Absolute Power by Mark Waid and Dan Mora

[Leancarp900]

I wonder how many of these Dan Mora is drawing? He left two titles for this event and we know he is a power house....so surely it isnt just the main Absolute Power issues?

He just left Shazam. He clarified he isn't leaving World's Finest.

[Robotman]

Honestly I feel like "fuller" Diana is more an exception than the norm, though I think it's more just...anime proportions, if that makes sense.

That would be nice.

I guess we know why he needed to cut back on World's Finest Titans and Shazam.

I wonder if Task Force 7 is related to the League (Big 7?).

Probably a way to connect Task Force X with Wildstorm’s Team 7.

[Guy_McNichts]

Yep...Waid's writing every tie-in. Including Wonder Woman.


This is gonna suck.

[Frontier]

Probably a way to connect Task Force X with Wildstorm’s Team 7.

Watch them try to do something with Wildstorm for the umpteenth time .

[HsssH]

I wonder if we are going to get another Maxwell Lord situation with Waller being positioned as a WW's villain despite never really interacting before.

[Dioman-san]

Reading list published by Popverse:



According to Popverse and Bleeding Cool, all these tie-ins are written by Mark Waid (wtf?).


Popverse also indicates that Absolute Power marks the ending of Dawn of DC...To make room for Twilight of DC?

He IS totally mad !!

[Bored at 3:00AM]

The more overtly villainous Amanda Waller becomes, the less interesting I am in her.

That said, Waid & Mora have been doing great work on WF and Shazam. I'll definitely check this out.

[Vordan]

Waid doing all the tie-ins by himself is utterly insane. Hope this is good, the story premise isn’t exactly hooking me, but Waid and Mora doing Superman is enough to get me to check this out.

[HsssH]

The problem with making all the books tie-in is that you end up running the risk of making both the audiences and the creators burn-out. Like Marvel forced to everyone to tie-in with Civil War 2 and Secret Empire and everyone got tired of it (and it didn't even seem to help Secret Empire sales-wise).

Like, for instance, the fact Waller is the stand-in for WW instead of Sovereign or someone like Circe tells me King probably didn't want to tie-in with this event.

I don't think that you need everyone to tie-in, but some franchise books should tie-in. For example, if this is dealing with Zur then I see nothing wrong with Zdarsky doing a tie-in in the main Batman book. On the other hand Ram and Williamson can continue doing whatever they are doing in their Batman books.

[king81992]

This sounds dumb. Did writers forget that power stealing and meta gene harnessing(?) are Parasite and the Dominators gimmick?

[j9ac9k]

The more overtly villainous Amanda Waller becomes, the less interesting I am in her.

That said, Waid & Mora have been doing great work on WF and Shazam. I'll definitely check this out.

I'd much rather have a more nuanced Waller who's basically an "ends justifies the means" kind of morally ambiguous character, but the fact that she wants to take away powers rather than outright kill them all makes me a little hopeful that Waid will dial back on her being an outright villain.

And I've enjoyed WF (love Mora) so I will also be checking this out.

[Rev9]

Sounds like this will be a fun read. I hope this ends will Waller being revealed to be controlled or manipulated by some higher villain. I don't like her as a full-on villain/control-freak. I also hope this book concludes with the return of the Justice League with this same creative team on the book.

Wasn't she always a control freak? I guess her station is corrupting her through 'righteous cause', it could be argued Beast has turned dark in X-verse in the same way.

[The Frog Bros]

He draws her skinnier than most especially on covers. I might not be right about the angry look just something I think.

Honestly I feel like "fuller" Diana is more an exception than the norm, though I think it's more just...anime proportions, if that makes sense.

Yeah I think Mora’s Diana is thinner but at least he does draw her pretty muscular, which is good. It’s the height too, she should be tall. For me, Sampere has it perfectly rendered: tall, broad shouldered, muscular, and wavy hair.

As for the event itself, not quite sure it interests me enough to go for the entire shebang, tie-ins and all. But damn, impressive from a project production standpoint by Waid. Guy loves what he does, that’s for sure.

[Frontier]

Waid doing all the tie-ins by himself is utterly insane. Hope this is good, the story premise isn’t exactly hooking me, but Waid and Mora doing Superman is enough to get me to check this out.

I wonder why Waid is writing all the tie-ins, it seems unprecedented.

Is it something Waid suggested or wanted to do? Was it to keep the story as consistent and tight as possible? Did they not want to interrupt a bunch of titles this time? Did they not have enough writers available to write tie-ins?

[Primal Slayer]

Waid doing all the tie-ins by himself is utterly insane. Hope this is good, the story premise isn’t exactly hooking me, but Waid and Mora doing Superman is enough to get me to check this out.

How have Kryptonite laced bullets not become a regular thing in the Super-verse?