'Arrow': Things You Might have Missed in "The Longbow Hunters"

Tonight on Arrow, fans got their first glimpse of the long-awaited arrival of The Longbow Hunters, some of Oliver Queen's most notorious foes, in an episode named for the group.

The introduction of some cool new characters and a complicated plot that involved a couple of different conspiracies and the remnants of Team Arrow watching as Felicity fought Diggle over ARGUS policy meant that there was not a lot of time to squeeze in little Easter eggs and references to other stories.

Of course, that does not mean there were none.

So...here's what we saw. Let us know if we missed anything by commenting below, or by tweeting at @russburlingame and @comicbook:

• Anatoly. Apparently, following the events of season six, Anatoly Knyazev (KGBeast from the comics, and an on-again/off-again ally of Oliver's in the TV show) is now an informant for ARGUS.
• The Conway case. When Dinah and Laurel are bickering in the police station near the start of the episode, revealing that Laurel had used her sonic powers to make the police who were supposed to be protecting her sick, she refers to the "Conway case," presumably one that she is dealing with as district attorney. This is likely a reference to prolific DC writer and editor Gerry Conway, who was responsible for co-creating characters like Felicity Smoak, Firestorm, and The Punisher. More recently, Conway has been vocal in supporting comic book creators he feels are being ignored in the credits for TV series, most notably Titans.
• Longbow Hunters. Arrow's Longbow Hunters (read more here) consist of Red Dart (Supernatural's Holly Elissa), Kodiac (Van Helsing's Michael Jonsson), and The Silencer (Orphan Black's Miranda Edwards).
• Pennytown. The Longbow Hunters were hanging out at "a warehouse in Pennytown." Pennytown is a fictional borough in Seattle that was the setting for a number of recent storylines in the Green Arrow comics. Here, it is part of Star City rather than Seattle, but may take the place of The Glades in some upcoming stories, since now they have a comics-accurate location to set things in.
• "Oh Frak" - During the warehouse invasion that went wrong, Felicity used a colloquialism from Battlestar Galactica when she realized she had accdientally fried the computer.

Arrow airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Mondays, before episodes of DC's Legends of Tomorrow on The CW.