Absolute Green Arrow #6 Review

 

Absolute Green Arrow #6 Review

Writer: Pornsak Pichetshote

Artist: Rafael Albuquerque

Colorist: Marcelo Maiolo

Letterer: Jeff Powell

Cover Artists: Rafael Albuquerque & Marcelo Maiolo

Variant Cover Artists: Gerald Parel, Inhyuk Lee & Leirix

1:25 Variant Cover Artist: Nimit Malavia

Editors: Sabrina Futch, Katie Kubert & Chris Conroy

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $4.99 US | Variant $5.99 US (Card Stock)

Release Date: October 21, 2026

 

Everywhere she looks, death surrounds her. Then there are the monsters that Dr Iker created. Dinah Lance agreed to protect billionaire Reese Tyler from the Green Arrow. But that was only after Hector Hammond threatened to cut off her father's cancer treatments.

 

Now, Hector Hammond has given Dinah's dad a death sentence. One Green Arrow lies dead at her feet. But can another help Dinah escape Iker's chamber of horrors? And is there still time to save her father? Let's leap into Absolute Green Arrow #6, and see!

 

Story

When Hector Hammond caught them investigating his secret genetics laboratory, he left Dinah Lance tied up with the Green Arrow. The masked man mentioned Dinah's mother, but Hector's return silenced Green Arrow's tongue. Then Hector removed the serial killer's mask. Suddenly, Dinah realizes why Malcolm Merlyn, Hammond's chief of security, hired her to investigate the Green Arrow murders. Yet when Malcolm dies, another Green Arrow pulls his bow on her. And Dinah is not surprised.

 

In Absolute Green Arrow #6, Dinah discovers the identity of the second person who posed as the masked serial killer. The Green Arrow fills the gaps in Dinah’s knowledge. She learns how her discoveries enhanced the two killers’ investigations. And Dinah gets another version of the truth about the man she loved, even if he cheated on her and avoided his responsibilities to pursue his dream.

 

Pornsak Pichetshote’s story is about endings. Yet it is also about new beginnings. Just as Oliver Queen sought to accomplish two great things before going to war to combat a great wrong, Dinah Lance must confront her mother’s failure as a Star City Police Detective, and how it has affected her life. The Second Green Arrow also has a painful past. But after combating Hector Hammond and his billionaire buddies, not everyone sees the Green Arrow as a villain. As the surviving Green Arrow makes friends to help him navigate the future, Dinah Lance discovers others who can help her find her way forward.

 

Dinah, the Green Arrow, and others may wish Oliver had made wiser choices. Still, Oliver Queen's struggle to empower people in an oppressive world becomes a vision for others to follow in Absolute Green Arrow #6.

 

Art

The Green Arrow clutches the handle of a throwing knife, locking his two-sword bow together. He pulls back the string affixed to the sword hilts, aiming a broadhead arrowhead at Dinah. A hood obscures his features. Yet, he unmasks in the past. When the Green Arrow shakes his finger at him, Oliver Queen clenches his fists. Then Ollie lifts a compound bow off a wooden crate.

 

While a haze mutes the colors in the Green Arrow’s memory, Dinah stands amid a storm of intense red in Absolute Green Arrow #6. Light-green memories fill unconnected green puzzle pieces below the confrontation. As Marcelo Maiolo applies a limited palette to Rafael Albuquerque’s art, yellow, red, and green accompany characters as they consider their options, act to protect others, and seek enlightenment. Yet blue dominates two pages of this extra-long story when Dinah's iron-hard control weakens.

 

Jeff Powell fills white dialogue balloons and boxes with black and colored uppercase letters. Green Arrow's uppercase and Dinah Lance's lowercase thoughts fill shaky green rectangles and yellow paper scraps. The dialogue grows bold with intonation, shrinks for lowered voices, and enlarges when voices rise. Sound effects amplify the battle for Green Arrow and Dinah Lance's futures, while the silent climax shakes the Absolute Universe. Thanks to DC Comics for sharing this story with us.

 

Final Thoughts

While she lived, her father struggled to live with his wife’s betrayals. When the revelations following her mother’s death isolated her, Dinah Lance sought a new life by taking out her anger on others. Yet after hurting others as an MMA fighter, she decided to protect people, even if they represented everything they despised. After years of repressing her pain, Dinah discovers that working with others to forge a better future, even if they may fail her, is the real superpower in Absolute Green Arrow #6.

 

Rating 9.8/10

 

For more collectible covers see Absolute Green Arrow #6 Cover Preview. 

 

For the Green Arrow that Hector Hammond unmasked, see Absolute Green Arrow #5 Review. 

For how Dinah learned Oliver Queen's fate, see Absolute Green Arrow #4 Review. 

For how Dinah discovers the identity of the boy in the cave, see Absolute Green Arrow #3 Review. 

For why Dinah wears gloves to question a suspect, see my preview of Absolute Green Arrow #2. 

For how Dinah lost her job protecting a pop star, see my preview of Absolute Green Arrow #1.

For how Oliver Queen died, see my preview of Absolute Evil #1. 

For more on the series, see Pornsak Pichetshote on Absolute Green Arrow.