{"id":153482,"date":"2025-01-05T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=504039"},"modified":"2025-01-05T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T15:28:11","slug":"dcs-batman-reboot-promised-hope-but-wonder-woman-and-superman-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/dcs-batman-reboot-promised-hope-but-wonder-woman-and-superman-delivered\/","title":{"rendered":"DC\u2019s Batman reboot promised hope, but Wonder Woman and Superman delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When DC Comics\u2019 Absolute line was leaked, then announced<\/a> in 2024, one arresting image sucked all the air out of the room: the widest, square-est version of Batman anyone had ever seen. The idea that when veteran Batman writer Scott Snyder had the opportunity to remake Batman from the ground up in a darker setting, his first directive<\/a> to artist Nick Dragotta was to make him frick-kin\u2019 yuge<\/em> was intriguing, to say the least. <\/p>\n

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The visuals of Absolute Batman<\/em>\u2019s sibling books, Absolute Wonder Woman<\/em> and Absolute Superman<\/em>, weren\u2019t quite so surprising. Wonder Woman has carried a sword and worn pants before; Superman has had shaggy hair. Batman was so <\/em>wide, he made his fellow heroes\u2019 reimagined designs look normal by comparison. It\u2019s no wonder Absolute Batman<\/em> became the book to fixate on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But three months into the run of each book, Absolute Wonder Woman<\/em> and Absolute Superman<\/em> are sprinting toward all-time-great comic book status, in part because the writers and artists were able to keep their biggest, most of-the-moment twists on two very old superhero stories a complete secret until just the right moment. Maybe they were hidden behind the younger Batman\u2019s remarkable girth?<\/p>\n

A new year is a time for reflection. I\u2019ve been doing some reflecting, and I\u2019m willing to say it: DC Comics\u2019 Absolute Universe rules much harder than I ever expected it to, in a way I thought was impossible. It\u2019s giving me a dark timeline that actually feels good to visit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

[Ed. note:<\/strong> This piece contains some spoilers for the first three issues each of Absolute Wonder Woman<\/em> and Absolute Superman<\/em>.]<\/p>\n

I get now why writer Kelly Thompson and artist Hayden Sherman wanted to keep the details of Absolute Wonder Woman<\/em> on the down-low during the initial project announcement. Even though their first issue literally takes place in hell, it\u2019s wonderfully quiet, slow, and soft in a way that monthly superhero books rarely ever get to be, and in a way that would suffer in summary. They deliver a Diana who has been separated from her Amazonian heritage by divine edict, but who is determined to be a bulwark between humanity and terrible monsters, even if that requires spitting in the face of gods. Also, I won\u2019t spoil it here, but #3 reveals something about Diana\u2019s\u2026 physicality\u2026 in such a casual way that it hits like a Mack truck.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the first three issues of Absolute Superman<\/em>, writer Jason Aaron and artist Rafa Sandoval have drummed out a steady series of subversions to the Superman story we think we know. Better yet, they\u2019ve taken the time to show those differences have meaning, outside of the shock of the unexpected. Their Superman still grew up on a farm \u2014 a farm on Krypton, an extremely stratified society in which his family is from the laborer caste. <\/p>\n

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Superman\u2019s relationship to his doomed homeworld is traditionally distant, but Kal-El the curious preteen gives Aaron and Sandoval a vehicle to display the flaws of Kryptonian society from a close-up view, opening Absolute Superman<\/em> #2 with little Kal getting written up at school (remote class only) for writing an essay himself, instead of using the computer to AI-generate one, based on the Kryptonian database of all approved knowledge. They establish all this detail in a mere two panels that will hit any school-age kid, parent of such, or teacher with the chilling punch of an effective ghost story.<\/p>\n

The third issue, released on the first day of 2025, gives the familiar Superman origin tale another trenchantly modern twist. In this version of the story, the leaders of Krypton don\u2019t refuse to believe the warnings that their planet is dying, thus perishing along with it. Here, they support the illusion that everything is normal and under control, while secretly building massive escape ships for the elite castes alone. <\/p>\n

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Kal-El\u2019s parents, meanwhile, have been constructing their own ship for the paltry few laborers they can fit on it. What happens next? Do the elite Kryptonians survive? Do Kal\u2019s parents? So far, they\u2019ve only been seen in flashback, so I guess I\u2019m waiting for Absolute Superman<\/em> #4 to find out. <\/p>\n

For comics readers, the Dark Timeline is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Maybe there\u2019s a dark future the heroes need to avert<\/a>, or a thing could have gone terribly wrong if only What If\u2026?<\/a> Or it\u2019s the future and nothing\u2019s as good or easy as it used to be<\/a>. Or maybe there\u2019s an entire multiverse where things turned out so bad<\/a> that the universes inside it are good for nothing more than kindling in a cosmic forge. \u201cA familiar setting, but shockingly worse\u201d is an easy well to return to. <\/p>\n

When the Absolute setting was announced as a darker version of the DC universe, created by the evil god Darkseid for someday-to-be-revealed dark purposes, it felt like mere repetition. \u201cIn this universe, the heroes come up in ways that make them underdogs,\u201d Scott Snyder said in an announcement video<\/a>, making the case that direr origins would make it resonate even more when Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman \u2014 and upcoming Absolute heroes like Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, and the Flash \u2014 inevitably made the decision to fight against the darkness anyway<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t think Snyder and the rest of the folks on DC\u2019s Absolute books would be able to execute on that idea so quickly and consistently across three creative teams and three very different revisionary concepts. These first three Absolute books aren\u2019t just solid, they\u2019re incisive, meaningful, and gorgeously told.\u00a0Thompson and Sherman\u2019s Wonder Woman is about love in the face of self-denial, and claiming your identity even in the face of divine censorship. Aaron and Sandoval\u2019s Superman is about action and striving and tragedy, but also the joy of writing and the power of telling the truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an era where corporations are censoring references to queer or trans characters<\/a> out of fear of backlash<\/a>, there\u2019s a resonance in having Wonder Woman defy divine law to speak the word \u201cAmazon\u201d aloud. In particular, there\u2019s resonance in giving that moment to a queer-coded character. (And often, lately, thank goodness, a straight-up queer one<\/a>.) I do <\/em>want to see Wonder Woman defying rules imposed on her from above. I do want to see Superman rejecting generative AI as a homogenizing, lie-spreading force. I do want to see him navigating a metaphor for the billionaire-backed push to escape Earth\u2019s climate problems<\/a> by building a Mars base on the backs of indentured labor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Absolute Wonder Woman<\/em> and Absolute Superman <\/em>are going there: Not just making up harsh alternate futures for the sake of grim-and-gritty storytelling, but presenting them as our<\/em> harsh futures, with the promise that they\u2019re shaping heroes to fight back. I get enough \u201cdark timeline\u201d vibes from life in the 2020s. The least my comic book dark timelines can do is punch the real ones in the face once in a while. <\/p>\n\n

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