Amanda has been a problem. Now they’ve given her the means to really shine as a character!!! We don’t get too many Black big bads and this is top tier villain behavior.
Amanda Waller is finally living up to her true potential. She is the one woman ORCHIS of the DCU. The 1st issue of Absolute Power was orchestrated very well. Good job DC!
I hope James Gunn really leans into Waller in the new DCU. With an actor like they have for her, the character could really shine. Show how diabolical she can be, how menacing, how strategic, how straight cold blooded. Oh yeah, don’t kill off the character, let her be a presence throughout the DCU. Antagonizing everyone, hero and villain alike.
@@jamesricker3997 - Obviously at some point "Amanda Waller" is on top of the world for Now... But at some point she's gonna Fall... And She is gonna Fall HARD?!
What does she have against Dr Fate. He protects mortals from the lords of chaos and the Spectre is active any time the balance of the universe is distributed
@@Gyasi_thedaydreamer trust me, waller has thought of EVERYTHING, she barricaded earth, cutoff both the multiverse and time stream, found a way to shut off even green lantern power rings, the only thing i don't think she got a hold of is the speed force because i see the flash still has his powers
@@gartrellwhite7504 Brainiac Queen might be more problematic. Failsafe and Waller want to rid the universe of superheroes and build a brighter future but the Queen is still a alien robot who has other plans
Waller spent the equivalent of 20 years, raising an AI. If the AI realized very early on what she was trying to do, the tables would have been turned and she would have been two arrogant to realize it.
Not only did Mark Waid write "Tower of Babel", but he ran point on the "Operation Zero Tolerance" storyline in the X-Men books back in the 90s, in which an anti-mutant militia group with a robot zealot in their command cadre sent teams of superpowered robots backed up by government-aligned gunmen against the heroes He's done this before and done it well, and he has honestly only gotten better at it with age.
Call in justice League international.. Booster gold and his team will fix this problem... Guy gardner, blue beetle, flame, ice, Booster gold, martial manhunter, mr miracle and big barda will fix this problem fast and give Amanda a heart attack in the process. Maybe rostam can have his revange on Amanda for killing his family.
I’m calling it. Nightwing will save the day. I like him getting the spotlight and respect as a bonafide hero and not a junior, having had a crucial clutch moment in Dark Crisis conclusion previously.
@@indatube Nightwing really stepped up throughout the Dark crisis storyline. He even surprised Clark in the shout out department and inspirational moments
Goddammit, I'm so happy to see they( and by they mean Mr. WAID) Finally made use of the ridiculously great threat Amazon has always been, the only thing keeping that damn thing on check was the fact that it could not be replicated, writers knew that would be too much of a threat and they didn't know how to beat it, that's why they they never went fully with that concept, but WAID, damn, he's not afraid, he even threw some other sh#$t in there, as if an army of amazos wasn't enough, not to sh#$ on those "I read Manga therefore i'm so special" kids, but American comics after more than 80 years still have so many untouched and yet to unravel concepts, that you just have to take your hat off and show some damn respect.
It's an interesting story arc, that said I'm not sure how I feel about the story from the general public's POV but it's not unbelievable. On the one hand we have superheroes causing massive property damage, illegally requiring personal information, and they do basically throw their weight around with minimal punishment for their actions. Afterall a normal person can't really stop Superman if he was to kill a civilian, these people are angels but what happens if they decide to abuse that power? We've seen multiple story arcs where the justice league has fought internally and it's ended up tearing apart cities and homes. Not to mention their questionable morals, Batman's willing to cripple random goons and grunts but won't find more indefinite solutions for the Joker, Professor Pyg, or Scarecrow. On the other hand the amount of times the Justice League or miscellaneous heroes save the day is so unquantifiable that it's insane to think that the public would actually turn their backs on their heroes. If not even for the goodwill they've built up, then what about world ending threats like Darkseid, Braniac or Doomsday? If anything I'd imagine that the public would be so fed up with villains ruining their lives that they'd take the justice system into their own hands so Amanda Waller is kind of dumb for this as the system should be handling the villains rather than the people actually trying to save the Earth. I am curious as to how they can strip the powers of Kryptonians and Martians though, afterall those abilities are biological or Wonder Woman or Shazam who's abilities are more mythical in origin.
In the public pov this is taking place not so long after one hero (Beast Boy) lost control and started infesting the planet with the starros and another time where the public was tormented by their own nightmares so the distrust is still fresh.
The villains are completely disposable and if she can beat the heroes that stomp their butts every time waller is targeting the more problematic issue which is taking down the heroes
I was not expecting this to be as good as it is. Waller is a solid villain who is truly pushing too far into her goals, turning the earth into a dystopian prison along with trashing the people’s perception of reality. The artwork and colors are amazing. The design of the tech overlays on whatever is taking the superhero powers is fantastic. I also have to say, the way Failsafe and The Brainiac Queen are brought in and reprogrammed feel earned, especially the fucked up manipulation of Brainiac Queen. Very excited to see where this goes!
I still miss the OG Waller when she a tough, hard-nosed but still relatively good leader of the Suicide Squad during the Ostrander / Yale run. I guess it was only a matter of time before they made her a villain. I hope they at least do her some sort of Justice.
Even during Keith Giffen’s brief run on Suicide Squad, Amanda Waller was extremely snarky (she would have given Marvel’s Moonstone a run for her money) and cold blooded,
She always was a villain in the real world. Yeah, she reformed in Batman Beyond's end and somewhat in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited but she STILL refuses to believe that superheroes are not the problem, they are part of the solution to societal problems. She and others keep on saying "Why are you reactive instead of proactive?!" to the superheroes and I always wanted the superheroes to give them a verbal beatdown by saying "If we were pro-active in the way you wanted us to be, you would be yelling at us that 'You are interfering too much in society and diminishing freedom!' We cannot do that without you turning against us and it seems to us that you are never happy!" And Green Arrows BS about "The Superheroes look down on the rest of the world and populace!" is nonsense in the extreme. They stay out of things because if they were proactive again: The populace would whine and moan and wail about 'Yer diminishing my FREEDUMBS!' And as to that "Superheroes break bad in some situations!"... no. Most TRUE superheroes are mind controlled or actively have their 'berserk button' pushed by some villain and they say "No, more, you are dead!"
@@sawtooth808 yeah but even then she wasn’t the mustache-twirling bad guy she’s been made out to to be over the last decade or two. Ostrander/Yale’s OG Waller was probably the best, most complex, well-defined version of her. I think maybe Rucka also wrote her well in his Checkmate run but by that point she was already being pushed towards an antagonist.
I love absolute power so far but if you’ve been reading titans and action comics and superman yknow some shit is about pop off and they’ll need the superheroes cause those amazo gonna have a hard time against whats coming
What does she have against heroes like Mr. Terrific, Steel, and other heroes who use gadgets? By eliminating metahumans she made their jobs much easier to prevent more damage
@@Gyasi_thedaydreamer That's actually a good question. The Wall has always mistrusted superhumans, for somewhat valid reasons, but Mr Terrific, Steel and the other tech-based heroes you mentioned aren't really superhumans, so why are they on Waller's hit list? Maybe it's simply because Waller hates anyone, human or meta, that she can't control.
There's just a bit too much that I have to put aside &or forget about to even have this event start to make any sense. Maybe you could steal the powers of Flash, Captain Atom, Shazam, Black Adam, Plastic Man, Star Girl & Black Canary; that could make sense I could go with that. However when it comes to the Superman Family, Aquaman, Starfire, The Bat-Family &Wonder Woman it's not so believable. They all have skills or their biology makes them what they are, not the speed-force or a star-rod. Also this sounds like a job for Justice League Dark, so I'd like to see how they get taken off the board. I'm all for "it's comics" as an explanation but not to the point where I need to turn my brain off to be able to go with a comic. This is before even talking about the villains &why they'd teamup &I guess Braniac Queen makes some sense due to sanctuary &now we're bring all that into play; this whole thing is a lot of a lot
I have been avoiding DC events because i wss just tired of Yhe universe ending events . But this Absolute Power event kinda reminds me of what happened in X-Men 97 with Bastion & how he used the Media & mosinfo to turn everyone against thr heroes of the dc universe. But then i have avoided most dc things becyhey immediately become very Batman focused , and Failsafe is one of Batman's paranoid anti justice league weapon & i eill admit i have been trying to read a little bit of Chip's Run and it felt over thr top like 90s extreme over thr top . I'm almost about to drop Batman again because there's nothing fun & interesting to main continuity Batman Like DCAU Batman or Bronze Age Brave and the Bold Animated Series Batman eho st least has a sense if humor. I'm liking Tom King Wonder Woman and Superman in action comics is interesting ( i feel like my intrest is Renewed mostly because of My Adventures with Superman) But yeah this Storyline does Reminds me of X-Men 97 short of Waller & Failsafe turning people into Cyborgs in the thousands ( Like would Waller do that ,? ) Have a question ❓ why isnt one of Wonder Woman Villians like Circe , Giganta, Cheetah involved in this plot with Amanda Waller?
Dc is just wack. The whole AI covers and art. Haven't been able to pick up a Batman comic since Death of the Family. The stories are just not for me anymore.
When this is over, I hope she will be back in charge of Task Force X. Only this time she will have an implant to insure she doesn't overstep her boundaries
This feels like an age of apocalypse situation where the humans creat robots that hunt meta humans then anybody that has the potential to be a meta human then all humans all cuz one human thought she knows best
The build up has definitely been you “had to be there” cuz I wouldn’t want to recommend that many comics. But I’ve been enjoying it probably my most anticipated event as of late
Love ya Ern.....I don't think you read this....she cut off the time stream. Not the multiverse.... Not hypertime or the speed force. It was a cool issue though. Plus you talked mad shit about blood hunt yet seem to have altered opinion
Amanda Waller teaming with AI to take out supers? Was she hopping universes and decided to one-up Orchis v Mutants failed second stage against all supers? 😂😂
We all know that Waller is suppose to be the bad guy, but if you really think about it, the real bad guy is Batman. Not intentional, but he's like Tony Stark in Age of Ultron. He wants to protect people by creating things, but that stuff always back fires on him. Brother Eye, Failsafe. That would be a good story to tell: Blame Batman for the stuff that happens.
I've been looking forward to Absolute Power for a year. I've paid attention to all the threads leading up to this. And Mark Waid is my all time favorite writer in comic books and I will argue the greatest writer in the superhero genre ever. That being said, blocking the Spectre and taking Atlanteans powers is a bit of a conundrum for me. How? Batman, Amazo nor Failsafe have a counter for Spectre. Amazo can't absorb or copy his power and Batman has no contigency for the Spectre. I get the explanation for the other magic users even tho most magic is a learned skill like martial arts or epsionage skills but whatever. Spectre is divine spirit of vengence. And how do you take Atlanteans powers? They aren't metahumans, they are a different species of earthers. Breathing underwater, telepathy and bodies adapted for the pressures and temperatures of the ocean floor isnt they're superpower anymore than talking, jumping and procreating is for surface dwellers. And having AI beings able to disable magic...well these aspects require a massive suspension of disbelief and an expectation of comic book nerds not pulling at this thread. I hope a tie in or something explains Waller using Felix Faust or somebody. Maybe I missed something in another book. I don't even want to question the negation of Nth metal. It'll make my head hurt.
Waller has been talking with Trigon in Titans and before Beast World Dr Hate was working for her so she had a lot of powerful magic users to help make counter measures.
Very nice first issue. I've ignored DC for the last few years, but this was an entertaining read. I liked it more than Bloodhunt #1. The two event first issues are pretty similar in that they set up a situation where it looks bleak for the heroes and sets up some minor mystery. Of the two, Absolute Power was more fun.
I saw this in my comic shop today and put it back on the shelf. Haven't been reading DC like that for a minute , so I thought I might get lost in the story. Had I paid attention to who was writing it I might have pick it up
@@adamstheory9281I def found Marvel’s stories to be so much more engrossing than DC that I eventually just dropped DC. I particularly liked how Marvel takes non-combatant characters such say Cypher and Prodigy, believably weaves them into the major stories. What you recommending on the DC roster?
