WHAT A SUPERGIRL TRAILER YESTERDAY— WOW!
(I’m actually writing this before the trailer released, but I’m not letting you future people receiving this on Friday leave Thursday-morning Math out of the conversation.)
I love the part where she goes BANG, and then the other part where Krypton goes WOOF!, and then Lobo goes, “I’m Lobo, guys—hi.”
(I don’t know what Lobo would say. If I ever read a Lobo issue, I was probably at gunpoint or something.)
Weird part where Supergirl goes, “Lobo fans, don’t come to newsletter Math,” but I love this free creative writing in the DCU.
If you loved the trailer as much as I did, check out DC’s Supergirl Next Door #1 one-shot on FOC today.
(A LINK IN THE COLD OPENING??? HELL YEAH—TRUTH, JUSTICE, WHATEVER!!!!)(I needed a space to plug this, but I’m running out of space and improvising.)
DC REPRINTING GALORE
YOU GET A NEW PRINTING. YOU GET A NEW PRINTING.
Imma shoot straight with you: it’s hard not to make the single-issues newsletter the DC Comics show featuring guests.
DC is killing it. There is no denying that.
So I gotta lead with the headline of the week:
Absolute Batman is hitting a 10th printing.
Yes, if you still haven’t gotten your copy of the comic blockbuster of the decade, they are giving you not one, not two, but TEN chances to get this right.
When is the last time you got a 10th chance at something? Even telling my boyfriend, “I’ll do the dishes, don’t worry,” only works up until the 8th or 9th attempt.
PRE-ORDER HEREAlso available is this AWESOME InHyuk Lee variant cover for the occasion. That’s the guy who does all those streetverse-cool Marvel covers, with characters looking like they’d slightly bully you while holding a Starbucks cup—partially ironically (cool alert!).
Absolute Bruce would NOT hold a Starbucks cup he would only hold local non-gentrified plain coffee cups BUT he is also looking very cool.
Absolute Batman #1 Inhyuk Lee Cover
But that’s not all… because Absolute Batman 2025 Annual #1 is getting a 2nd Printing!
If you haven’t read this yet (or anything Absolute at all) and just want to take a peek, this is it. And it’s a peek that goes ALL IN.
This is a look back at the early days of Batman by Daniel Warren Johnson, the superstar behind the recent Transformers reboot.
THAT BATMOBILE PANEL WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO RIP IT OUT AND FRAME IT, I PROMISE YOU.
Absolute Batman #16
Moving on to—ahnn… no, sorry, staying with Absolute Batman one more time, because:
This is a big one, since it’s the second issue in the Absolute Batman/Wonder Woman crossover that started this week.
The cover itself is iconic, and I love the choice for our first lead-character crossover. This—Diana’s determination with Bruce’s tenacity—is something I very much look forward to.
If there’s one thing connecting all these books, it’s the heartbreaking tragedy and the refusal to make that their weakness—very much their original mythos twisted to the extreme. And they come out for good all the same.
Anyway, I’m blabbing… I LOVE this universe.
DC K.O.: Green Lantern Galactic Slam #1
Not only of the Absolute lives the man—we also DC K.O.
We DC K.O. very much here at Walt’s, OK?
Jeremy Adams brings his run into the fun, all-out madness this event is. And “slam” is a great word to describe what he’s been doing on the green side of the universe for a while.
His Green Lantern returns to an epic-blockbuster saga akin to the cherished Geoff Johns era and, more importantly, gets every single character to have an impact on the story.
The sensation I get reading Green Lantern or Corps right now is always “this is intense” and “this is massive.”
So, give this one-shot centered on everybody’s favorite boy, Kyle Rayner, a try. (Maybe, if we buy this enough and hold hands, he can get a new book and the compendium, Volume 2.)
There are great things about events, sometimes: they give you a chance to discover great runs like this one. Don’t miss it.
PRE-ORDER HERE(PS: Every single DC K.O. book and tie-in is getting new printings—look out for that!!)
MARVEL ALSO HAS REPRINTS!
Captain America by Chip Zdarsky!!!
Yes, before everyone yells at me: Marvel has some heavy weapons on their side as well.
Our friend Chip Zdarsky is bringing a new vision to Steve Rogers, and a new character taking the role of Cap, with David Colton.
Disillusioned soldiers confronting their country’s ideals, and Steve having to adapt to a world that has grown out of the black-and-white WWII perspective, is not necessarily something we haven’t touched before, BUT Chip’s careful writing and meticulous setting make this run stand out, with a compelling case for why, indeed, maybe we SHOULD be touching on these subjects now more than ever.
You can see he’s rewriting it as a sort of framing for a bigger story. And with Armageddon being the publisher’s big event next year, it only cements this idea.
No wonder this first arc is a flashback.
Doom and Latveria are the perfect battleground for soul-searching and moral grayness. I feel like this reflects very well in Frank Martin’s colour work and Valerio Schiti’s pencils. The Cap book feels meticulous without losing the sense of grandiosity of the tragedy in these characters’ psychologies.
Great timing for you to get in, because ALL FIVE first issues are getting reprints. Yes. All of them.
Check out everything on pre-order here:
All of our orders run until Saturday, 4 p.m. If you have any doubts, send Heiko an email and he will get you sorted (maybe HE read a Lobo comic—who knows???)
OK, definitely running long today. Gloriana, please don’t be mad.
Always blaming it on the reprints,
Math
