The Black Archer
19 years ago (dream realm memory) - Wealthy playboy Oliver Queen is betrayed by the cabal of elite controlling Star City and thrown off a building. Soon the Cabal is stalked by an undead specter, The Black Archer.
14 years ago (dream realm memory) - The Black Archer begins working with Scream Queen, and joins her on the Crime Syndicate as her enforcer.
12 years ago - The Justice League are attacked in their dreams by Doctor Destiny. They follow him back into the Dream Dome defeating him and disabling his technology. The Dream Dome builds a dream reflection of the world and populates it with nightmare mirrors of the Justice League. They remember their own history, coming together as the Crime Syndicate and dominating their world.
9 years ago - Morpheus returns to the Dreaming. While reclaiming his realm, he disabled the Dream Dome, the technology built by Garrett Sanford while lost in the Dreaming. The dream reflection of the world that is home to the Crime Syndicate, no longer protected by the Dome, is set adrift in its own corner of the Dreaming.
7 years ago - The Crime Syndicate confirms that their world is in fact merely a dream reflection of the real world. They escape, and attack the Justice League to take their place. The League is defeated, and has to regroup. They are assisted in finally defeating the Crime Syndicate by Owlman.
The Crime Syndicate is really one collective storytelling entity. While Grant Morrison's take on these characters did give them a little more backstory, the point has never really been for any of them to have a lot of story of their own, so making character specific timelines becomes kind of beside the point.
Because of the way we did this, with the Syndicate being dream reflections of the League, the timelines of these characters are deliberately pretty esoteric. These characters remember a past, and that past is a sort of mirror universe mélange of the histories of the characters they are reflections of, but none of those histories actually happened, so we they're not going to link out to the timeline at large. They only exist on these pages.
Because of the way we did this, with the Syndicate being dream reflections of the League, the timelines of these characters are deliberately pretty esoteric. These characters remember a past, and that past is a sort of mirror universe mélange of the histories of the characters they are reflections of, but none of those histories actually happened, so we they're not going to link out to the timeline at large. They only exist on these pages.
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The Black Archer's StoryThere hasn't ever been a single, purposeful translation of Green Arrow into a member of the Crime Syndicate, but there have been sort of passive attempts to put him into Earth 3. During the 2007 series Countdown, the story heroes Donna Troy, Kyle Rayner & Jason Todd were hopping through the new (and short-lived) new Multiverse that had come out of the series 52, and among their destinations was Earth-3. This was full of new versions of characters we really never saw again. In one group shot, we have an unnamed Green Arrow allegory. later, during the 2021 miniseries Crime Syndicate, Oliver Queen is the President. Take that as you will.
We're doing this in April of 2026, when the most popular thing in comics is the new Absolute Universe. As of right now we only have art from the upcoming Absolute Green Arrow. People are still in the speculation stage as to what is going on here. I think it's probably an undead Oliver Queen, but I could be wildly wrong. Still, the idea of The Black Archer being an undead Oliver Queen is awesome, so whether this is what Absolute Green Arrow turns out to be or not, It is definitely how we're doing evil Green Arrow for our Crime Syndicate. |
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