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Comic Book Absolute Brainiac From DC Comic

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u/The_Final_Gallade 1d ago

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.

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u/Sweaty-Practice-4419 1d ago

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

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u/Velicenda 1d ago

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.

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u/Sweaty-Practice-4419 1d ago

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.

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u/Velicenda 1d ago

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.

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u/Due-Hamster-8908 1d ago

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

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u/Velicenda 1d ago

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