Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia #4
(W) Gabriel Hardman (A) Gabriel Hardman
DON’T MISS THE SHOCKING CONCLUSION! Under siege in a blizzard, Batman, Green Arrow, the Question, and the refugees of Arcadia must go to war with a mercenary army commanded by a desperate, petty billionaire. Our heroes will emerge forever changed… if they survive!
Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia #3
(W) Gabriel Hardman (A) Gabriel Hardman
A bold rescue operation reunites Batman, Green Arrow, and the Question… only to crash and burn in the storm-ravaged mountains of Greenland. But the heroes’ tenuous coalition is ripped apart at the seams as they brace for the retaliatory assault of a billionaire’s private army!
Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia #2
(W) Gabriel Hardman (A) Romulo Fajardo Jr.
BATMAN VS. GREEN ARROW IN THE FROZEN WASTES OF GREENLAND! As both Green Arrow and the Question infiltrate the Arcadia Project, they’ve discovered something rotten at the heart of this so-called climate sanctuary… but when they bring their intel to Batman, will they be trusted? Or has Bruce Wayne become a true believer in Arcadia’s mission?
Sometimes, the staff at Graphic Policy read more comics than we’re able to get reviewed. When that happens you’ll see a weekly feature compiling reviews of the comics, or graphic novels, we just didn’t get a chance to write a full one for.
These are Graphic Policy’s Mini Reviews and Recommendations.
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Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia #1 (DC Black Label) – Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia #1 (BGQA from here on out) is like Neapolitan ice cream for folks who like street level heroes and socially conscious storylines. Cartoonist Gabriel Hardman cooks up an old school conspiracy thriller featuring three heroes from all over the ideological spectrum. However, BGQA #1 isn’t just talks and lectures, and there is serious power and action to the visuals as Oliver Queen punches frat bros at gentrified dive bars or Batman does his stealth thing at a corporate retreat. Hardman’s characterization of Batman is actually similar to Superman in The Dark Knight Returns, and I’m curious to see how that unfolds as this series progresses. Overall: 8.4 Verdict: Buy
Absolute Wonder Woman #14 (DC) – The two-parter about Diana fighting her dark double comes to a literally earth-shattering conclusion courtesy of Kelly Thompson, Matias Bergara, and Jordie Bellaire. Bergara is no mere fill-in artist, and he throws some beautiful, primal shapes with his layouts matching a conflicted color palette from Bellaire and painful narration from Thompson. And, on the bigger picture side of things, Absolute Wonder Woman #14 shows there is something askew and dark about the Absolute Universe, which makes heroes like Diana all the more needed. Kelly Thompson have built the foundation for a heroic, yet hellish take on the iconic superhero, and a crossover is additive to the narrative not a chore. And to wrap up, Absolute Zatanna and Jordie Bellaire’s glittering colors for her almost run away with the whole issue in a gnizilatnat esaet. Overall: 8.7 Verdict: Buy
Absolute Batman #14 (DC) – The conclusion to the big Bane/Venom arc in Absolute Batman from Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, and Frank Martin is everything I expected and more. Snyder structures the comic as a parallel story of the battle royale between Batman and Bane with an MMA match between Waylon Jones and Bibbo Bibbowski years earlier. Jones was supposed to go down early and take the money, but he wouldn’t take no for an answer and the same with Batman. Dragotta puts his heavy metal heart on the page as Batman outmaneuvers a constantly growing and bloating Bane. (He could give Demi Moore’s character in The Substance a run for her money.) Alfred Pennyworth’s narrative keeps the fight linked to Batman’s arc, and the story ends up being about fighting in community against a soulless evil. On almost the 40th anniversary of The Dark Knight Returns, Batman, once again, has an epic fight against a larger than life opponent, and Nick Dragotta puts his own unique brand on the Caped Crusader just like Miller did in the 1980s. And Bane was just an amuse bouche for an even more formidable foe. Overall: 9.9 Verdict: Buy
Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia #1
(W) Gabriel Hardman (A) Gabriel Hardman
From the decaying husk of Hub City, Vic Sage, the Question goes deep undercover on the trail of a human-trafficking operation in the frozen Arctic.
Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow, pushed out of his own company’s C-suite, must get his crumbling life back together… but what is Queen Industries’ involvement with a mysterious project dubbed Arcadia? Spurred on by the Question, Green Arrow joins the hunt for answers… but one obstacle stands in the way of their investigation: the Batman.
Writer/artist Gabriel Hardman comes to DC Black Label with a hardboiled modern twist on the DC social thrillers of the 1980s, updating this opinionated trio of lone-wolf vigilantes for the era of open class warfare and ecological collapse.
Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia #1
(W) Gabriel Hardman (A) Gabriel Hardman
From the decaying husk of Hub City, Vic Sage, the Question goes deep undercover on the trail of a human-trafficking operation in the frozen Arctic.
Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow, pushed out of his own company’s C-suite, must get his crumbling life back together… but what is Queen Industries’ involvement with a mysterious project dubbed Arcadia? Spurred on by the Question, Green Arrow joins the hunt for answers… but one obstacle stands in the way of their investigation: the Batman.
Writer/artist Gabriel Hardman comes to DC Black Label with a hardboiled modern twist on the DC social thrillers of the 1980s, updating this opinionated trio of lone-wolf vigilantes for the era of open class warfare and ecological collapse.
DC has announced Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia, a character-driven new four-issue series by acclaimed storyteller Gabriel Hardman, launching November 26, 2025, and publishing monthly under the publisher’s DC Black Label imprint. Writer/artist Hardman comes to DC Black Label with a hard-boiled modern twist on the DC thrillers of the 1980s, updating this opinionated trio of lone-wolf vigilantes, Batman, Green Arrow and the Question, for a new era of open class warfare and ecological collapse.
Written, pencilled, and inked by Hardman, with colors by Romulo Fajardo Jr. and lettering by Simon Bowland, 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.
Through a high-stakes blend of suspense, espionage, and conflict, Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia is perfect for readers seeking complex narratives and iconic archetypes as the comic book series dives deep into the moral gray zones of three of the DC Universe’s most unyielding vigilantes. In Arcadia, working from the decaying husk of Hub City, Vic Sage, the Question, goes deep undercover on the trail of a human-trafficking operation in the frozen Arctic. Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow, pushed out of his own company’s C-suite, must get his crumbling life back together…but what is Queen Industries’ involvement with a mysterious project dubbed Arcadia? Spurred on by the Question, Green Arrow joins the hunt for answers…but one obstacle stands in the way of their investigation: the Batman.
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?
Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia #1 will feature a main cover by Hardman and variant covers from Kevin Nowlan and the legendary duo of Denys Cowan and Bill Sienkiewicz. The Cowan and Sienkiewicz variant was originally seen on a DC poster promoting the 1988 “Fables” crossover between Detective Comics Annual #1, Green Arrow Annual #1, and The Question Annual #1, and 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.
Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia #1 debuts November 26, 2025, available wherever comic books are sold. Card stock covers will retail for $5.99 US while the foil variant cover will retail for $7.99 US. Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia will carry DC’s Ages 17+ content descriptor (for mature readers). Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia is edited by DC executive editor Chris Conroy and assistant editor Ash Padilla. Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia (hardcover, ISBN 9781799505518), collecting all four issues, hits shelves June 16, 2026, and will retail for $24.99 US.
