If there's a downside to the growing success of James Gunn's newly consolidated DC Comics multimedia empire, it's that we'll probably never get a show like "Arrow" ever again. The concept was hardly a shot in the dark for The CW, the same network which found unprecedented success by reimagining the story of Superman as a teen drama in the vein of "Dawson's Creek." In this case, they would take a much more obscure character — the billionaire vigilante archer Oliver Queen (aka The Green Arrow) — and rework his story with the melodrama of a soap opera, the mystery box plot of "Lost," and the grounded action and mythos of Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins."

At its worst, "Arrow" was a consistently fun if repetitive action adventure series that launched one of the most successful shared uni

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