Batman/Superman: World’s Finest by Mark Waid and Dan Mora

[Frontier]

Travis Mercer will be helping out on some issues (likely because of Absolute Power eating up Mora’s time)

He's a great artist too .

[Vordan]

BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD’S FINEST #29

Written by MARK WAID
Art and cover by DAN MORA
Variant covers by BJÖRN BARENDS and DAVID LAFUENTE
1:25 variant cover by JERRY GAYLORD
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 7/17/24
The grand finale to “Impossible” is here, and it…well, it is as insane as you think it would be. First of all, we’ve got this big DOOM-MITE guy over here, check him out…he’s about to eat Batman and Superman! What would that even taste like? Let’s hope our heroes never let him find out, as the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight save the fifth dimension from IMPLOSION or die trying!

[Frontier]

Ha ha, Doom-Mite .

[The Frog Bros]

That's a very cool cover.

[Hypo]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #27 Preview (Unlettered)
Writer: Mark Waid
Artists: Dan Mora and Travis Mercer

[Frontier]

They're having fun with this .

[Vordan]

Word Balloon with Waid where he angrily disputes Roy Thomas getting credit for creating Wolverine

Also talks a bit about Absolute Power. It’s editorially driven and multiple creators took a crack at it prior to him (Snyder, King, Taylor) but couldn’t make it work.

[Frontier]

Word Balloon with Waid where he angrily disputes Roy Thomas getting credit for creating Wolverine

Also talks a bit about Absolute Power. It’s editorially driven and multiple creators took a crack at it prior to him (Snyder, King, Taylor) but couldn’t make it work.

Hoping that's not a bad sign.

[TheKryptonMan]

Word Balloon with Waid where he angrily disputes Roy Thomas getting credit for creating Wolverine

Also talks a bit about Absolute Power. It’s editorially driven and multiple creators took a crack at it prior to him (Snyder, King, Taylor) but couldn’t make it work.

Man , if it's really Editorially driven then I don't know how good it'll be .
IMO it needs to be organic, naturally occurring to be really good .
But here's hoping that I'm wrong .

[The Frog Bros]

Word Balloon with Waid where he angrily disputes Roy Thomas getting credit for creating Wolverine

Also talks a bit about Absolute Power. It’s editorially driven and multiple creators took a crack at it prior to him (Snyder, King, Taylor) but couldn’t make it work.

Hoping that's not a bad sign.

"Born under a bad sign."

In all honesty wasn't planning on reading this anyway, but this reaffirms it.

Regardless, what it does have going for it is the talent, which could make it worth while. Time will tell...

[Vordan]

Regarding what Waid considers his magnum opus these days:

MW: I’m going to go with Irredeemable, a series which ran from 2009-2012, centered on a former hero named The Plutonian. At first blush, it looks like another of these “Hey, what if Superman went evil?” stories like “The Boys” on Amazon or the film Brightburn or any number of things we’ve seen since, but, A, this predates those works and the near-sub-genre that’s grown up around them, and, B, that’s a deliberate swerve on my end. I think “Superman goes bad and turns murderous and wrecks things!” is lazy. It’s embarrassingly low-hanging fruit because literally anyone could tell that story, and it’s pointless to write a story that the audience could write on its own, without your help. I wasn’t interested in the obvious. Really, how many times can you see a Superman-type character smash stuff and wreak carnage before it gets super-repetitive?

https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/q-...7Dd5iDZ_Xt3kPg

It’s an interesting interview if you’re willing to pay $6, Waid comments on stuff like the overuse of the Multiverse and other topics.

[Laser_Man]

https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/q-...7Dd5iDZ_Xt3kPg

It’s an interesting interview if you’re willing to pay $6, Waid comments on stuff like the overuse of the Multiverse and other topics.

I love Waid and I loved Irredeemable but it was quite literally just "Superman going bad and turning murderous and wrecking things". Except for one twist right in the end, it was a fairly standard (but really well done) "Evil Superman" story.

[Laser_Man]

Man , if it's really Editorially driven then I don't know how good it'll be .
IMO it needs to be organic, naturally occurring to be really good .
But here's hoping that I'm wrong .

Why is the DC editorial so obsessed with putting Amanda Waller at the front and center of their universe? She was much more interesting as doing her own job in her corner of the world but DC is adamant on turning her into the "Civil Servant" version of Lex Luthor.

Absolute Power sounds dreadful in every way. The concept is stale, the villains are overused (and how come the villain's version of Trinity has no Wonder Woman villain) and it will destroy the momentum that some books were gaining.

[Vordan]

BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD’S FINEST #30

Written by MARK WAID
Art by GLEB MELNIKOV
Cover by DAN MORA
Variant covers by PUPPETEER LEE and LUCIO PARRILLO
1:25 variant cover by DANIEL BAYLISS
Batman 85th Anniversary variant cover by JORGE JIMENEZ
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 8/21/24
Get ready to see the Trinity—Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman —take part in their first adventure as a trio!

Hopefully Waid does a better job with this than he did with his portrayal of the first Superman/Batman team up. Wondy fans will be stoked to hear about this I’m sure

[Mantis-Ray]

Hopefully Waid does a better job with this than he did with his portrayal of the first Superman/Batman team up. Wondy fans will be stoked to hear about this I’m sure

Rao let this turn out decent so they don't scream like chickens with their heads cut off every time Waid does something with Diana.