It has been a little over a year since the dawn of DC’s Absolute Universe, an alternate corner of canon (powered by Darkseid energy) where DC’s iconic heroes can be reinvented in new ways.
In the time since then, we’ve gotten some truly incredible comic book storytelling: a tattooed Wonder Woman from Hell fighting a giant kaiju, an emo Superman fighting for immigrants and against the rise of generative A.I., and a working-class Batman whose entire rogues gallery seems to exist of unimaginable Eldritch horrors. (Seriously, just look at Absolute Joker.) Not to mention, Absolute Martian Manhunter has been breaking my brain (and the conventions of comic storytelling) with every new issue.
