The Most Important DC Comic Book In 8 Years

DEAD ass wes i was Intending to troll you after seeing this, as I was finishing absolute Power - LOL But I also got this Book today and let me say....to the folks in the chat, I didnt read the second half yet, I needed to come here first.... the first part is the best book of the week and wes may be right.... Get ready this may be a stone cold winner .... Here.. im gonna lay low and let wes continue w the Vid... but yes this book seem like its great

Yeah this is stupid. Not paying for this. Consider me: All Out.

The absolute universe is what happens when uncool people are left to create a universe.. they throw in some stuff they saw in a manga and think that's going to bring in new readers...the only people picking these books up are existing readers..

What happened after infinite frontier? They had a watchtower shaped like a symbol? that went nowhere? I feel like this story could literally have started back then and we've just been spinning our wheels. You definitely can't keep introducing a watchtower over and over and thinking anybody's going to care.

I'm not going to read this one shot cuz Joshua's cowriting it. He's the same guy who wrote the most abysmal event in DC: knightterrors. Can't trust him any longer. Any time I see his name on a cover I avoid it like the plague. Since I read AP from beginning to end, it seems mark waid will carry the same writing style into JLU, by giving the heroes unequal time to shine and have others behaving like a prop in the background. It's only a matter of time before the next event.

Read it yesterday. I really enjoyed it, in particular the Omega half. I loved the art on the Darkseid chapter.
I like the JLU aspect because I was a fan of the show and the concept. I will cautiously and optimistically follow this to see where it goes

So....if everyone is in Justice League now, why even have a designation at all?!?

I don't Care if mark Waid IS a douche : a justice League with him and Dan Mora IS the best New of the year to me.

Are they trying to get Booster Gold over because of the Superman movie coming out?

"This wasn't terrible" Such is the state of the majority of modern comics, that's the best that can be expected.

Well let’s hope DC does not forget about those power enhancing membership cards. I would like to see the team ups they come with.

I'm all out. Not buying DC bullshit crap. Thanks DC for allowing me to divert money to other things.

We need to see more High Father.

I have a MJAOR problem with Darksied harnassing the power of The Spectre. For all intents Spectre is supposed to be an omniprescent, vengful/wrathful GOD! He's supposed to be way, way, WAAAAAAAY more powerful than Darksied...and yet Darksied can merge with Spectre?

Spectre is supposed to be fighting Darksied off?

Bullshit! Spectre would have laught right in Darksied's face and bitchslapped Darksied all the way back to Apolypse.

No offense to you,... But I wish your videos weren't better or more entertaining than these books !!

The big positives out of this issue are Booster's characterization (finally he's not treated like a complete moron) and Wes Craig's art.

Other than that, yeah, it's very 'been there, done that' vibes from this.

What happened to rebirth?

I read DC All In Special 1 yesterday and found a very rushed issue not a organic thing. Absolute Power just ended and now we had Darkseid gonna crazy and going to another Earth in multiverse to shape in your will. DC seems so desperate to increase your sales that are throwing any kind of random ideas for us readers. And I hated the evil Legion Of Super-Heroes in the end of issue.

Interesting that they made Hawkgirl a lot darker in this story. Or she reincarnated again.

Indeed mark waid is a piece of shit person.

Never liked they used term Omniverse, as that be all multiverses under it, what includes DC multiverse, Marvel multi-universe, Beyonder universe, TMNT multiverse, Star Trek multiverse, Star Wars multiverse, Dragonball multiverse, etc. There were just 2 DC multiverses (although would've been great if the other was Marvel multiverse), that merged into 1 bigger DC multiverse during Dark Crisis.

Eh I thought the comic was fine. A better start than any of their previous events since Death Metal. It really depends what the payoff will be like. It has potential though.

I wasn't a fan of every hero joining the Justice League. I do like large teams that can be split into smaller teams (I liked Hickman's Avengers which had 18 Avengers, where smaller groups could be chosen depending on the mission. This Justice League seems to have every single hero. There isn't even a number. It's just everyone).

Yeah idk there were some good things here but man the whole stuff with darkseid is dumb.

This the only time since 2014 i feel like there is somthing cooking im being positive. They started with booster gold seriously this time and im in

I loved darkseid story a lot

An entire page dedicated to explaining how they used every technological resource available, every cosmic force in the universe, and every blessing and magic conceivable... to create Justice League membership cards? You know what, I think that speaks for itself.

All Ass ...

I don’t get your argument for jlu it worked in the cartoon everyone is member question GA hawk and dove etc. u just use them according too the story.

wtf. why did synder copy hickman?! he's supposed to be a good writer himself

New return reader here. I haven’t picked up any of the big 2’s books since I started reading again after 25 year hiatus. Probably stupid question but why don’t they just go back to a particular year of DC comics and relaunch from that point? For example,If 1997 (just example date I have no clue) was the last great year of stories for DC couldn’t they just relaunch from that point of the supposed universe?

Another thing: Absolute Universe has the same problem like the current Ultimate Universe, in that everything is connected with one singular story. Here it‘s Darkseid messing around, there it was the Maker … instead of having just another sandbox for writers to work in, it has this long rat-tail of a storyline leading in and then being present in the background of the books. Why? It‘s all overcomplicating stuff and is just limiting the series associated with it, since they all have the same story backbone.

Marvel and DC are absolute garbage. I will buy stuff drawn by a couple of talented artists and basically just look at the art- I don't know who they are publishing comic books for anymore but I know it's not me. All of it feels insulting and amateurish, and I find that any writer or artist worth their salt is not staying at the "Big 2". There are so many independent books that are expertly crafted (does anyone else even read the Ghost Machine stuff??) including superheroes and non-superhero books that I can't bring myself to fork over $5 for a Big 2 comic that has lost me 3 pages in. Heroes are supposed to be heroic- not lost in their feelings and confused about how they feel about someone of the same gender, or explaining how systemic fill-in-the-blank made the bad guys do evil things. We have a whole cinematic universe created from characters and worlds on paper that doesn't represent what made those heroes popular and sticky- Agatha Harkness is what we got from Disney.

They gave me Justice League Unlimited and then took it away. I just can't

when it comes to Mark Waid.. ive lots of interesting experiences with him ..lots not good.. so i try to keep my personal opinions out of the hobby.. if i dont like his work on any book.. i drop it
but keep up the great work Wes

Snyder.....neither I, nor anyone I know who has collected for years, nay decades, cares.

Oh cool, I heard mixed reviews about this, that it was ok, or it sounded like a zero issue, but it seems like you liked it.

Also I forgot Justice League is like Wonder Woman in that significant plot points are overlooked or forgotten.

I really enjoyed DC All-In because it's very reminiscent of the Justice League Unlimited animated series. Considering that Joshua Williamson is pulling from the same elements for his Superman run, I honestly feel pretty good about it. I know Wes, you don't like cartoons, but the Bruce Timm & (I think) Paul Dini Justice League cartoons are some of the best JLA media ever made.

LOL God's ultimate angel of justice was possessed by Darkseid? LOL whatever

Yup. Got to the end and thought, "Welp. I don't care. I'll give each title ONE issue. Not 3. ONE. And my guess is, they'll all be pretty bad. So, I guess this potentially saves me a lot of time, money, and frustration." I think this is the beginning of me being done with DC for an indefinite period of time. At least until someone reliable tells me that there's something I absolutely HAVE to read (in which case, I'll wait for the trade to come out). Other than that... "all in?" More like all out. (PS: Anybody think the name of the initiative-- "ALL IN"-- is a little bit daunting/telling? Like, DC is essentially telling us that if this initiative doesn't work out, they go bust, and the game is over. No more DC. Anyone?)

I'm All Out on DC

The special wasn’t really good or bad, it’s kind of dependent on what comes next.

1. Absolute Power was another terrible event, if only because it doesn’t make sense read on its own. All legendary crossovers can be read on their own. These modern events are just written for the omnibus, and that’s crap. At best, this series was Waid just emptying the toy box and picking it all back up.

2. I like JL, but this is literally what they did in the JLU cartoon. No doubt that will be better. This was a not so subtle demotion of the Titans back to the kids table, despite making Nightwing a leader in AP.

3. Making heroes more powerful is just about the dumbest idea ever. How is someone supposed to undertake a hero’s journey when everyone is just stronger and better. It’s the antithesis of good storytelling.

4. While I like the New Gods and Legion coming back to prominence, it being successful all depends on what’s next. I don’t really trust Ram V to deliver anything but a drawn out, boring story in New Gods and I suspect DC is working towards a modern version of The Great Darkness saga that will pale in comparison to the original.

I’d like to be wrong, but I’m willing to bet I’m not.

Avengers machine+Justice League = Justice Machine. I think a modern take on that universe might be worth reading, especially if they 'updated' the world government for a modern audience. 😂

Who the fuck is Booster Gold?

Awesome work guys

The new comic book shop in my town (Sucker Punch Comics in Stamford, CT go show em love!) didn't really have anything besides transformers/ ultimate marvel selling. IT was nice to hear all their incoming DC All ins/ Absolute DC orders were more than they can handle In terms of popularity. It really feels surreal seeing comics be super rocky for like 10 years and then ..... WHAM. DC All in and Ultimate marvel Selling like crazy or having my Shop owner say he cant keep up with perceived order numbers. Crazy

Also say what you will about Mark Waid but the man loves comics and the symbol of heroes to a reader. All his recent stuff that was with Dan mora were mostly bangers. Let him be cranky and Old , at least he puts out great content and has actual care for the IP he's put in charge of.

these books are openly nonsensical now. completely ridiculous.

Wait a minute! Mark Waid didn't wrote this story 🤣 it was Scott Snyder and Joshua Williamson not Mark Waid. 😅

I’m much newer to comics. So I wasn’t there for previous events. This was a super cool book imo. And it has me looking forward to the absolute books 😄

just curious,why the hate for waid?.

You've somehow figured out how to make the thumbnails even worse.

not reading Mark Waid because he's a leftist is the dumbest thing ever