I've seen @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net post about it but I put it off. So I picked it up today and it's good folks. Bruce Wayne as a working class dude who makes his own tech is a nice fresh spin on it. Plus he's an absolute beast of a man, so that's bonus points if you like hunky dudes 
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Not including a link? That's a paddling.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Absolute-Superman
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Absolute-Batman
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Absolute-Wonder-Woman
Acab includes
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Absolute-Martian-Manhunter
Don't forget https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Absolute-Evil a oneshot crossover containing villans from the various series
oooo how is that one?
p good imo, at the time I read it I'd only read all of Absolute: batman, MM and some of flash and SM and just started WW at the time so I didn't know every villain tbh but not too hard to infer anything I didn't entirely know, but I liked how their essentially portraying the logic of irl elites/capitalists and the
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The GA death(representing the death of lib left idealism maybe) And the
'Justice league' reveals were good
Maybe worth reading all or at least most of what's been released from the other series before reading it, but take this with a grain of salt but I don't think it'll spoil much if you haven't
I love it. Even after seeing a ton about the other comics, it was AE that made me decide to check the others out.
Oh, hadn't heard of that. Thanks for the heads up. Kind of a weird read, trying to link them all together like that.
Yeah originally I was unsure if they we're even all in the same canon, e.g. in Superman you have Lazarus being the huge global power even inside the US but in batman they aren't mentioned once, but on further reading they are mentioned in flash and briefly in WW
But yeah the series are all pretty independent which is a good thing, I don't want to get the constant crossover madness you get in mainline canon, although
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WW has shown up in BMso hopefully that and this doesn't presage the Absolute series's going to far in that direction
Ya, I tend to read them a couple months at a time so I guess I'm not entirely on top of things. I did notice a couple references here and there, but I chalked it up to coincidence because the style and worldbuilding felt markedly different than each other. No question of it with these past few chapters though. Not sure how I feel about it.
Edit: it feels tacked on tbh.
I don't disagree, I think it just mainly to set up further appearance of characters from each in eachother
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Without having to do a a few pages of 'how does Ra's know Joker's each timeI'm guessing the JL villains from each will show up in the various series, which will probably lead to more crossover teamups(ugh) between the mains
But still it's not the worst comic I've ever read, and even if it's seems pretty contrite to everyone here it's message of eltes despite having internal revival and outward disagreement with eachother will always put their class interest first and collaborate to crush working class resistance which is a better message to put out than not by gompano s with cultural cache, especially among the youth, even if it is ultimately hypocritical
Oh ya, not to call Absolute Evil out, it's interesting enough. I meant tacked on to the Absolute series in general. They just felt very distinctly established imo. They don't even feel like the same time period, to me. But yeah, not horrible or anything. I just feel meh about it.
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Nice, now we've got two sites.
Oooo I prefer this UX, thanks!