The CW's “Arrow” just got more super — and all it took was a bolt of lightning and a domino mask.

“Arrow” — taking a page from Christopher Nolan's “Dark Knight” trilogy — has gone to great lengths to be a “realistic” comic-book adaptation. And the realism was kicked up a notch with some major happenings in Wednesday night’s episode, titled "Three Ghosts.”

Here are Five Vital Moments from the "Arrow" midseason finale. (And if you've yet to watch it, consider this a blanket spoiler alert.)

AT A SOWETO STADIUM and around the world, mourners paid their respects Tuesday to that transformative South African leader, Nelson Mandela.

Since Mandela’s death Thursday at age 95, many have tried to find the right and inspiring words to honor the great man’s achievements and legacy. Often, it has seemed, the best and wisest words are Mandela’s own.

From the United States to South Africa, editorial cartoonists have saluted Mandela’s memory throug word and picture. Some depicted Mandela's global importance, and the long shadow his absence leaves. Some reflected on his power to unify. And one — South Africa’s Jonathan “Zapiro” Shapiro — looked beyond the man himself to related issues in his nation.

Here, on the day of his memorial, are Six Eye-Catching Nelson Mandela Cartoons:

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WITH DUELING film titles like these, you can readily write your own elemental wordplay for this, the latest box-office scenario:

The animated hit “Frozen” finally toppled the sequel “Catching Fire,” but “Furnace” sputtered badly.

“Frozen” dropped only 53-percent in its second weekend out, grossing $31.6-million, according to studio estimates Sunday. (Final numbers are due Monday afternoon.)

Disney’s latest non-Pixar CGI cartoon has grossed $134.3-million domestically, and is nearing the $200-million worldwide.

“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” was second over the weekend, grossing $27-million domestically. The second Katniss Everdeen ad­ven­ture is nearing the $675-million mark globally.

In its domestic debut, “Out of the Furnace” fared poorly, grossing only $5.3-million.

And looking ahead: Later this month, the top-of-the-marque star in “Catching Fire” (Jennifer Lawrence) will appear opposite “Furnace” star Christian Bale in “American Hustle.”

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WERE SHE alive today, Grace Hopper would surely be too busy and focused to dwell on her own Google Doodle.

Too much to do, and discover, and understand. Throughout her long career, Hopper the naval officer, like time, marched on.

“Amazing Grace” Hopper would have been 107 today, and Google pays tribute with a home-page cartoon of the young computer pioneer at work. The Doodle prompts us to celebrate the great woman and mathematician and trailblazing programmer, even if she wasn’t the type to make a fuss over such things.

Hopper once told CBS newsman Morley Safer she was not one for nostalgia. The “60 Minutes” interview was in 1983, when Hopper — who un-retired multiple times — was the oldest woman in the Armed Forces at age 76.

EDITOR’S NOTE: PictureBox, one of the best visual art publishers in existence, soon won’t be. Dan Nadel, the man behind PictureBox, announced this week that come the end of the year, the Brooklyn-based outfit — as a publisher of new titles — will be no more.

“This was not an easy decision, but the company is no longer feasible for me as a thoroughgoing venture,” wrote Nadel, who over nearly a decade helped shine a publishing spotlight on a gallery of top comics talent.

From photography to prose, the independent PictureBox tended to publish less than a dozen creations a year, but founder/director Nadel did so, he wrote on his site, “because I love the things I love and I want to champion them. I tend toward outliers and I’m obsessed with the history of visual culture writ large and small.”

In his farewell statement, Nadel said: “I want to thank all the artists and writers I’ve worked with over the years.”

Comic Riffs asked one of these writer-artists, Frank Santoro (”Storeyville,” the excellent new “Pompeii”), to write an appreciation of PictureBox. The Pittsburgh-based Santoro — whose dossier includes fine-art gigs (he has worked for Francesco Clemente, the Matthew Marks Gallery, Dorothea Rockburne and American Fine Arts Gallery) — shares his thoughts:

— M.C.

A spread from Chippendale’s "Ninja." (BRIAN CHIPPENDALE - courtesy of PictureBox )