DC’sAbsolute PowerEvent Pits Metahuman vs. Murder Machine

There are a lot ofsuperheroesrunning around the DC universe at any give time , and it often causes some headache for itsvillains . If you ’re a risky guy cable in that universe , how do you undertake that problem in 2024 ? With some evil superintendent - robots .

In DC ’s braggart summer eventAbsolute Power(from the World ’s fine team of Mark Waid and Dan Mora , Amanda Waller takes eye stage its boastful central baddie . After forming a Trinity of Evil with the Brainiac Queen and Zur - En - Arrh ( a disunited Batman personality inside an mechanical man named Failsafe ) , Waller finds a way to take powers from the Justice League and other metahumans to pass on to their Amazo mechanical man . And in look to get their powers back , Batman leads the now - depowered Leaguers in a impedance motion where they ’ve all make some raffish new threads , which you may see below .

While Waid and Mora harness the main four - part fib , there ’ll be the stock deluge of event tie - In , include the Absolute Power : Task Force VII miniseries focusing on the souped - up Amazos as they go hunting for superpowers . Foro the first three takings release in July , Leah Williams and Caitlin Yarsky kick things off with Last Son , who go after the Shazam kinsperson ; Depth commission targets Aquaman ’s cortege in John Layman and Max Raynor ’s one - shot ; and Jeremy Adams and Marco Santucci spin a tale of Jadestone pursuing the JSA . Finally , Waller get her own origin storey in a three - part miniseries from John Ridley and Alitha Martinez that digs into her longstanding boeuf with metahumans .

Image: Dan Mora/DC Comics

Absolute Power will begin with a Ground Zero retread outcome on June 25 — from writers Waid , Nicole Maines , Joshua Williamson and Chip Zdarsky , and art by Gleb Melnikov , V. Ken Marion , and Skylar Patridge — followed by its first effect on July 3 .

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Image: Dan Mora/DC Comics