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[...]
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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,[...]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Then, in time for[...]
But also reminding us of the current war between the West and the Amazons.
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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.
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Who is fighting her war on many fronts, including using the Arrows[...]
Amanda Waller separated the Green Arrow family but, to be fair, they had already been separated and replicated by reboot after reboot In Green Arrow #10, Joshua Williamson and Sean Izaakse are looking like they are putting them all back together again like never before.
The cover alone gave us Oliver Queen and Connor Hawke, with[...]
We noted in the Batman May 2024 solicits that Amanda Waller looked like she is making a deal with the Zur-En-Arrh, as she features on the cover of Batman #147 and the solicits read "can Batman fight back before Zur makes a true devil's bargain?" Well, in the solicits for Titans #11, also in DC Comics' May 2024 solicits[...]
The full DC solicits and solicitations for June 2024 will be published later, but here are the solicits for Suicide Squad #4, Wonder Woman #10, Superman #15, Action Comics #1065, Green Arrow #13 and Titans #12.
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Last month, Bleeding Cool looked at this week's new Suicide Squad: Dream Team, Amanda Waller is putting together her latest version of the Suicide Squad, complete with DC supervillains Harley Quinn, Bizarro, Clock King, Black Alice, and Deadeye Oh yes, and Dreamer, who she picked up with threats to her family.
Now part of a Countdown[...]
But exposing that they can do just that.
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Is this what the deal with the devil is going to be? Amanda Waller condemning Batman, with Zur-En-Arrh's full co-operation?
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A THRILLING NEW ARC IS HERE… DARK PRISONS BEGINS! Following The Joker: Year One's stunning reveals,[...]
In yesterday's Bleeding Cool we looked at Amanda Waller's takeover of the Hall Of Justice in Green Arrow #9 by Joshua Williamson and Sean Izaakse….
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…as the New Hall Of Order with Peacemaker, also running around Themyscira on behalf of AXE in Amazons Attack #5 by Josie Campbell and Vasco Georgiev Which isn't by[...]
Tomorrow sees DC Comics publish two titles that go hard with the Amanda Waller-ness of it all Green Arrow #9, which gives everyone a little bit of a recap in the recent events that have seen Amanda Waller step up to take on the DC Universe.
Though only as much of it as Oliver Queen knows,[...]
As revealed at the ComicsPro comic book retailer summit, DC Comics is launching their summer event Absolute Power in July by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, which focuses on Amanda Waller's plot to remove all superpowers from superheroes and villains in the DC Universe The preview artwork released shows how that directly affects Superman.
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And in July, DC Comics is launching their summer event Absolute Power around a four-issue series by the World's Finest team of Mark Waid and Dan Mora that focuses on Amanda Waller's plot to remove all superpowers from superheroes and villains in the DC Universe And for Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the other DC[...]
To Amanda Waller, metahumans or folk with super powers, are the greatest threat to world safety in the DC Universe, and she has been tasked with killing them all off by the Council Of Light To that aim, she has usurped Presidential power, courtesy of the Sovereign, to get it. But she isn't above ruthlessly[...]
Amanda Waller is on a mission from the Council Of Light to kill off every superpowered character on Earth But only she knows that she is the Biggest Bad right now We already noted in the Batman May 2024 solicits that Amanda Waller looks like she is making a deal with the Zur-En-Arrh, as she[...]
But we know that some of you like just the main Batman titles for the month broken down… with Batman #147 looking like Zur-En-Arrh, the backup personality of Bruce Wayne now in its own Failsafe body will be doing a deal with Amanda Waller… the first two of the Trinity Of Evil to team up?[...]
At the end of today's Green Arrow #8, we discover that Amanda Waller has recruited a surprising individual to their cause No, not the true identity of Doctor Hate; we've already covered that And not Peacemaker, though he does seem to be all over the place… in today's Amazons Attack #4…
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And maybe, just maybe given the emphasis on DC continuity of late, this will line up with Batman #149, teaming up with The Penguin against Zur-En-Arrh, followed by Amanda Waller, the Bureau of Sovereignty and AXE coming together and taking over Gotham Maybe Just a guess.
Why? Well DC Comics previuously stated that "after "The Joker[...]
At the beginning of the month, Bleeding Cool told you that Amanda Waller was going to permanently set herself up as the Big Bad of the DC Universe, And nothing says Big Bad like the Ozymandias-like attempt to kill a million people "for the greater good" Except, unlike Veidt, she doesn't actually hide what she[...]
Doctor Hate is a sorcerer and agent of the Lords of Chaos working with Amanda Waller and the Council of Light first revealed at the end of the Knight Terrors event.
And Doctor Hate using the Nightmare Stone and the Helmet of Hate to further the cause of Chaos in exchange for assistance in Waller's schemes.
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In the recent Wonder Woman #4 by Tom King and Daniel Sampere, Amanda Waller met with Sgt Steel of AXE over his political assault against Wonder Woman and the Amazon nation, and the use of President Biden With Amanda Waller offering the use of various super-assets to help take her down.
In next week's Titans: Beast[...]