Green Arrow #23

This is issue #23 of Green Arrow (Vol. 5) from DC's New 52 era, part of the "Shados" arc following "The Kill Machine" by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino, originally titled "Shados, Conclusion" and published by DC Comics on August 7, 2013, 32 pages. The story begins with Oliver Queen in peril, hunted by Count Vertigo: Vertigo, his implant disrupted by an electromagnetic arrow, loses control yet still attacks; the female archer Shado, rescued by Oliver from Vertigo, reveals during their flight her past with Oliver's father, Robert Queen—how she was hired in Tokyo as an assassin to kill the gangster Ito, a job that was in fact a "test," how Robert and his partner Simon Lacroix came to know her, and how they sought an ancient relic called the "Green Arrow," thereby provoking the Outsiders, an organization spanning history. Shado reveals that Emiko is not Komodo's daughter but hers and Robert's, taken by Komodo; Komodo is none other than Lacroix, who betrayed Robert and fell under the Outsiders' temptation. Meanwhile, at a hotel hideout in Hungary, Henry is about to confess to Naomi but hears her admit her feelings for Oliver. In the end, Seattle's gang landscape is shaken by a mysterious figure calling himself Richard Dragon, setting up the next story.