Mature
Oliver Queen and Dinah Lance have moved to Seattle to settle down and open a flower shop called Sherwood Florist. As they set up shop they talk about bout taking the next step in their relationship, and maybe even having a child.
Dinah does not want to because their lifestyle as costumed adventurers put them in harms way, and they can not even garuntee that they will be alive from one day to the next.
To prove the point they find out that someone has been killing local street walkers, and dealing heroine on the streets of their new home town.
Ollie pursues the killer, while Dinah goes after the Heroine dealers. While on the prowl, Green Arrow sees an Asian woman with a bow kill his number one suspect in cold blood.
For its time, and even now this is one of the more mature books outside of the vertigo line. It manages to take it as far as it can go without going over the top. I have to say, you just do not get to many books with dialogue that actually speaks to adults like this. Not trying to be grown up by being dirty, but actuall frank adult conversation.
The art is gritty and adds to the realism of the story. There are some scenes of superheroics, they are exciting and because of the art, they have a strong sense of realism. The first issue of the mini series cements its place in history, and holds up to the tests of time.