Currently compiling every early establishing trait across Superman, Batman and Spider-Man. I really wanted to know two things: why is it by far only those three at that wide level of deep reverence - from the getgo - and why do certain folks not have it, despite being icons in their own right? It’s over two dozen similar traits so far, as if the three of them are variations of this idea that Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel were the first to really see, a specific idea of a hero for the people that has always existed. Before modern history, before you and I

Absolute Batman is great from even an art storytelling standpoint

Joker a d***head lol

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Big Punisher fan here and I absolutely love the King of Killers arc right now. I just read the first 5 issues.

The fourth face on the superhero Mount Rushmore doesn’t exist

The only superhero esque character who’s actually on the level of Superman/Batman/Spider-Man is Harry Potter

Sorry Wonder Woman, Hulk, Wolverine and Goku

I think you can put Wolverine up there too

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I just read the second trade and can confirm. I liked the first arc but the Bane arc is just so good.

absolute has made me hopeful about comics again

Incredible storytelling

Are the Absolute Flash and Absolute Green Lantern worth reading? I really liked the first Absolute Wonder Woman collection but thought Martian Manhunter was a smidge overrated.

those are my blind spots actually I haven’t checked them out

Been keeping with mm bm and ww

Fr tho

how do i motivate myself to get started

never had enough money to buy em consistently, hate reading them off a computer n prefer physical copies

also with all the storylines its intimidating to jump into any ole new s*** or play catchup skimming through the old consensus hits

Look up a list of classics and start going down the checklist.
Go to barnes n noble and get a paperback they are reasonably priced for the ammount of content you'll get
80s stuff is my favorite
Frank miller and alan moore golden age s*** is hard to go wrong with

If you can get over your aversion to digital and have a tablet, I highly recommend using the library app Hoopla and getting the first two collections of Absolute Batman, which is the biggest recent comic and one that’s designed to be understood by new readers. They also have just about every book from the publisher Image which puts out a ton of interesting titles.

anyone reading ultimate endgame rn?

I was getting into the new Ultimates books but then I got distracted by the Absolute and Energon lines.

i lvoe moon knight!

Absolute Wonder Woman is so good.

I got it pull3d but haven't read yet. Sucks that its ending tho I love ult spidey

Finally got around to reading Storm, this s*** is so good and the art is fire.

Also picked up the Milestone Compendium One