Absolute Martian Manhunter Darker, Yet Colorful

Dang, this one hits it right out of the park with a nice sense of weirdness. And color flows out like it sickens you and the main character. Gotta love a rainbow that makes you cough. This brand new title and Absolute Wonder Woman are just killing it. Are Absolute Superman and Batman over-rated, yup. 

 

For those who don't follow comics, we get it, Absolute comics are new takes on classic DC comic characters. So new origins and stories mixing their very long and convoluted histories. Further into it, it's easy to say their like edgier versions of older characters.

Absolute Martian Manhunter has been extended to 12 issues!

Every issue will be drawn by Javier Rodríguez! Congrats to the entire team! pic.twitter.com/MH8fdO7jsL

— DCU Updates (@dcuworld) March 27, 2025

So the big two can do something cool with paper comics pic.twitter.com/qj2SA4o9Fd

— Exalted Speed (@Exalted_Speed) March 26, 2025

Your not the final page of the comic had two images on the front and back and when you hold it up to light it creates a overlay effect showing the true final page https://t.co/zoRMRnrKv6 pic.twitter.com/rCk8ceYQ5a

— Exalted Speed (@Exalted_Speed) March 27, 2025

 On DC's Absolute

*Many have suggested cynically that it might just be a runaround by WB for legal use of the characters in their movies. Example, we're doing a movie on Absolute Superman, not original Superman...sigh.

Others in comic fandom will bring up the argument that Marvel did this idea decades ago with their Ultimate Universe, same concept of reinventing characters. The concept is so old, Marvel just restarted the Ultimate universe for even newer origins and takes on characters. 

Either way, it's kind of fun having both long history characters and whole new takes.