Absolute Power 2024 FCBD Special Edition #1

Absolute Power #FCBD

by Mark Waid, Mikel Janín (Artist), Patricia Mulvihill (Colorist)

The prelude to the biggest DC Comics event of 2024 is here! It’s a story 30 years in the making... and in this special Free Comic Book Day tale, the final domino to fall in an epic scheme comes tumbling down, and the DC Universe will never be the same. More details coming soon!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Science Fiction, Superheroes, Graphic Novels, Fiction

15 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 4, 2024

About the author

Mark Waid (born March 21, 1962 in Hueytown, Alabama) is an American comic book writer. He is best known for his eight-year run as writer of the DC Comics' title The Flash, as well as his scripting of the limited series Kingdom Come and Superman: Birthright, and his work on Marvel Comics' Captain America.

Reviews

[Vinicius · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gibi introdutório e necessário para ler o Absolute Power da DC.

A Amanda Waller, como sempre, bem ambiciosa e focada em acabar e/ou controlar os super heróis. Vamos ver o que ela planeja agora com essa breve introdução.

[Khurram · Rating 4 out of 5]

What's the plan

A good introduction yo the upcoming Absolute Power story coming up. See some of the big players on and dome of the threads of plan, but only one person knows everything. One person and probably one machine.

[Gordon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm so tired of everything revolving around Amanda Waller tbh.

[Murphy C · Rating 3 out of 5]

8/31/24

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

FCBD 2024

This teases up Mark Waid’s upcoming event, Absolute Power. Looks real promising. I’ll definitely be checking that out.

[Kieran McAndrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolute Power 2024 FCBD Special Edition #1

Amanda Waller is building a team to defeat the former Justice League and will stop at nothing to achieve her goals.

Fantastic artwork imbue the page with a sense of doom and foreboding which is perfect for the start of this event.

[Roland Baldwin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a great prelude. Finally I’m excited for a DC event again

[Geo Nelson · Rating 3 out of 5]

So tired of Amanda Waller related stories but the preview at the end of it was actually interesting

[Ron · Rating 2 out of 5]

FCBD book, not a full story, just a partial story intended to lure you in hoping you'll buy the series.

This is not what FCBD was intended for in the beginning.

Disappointing

[Erik · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sigh another DC “Let’s kill everyone…..but leave the F listers around” storyline.

[cauldronofevil · Rating 1 out of 5]

Another Free Comic Book day sampler.

“The Prelude to the Epic Event”

Yeah, that usually means Advertisement-Not-Story.

Yup. As suspected this is just an advertisement for a ‘cross-over’ event that will allow you to read the entire story - if you buy every issue of every comic released the entire next year!

Geesh, even the stupidest kid isn’t stupid enough to fall for this are they?

At the back of it is another story involving Superman.

And of course it’s two pages of meaningless crap.

Another 1 star Bait-and-Switch.

[RubiGiráldez RubiGiráldez · Rating 3 out of 5]

La nueva gran amenaza que representa Amanda Waller en un mayor puesto de control global alcanzará el estatus de evento DCita al implicarse Failsafe. La IA que conocimos en el arranque de la etapa de Batman de Chip Zdarsky y que actualmente ha puesto en jaque total al Caballero Oscuro. Suplantándole como Batman de cara a la galería y relacionándose con Waller y sus planes. Los cuales en este número prologo no parecen cambiar mucho de la manipulación de metahumanos para misiones peligrosas como en sus años en las sombras del Escuadrón Suicida. Pero quien ha estado leyendo los Titans ya puede estar temiendo el qué pasará con esa llegada de elementos alienígenas que puedan acelerar su plan.


No deja de ser esto un mero trámite para acaparar atención cara Absolute Power. Pero bueno, al menos Mark Waid ha sabido conducirlo todo con el personaje de Rey Reloj. Y Mikel Janín sigue estableciéndose muy bien en el panorama gráfico DCita.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Opens at the Hall of Order (formerly known as the Hall of Justice).

Dylan Moore, aka Haywire, has been apprehended. Purple Batman is not pleased.

It looks sorta like the Batman, though his black suit has an odd, purplish tint to it.

Turns out, Purple Batman is known as “Failsafe.”

Clock King explains about Amanda Waller and her heavy involvement in the shady goings-on.

Black Alice, Deadeye, and Harley Quinn are already being held at the facility.

Waller’s frustrations continue to grow.

Haywire goes…haywire. (couldn’t resist)

Waller has big plans, but they remain a mystery to her crew of underlings.

Sad and mysterious ending.

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amanda Waller is best known as the leader of the Suicide Squad, a black-ops unit that utilizes villains to do her dirty work. She now has absolute power, and you know the saying- absolute power corrupts absolutely. A vision of the future shows the Justice League members defeated and in chains. In this prelude to a longer story, Mark Waid sets up an intriguing storyline. This comic also includes some profiles of the newer characters, which I found helpful.

[Don · Rating 4 out of 5]

DC has gone completely bonkers. Waller is the evilest villain and must be stopped! I read all the universe level event summaries from last year and things are dialed up to ten. Artwork was great. Stories are extreme but seem entertaining.

[James Norton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yet another suicide squad reboot

When the first page is a guy with a cow image on his chest and then the whole suicide reboot I kind of lost interest but I did read the whole thing. It looks nice. Recommended to the easily amused and the really young.

[DOUGLAS J BERRY · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely.

Good color artwork. Free comic day preview of Amanda Wallace and the new world of Suicide Squad wreckage. The thirst for power is Unquenchable.

[R Preston · Rating 3 out of 5]

Only half a book

I know that this isn't all to this fcbd book. I saw a blank cover edition on sale Wed and it has another short story with Superman. I felt so betrayed, wish I could have been free to get the original that holiday 😞

[Freya · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

[Gabriel Benitez · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pues otra de esas ondas más de superhéroes que ya hartan.

[⛧⸸ dennis ⸸⛧ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mark me intrigued 👀👀

[Meital Gertel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Waller. that's it. it's all her

[farhan maqsood · Rating 5 out of 5]

crime is a big superhero

I have noticed that adult and language are violence against each other’s thinking as they relate to criminals comics superhero books.

[James B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Free comic by Mark Waid, teasing a future comic by him. Yes, please! My only gripe is that it involves Waller, AGAIN!!! Are there no other villains in the house of Bat?

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bad times for heroes. Waller is going too far with her vendetta.

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting enough set-up into the big summer DC event but really hard to buy Waller as Big Girl on campus around these truly deadly tech killers. It will be interesting to see how this all goes.

[Lucas O · Rating 3 out of 5]

6

[ComicBookCult Luke · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice little intro to the Absolute Power event, nothing crazy yet but nice art and good writing.

[Nichole · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very short preview.

[Holly · Rating 2 out of 5]

This sure is the set-up to another comic event. I can't say it really grabbed me, a little intriguing but don't think I'll be reading more.