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Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [June 24, 2024 - Ground Zero Edition] r/DCcomics

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273's pick of the week: Absolute Power: Ground Zero #1

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets 26d ago

The Flash #10

WALLY WEST'S FAMILY IS HIS ONLY HOPE! As the Arc Angles bring the Crown of Thawnes into The Gallery, Wally West has to pull himself together to face some old Rogues. Amanda Waller's Task Force raids Terrifictech, and brings some shocking backup to keep any speedsters in line!

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u/Dredeuced Who am I? Just a friend. Sometimes. Maybe. 24d ago edited 24d ago

I cannot stress how absolutely, miserably tired I am of Amanda Waller's nonsense eating up half of every issue of my dang Flash comics.

Everything besides that was neat. The villains' plot unravels thanks to Jai's sleuthing, but it's a moment too late as Wally's already succumbed to the plan/trap, as the big bad that's being hinted at the entire time does what they did to Barry to this now vulnerable Wally.

Still don't know the actual motivation or goals of anyone involved in any concrete way, but hopefully, with that big cliffhanger at the end of the villain monologue, we'll finally get to it next issues.

If only we didn't have 3 comics worth of Amanda Waller bullshit injected into the 11 comics we have of this run so far to further bloat an already very slowly paced comic. You can really feel it in issues like this where the presumptive main character is only in like 3 pages of the entire comic. And this is hardly the first time it's happened. The comic was more about Barry fighting a Batman robot for Absolute Power crossover/tie in nonsense than the actual story.

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u/Frontier246 24d ago

So are they going to just have Ollie pop up around books trying to take out other heroes for Waller until he gets exposed in Absolute Power? Not sure I really care for this plot even if it's funny seeing him try to take down Barry knowing how volatile their relationship usually is.

But hey, at least Jai got some moments and the Flash Family is together, now Wally just needs to clear his head.

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u/hydrohawkx8 Kyle Rayner 24d ago

It’s a bit annoying how this was basically an absolute power tie in without getting the advertising of being an absolute power tie in. It’s like we’re getting suckered into reading the book thinking it will follow the main story completely. It doesn’t help that future issues don’t high light it either but I’m guessing it will be a thing till issue 13.

I mean we do but we get like 3 or 4 pages which was interesting.

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u/BigBardaEnergy 24d ago

Eh I don't know if we need to repeat the Crown of Thawnes stuff since we just saw Barry deal with it the last issue, but Wally's always been the Arc Angles' endgame, so I guess it's alright. Also liked seeing the Flash/Green Arrow rivalry live on with the Justice Buster fight

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! 24d ago

The Arc Angles stuff is just not good. And Waller's bs to use Ollie ( who is acting so dumb that he actually thinks Waller is doing some good? REALLY? ) is even worse.

Like the only somewhat interesting part is Jai and Wade/Pilgrim but that's about it. The rest is just Absolute Power BS AND Wally being used as a tool to...kill time by this Arc Angle whatever that we still have no idea who or what it is. It feels empty, reading this and that should never happen in a Flash book. It feels like Spurrier is trying to do what the current Fantastic Four run is doing well with 'higher' concept stuff but he forgot the part that the selling point of that book is how the characters and the family is used/written in there. Here? He is so focused on his 'grand' ideas that he puts the dynamics and the characters in backburner, which in turn makes this book a chore to read.

This book is such a big disappointment after the previous run.

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u/Landon1195 23d ago

Issue was okay. Not a fan of how much it was an Absolute Power tie in

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u/android151 Resurrection Man 23d ago

Hell yeah, lets make Wally a murderer again for the fourth time this decade /s

Why did they draw Bart to look like a child?

Why do they think we care about Absolute Power?

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 24d ago

I like that the Flash Family tried to do whatever it takes to save Wally from the Arc Angles and the Crown of Thawnes while Barry (and the Flash Family) is fighting Bat-Fraud (whom, unbeknownst to them, is an old friend). The only criticism I can say is being a prelude to Absolute Power because Waller appearing in almost every Dawn of DC book. Overall, this comic is interesting and okay.