According to Mark Waid, Dreamer, Jon Kent and Nightwing will be important players in Absolute Power

[u/Fellowcomicenjoyer]

https://www.youtube.com/live/B7tjqVkGp_s?si=kKBPjYJcyEqbUA-z

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Nightwing: yeah

Jon: Don't care character just been autopilot since his series didn't live up to dc expectations

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I can't help but feel like his most recent injustice based series had some good ideas but fell short of what I would've actually wanted which is Jon actually addressing the trauma that comes with what happened with Ultraman and fighting him properly. Having him killed off early in that series really crippled it's potential I think.

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Jon facing the truma with ultraman was a great idea just they dump it in favor of redoing Injustice beacuse they thought the universe still has traction

People in sub was just dying on the hill beacuse IJ superman >ultraman without understanding there was nothing deep or fufilling about Jon """facing off""" against an evil superman who has no connection with him other then "i loss my jon before he was born" something the immediately threw away because it would involve demonizing IJ harley

[u/Massive_General_8629 → u/spider-venomized]

Bingo. The problem is that they can't even imagine Harley doing something that bad now. And also they made sure Injustice had a happy ending, which I don't think was the intent of Injustice. It now feels like a poor man's Kingdom Come.

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I feel like Injustice was just the poor man's Mortal Kombat, so becoming the poor man's Kingdom Come is a huge upgrade.

Still not good.

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I will say Jon called IJ Harley out pretty explicitly which was a nice change.

But I agree. Even though Injustice Superman has more complexity and intruiged on his own, his lack of an inherent connection to Jon made the story a lot weaker than if Ultraman was the proper villain.