Like the rest of the Absolute line, a joy to read.

Gabe Hernandez clearly has no soul.

Automatic doors no longer move for you Gabe.

Automatic doors have gained sentience Gabe. And in the first throws of that sentience, they have more soul than ye.

Mr S. Door has reviewed your review and gives it a solid 3 out of 10.

It just keeps getting better. And look at that, we've got Richard doing stuff! Everyone is getting the chance to shine and I love it so much.

Nice try Gabe.

It's fast paced, funny and overall just good.

Extending the great power sequence and Peter falling to pieces in MJ's arms is so powerful.

My opinion on Annihilation is controversial, that's exactly why I chose to express it. Nobody should agree with me or anything, i am just explaining how i feel. I do not love these comics, I do not hate them either, I think they are fine.

I think it's commendable to fit so many characters into a comic and to rebuild so many characters with different mini-series. Not every mini was this awesome, sure, but in a way they all helped for the main event to not worry about building any foundation. Clearly, it is an ambitious story with a lot of moving peaces and it give a new life to the marvel cosmos and gives every one of those characters a new status quo, which can be explored. Like I admit it's an important moment for Marvel. But I feel that so much is so weirdly paced and so many things still slip through the cracks of this planning.

Firstly I really do not enjoy Giffen's writing this much here for exactly those reasons. He is good at balancing the characters, but he is not that great with every character, he did a very good Ronan, but Ronan is quite simple and that's the thing he is good with the simpler, more one-note characters(btw Ronan is great, him being simple do not take away from him at all). The conversations between Richard and Peter were painful to me, especially since they do not have much of a relationship and it all came from nowhere essentially like the relationship between Rich and Gamora. The whole skip between the minis and the main event was really weird for me, because why do we spend so much time on building a foundation and to everything to be clear then to then skip and introduce characters off-screen? Especially since Giffen spend half his silver surfer building and nothing else, just establishing where the characters are. He did not do a great job with Nova for me, which is a huge contrast with Abbnet. I do not connect emotionally to how he writes this has a lot to do with the art too and in turn it's kinda hard for me to understand how tired Richard is for example, how much it all took a toll on him for him to take the decision he did. Like i mean i get it, but i do not feel it. Again, this is huge contrast to Abbnet's mini, where it's both clear in the art and in the way he speaks where he comes from. A lot of information comes from just talking, of narating, of exposition so it seems static for the most part, everything Giffen wrote from the Thanos issues which are probably not collected here is like this for me. Still, he has good ideas, good ideas about how to progress the characters, how to weave them together, but this is really not for me and i feel a lot of threats just disappeared or were not explored this well, where more could have been done with them. This simplicity has merits don't get me wrong, it makes it all digestible, but again personal i would have liked more flavor.

Annihilius was a threat in some of the minis and has some moments here, but overall I really find him to be boring, i find his whole order and lackeys to be boring too. Once Thanos stepped in, his threat power even became smaller for me and he stepped into the maniacal villain-type early Ultron. Thanos did most of the stuff, Thanos actually was the one that was moving the needle for him. There really isn't much to him, even his main, secret motivation is pretty hollow given what we've seen in these comics.Also i did not like how the final battle was drawn ,sure it had a badass ending, (btw this comics uses the brutal quite good), but I felt it was missing panels, as honestly i did with a lot of this story.

i don't want to be overly long, but yeah, this is a fine comics, but it does not stand above every event marvel produced for me, it's of the better ones for sure, but that's the most i can say now. Hope that someday i get the hype. more

In Superman's very first appearance, he's introduced as a champion of the oppressed. In Action Comics #3, his third appearance, Superman intentionally traps a mine owner in his own mine, with rusted safety devices from his own neglect and carelessness for his workers failing to activate. This is directly in response to bad conditions in the mine leading to one of its workers being injured. If you think this comic is hamfisted or somehow out of left field, you've got to try reading some early Superman. I was not very excited for this one as the pitch didn't really feel like something I'd want to read. Thankfully, the pitch sort of buried the lead in what this book would be about. It's taking Superman back to some of his earliest roots, and that's something I've been wanting to see more of for years now. Glad there's a space for it. more

Hands down the best version of Uncle Ben. I wish we got more of him.

This was so funny. Peter is perfect, I love the interpretation of Uncle Ben, Harry feels like a genuinely good guy. You want to root for these characters. You want to see more from them even when you know you won't. That's good writing.

Everything feels right. The characters are amazing, the worldbuilding is slow but feels lived in. In two issues. Spider-Man can't even do that in the mainline and he's been in it for over 60 years.

Wow! Just like the past 2 issues, Issue #3 brings high energy and a whole lot of heart.

The present day story takes a pause, in order to provide more context to the last days of Krypton, and it DELIVERS.

Unapologetically for the working people, this version of the Els truly reflects the complex times we live in today.

Rafa Sandoval's art is BADASS! Lara gets a lot of time to shine in this issue. Admittedly, I haven't enjoyed reading about Kal-El's mom as much as I have here. more

This continues to be an absolute pleasure to read. The whole Absolute line is my favourite thing in comics. Haven't felt like this about DC in many moons. It makes me feel like a kid reading comics again. For me, I can give no higher compliment.

As soon as I logged on today and saw the score! for this drop to 8.7, I knew instantly it was our master of mayhem - up to his antics as always!


Gabe Hernandez! Swans in with the observational skills of a grape that's has only ever watched the Phantom Menace.

"However, readers who insist Superman be the focus of a Superman comic will come away unsatisfied with this issue. Maybe Aaron is trying to out-Hickman Jonathan Hickman on Ultimate Spider-Man."

My word! A comic having more than just Superman in it had its score reduced to a 6 for doing so.
Very judgemental to assume readers don't have the brain power to assimilate dialogue for more than one character, no?
Oh! The Absolute and Ultimate concepts are the same! Mr Gabe E Hernandez. E for Einstein.

Maybe if Superman just spoke dialogue to himself whilst sat on a Scooby Doo beanie bag, in the middle of a plain white room, whilst wearing polka dot dungarees and jacking it for a laugh - would that suit you? If we're using your logic, that is.

We love you Gabe! more

This is a weird one. It's a reinvention of the original appearance of the Joker without Robin. I like some of the liberties taken, Cousin Melvin was an interesting addition but most of it largely felt very flat. The art didn't really elevate the book either. You can take or leave this one. It's not really better or worse than what it is adapting.

A well-written issue here, in my opinion. If you're going to have, relatively, a lot of dialogue in an issue, it needs to be done well. I don't know that this had "a lot" of dialogue, but I think it feels that way with how certain pages had a lot of smaller panels. Either way, I think Snyder did a nice job here. Dragotta did a solid job on the art, as well, although I don't think he's gotten to the same level of quality with his art as he did with the first issue, unfortunately. more

It's not perfect, but it's damn close.

Another strong debut issue for the Absolute line. I don't currently know whether or not I would place this above Batman overall, although I would consider this premise to be a stronger and/or more unique one thus far. Like Batman, I think this has the potential to be great, as I did enjoy the world being built throughout this. Hopefully I'm right about that.