Bob Downs, Keith Branch
This is the conclusion of the Sons of Dawn storyline, as well as the final issue of Young All-Stars. In previous issues, Iron Munro found his father (Hugo Danner) still alive in a remote land in South America. Danner had bred some local natives to be super strong like himself, but when Munro and Georgia Challenger (granddaughter of Professor Challenger from Doyle’s Lost World) found the village, they were taken captive and the Sons of Dawn (as Danner calls them) decided to leave their hidden village to
conquer the world … starting with the nearby nation of Rioguay, where Dyna-Mite and his parents just happened to be (since his father is American Ambassador to Rioguay). The Sons of Dawn (led by Xtoh and his twin sister Xavi) mowed down all opposition at the embassy and quickly took over. When Dyna-Mite’s mother tries to defy the invaders, Xtoh threatens to kill her. Dyna-Mite jumps him, but he’s no match for the superhuman Xtoh. The only native with any sense of humanity (Tohil) fights Xtoh to stop him from killing Dyna-Mite, but Xtoh kills Tohil instead. Danner shows up and starts pounding Dyna-Mite (Danner is actually proud that his “creations” want to take over the world), 
but he’s interrupted when the All-Stars—including the rest of the Young All-Stars—show up. Danner brags about killing Munro, so Fury goes after him, but she gets pounded. The other All-Stars tackle Danner and the Sons of Dawn and a big fight breaks out. The Sons of Dawn are way stronger than the All-Stars, so they gain the upper hand in the fight. But when Munro shows up to stand with his friends (Danner lied about killing him to impress the Sons of Dawn), the tide turns. Munro pounds Xtoh, who dies … but not from the beating. While Munro confronts his father, other Sons of Dawn weaken and die, and Georgia realizes her cold must be killing them, since they have no modern
immune system. Danner realizes it’s his fault for letting them leave the isolated village, so he encourages the remaining Sons of Dawn to head home to die. Danner jumps down a factory chimney to kill himself, leaving Munro devastated even though Danner was kind of an asshole. But the Young All-Stars remind him that they’re his family now and the rest of the All-Stars decide to admit the youngsters as full members of the team. And that’s it for the Young All-Stars, and the All-Star Squadron in general. DC seemed to be cutting ties with their past (or Earth-2, if you prefer) heroes after the Crisis, probably because 
they were constant reminders of pre-Crisis continuity. They shunted the JSA off into Limbo, and now this series is done. The characters still existed in the past (and later comics would reference them), but I guess DC was trying to look forward not back. The issue ends with a couple of pin-ups: one of the Young All-Stars by Michael Bair, and a calendar-style pin-up of Tigress (which was supposed to be part of a series that unfortunately never happened) by Ron Harris.
Suicide Squad #35 – “That Hideous Strength” – John Ostrander/Luke McDonnell/Geoff Isherwood
This is basically one long fight scene. Last issue, Lashina (who’s been masquerading as Duchess for quite a while) shanghaied Big Barda and a bunch of Suicide Squad members (including Amanda Waller and Flo) to Apokolips. Lashina wants to reclaim leadership of the Female Furies from Bernadeth, so she brought the others as cannon fodder to keep Granny Goodness, the other Furies, and the soldiers of Darkseid busy. Obviously, the humans are vastly outmatched by the forces of Apokolips,
but they fight anyway, knowing it’s their only hope of survival and we get various vignettes of the team members in action. Captain Boomerang gets a surprise when he goes after Vunderbar, Vixen inspires Major Victory not to give up, Big Barda saves Shade from Stompa, Nightshade uses her dimensional powers to torment Artemiz, and Granny pounds Waller, who’s saved by Poison Ivy. While Barda keeps Granny busy, and Kanto knifes Count Vertigo, Lashina finally confronts Bernadeth and apparently kills her. Granny welcomes Lashina back (since might always makes right on Apokolips) and Lashina says she brought Flo as a new orphan for Granny to train. When Granny asks about the others, Lashina suggests they just kill them all.