{"id":378087,"date":"2026-09-16T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=378087"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:56:11","slug":"absolute-green-arrow-5-is-out-now-a-dark-knight-returns-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/absolute-green-arrow-5-is-out-now-a-dark-knight-returns-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolute Green Arrow #5 is out now: a Dark Knight Returns tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Absolute Green Arrow #5 is out now in comic shops and on digital comics platforms, and in this issue Pornsak Pichetshote and Rafael Albuquerque slip in a direct nod to Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/dc-wants-to-reboot-one-of-the-most-iconic-graphic-novels-by-alan-moore-20-years-after-its-first-film-adaptation\" rel=\"noopener\">The Dark Knight Returns<\/a><\/strong> that longtime DC readers will catch right away.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Absolute Green Arrow #5, Pichetshote and Albuquerque echo that famous 1986 panel by having Malcolm Merlyn, after losing a hand, pull a bowstring with his teeth, <strong>mirroring Oliver Queen<\/strong>\u2019s one-armed shot during Batman\u2019s climactic fight with Superman in The Dark Knight Returns.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here, the image does a different job, since Malcolm Merlyn uses it to free Tom Hallaway, aka The Spider, and kicks up enough chaos around Hammond and Solomon Grundy for <strong>Dinah Lance and Roy Harper<\/strong> to escape.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The callback does more than wink at old readers. In Absolute Green Arrow #5, Solomon Grundy leaves Malcolm Merlyn badly injured, but <strong>Malcolm Merlyn\u2019s sacrifice<\/strong> changes the shape of the conflict and helps crack open the cabal at the center of the story, while the ending reveals another Green Arrow behind Dinah Lance, hints at two killers, and leaves the identity unresolved, with Roy Harper incapacitated and Mia Dearden only a possible fit.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you follow Green Arrow or DC history, <strong>Absolute Green Arrow #5<\/strong> is worth picking up, especially with DC already building toward The Dark Knight Returns\u2019 40th anniversary in 2026.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can get <strong>Absolute Green Arrow #5<\/strong> now in comic shops and on digital comics platforms.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolute Green Arrow #5 is out now in comic shops and on digital comics platforms, and in this issue Pornsak Pichetshote and Rafael Albuquerque slip in a direct nod to Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley\u2019s The Dark Knight Returns that longtime DC readers will catch right away. In Absolute Green Arrow #5, Pichetshote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/absolute-green-arrow-5-is-out-now-a-dark-knight-returns-tribute\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Absolute Green Arrow #5 is out now: a Dark Knight Returns tribute&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9352,"featured_media":378086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-378087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378088,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378087\/revisions\/378088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378087"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=378087"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=378087"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=378087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}