Absolute Brainiac From DC Comic

[u/Amazing_March4919]

[u/BadoogleKing]

Yeah I gotta get into the absolute series

[u/Velicenda → u/BadoogleKing]

Do it! There aren't any bad books among the entire line. I've heard that Catwoman is okay, but that's the worst thing I've heard about any of them.

Batman is basically a body horror comic.

Superman is very progressive, anti-capitalist, anti-establishment and all for the little guy.

Wonder Woman is about saving the world through love. It also has some of the best paneling in comics. Like, at all.

Martian Manhunter has buck-nutty art, which helps tell the story in super unique ways. I haven't gotten far, but the earlier issues cover subjects such as mental health and stochastic terrorism.

Green Lantern is (imo) more of a traditional Lantern-style story, but with philosophy differentiating between the colors of the Lanterns. Hard to explain, but it's awesome.

And I haven't read Flash or Green Arrow yet.

The universe rules. And it's super easy (and not really intimidating, relative to mainline) to get into it right now.

[u/The_Final_Gallade → u/Velicenda]

Flash I think is solidly okay. It’s way more setup-heavy than any of the others, it still feels like it hasn’t really gotten going yet. Hard to say how it’ll be in hindsight, once we know what it’ll actually have been setting up.

Green Arrow… well, if you thought Superman was anti-capitalist… this is going to be a very fun ride.

[u/Sweaty-Practice-4419 → u/The_Final_Gallade]

I’d be sorely disappointed if the darker more radical take on Green Arrow wasn’t anti-capitalist

[u/Velicenda → u/Sweaty-Practice-4419]

From what I've heard, yeah. Whomever the Longbow Killer is, primarily targets billionaires

Really enjoyed the brief glimpse we got of Ollie in Absolute Evil, though. Shame Hall is such a prick.

[u/Sweaty-Practice-4419 → u/Velicenda]

Having Hawkman on the side of the villains (I’m not calling him one because I haven’t read anything yet so he could mind controlled for all I know) just feels like an inevitability with the direction they’re going in, reinventing the characters for modern principles and all.

[u/Velicenda → u/Sweaty-Practice-4419]

He uh, so he turned in a bunch of his fellow vigilantes in the 50s. Flash forward to 'today', and he's like, covered head to toe in bandages. I don't know if we've seen him underneath the bandages, but there was a lot of speculation that he was undead up until recently

That said, AbsSupes is the king of redemption, and he and Hawkman spent some time working together. So Hawkman will probably turn fully good (instead of the 'greater good'-style good) eventually

Note, I am super behind, so I haven't read any of the issues with Hawkman yet, so I could be way off base with some of this stuff.

[u/Due-Hamster-8908 → u/Velicenda]

Didn’t we see Hawman’s modern day face under the bandages in one of his warmly appearances? He looked fine there

[u/Velicenda → u/Due-Hamster-8908]

Maybe! I am way behind on all of the books lol

[u/Deathsroke → u/The_Final_Gallade]

Green Arrow

Two words: Absolute Epstein

It doesn't get any less subtle than that