The following contains major spoilers for Green Arrow Annual 2024 #1, on sale now from DC Comics.
Green Arrow has returned to where his superhero career first began, and all for his ever-expanding family.
Green Arrow Annual 2024 #1 finds the titular hero creeping through the jungles of Starfish Island while reminiscing on all the time he spent stranded there. Though the memories might be painful, the thought that he now gets to share it with not just his children, but his grandchildren as well, more than makes up for it. That is, so long as he doesn't have to expend too much effort playing babysitter for the kids who he knows full well can take care of themselves.
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Green Arrow Annual 2024 #1
- Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
- Art by SEAN IZAAKSE & AMANCAY NAHUELPAN
- Colors by ROMULO FAJARDO JR.
- Letters by TROY PETERI
- Main cover art by SEAN IZAAKSE & ROMULO FAJARDO JR.
- Variant covers by PHIL HESTER and ANDE PARKS & RYAN CODY
Starfish Island has been an iconic DC Comics locale since it was first seen in Jack Kirby and Ed Herron's story "Green Arrow: The Green Arrow's First Case," from the pages of 1959's Adventure Comics #256. This story charted Oliver Queen's time spent stranded on Starfish Island, during which he developed the survivalist techniques that he would go on to employ as the Green Arrow. Though this was a major department from the Golden Age Green Arrow's beginnings, the Starfish Island epic has become the quintessential origin story for the character across nearly all subsequent iterations.
Over the years, Starfish Island has played home to a variety of different storylines and characters beyond the Green Arrow's origin. In The CW's Arrowverse, Starfish Island was the secret home to a submarine carrying an experimental super serum that dated back to the Second World War. Eventually, the island became home to a penal colony, which eventually became part of a major drug trafficking operation, which in turn was redeveloped into the site of a supermax prison for superpowered criminals after A.R.G.U.S. took control of the territory.
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Oliver Queen's sprawling Green Arrow family has grown exponentially in recent years, with entire generations of budding young new heroes and villains making their debuts in the pages of various DC Comics titles. Among the most prominent of these is Lian Harper, better known as Cheshire Cat. The daughter of Jade Nguyen, aka Cheshire, and Roy Harper, better known as Arsenal, Lian made her first appearance in 2020's Catwoman #25 by Ram V and Fernando Blanco. In her younger years, Lian was the subject of a cruel plot by Amanda Waller which saw her constantly teleported across time and space, up until she finally broke free and settled down in Gotham City, where she was able to finally begin the search for the family she was stolen away from.
Green Arrow Annual 2024 #1 is on sale now from DC Comics.
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