Batman, Green Arrow and the Question take on climate change in new Black Label miniseries
Polygon's fawning over news of a new Batman miniseries from the Black Label imprint co-starring Green Arrow and the Question, that emphasizes one of the most pathetically cheap subjects of the modern era:
It's pretty apparent the whole Black Label imprint is only amounting to a pathetic farce, and very sad how Batman, Green Arrow and the Question are being exploited as the viewpoint of the writer's leftist politics, all for the sake of something that's far too easy. Yet chances are quite high even the preceding Vertigo imprint never amounted to much more than this either, so maybe that'll at least give something to consider regarding whatever Vertigo "represented" in the past, which could've just as well been nothing much at all.
You've read countless stories about Batman battling the Joker on the streets of Gotham, but what about Batman taking on billionaires on an ocean-faring utopian city? Alongside other DC vigilantes, that's exactly what he'll do when Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia begins, with the first issue releasing on November 26.This has become so cliched by now it's not even funny. It's a pathetically cheap topic that only serves as an excuse to avoid more challenging issues. Here's more from Get Your Comic On:
This Black Label (DC Comics' imprint for darker and more mature stories) four-issue miniseries follows the heroes, updated "for a new era of open class warfare and ecological collapse," in a noir detective thriller, according to a news release. Bruce Wayne investigates the "climate-hardened" city of Arcadia while Green Arrow and the Question uncover the secrets buried beneath the city to try to figure out what's really going on.
DC has announced Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia, a bold, character-driven new four-issue comic book 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.And this is so much more vital an issue than Islamic terrorism and child abuse? Or even drug trafficking? It's head-shakingly sad how they call a premise like climate-hardening or changing "bold" by comparison, and even "hard boiled", along with babbling about "global stakes" while ignoring the serious ones in real life. The talk of "dark realities" is also appallingly laughable.
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.
It's pretty apparent the whole Black Label imprint is only amounting to a pathetic farce, and very sad how Batman, Green Arrow and the Question are being exploited as the viewpoint of the writer's leftist politics, all for the sake of something that's far too easy. Yet chances are quite high even the preceding Vertigo imprint never amounted to much more than this either, so maybe that'll at least give something to consider regarding whatever Vertigo "represented" in the past, which could've just as well been nothing much at all.
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