Batman In A Threeway – DC Announces ‘Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia’
by Olly MacNamee
Writer/artist Gabriel Hardman is the creator behind the new four-issue series Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia, announced by DC Comics today and to be published under its DC Black Label imprint. The series will be “a hard-boiled modern twist on the DC thrillers of the 1980s, (updated)… for a new era of open class warfare and ecological collapse.”
Joining Hradman on this mini-series will be Romulo Fajardo Jr. on colours with lettering by Simon Bowland, with the series described as the following:
“Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia unites three of DC’s most ideologically distinct heroes in an expansive narrative of global stakes and personal reckoning. As Bruce Wayne forms a tenuous bond with a billionaire climate visionary, Batman begins to question the true purpose of Arcadia—an ocean-sailing city, climate-hardened against weather extremes, being constructed off the coast of Greenland. Meanwhile, Green Arrow and the Question investigate the darker realities hidden beneath Arcadia’s utopian promise.
Expect bold storytelling, dynamic visuals, and a tone that honors the psychological depth of its vigilante protagonists, each guided by their own code and clashing as often as they unite, while posing difficult questions: When justice fails, what remains? When power corrupts, who resists? And when principle becomes weaponized, who gets hurt?”
Speaking of this three-way thriller, Hardman said:
“I’ve wanted to tell a story about Batman, Green Arrow and the Question since I was 14 years old and I couldn’t be more excited to finally get the chance. While I’m taking inspiration from the great work of Denny O’Neil, Denys Cowan and Mike Grell, this series isn’t an exercise in nostalgia. I’m taking the grounded approach they spearheaded in the late ’80s and moving forward, having these three difficult, opinionated personalities confront a contemporary brand of criminality on a global scale.”
Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia #1 will feature a main cover by Hardman and variant covers from Kevin Nowlan and Denys Cowan and Bill Sienkiewicz. It’s worth noting that the Cowan/Sienkiewicz variant was originally used as a DC poster promoting the 1988 “Fables” crossover between Detective Comics Annual #1, Green Arrow Annual #1, and The Question Annual #1, but has never been offered as a variant cover until now. The Cowan and Sienkiewicz variant will be available in standard card stock and trade-dress-free foil versions.
