THE RAGE OF SUPERMAN! For five years, he's been on the run, hounded across our planet, and treated like a criminal... yet his only crime was being born somewhere else. Now Superman's rage threatens to engulf the world at the urging of Ra's al Ghul. And the only ones who can save the day... are Kal-El's dead parents.
>>150181907>Being orphaned is a crimeThat is just putting salt on the wound.
The novelty of this book really wore off for me after the new Superman movie.
nah I agree with that one dude, these should've been separate threads, Superman and Wonder Woman at least
>>150182054I'm not even going to watch it
JUDGMENT DAY! Jo Mullein and Hal Jordan face judgment. But what will the Lantern's verdict be?
>>150181957Talia's thighs are looking nice and thicc.
So Absolute Kal-El is EVEN MORE edgy now. Impressive work from Brainiac.
>>150181994>>150182007damn
The balance of power inside the maze is tilting with Diana's presence, but it may just tilt into full-blown chaos. Chaos in an underground maze prison... that's bad, right?
>>150182282>Jo's ex-wife is white Real fucking original
sex with diana
>>150182149>RAOHuh
>>150181895I have a question. Does the Absolute comics happens in the same Earth? Because I can't see Batman, WW and GG not being captured by Lazarus Corp just like Superman was by now.
>images during storytimeAbsolute state of Absolute books
>>150182487Abs GL just mentionned Ra's Al Ghul and there was a ref to Joker in Abs Supe.
>>150182282Even in this new universe Simon can't get rid of that dumb mask kek
>>150182570Hmmm. Still hard to picture them together, GL event fucked a whole city, WW is figthing kaijus, Batman is dealing with a bunch of billionaire criminals (Bane, Joker, Black Mask), all of this is coexists with Lazarus Corp. which is portrayed in Superman as some kind of worldwide dictatorship. I really can't picture these comics working together.
>>150182487it's the same world. there are probably agreements between the government (which is dealing with wonder woman via project olympus), the joker (who is dealing with batman), and lazarus corp. i think it will be made more clear in the upcoming absolute evil one-shot how these different villains relate to each other.
>>150182717Hector Hammond's comments made it seem like the villains are competing with each other to some extent
>>150182311Reminder, this comic without a digital release, outsold Ultimate Spider-Man and everything marvel and DC had
Darkseid has been much nicer to Wonder Woman than he has to Superman and Batman when making this universe
>>150182196should have expected Mogo to show up, and being a Black Star makes sense for the Absolute universe
>>150182758Reminds me of Venture Bros. the people calling themselves "Heroes", mainly Dr. Jonas Venture, were hedonistic sadistic evil manchildren rich assholes competing to see who was the better while screwing others in process.
>>150182790I dunno, Hal got healed from the Black Hand.
>>150182273Since these guys are all FBI, I wonder if John Jones will show up in this book, since Green Lantern is the book making the most references to the other books at this point
>>150182840Hal is becoming the Green Lantern its inevitable, Jo here is taking the mentor role Sinestro was.Also her actions here are mirroring more and more of Sinestro.
>>150182168>>150182177I don't like zen Guy Gardner, it's unsettling.>>150182567AWW feels like a chick discovering D&D for the first time. I think the writer is a guy but that's still what it reads like.
>>150182717Gateway has been mentioned several times in Green Lantern
>>150182911>I think the writer is a guynah, it's Kelly Thompson, a woman.
>>150182552I like this page
>>150182887Honestly, I was preparing myself for Jo as Green Lantern and Hal as Obsidian.
ewing blog for the release looks like GL is getting a different artist for the next two months>https://al-ewing-writes-comics.ghost.io/030925/
>>150182177>Don't worry about going on massacres, Hal. It's cool. Chill.Jeez.
>>150182177>TomarGuys, I think Ewing like this guy
>>150182763Has there been a reason given as to why this issue was given a tiered release? I've seen some speculation that it's to keep AWW from outshining Absolute Batman as the flagship of the line.
>>150182055just when I thought they would actually do something different with Sam
>>150183089Something to do with Amazon messing up the digital release date and other platforms not being able to release it until it did apparently
>>150182149okay, Qard is Qward, Rao is the Kryptonian Sun, (Abin) Sur, whats Aur?
>>150182196>Mogo is now Hellstar Remina
>>150183129https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Aurakles_(New_Earth)if i am to guess, Ewing did his homework.
>>150183129Aur from Auric?
>>150182790maybe they will finally acknowledge that WW actually gave Darkseid a piece of her soul long ago
>We have gone from a magic ring>To space cops with magic rings (allegedly technology)>To cosmic mysticismI didn't not expect this.
>>1501818953 in 1 nice
Who's going to be the first official crossover?
>>150183193I think >>150183181 makes sense because the new history of DC mentioned Aurakles on issue 1
>>150182487I've thought the same thing, but in Absolute Superman, Lazarus shenanigans are portrayed as happening primarily in the Global South. This is just a theory, but it seems likely to me that Joker is affiliated with Lazarus, maybe gets his funding from them. If that's the case then whatever he is doing in North America precludes the need for Peacekeeper activity there, Kansas being the exception.
>>150182567oh, its the wonderdome!
>>150182887That's fine, but if Tomar Sinestro doesn't take them to Namek for an anime training arc I will be immensely disappointed.
>>150182996Sherman is an amazing panelist. Check out Into the Unbeing for more like it.
>>150183266Batman and Wonder Woman. Still some months away.
>>150183315I thought the same but about Bane. That guy he meets at the beach must work for Lazarus, tying his venom to Ras/Brainiac would work pretty well. Still, you have WW dealing with kaijus and some apocalyptical shit but you only see the regular army, it would make sense for the Lazarus Corp. or someone else on the same level to step in, they clearly have the tech.
>>150183266There's going to be an Absolute Evil one-shot that has all the Villains interacting
>>150183387Yeah. It's honestly probably best not to think too much about it. They're cape comics.
>>150182292Black bi woman shares bwc with white lesbian ex wifeWtfBased Ewing
>>150182567Have we heard anything about Absolute Aquaman or Atlantis? Because this trident makes it seem like we may be heading in that direction.
>>150182532Is the siren to command the water?
>>150183422What's Hawkman doing in there?
>>150182887Anon if you believe Al I Love Black Kweenz Ewing is gonna make anyone but Jo the GL you're insane
>>150182177>>150183074>"Tomar, what would you do if some giant green construct came from space, squashed a whole city and took people hostage, then a black guy in white light came and said YOU are the physical personification of power without understanding? What would you do, Tomar?"
>>150183520Being introduced, I guess we already know we are getting Green Arrow in December
>>150182273>>150182655>>150182282He's a quirky FBI agent now. The gun obssession makes more sense now.
>>150182273>>150182282Tell me about Simon, why is he wearing the mask?
>>150182545That siren design really feels Hellboy-ish to me.
>>150182790>>150183205Maybe Darkseid just has enough respect for her for being related to the old gods. Superman, Batman, the martian, etc are all just mortal upstarters.
>>150182055>blade through the headmetal
>>150183820The Martian actually got a big boost in terms of power. It is the only who managed to find Darkseid after all.
>>150183251It's an interesting take, even more so if we take in account the whole white light in the original battled of the corps thing and how everything is the same power. The chromatic lights just being the same light, but with different levels of "understanding" is a compelling take on the concept.
>>150183540Can you blame him for sharing the same line of thought as Cody Rhodes? at least Absolute Jo isn't a sheboon.
>>150183845We don't know if being aware of Darkseid even helps with anything. The fact that he calls darkseid "Bad idea #0" implies that he or his culture has been aware of Darkseid for a long time and yet he remains there.
>>150183861Jo here being conventionally attractive definitely helps. I wouldn't have lasted a single issue with her original design.
>>150183945imagine if hal fucks her because jo is bi?
>>150183962This twink, sissy version of Hal? Doubtful.
>>150183962Works for me, no sense doing Carol again when Hal isn't even a pilot.
>>150182007>Aaron managed to sneak in super ventriloquismNice. This book could really benefit from some classic superman weirdness, despite the bleak tone. Seriously the whole Superman vs Ra's conflict is such a lame idea, this book barely feels like Superman at all. >>150182144Hey It's Cameron Chase!>>150183129In Kabbalah, which Ewing uses a lot in his work, the Ain Soph Aur is the infinite light of god preceding the moment of creation. Also I think the prefix Aur/Or signifies gold in some languages.
>>150182185>How far out is the world that's coming? If it sounds familiar to some, it's because it is the first half of a phrase that TOAA told the fantastic four in issue #511 of their series, written by Mark Waid. The second half of it, "The Mystery intrigues me", will perhaps be more recognizable to those who have been following Ewing's work at marvel for years. It's basically TOAA's catchphrase in everything he shows up in. Hopefully we get more hypercrisis cross multiversal meta narrative elements like this along the way.
>>150184001He'll man up, just give him time.
>>150184117An FF/GL crossover would actually rule
>>150184264I reckon we're getting a GL/MM with how much the FBI is present in GL and John being an FBI agentAbs Superman was announced to be getting a crossover soon but we dunno with who yet, I assumed with Flash because they both have the "what type of life do I want to lead" thing going on with their MCs, maybe they'll have their famous race too
>>150184611GL would also make sense for Superman, since a Brainiac mentioned Oa and the Blackstars in an earlier issue.
>>150184001If Hal is this twinky what's Kyle gonna be like
>>150181895>3 storytimes in 1 threadWhy? Need more room for Digital Circus threads?
>>150182416Was Circe historically at odds with the Amazons? I don't know the mainstream WW lore.
>>150182082what the hell
>>150182185So, if im following, this is completely different from what's Green Laterns are. Its either they have control over the Raw "Flame" like Alan Scott and these are other Flames too. Or this is 100% something different.
>>150182064MARTHAAAAAAAAA
>>150182292GAY
>>150183426I share the sentiment, still this line looks like an total mess since issue #1
>>150182343Kill yourself faggot.
>>150182401>zero perspectiveThis is the laziest fucking artwork I have ever seen. I can’t wait until nepo cunts like this are replaced by AI.
>>150181895absolute covers:Absolute Superman #11 Cover B Jae Lee VariantAbsolute Superman #11 Cover C Jeffrey Spokes VariantAbsolute Superman #11 Cover D 1:25 Karl Kerschl VariantNo one defies the will of Ra's al Ghul. If Superman doesn't accept his place as the Son of the Demon, then Lazarus Corp will rain hell on the people most precious to Kal-El... the people of Smallville. So begins the invasion of Kansas!Absolute Superman #12 Cover B Jae Lee VariantAbsolute Superman #12 Cover C Kris Anka VariantAbsolute Superman #12 Cover D Mattia De Iulis VariantThe Battle of Kansas has begun as the tanks of Lazarus Corp come rolling down the streets of Smallville. Haunted and weakened from the horrors he suffered at the hands of Brainiac and Ra's al Ghul, Superman wages a last desperate fight for everything and everyone he has come to hold dear!Absolute Superman #13 Cover B Bengal VariantAbsolute Superman #13 Cover C Mikel Janín VariantCover C Mikel Janín VariantAbsolute Superman #13 Cover D David Talaski Variant
>>150182311that one is milleresqueabsolute diana covers:Absolute Wonder Woman #11 Cover B Derrick Chew VariantAbsolute Wonder Woman #11 Cover C Gerald Parel VariantAbsolute Wonder Woman #11 Cover D 1:25 Otto Schmidt VariantAbsolute Wonder Woman #12 Cover B Mirka Andolfo VariantAbsolute Wonder Woman #12 Cover C Yasmine Putri VariantAbsolute Wonder Woman #12 Cover D 1:25 Mateus Manhanini VariantBe careful what you wish for, Diana, as you just might get it. With a surprising but not unwelcome ally, Diana makes her final moves inside the maze. But even in winning the day, there will be devastating losses to bear.Absolute Wonder Woman #13 Cover B Derrick Chew VariantAbsolute Wonder Woman #13 Cover C David Talaski VariantAbsolute Wonder Woman #13 Cover D Marguerite Sauvage VariantAs Diana learns more of the myth of the Amazons from Barbara in Gateway City, a series of violent supernatural events begins occurring one after another, drawing Diana all over the globe to fight. Noticing a pattern, Diana enlists Etta to help her crack the mystery of why these events are happening in these places and how to stop them. The answer? Too personal to imagine.Absolute Wonder Woman #14 Cover B Derrick Chew VariantAbsolute Wonder Woman #14 Cover C Terry Dodson VariantAbsolute Wonder Woman #14 Cover D Dustin Nguyen VariantTo save the world from an all-new supernatural threat that Diana is uniquely unqualified to solve, she will have to reach back to the oldest and deepest of gods for their assistance. But they may not agree with her position. In the midst of this struggle, a new player makes their presence known, but are they friend or foe? Concluding a two-part guest arc from visionary artist Matías Bergara!
>>150186052Vere’s de peee-nis, Schmidt?!
>>150185882nah it's good
>>150182149>Qward is an atomic explosion, wild and destructive >Red means stop >Sur is a green lantern on a machine (A train? Alan Scott?) >Gold is the sun
>>150185954Did you ignore the rest of the storytime or something?
>>150182401>>150182416The maze tattoo effect on her body isn’t perfect but trying to do that freehand would drive anyone insane
>>150185954I am impressed that you can make supposedly cogent comments in spite of being developmentally disabled (gay and retarded). Have you considered suicide?
>>150182487They seem to happen at different times.Wonder Woman is first, then Green Lantern, then Batman, then Superman, then Martian Manhunter.
>>150182570Also there's a plush toy of Batman in Martian Manhunter
>>150182790Wonder Woman is roughly as well off, in some ways better off, in this world than the regular continuity.I mean here she is universally loved and her love interest isn't dead. So far she's been batting better than mainline Diana
>>150187255Interesting. Can you elaborate?>>150187269That looked an action figure to me.
>>150185430Circe is Diana's most prominent full-on villain right now.Really Circe is like Wonder Woman's present arch enemy, since Ares hasn't been used much since the reboot after Crisis on Infinite Earths, and Cheetah sometimes plays more of a Catwoman role of being a tenuous ally.
>>150187345I'm assuming that you're talking about Tom King's run on mainline WW (which I am not reading). Interesting!
>>150187316>Can you elaborate?Well in one of the original previews for Absolute Green Lantern, the head writer mentioned that it was taking place before any 'metas' have really revealed themselves. The only exception he made was that 'Wonder Woman might have appeared a couple of times.'So, from that logic, it seems Diana comes earliest, followed by Green Lantern.Now, since Batman isn't a 'metahuman' really, moreso an urban legend of Gotham, he may have already shown up around the same time of either AWW or AGL, but that's not totally clear.Superman hasn't been mentioned himself in any of the other comics, as far as I know. So It might make sense if he were last chronologically.And Absolute Martian Manhunter just needs to fall sometime after Batman
>>150187385No, I mean in general. Since like 1986. It is interesting how Circe isn't a villain in AWW, since it's basically like if Superman were raised by Lex Luthor
>>150183858Still, why did Ewing decided to go with Black-Red-Green-Yellow?
>>150187414This offers a perspective I have not heard. Thanks!>>150187430Wondering if Absolute Lex is Ra's.
>>150187414But Absolute Flash!
>>150182532>the platform heelsClea’s a womanlet ?
>>150187518she's just coping because she never got pregnant
So Black is Chaos and Yellow is Order?
>>150182763Deserved. It's the best Wonder Woman book in years and either second or third best Absolute book. All from an author with a pretty mediocre out put
>>150187621Wait until you hear about the Whites.
>>150186052Man I really need to see the Absolute Trinity together just for the brutal height mogging Superman will get from Batman and Wonder Woman
>>150187951>>150187951kino
>>150187443Yellow is Gold, so it's probably some weird reference to Medieval Alchemy text that Ewing read, his Marvel stuff mentions the Secret Fire a bunch.
>>150187414That's actually a neat idea, can't wait to see the how DC will ruin everything anyway
>>150187488right at the beginning of the timeline
christians are worse than niggers
>>150188621I wonder who is behind this post.
>>150183712I don't even remember his reason for wearing it in his original appearance
>>150182273>PembertonGee Ewing, why does DC let you have TWO Infinitors in your book?
>>150188677
>>150181968>MY DAD AND GOD SUCK!Bravo Aaron! The 2038674th time's the charm!
>>150188709Qui?
>>150182545She cute.
>>150182758I think this makes the most sense with how Lazarus, JK, Cale, etc relate to each other.
>>150182567Zan?
>>150182273>PembertonI'm really surprised by the amount of JSAers and JSA influence in the Absolute books
>>150181957I thought she was more interesting as Primus than she is after being revealed to be Talia. Her worship of the Father Box (that Ras doesn't seem to do?) is interesting at least, maybe that'll go somewhere cool.>>150187414Isn't it Batman being referred to here >>150182282 "That Gotham thing? Some guy?">>150182567>some versions of Clea having ties to Atlantis>fishmen>a siren>a water tridentIf Aquaman shows up in this I hope he doesn't look like Jason Momoa
>>150182282>Jo and those two other lesbians>Obsidian from a few chapters earlier Why are there so many gays in thisEven John is acting zestier than usual
>>150184001yes, Bi Queen with sissy twink is peak
>>150184001Steve is the only Air Force twink the Absolute Universe needs
>>150181907>>150181913>>150181921>>150181930I kinda want all of this to blow up in Ra's face. Everything you're doing is just gonna piss Superman off more
>>150182149Hal needs to stop Oa
>>150182177I'm just rooting for Hal to fucking rip every last one of these bitches apart for everything they did
>>150182303I need Oa to die for everything
>>150182545Steve and Barbara's constant bickering is cute.
>>150183422How do these villains know John Jones? Also,>only Hawkman's photo is uncutHe is absolutely gonna die.
>>150182064I see zack synder was brought in for the Pa Kent parts
>>150192156The real tension of the story is Absolute Superman trying to not flip out and kill everyone with his crazy lightning powers.
>>150193903I meant in the sense that Kal is going to beat the shit out of him and probably raze Lazarus to the ground specifically.
>Absolute Shazam is about a man who turns into a super-powered child to regain his innocence
Absolute Cringe
>>150186052>>150182311i don't even read DC comics but i love this art. i hope the writing is good. it would be a huge disappointment if it was bad.
>>150182763the art is good. fuck anything ultimate marvel
>>150181985>You're a prisoners Hooray for copy editing.
>>150188709it was me
Absolute Aquaman should revisit the original gene engineering story.
>>150183008That’s what I thought too but Jo chilling Hal out with the power of friendship and Hammond saying there’s more use for Todd I guess Todd with be the Obsidian in this universe too, complete with suffering and being evil
>>150186052I really, really like Diana's fuck off buster sword and I'm glad the artists do too.
WW's design here would be cool if she were allowed to have tits
Sups and WW were good enough but Lantern lost me. I thought that once theyll start explaining shit it will get good but I barely comprehend any of this mumbo-jumbo.
>>150196436It's not been fully explained yet but the core premise seems simple enough Instead of being tied to emotions, it's like hierarchical stages of enlightenment sortaBlack = chaotic, not necessarily evil but untamedRed = restraint, discipline, avoiding wrong actionsGreen = taking correct/'moral' actionsGold = Enlightenment, total understandingBut also this isn't the viewpoint everyone has, the Blackstars view the levels in the opposite direction in terms of hierarchyThere probably is more to it (I doubt the view presented to us is fully truthful either) but I think that's what it's saying so far
>>150196619So it's just Chaos, Neutral, and Law alignments basically
>>150196425She's got some nice hangers dude, what are you talking about?
>>150182318>>150182328>>150182332What just happened?
This dripfeed one issue a month bullshit worked in the 1950s because your only other source of entertainment was throwing bottle caps at the kid with polio but in the modern day it's so laughably obsolete. There's 500,000 things I could do for entertainment rather than sit here with my thumb up my ass waiting for the next issue. All it does is leave me unsatisfied and resenting the people responsible. It just leaves my brain until I can pirate the next one.
>>150197068Either the ghost knocked her out or her own spell did because she was fighting the Amazon who was innocent. Probably the ghost.
>>150197095GL and Flash are the only dripfeed ones and GL finally dropped some plot, could've done this in 3 issues instead of 6 but it's there now
>>150182559>>150182567H-how is Clea gonna be getting it back Diana?
>>150197095I hope somebody kills you
>>150197345>I love this product so much I want less of it less often
>>150197123I’m kind of curious if Lemire and Ewing thought they would get double to page count in issue one like Batman when they first plotted because both their #1-2s are very slow and didn’t start to pickup until #3
>>150183962Hal is for Todd
>>150184959Femboy, hopefully. Or is Kylie with Jennie.
>>150196619this feels like it's connected to the different levels of gnosis in gnosticism. darkseid is kind of a demiurge actually
>>150196307Perhaps
>>150196619I agree with the Black Stars
>>150187414I get the impression that the current Absolute batman stuff (him being locked in a prison for like a year) is supposed to end with a time jump, or a changing of the status quo significantly. The annual coming out in october is set in the "early part" of his career, so I think there is going to be a distinction there. They're defininitely building up to a shared setting of time, they're doing that absolute evil book that is leading into it.
>>150198421By the sound of it the Black Stars are also drinking the Kool-Aid, just in reverse order. Jo's "Screw this." sounds like the correct attitude to me.
If I had to re-write this I'd replace Jo with Kyle.Have his "White Lantern" powers exist "Below" Qard. Purity rather than enlightenment
>>150198681Raw chaos seems like a truly enlightened state.There is no such thing as a "Correct" action as dictated by universal laws.That and Oa being the "Alpha Omega" can't bode well considering how the Absolute Universe came to be.
>>150182082I wonder if we will ever see Absolute Supergirl.
>>150198703I wonder where this leaves Sinestro. Given his usual association with Qward and being basically THE renegade going Black Star would seem like a no-brainer, except personality-wise he is pretty much full Aur material.
>>150198889Hero Sinestro?
>>150186052Wonder Woman was made to have a BIG sword.
>>150182124Talia's character design is the best part of this book. Her hair wasn't as huge as it has been in previous issues, though.
>>150188701He was framed for terrorism?
>brainiac being a mindbroken flunky for ra's al ghulhow did this happen
>>150200181I'm just impressed he managed to turn Supes into even more of an edgelord
That moment when upper half of brainiac minion frees Sol and superman gets back into his suit.
>>150181907bump
