Green Arrow #9

This volume is issue #9 of Green Arrow (Vol. 6), serialized under DC Comics' 2011 New 52 initiative. It is the third part of the Triple Threat: Deadzone storyline and the closing chapter of writer Ann Nocenti's first story arc, with Harvey Tolibao as lead artist. In the New 52 setting, Oliver Queen is a Seattle millionaire hero who operates with technological equipment and archery, having lost the traditional Robin Hood-style social-issue label and become entangled instead with multinational corporations, genetic modification, and high-tech crime. In this arc, Oliver is drawn into a conspiracy involving triplet sisters who call themselves Skylark and their father, Leer, who conducts experiments on genetically modified animals in a remote area and uses his father's laboratory to lure Oliver in. Issue #9 follows the end of issue #8: Oliver and one of the Skylarks track a polar bear and find it captured in a small town near a gold mine, a town struggling under pollution from mining waste. Oliver wins the locals' trust but is again outmaneuvered by the Skylark triplets and brought back before the mastermind, Leer. The story concludes in this issue as Oliver's assistant Naomi arrives by helicopter to extract him, bringing the previous adventure to a close. The series subsequently moves on to new storylines involving robotic identities and corporate power struggles.