*This article contains spoilers for Green Arrow #3 (2023)*
The dimension-traveling Green Arrow (2023) title has become a time-traveling saga as well! While Oliver Queen and Lian have been teleported across space, this time they have been drawn to the future—to a legion of super-heroes. It is there that Oliver’s long lost relative waits him…
As Oliver realizes where he and Lian have been teleported, he recognizes the archer with the legion ring. It is none other than his son, Connor Hawke! While Legionaries like Saturn Girl and Cosmic Boy are excited to see Oliver, Ollie brushes past them to embrace his son. Finally, the archers are at peace.
Meanwhile, Peacemaker and Peacewrecker are dueling it out with Arsenal (Roy Harper) and Black Canary (Dinah Lance), until Vertigo interrupts the fight! But Black Canary puts him in his place rather quickly. Somehow it turns into a manhood measuring contest as Peacemaker agrees that if Roy can land a better shot at a target than him, Roy can speak with Vertigo.
Of course, Roy wins, and as promised, he gets to speak with Vertigo. Good ol’ Vertigo mentions he’s heard Waller had been “collecting”. And that he does not know where she is. Just that she is up to something big.
Lian catches up with Ollie, explaining how she got to where she is. She remembers an explosion and then awakening in a lab. She had been teleporting around after hearing Waller make an agreement with someone in the shadows. Whenever she neared her father, Roy Harper, she’d be teleported away (except for in issue #1).
It is then that the archers learn Waller left little implants in the necks of the archer family…just as she does with her Suicide Squad.
Oliver then reveals a message he found in the teleportation tubes. A message from a future version of him which says he and his family caused a great disaster.
The issue ends with a Green Lantern attacking the Legion headquarters—only the lantern is a version of Hal Jordan. It is Parallax.
This issue was good, except for the fact that everyone keeps saying “our family can never be together”, in a repetitive and nonchalant manner. To the point of exhaustion, though that is my only problem with the issue. However, it is a big problem. The audience does not need to be hand held like this. We understand what it means the first time it is mentioned. Aside from that, the artwork was beautiful and so was the story.
Rating: 3/5 Stars. Good chapter in this story arc, but suffered too much from repetition. Hopefully future issues will not enter the same pitfall.
Suggested reading: Green Lantern #48 (1990), the classic “Emerald Twilight”, story arc which shows Hal Jordan turning into the beast called Parallax..
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