Green Arrow #25 [Mike Grell Variant Cover]

(August 2017)

Broken Arrow (Table of Contents: 1)

Green Arrow / comic story / 28 pages (report information)

Script

Benjamin Percy

Pencils

Otto Schmidt

Inks

Otto Schmidt

Colors

Otto Schmidt

Letters

Nate Piekos; Blambot

Genre

superhero

Characters

Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Detective Shuffleton; Detective Troy Ros; Mayor Nathan Domini; unnamed reporters; unnamed guitar-playing woman; unnamed husband of guitar-playing woman; unnamed child; unnamed preacher; Victoria Much; Fenton (hobo); unnamed gang members; Black Canary [Dinah Lance]; The Underground Men; Red Arrow [Emiko Queen]; Robin Queen (Ollie's ancestor, deceased); Robert Queen (flashback); Moira Queen; Shado; agents of the Ninth Circle; unnamed prison guard; Kate Spencer; John Diggle; The Dark Archer [Malcolm Merlyn]; Cyrus Broderick; Henry Fyff; unnamed Queen Industries employees; Henry's Nainai (grandmother); Justice League [Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Wonder Woman [Diana of Themyscira]; Superman [Clark Kent]; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]] (one-panel cameo); Nightwing [Dick Grayson] (one-panel cameo); Robin [Damian Wayne] (one-panel cameo); Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel] (one-panel cameo); Batgirl [Barbara Gordon] (one-panel cameo)

Synopsis

Revealing to the public that he is alive, Ollie is arrested and charged with the murder of his secretary. In the aftermath of the recent destruction, Mayor Domini re-names Seattle as Star City, a city that is privately financed by Queen Industries and Cyrus Broderick. The city caters to the wealthy while the poor are evicted from their homes. Ollie joins Black Canary to battle the Underground Men who are abducting the newly homeless, while Henry learns of the Ninth Circle's master plan. Ollie leaves Star City to pursue a plan to victory, and the leader of the Ninth Circle is revealed.

Reprints

• in Green Arrow (DC, 2017 series) #4 - The Rise of Star City (2017 [February 2018])

Indexer Notes

Ollie had publicly been presumed dead since issue #2. In that same issue Ollie was framed by Cyrus Broderick for the murder of his secretary Wendy, and Ollie decided to stay dead in the eyes of the public while working to bring down Broderick.