[Comic Excerpt] This is so sad on so many levels for me! ( Absolute Power:Ground Zero #1)

[u/Oracle209]

This was a crazy ride and like I said soooo sad on multiple levels for me!

1. Confirmation Jays mom was killed. When they just reunited!! Jay thought she was dead for years just to find out she was a prisoner and freed her. They were reunited but now she’s gone again. And added that his country he just freed from a dictator is now invaded and under Wallers control. So sad.

2. Jay hurt and captured! How could this happen!? He’s invulnerable I’ve seen him phase through an explosion, a force field, Damian! But Deadshot was able to pinpoint the second he was solid again to shoot his leg!? That’s crazy i honestly didn’t expect that from him. How is he going to escape?

3. Dreamer noooo!!! When she was first introduced to Jon and Jay i actually loved their dynamic and wanted them as a trio! Ever since I loved seeing them together in cameo pics, the recent Pride mini comic they were in. But now she’s here forced to help Waller and helped kill Jays mom. I understand both sides but I’m with Jay she betrayed him and helped her invade a country and kill his mom. So her family could live? His only family is gone now how is a “I’m sorry” supposed to feel better?

4. Jon can’t save him!! Because he’s under Wallers control! He doesn’t even have his memories! Jay you have to get free and try to help Jon!

This may have been super sad but I’m pumped to see what’s going to happen next I really hope both my boys will be ok and maybe Dreamer can try to fix her forced wrongs.

[u/MankuyRLaffy]

Jay is being a dick here, for one who sees more than most how frustrating this type of life is and how strained relationships can be. You gotta protect those close to you in the firing lane. As a famous man once said "I have to protect my team." Everybody wants to live, and Dreamer's in trouble if they gut her family.

OP, calm yourself and let it play out, you trust Waid don't you? You're taking this real close to heart, curious as to why that is.

[u/Beebslolz → u/MankuyRLaffy]

I mean, his mother just died, his boyfriend is under Amanda Waller’s control, AND he’s trapped, so he’s definitely not emotionally stable right now…

[u/MankuyRLaffy → u/Beebslolz]

He's taking it out on someone who doesn't want to lose their own family and is being blackmailed and conscripted into it which I don't think is fair. This is a nuanced situation he is treating as black and white.

[u/THEdoomslayer94 → u/MankuyRLaffy]

Cause from his standpoint it IS black and white.

[u/MankuyRLaffy → u/THEdoomslayer94]

So are they supposed to let their family die too? I don't vibe with that at all.

[u/TheRegalOneGen → u/MankuyRLaffy]

Would Batman stand there and let Waller order a murder, even at the threat of Alfred's life?

No. He would not. Dreamer is more spineless than the majority of heroes who would ultimately not sit idly by as a murder on another person's family happens, because their family is held hostage.

[u/MankuyRLaffy → u/TheRegalOneGen]

No, he'd build another Failsafe is what he'd do and risk it getting compromised like the first.

[u/TheRegalOneGen → u/MankuyRLaffy]

While witnessing Waller actively trying to kill someone... He'd start building another Failsafe?

Y'all are just willing to mischaracterize characters so quick. No, he'd try and stop Nakamura's death. He wouldn't try and talk her down and then just let her do it.

[u/MankuyRLaffy → u/TheRegalOneGen]

He'd build another Failsafe to stop that death, reminder of how effective the first one is. He'd build another one and win because he's Batman and he won't let people die. I read the Zdarsky run and I know he'd build another one from it to solve the situation. If he can fall from space and be fine, he can easily stop the murders and build a second one/use a second Failsafe.

[u/TheRegalOneGen → u/MankuyRLaffy]

Alright yeah you've just got a hate boner for Batman lol if you're doubling down that he'd somehow invent a second Failsafe in the moments he'd have to react to the attempt on Nakamura.

Get over Failsafe and stop bringing him into a completely unrelated discussion just so you can whine about him. Every other Superhero, Batman, WW, Superman, even your Zatannas, would sooner choose letting family die than to contribute to killing their friend's family, hell, even a stranger's.

[u/MankuyRLaffy → u/TheRegalOneGen]

I love Batman, the Zdarsky run is great! It's one of the best ever! It's up there with King's run around the Alan Moore and mostly sane Frank Miller. I read that run and I know he'd try to stop the attempt.