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As Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow, continues to bed down with Amanda Waller in the Hall Of Order, helping depower or capture the entire super-community of the DC Universe, his motivations are unclear Sure, there is what he has told the Arrow family, but Amanda Waller showed him something that a) changed his mind or[...]

But if you are a Nightwing fan and not on board with Absolute Power yet, this may be enough to change your mind… your call. I previously examined DC Comics' plan to rewrite Amanda Waller's origin, showing how her entire career has led up to the events of Absolute Power. In which she has captured or depowered[...]

Originally, as established in Secret Origins back in 1988, by John Ostrander and Luke McDonnell, Amanda Waller was established as a widow who escaped Chicago's housing projects with her surviving family after her eldest son was murdered and her eldest daughter was raped and murdered. Her husband confronted the gang member the police knew was the[...]

DC Studios' Co-CEO James Gunn had a quick and promising update on Christal Henry and Jeremy Carver's Viola Davis-starring series Waller.

As Amanda Waller takes away the powers of the DC Comics characters and shoots Superman out of the sky Spoilers of course. With Mister Terrific doing what he can, given what he can prepare for it Spoilers, Superman's powers don't come back. While Steve Trevor and Detective Chimp get attacked by an Amazo robot, possessed by a[...]

Today sees the publication of Task Force VII #1 and Green Lantern #13, both outlining the scope of Amanda Waller's operation further, as she seeks the ultimate power grab in the DC Universe by grabbing all the power. Noting who she has captured in her Gamorran prison, beginning with Wallace West, Detective Chimp and Parasite. Oh and[...]

Tomorrow sees Absolute Power #1 and Batman #150 published by DC Comics (or since yesterday digitally, depending on your territory.) We have seen the world being recreated by Waller… As Amanda Waller using the combined powers of Zur-En-Arrh and Brainiac Queen to run fake news about the superhero genocide the world over… …and then use that fear[...]

In the Free Comic Book Day Absolute Power volume from Mark Waid and Mikel Janin, we discovered that Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow, was seemingly willingly working with Amanda Waller in the renamed House Of Justice, the House Of Order But what had pushed him in that direction? Did he have a bomb in his[...]

And there is plenty of Jay Nakamura in the preview that Jude posted. With Dreamer tasked by Amanda Waller to take down the rogue Jay Nakamura, Jonathan Kent's boyfriend and son of the deposed Gamorran president now that Waller has set up shop on the independent island nation-state And breathe All spinning out of the recent[...]

You can catch up with some gossip for that about Zur-En-Arrh and the Brainiac Queen on Bleeding Cool… but what about the actual published comics? Or at least the ones that will be tomorrow? In Suicide Squad: Dream Team we have seen Amanda Waller establish herself at the new premiere of Gamorra, with all that this[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran some Absolute Power gossip entitled "Absolute Power Gossip: How Amanda Waller Gets Zur-En-Arrh" and now we are looking at the other third of this triptych, Amanda Waller and the Brainiac Queen Spoilers of course. Bleeding Cool understands that Brainiac created the Brainiac Queen as some form or bride in the Frankenstein[...]

DC's epic summer event kicks off with a bang, as the combined might of FAILSAFE and the BRAINIAC QUEEN has at last given Amanda Waller the ability to steal the metahuman abilities of every hero and villain on planet Earth As chaos erupts in the streets and a massive misinformation campaign sways public opinion to[...]

In the Absolute Power Free Comic Book Day edition, the Zur-En-Arrh/Failsafe Batman was seemingly under the control of Amanda Waller, or certainly working very sympatico with her. Absolute Power Free Comic Book Day While running experiments on the inmates, after basically acquiring them all. Absolute Power Free Comic Book Day It didn't go that well. Absolute Power Free Comic Book[...]

Will Zur-En-Arrh defeat himself? After all, he does have a Hall Of Justice to run for Amanda Waller… Once Amanda Waller has done a deal with Police Commissioner Vandal Savage Might she be able to find a way out for Zur-En-Arrh? At her command, that is? Batman #148 by Chip Zdarky and Jorge Jimenez is published on Tuesday, BATMAN #148 CVR A[...]

Amanda Waller has declared all speedsters a threat to humanity And Wally West, the Flash is on the run… isn't he always? Which makes this moment in today's Flash #9 with Nightwing a little fraught, given that the Flash hasn't been exactly standing still. As Nightwing has Amanda Waller on one side and Zur-En-Arrh's Batman on[...]

And we know what drives Amanda Waller in this direction. Creating Vanadia to kill the Titans, as part of Amanda Waller's deal with Trigon And for her own personal reasons too, reducing the powers on Earth, with Beast World as just the set up for that fight. While Amanda Waller is also dealing with Brainiac for his/her[...]

So what do we know about the lead up to it? I'm not going to go over all the previous Amanda Waller and Absolute Power gossip, that's what those links are for But what's going on with Superman, Lobo, Hal Jordan and the like in the runup? Spoilers of course You wouldn't expect anything less. Well,[...]

This week sees Suicide Squad: Dream Team #3 by Nicole Maines, Eddy Barrows and Eber Ferreira follows on from Absolute Power Free Comic Book Day, in which we learned that Amanda Waller's home base is the island nation of Gamorra. And that Dream Team is basically all about how she got it Asn well as having[...]

Will he make Damian Wayne into one of them next? But as for the electronic surveillance, this is something that Amanda Waller is very keen on using for her own ends, as propaganda against this new Batman, or maybe leverage, or tracking down the very heroes she is hunting And although here she may be using[...]

A few weeks ago, Bleeding Cool ran some gossip about the real truth behind the Council Of Light in the DC Universe which had tasked Amanda Waller to wipe out all the super-powered heroes and villains on Earth in the DC Universe And that it was actually the Council Of Light who found her on[...]

Sometimes, the annuals aren't that connected to what's going on, but the Flash Annual out this week is even more connected to what's going on, not only in the Flash titles but also in the wider DC Universe, including the upcoming events of Absolute Power, and Amanda Waller's shenanigans She has already taken over TerrificTech,[...]

Amanda Waller & Zur-En-Arrh topped the traffic at Bleeding Cool yesterday Where you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Amanda Waller &[...]

Amanda Waller & Zur-En-Arrh topped the traffic at Bleeding Cool yesterday Where you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Amanda Waller &[...]

Amanda Waller has become the big bad of DC Comics, though fighting from a position of moral superiority against every super-powered being on the planet And in the upcoming series by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, Absolute Power, we see those powers taken away, courtesy of deals with Failsafe and Queen Brainiac So on the[...]

Green Arrow has been up in Amanda Waller's business for a while now, as she has a lot of interest in Oliver Queen, his family and the rest of the Arrows Most of whom do not have powers, and so it is very much of interest to her how they may be used against those[...]

Including that Amanda Waller has taken the powers of Failsafe and the Brainiac Queen to capture the powers of every superhero or villain on Earth So we have Absolute Power, Absolute Power: Taskforce VII, Absolute Power: Origins and how the Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman titles crossover with Absolute Power in July.   #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item[...]

Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths, by Joshua Williamson, Daniel Sampere, Jim Cheung, Jack Herbert and Giuseppe Camuncoli, saw Amanda Waller returned from Earth 3, back on Task Force X, tasked with a new mission from the Council Of Light. Dark Crisis #7 The Light was an Illuminati-style group of figures in the animated TV series Young Justice,[...]

In Lazarus Planet it was revealed that the new version of DC Comics' Deadeye was Amanda Waller's nephew, a psychic assassin whose powers became more physical as a result of the Lazarus juice falling from the skies. Then, in Beast World, he was seen working with Vixen and Batman to put together a team to keep[...]

At the end of the War For Earth 3 crossover event written by Robbie Thompson, Denis Hopeless and Jeremy Adams and drawn by  Steve Pugh, Dexter Soy, Eduardo Pasarin, Pasarin and Matt Ryan, saw Amanda Waller left on Earth 3, in charge of her very own Justice League. War For Earth 3 #2 Then, in time for[...]

But also reminding us of the current war between the West and the Amazons. Amazons Attack #6 Well, apart from Greece that is, holding the line against the Sovereign, monarch of the USA, alied with the Bureau Of Sovereignty overseen by one Amanda Waller. Green Arrow #10 Who is fighting her war on many fronts, including using the Arrows[...]