Green Arrow Gets an Iron Man Costume Upgrade in New Cover

Green Arrow is currently missing after Dark Crisis, but it looks like he’ll be found with a major upgrade to both his uniform and his signature bow.

Warning: Potential SPOILERS for Green Arrow #2Green Arrow shows off his new Iron Man-inspired costume and signature weapon in a new cover for his upcoming DC Comics series. The current whereabouts of Oliver Queen is unknown, but it looks like he’ll be found with a major upgrade to both his uniform and his bow.

Green Arrow’s newest costume appears on Sean Izaaske’s main cover for May’s Green Arrow #2. Oliver Queen still wears his signature green in the form of a hood and a cape, but the rest of his new costume has some Iron Man-like features. His chest is now covered in chunky silver armor, and his bow has some new technological upgrades, including a targeting hologram. The full solicitation for the issue follows:

GREEN ARROW #2

• Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
• Art and cover by SEAN IZAAKSE
• Variant cover by DAVID NAKAYAMA
• 1:25 variant cover by EJIKURE
• AAPI Heritage Month variant cover by MARCIO TAKARA
• $3.99 US | 32 pages | 2 of 6 | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
• ON SALE 5/23/23
• Green Arrow is alive…but where the hell is he?! That’s what Roy Harper and Black Canary want to know, and their search takes them into the bowels of Belle Reve. But they’d better hurry—the stranded Oliver Queen and another lost member of the Green Arrow family are both being hunted by a brand-new villain called…Troublemaker.

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The Green Arrow Family Is About to Be Reunited

This new costume is just the latest Green Arrow announcement from DC. The publisher is relaunching the character and his large supporting cast in a new Green Arrow miniseries this April. Following the events of Dark Crisis, Oliver Queen has gone missing, and Black Canary and Roy Harper are determined to find him. The main cover for Green Arrow #1, seen above, promises a number of guest appearances from some long forgotten but still-beloved “Arrow Family” characters, like Lian Harper and Mia Dearden, as well as new characters like Red Canary.

Despite the return to some of these classic Green Arrow characters and relationships, this new and majorly upgraded costume for Oliver suggests the book won’t be completely stuck in the character’s past. For obvious reasons—namely Green Arrow’s ancient weapon of choice—there isn’t always a lot of room for updating an archer’s look and arsenal. This new costume is a much-needed gesture towards the character’s future.

Readers can look forward to learning not only where Oliver Queen has been since the conclusion of Dark Crisis, but also just how he got his hands on technology that would make even Iron Man jealous. Between this new look and the promise of an Arrow Family reunion, this Green Arrow miniseries is off to a great start before its first issue has even hit shelves.

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Check out Green Arrow #2, available May from DC Comics!