Absolute Bane is better written/characterized than mainline Bane. Hell the lore behind his mask is even better. And Kelly Thompson's Wonder Woman is more in character/a better written book than Tom King's mainline book. So should Absolute always be an ongoing mirror series to the mainline, or should it be retired eventually and tidbits that worked serve as a learning experience for their respective books?
>>150244973Fuck off scott. Go watch anime with your family or something rather than posting this autofellatio nonsense. Martian manhunter is the only good absolute book.
>>150244973"better than tom king" is a pretty low bar
>>150245248>Hurr Durr the writer is here larpK. And what's wrong with Absolute Bane's backstory?>>150245363True, but then again WW books have been in such a sorry state for years even before him. Absolute WW at least feels like a return to form
>>150244973>Absolute Bane is better written/characterized than mainline Bane. Hell the lore behind his mask is even better. And Kelly Thompson's Wonder Woman is more in character/a better written book than Tom King's mainline book.All trvths>So should Absolute always be an ongoing mirror series to the mainline, or should it be retired eventually and tidbits that worked serve as a learning experience for their respective books?Going on indefinitely is the bane of every comic so while I don't think it should end very soon it shouldn't go on forever either.
Don' worry, it will all turn to shit like all comics do.
>Read Absolute Batman 12 spoilersJesus Christ, Bane
>>150244973Doesnt mean anything when the main stuff is so horrible. Id actually put Absolute Wonder Woman at the exact same bottom tier shitiness as Tom King's its really just a different flavor of shit. But im fine with them being on the same level if it throws off your narrative.
>>150247596How is Absolute Wonder Woman bad? Also what's wrong with mainline Superman? Or how the fraction run just started? I think besides mainline WW, the only other meh book from the big names is Flash
>>150247740he won't say why it's bad because /co/ is addicted to hating anything new without even reading it or being clear on why it's bad
>>150248775Pretty much
>>150244973absolute batman is the only good ongoing spider-man book imo. nu-ultimate is boring and ALMOST vindicates marvel keeping parker & MJ separated while everything i've seen about modern mainline spider-man practically mirrors almost everything i hate about MCU spider-man.i haven't given the other absolute books a shot but i've been hearing good things about all of them for the most part.
>>150244973>Absolute Bane is better written/characterized than mainline BaneNo, nothing comes close to Bane's original run as a character. His original run showed him as self-actualized force whose biggest strength was his planning and getting into the mind of Batman. Absolute is just brawn with pretentious warrior philosophy acting as a mook for Joker, that's it. We are told he is cunning but we are not shown it at all. Instead we get wide shots of him being a giant or him slapping the shit out of Batman while waxing and waning about le deep diatribes without any actual substance. The original run spends most of the issues showing Bane learn about Gotham, take out the main power players, learn about Batman's fighting style, plan the Arkham breakout, smuggle weapons, tire out Batman while beating the shit out of heavy hitters like Croc to show to the reader he can crumple other supervillains as well as crime families before breaking Batman himself. People seem to forget that Bane breaking Batman was only so powerfull due to the build up leading to it. Bane says he will break the Batman, Bane says he will destroy his life's work, and he actually does it and shows it to the reader overtime.Absolute is style with no substance. It pretends to have a wider message but it doesn't, it is literally just "SOCIETY!" the run.
>>150244973There should always be an ongoing mirror universe or unvierses for writers to play with. Maybe with both Ultimate and Absolute topping the chart this is finally the decade the big two learn that.But it should be shaken up every so often, as >>150247435 said, it lasting forever alongside the main continuity becomes pointless. But once one is ended another should be introduced not too long after. This would not only keep sales high, it would also clean up the main continuity. One of the other banes of the big two (and DC is a worse offender) is that the biggest characters are in as many books as the market can sustain, regardless of how much the writers of these separate books care to compare notes and continuity. Bleeding some of the demand out to an AU fixes the mess that this tends to make.
>>150247509Nah, just some stupid body horror, they should allow gay rape.
>>150249755>absolute batman is the only good ongoing spider-man book imowhat
>>150244973How did he gain that amount of muscle in prison? It makes no sense. He ate the odd rat every once in a while.
>>150244973>should Absolute always be an ongoing mirror series to the mainline, or should it be retired eventuallyThe latter, if only because it it became an ongoing series it'd just end up a trashfire like Ultimate Marvel sooner or later. Let them tell the story they want to tell but don't draw it out.
>>150250125It was also a repeat of KGBeast's and Killer Croc's introductions.
>>150244973>>150252792It'll be both, it'll last a while before batman dies and gets replaced with Better Batman and you'll all seethe because Better Batman is actually popular with DC's main audience and makes more money so they become bigger than bats.
Hilarious thread
>>150244973>Snyder's official Absolute Batman Spotify Playlist>https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1hyKg07KlZsDSo7G8bGaEO?si=TB2UdYPMQ0Klg3h2O2kMew&nd=1&dlsi=5b3a42c1ed1e4c1dJesus Christ, how can one man be so cringe? Do only retarded third-wolrders and mysterymeats like this book?
>>150248775no I will say, stfu stupid bitch. >>150247740Its extremely pretentious and thinks its way deeper than it is, its main creative force is "what if wonder woman is a witch" as equivalent to batmans "what if batman was 7ft tall and stabbed everyone" its like when they tried the golden/red outfit in new 52 with a retractable blade, they think giving her a sword and covering her up is heckin badass, shes drawn with a long nose for literally no reason other than to make her uglier under the guize of complexity which is the classic WW trope "just cover her up and give her a sword" the dialogue is so fucking corny and self important and relies on affirmations that sound emotionally resonant but have no actual meaning. Hope that clears things up for you since you are pretending to be totally clueless. >wooooah shes heckin disabled yet its not holding her back at all! So BRAVE!!>*cries in lesbian* IM AN AMAZON!! T_T>woaaaah she killed the big monster!! BADASS!!Its like if every redditor who thought "gosh wonder woman should just lean into greek monster slaying cus uhhh shes like... greek? And greek heroes fight monsters?" and they are just playing it totally straight. Oh and shes a witch now, damn thats so crazy. You fucking idiots unironically look at pic related and say to yourselves>WOW THIS ART LOOKS SO GOOD HOW COULD ANYONE DISLIKE THIS SHES ACTUALLY LOWKEY PRETTY FRFR ON GOD LOW KEY
>>150249283You people are so fucking self righteous its legitimately disgusting and then whene someone explains why they dont like it specifically in detail you just plug your ears and double down saying none of it is valid hurrr ur just le making it up >:(all to feed your persecution complex which is so insane because youre defending a dogshit ugly book. >WW in past has consistently seen the burka covering as oppression of the female form and offensive to her values>Absolute WW: YOU GO SISTER I SUPPORT UR WEIRD BACKWARDS RELIGION BECAUSE IM A WITCH NOW
>you DONT like this art? what are you, crazy? >just cover her up and give her a sword bro its heckin badass!! :^) Fuck you.
>>150255571>>150255613this just sounds like ranting about personal taste rather than any sort of legible criticism lmao
>>150255127can you act less molested?
>>150255571>cries in lesbianShe's heterosexual.It sounds like you're a faggot who's enraged by the sight of heterosexual attraction. You're right that the Greek monster MO is tired and it should never be the focus of the mainline WW, but big monsters are window dressing for the substance of a story. Crying that they're there isn't criticism because they're there to service the parts that matter. You should be able to parse this if you're over 12.
>>150255127That's just Gen X music, zoomzoom. It's what white people liked before they invented nightcore. I know this is all before your time.
>>150255571>all caps keyboard smash seething over an image of a woman smiling>>150255613>crying and shitting pants over how self righteous and victimized everyone acts>immediately acts like a self-righteous victim over Diana not stopping the plot to lecture MuslimsFaggot or samefagging? It's a little too on the nose, I'm thinking the latter. You like the book, don't you anon? Lying is unbecoming.
>>150255127>Do only retarded third-wolrders and mysterymeats like this book?Yes, lol.It's the same "people" who believe DBZ is the pinnacle of animation.
>>150244973Absolute Batman and everything about it is complete garbage.
>>150256136Honestly I was born in the '80s and think most of that list is pretty shit.
>>150252208He didn't. He was normal buff in prison/Santa Prisca until Absolute Joker's Ark M project gave him venom treatments
>>150255571>>150255613Everything you said was purely surface level its astounding
He looks cool
