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Absolute Flash #3 returns the Absolute titles to their rightful place at the top of the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, but with Superman Unlimited #1 tight behind, and Amazing Spider-Man #4 pretty damn close to them as well DC Comics takes four of the top ten, including DC Vs Sonic, while Marvel Comics takes[...]

PrintWatch: The three Absolute Universe launch titles are all getting new printings with covers by Mark Spears that all connect That's the Absolute Batman #1 seventh printing, the Absolute Wonder Woman #1 sixth printing, and the Absolute Superman #1 fifth printing, all on sale on the 25th of June, and with an FOC date of[...]

Absolute Flash #3 by Jeff Lemire and Nick Robles has been doing its best to rewrite everything away from the original, giving Absolute Wally West more of a Dr Manhattan origin and making Absolute Grodd more of a telepathic, mutated monkey with empathy This leads to a certain meeting of minds, from one ape to[...]

Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers… Absolute Batman #9 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta is published on the 11th of June, but goes to FOC tomorrowI get the word thatthe comic, which Bleeding Cool has already spotlighted for the first appearance of the new Absolute Bane, for Scott Snyder throwing some shade on Bane co-creator's disparaging comment[...]

Ra's al Ghul's schemes take shape in Absolute Superman #10 by Jason Aaron and Rafa Sandoval. A new Batman Elseworlds epic begins with Immortal Legend Batman #1 by the team behind the Massive-Verse, Kyle Higgins, Mat Groom, and Erica D'Urso, with additional art by Dan Mora Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott gear up for the heist[...]

Scott Snyder has announced that he is "thrilled to officially announce the next big ABSOLUTE BATMAN arc from me and Nick Dragotta Meet Bane in… ABOMINATION More info on issue #9 FOC, along with the #8 release, our live comic fundamentals class tomorrow, and @FANEXPOPhilly in my newsletter" The last chance readers have to order[...]

This Wednesday, Marcos Martin draws Absolute Batman #8, and Nick Dragotta returns with some Batman bedroom antics next month in Absolute Batman #9 But we have a confrontation between Absolute Batman and Absolute Mister Freeze to find a way through And a history of the now-late Matches Malone And his presence on the day of the murder of Thomas Wayne at[...]

DC Comics tops the chart with Absolute Superman #7 and Absolute Green Lantern #2 with Ultimate Wolverine #5 sneaking in between the two The new Star Wars #1 makes a rare entry into the chart thanks to a relaunch, with X-Men, Venom and Deadpool taking up the rest of the chart. Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List Top[...]

That appears to be Absolute Batman.   Absolute Batman And that also appears to be Absolute Bruce Wayne, in bed with Absolute Selena Kyle Let us distort that image to straighten it up As it were… Absolute Batman Well, it appears that, in this regard at least, Absolute Batman is continuing to follow the Catwoman path that Batman has followed[...]

Bleeding Cool has been reporting on the upcoming Absolute Universe crossover for later this year, which got a big tease for Free Comic Book Day with the Absolute version of Mirror Master visiting Absolute Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman And Scott Snyder saying  "We had a big summit, Zoom-wise, all the Absolute writers There will[...]

From Marvel, DC, Image, Titan, Twisted Comics and Keenspot… which takes your fancy then? Now that you know what you know? Spider-Man/Carnage/Venom Crossover For Free Comic Book Day Spoilers The Whiteboard Of DC Comics' Absolute Free Comic Book Day (Spoilers) SCOOP: The Mystery Absolute Figure Behind The Big DC Crossover Marvel Tease Spider-Fans Over Paul Rabin & Mary Jane[...]

DC Comics has released a full preview for tomorrow's DC All In/Absolute Universe Free Comic Book Day Special flipbook for 2025 Which also will be released at midnight today for free on Amazon Kindle in all territories Australia will get it in a couple of hours, the UK in eleven hours, the rest of you[...]

You can even pre-order them now, to free, to drop when they drop. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ DC All In 2025 FCBD Special Edition (2025-) #1 Kindle Edition by Jeff Lemire, Giuseppe Camuncoli The DC All In saga explodes into a brand-new[...]

Hush 2 tops the charts with Batman #159, but the gap between that and Absolute Wonder Woman #7 is small, as is between that and Absolute Martian Manhunter #2, which also beats Amazing Spider-Man #1 Martian Manhunter beating Amazing Spider-Man, what a world Also like Magik #4 beating Superman #25… DC gets five, Marvel gets[...]

Bleeding Cool recently ran a spoilery piece for Free Comic Book Day as far as the DC Absolute Universe is concerned And mentioned that DC Comics loves a blackboard A whiteboard A chalkboard Usually with Rip Hunter behind the chalk, behind the pen, jotting down notes from the future But this time, for Free Comic[...]

Before reading this week's Absolute Wonder Woman, it would be worth brushing up on the legend of Persephone Yes, yes, you have to do homework to read a comic, but still Persephone lived in a world of perpetual summer, her mother was Demeter, goddess of plant life Hades, god of hell, took Persephone, and in[...]

Absolute Flash #2 beats Ultimate Wolverine #4 as Marvel Comics gets four in the top ten, five for DC comics and one for IDW… strong performances from DC X Sonic, though Summer Of Superman may not have hit as hard as DC would have liked, given everything they are banking on it. Turtles and Zatanna continue[...]

Graham Nolan, co-creator of Bane, doesn't like Bane's Absolute look But might Absolute Bane suit him better as the just-dropped DC Comics July 2025 solicits and solicitations read "what awaits Batman is far more terrifying than anything either has faced…the true form of Bane is revealed." Maybe it will be one that Graham Nolan will[...]

And it will be down to the Absolute Mirror Master to put a new whiteboard of doom together, for the future of the DC Absolute Universe and possibly the standard DC Universe to follow And here are a few of the things, in visual or text form, that they may suggest… and ask. What happened to[...]

The DC Absolute Mystery Figure was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as over the past six years Founded sixteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip for a further eighteen years[...]

Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler! We know we are getting an Absolute Universe crossover We know that DC All-In Specials are coming and that they will concern the DC Universe We saw the words "Absolute" and "Omega" being used a lot in DC Comics titles this week Darkseid is… Absolute. Spoiler logo! Spoiler logo! Spoiler[...]

PrintWatch: Bleeding Cool previously printwatched that Absolute Flash #1, Absolute Martian Manhunter #1, and Absolute Green Lantern #1 are all getting second printings from DC Comics, for the 21st of May Now we have the covers Each of these new printings will arrive with a main cover featuring a recoloured version of the first printing main cover, and open-to-order[...]

Ahead of DC Comics' July 2025 solicits and solicitations, here's the rundown for their Superman titles for July and beyond… including the Superman Treasury Edition 2025, which may have an unexpected surprise, Satan Girl debuting in Supergirl and and the return of the Absolute Universe Darkseid Legion, also seen in today's Summer Of Superman Special... #gallery-1[...]

DC All In opened the box to the death of Darkseid, the Darkseid anomalies across the DC Universe and the Absolute Universe And it's breaking out all over DC Comics titles today We looked at a few of those in today's Summer Of Superman Special With Validas giving us an Omega shoutout. Summer Of Superman Special[...]

Today's Absolute Flash #2 by Jeff Lemire, Nick Robles goes into just what has happened to Wally West, even as it seems that Barry Allen is dead, as a result of the same accident that transformed them both But it also brings another classic comic to mind, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Spoilers[...]

All of them have said it's been single issues that are driving the growth." The emergence of the Absolute and Ultimate line, the Energon Universe, Turtles, Batman H2SH, as well as stalwarts such as Amazing Spider-Man and the X-Men books have been especially strong in recent months And the feeling was shared in the thread[...]

PrintWatch: It's time to run around the Absolutes, the Amazing, serial killers and serial killer victims all getting second printings in the new Printwatch! PrintWatch: Absolute Flash #1, Absolute Martian Manhunter #1, and Absolute Green Lantern #1 are all getting second printings from DC Comics, for the 21st of May No more details or cover images yet[...]

These are the covers to Absolute Batman #8 featuring the new Absolute Mister Freeze He looks rather different from the traditional DC version There's no ice suit here; he's something more like Nosferatu or Slender Man right out of your nightmares And in this week's Absolute Batman #7 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, we[...]

DC Comics takes the top two with Absolute Green Lantern #1 and Absolute Superman #6, while Marvel Comics takes the top right, with Marvel Rivals with its free download code beating out Steve McNiven's Daredevil, ongoing X-Men and the final Deadpool Killing Of The Marvel universe And if retailers had ordered more of All-New Venom[...]

But in Absolute Batman #7 by Scott Snyder and Marcos Martin, out this Wednesday, it's time to discover the Absolute Matches Malone Limited spoilers ahead… Absolute Batman #7 by Scott Snyder and Marcos Martin Because while the solicit and the intro are all about the new Absolute Mister Freeze, Victor Fries, son of an ice-plorer… Absolute Batman #7[...]