Halfway via Absolute Evil #1, author Al Ewing and artists Giuseppe Camuncoli and Stefano Nesi, working with colorist Romulo Fajardo Jr. and letterer Tom Napolitano, reply the query: the mainline Inexperienced Arrow didn’t get his head caved in by Hawkman, whereas the Absolute Inexperienced Arrow did get his head caved in by Hawkman.
Sure, Absolute Inexperienced Arrow dies instantly after his introduction.
However the greater difficulty is the id of the group that did the killing, a bunch of villains who name themselves the Justice League. How might a quintet of dangerous guys—Hector Hammond, Veronica Cale, Elenore Thawne, Ra’s al Ghul, and the Joker—name themselves the Justice League?
The reply comes from a speech given by the Joker, who has up to now solely been seen in fleeting glances within the pages of Absolute Batman. The Joker, reimagined right here as a standard trying businessman who, emphatically, by no means tells jokes, explains how his researchers discovered a mysterious particle on the heart of the universe, a particle that could be a foundational a part of all life of their universe. To the Joker, the particle proves that the order of their universe, through which highly effective capitalists like himself and the opposite members of the League, is pure. Or, to place it in different phrases, is simply.
Thus, the Joker explains, folks like Batman, Surprise Lady, Superman, and the quickly-departed Inexperienced Arrow, are unjust for making an attempt to that order.
Whereas that seems like the kind of twisted logic one would discover in a mainline Joker story, the Absolute model of the Clown Prince is right. As we noticed in final 12 months’s Absolute Energy crossover, the dying of Darkseid resulted within the beginning of a brand new universe, the Absolute Universe, fashioned by the essence of that darkish god. Darkseid’s evil is the rationale that so many heroes undergo on this world, and it’s the rationale that the villains thrive time and again.
