How would Absolute Green Arrow be different from his mainline counterpart? That was the question many readers had going into Absolute Evil #1, which hit comic book stores today. Turns out, that was the wrong question.

Like its sister over at Marvel , the Ultimate Universe, the Absolute line of DC Comics features a new universe in which familiar characters are rebooted and reimagined. Thus far, we’ve had an impoverished (and physically huge) Batman who was raised by his single mother and a Wonder Woman who uses the magic she learned while being raised in Hell instead of Paradise Island.

But our first glimpses of the Absolute version of Oliver Queen a.k.a. Green Arrow looked very similar to the mainline version. Here we had a liberal-leaning rich guy with a bow and arrow and a

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