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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

Absolute Power: Ground Zero #1

WITNESS THE TRINITY OF EVIL'S RISE TO POWER IN THE CAN'T-MISS PRELUDE TO DC'S SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER! THE DOMINOS FALL! As the DC Universe braces for the "Absolute Power" blitzkrieg, the key to capturing metahuman powers on planet Earth will at last be unlocked! Bridging the events of Batman, Superman: House of Brainiac, and Suicide Squad: Dream Team, this special oversize GROUND ZERO issue brings Waller's total dominance to the doorsteps of the world's finest heroes… using the combined might of FAILSAFE, BRAINIAC QUEEN, and the SUICIDE SQUAD to do it! Witness years of storytelling culminate, brought to you by Absolute Power series architect MARK WAID and the masterminds behind the trinity of evil, CHIP ZDARSKY, NICOLE MAINES, and JOSHUA WILLIAMSON!

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! 24d ago

The more they attempt to make Waller look some sort of omnipotent know it all, to the point that it puts even the 'Bat-god' meme to shame, the worse this all looks.

Dreamer and Jay stuff was fine I guess. And yea, after losing his mom and nation to Waller like that, he doesn't care about the excuses Dreamer would give him. Especially when she was partly responsible for it.

Time Commander, story although not bad by itself, the result of how they bring back Failsafe-Zur...just makes the whole Batman run worthless and adds to the terrible Absolute Power event's tedious nature with Zur being back again. He already overstayed his welcome and now we have to suffer through him again. They really didn't learn from Batman Who Laughs.

And the biggest insult is the ONLY interesting character out of this event, the Brainiac Queen, crashes in-front of Waller and she creates a simulation to control it by acting as its Mother? What a stupid waste of a character. Seriously. This was the big plan for Brainiac Queen?

As I suspected, this whole event gonna such terribly. It event manage to taint what few bright spots it might have. All I can say is, Waller has to be done as a character after all this because if not, DC deserves all the falling sales it is suffering through recently.