Absolute Martian Manhunter (2025-) #6

Absolute Martian Manhunter (2025) (Single Issues)

by Deniz Camp, Javier Rodriguez (Artist)

Ideas explode like atom bombs, minds melt, and colors clash in the darknessbehind the eyes of every person on the planet. It’s Green Martian versusWhite Martian, John Jones versus madness itself, as he fights to save hisfamily—and the world.

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels, Comic Book, Superheroes, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Kindle Edition

Published August 27, 2025

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

The battle for the soul of the planet.



The fight between the Green and White Martians uses some very cool imagery, as Darkseid tries to infect Earth.
Still digging this art and these colors!



John has to confront his fears about losing his family in order for the Martian to save them. And John's wife is able to realize that something strange is happening to her husband that might be out of his control. Meanwhile, Tyler...
OHMYGOD!



Another surprise ending that left me chilled. Makes me glad I'm going ahead and reading these issues as they come out because I'm too curious to wait around for a collected volume at this point.
Did his son, Tyler die, or did he just get taken over by Darkseid or whatever?!


The Manhunter series is getting darker as it goes on. I like it!
Highly Recommended.

[James DeSantis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic issue. Brutal, fast paced, excellent art, very cool moments. Excited to see where the second half takes us.

[MrGlassWontBreak · Rating 5 out of 5]

John is about to be killed by the white martians' goons, then he sees his family in danger through the goon’s mind, which gives him and the Martian the strength to defeat them. They then travel through the mind of the goon to his family, and an epic battle between both Martians, along with John and the goon that attacked his family, ensues.

As the Martians continue their Abstract battle within the minds of the populace, more Goons show up to John’s house, and he tries to hold them back, but ultimately fails, until his wife saves him, and they make up. This opens up John’s mind, evolving him and the Martian, which allowed them to defeat the White Martian and fix everyone in the city’s minds by making them see and empathize with each others memories

Such a fucking epic conclusion to the first story arc of the series. I had no idea an abstract fight could go so hard. The art and dialogue also continue to impress and evolve, lovely colors, weird shapes and lines, and confusing but poetic words. Let’s get some more of it in the chapters to come please!

[Machiavelli · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the end for me. Art is cool. Really is like nothing else out there. I just don’t understand the story. Have said that for 6 issues now…. Glad that so many others love this… I just don’t get it…

[zachariah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wife started choking on something while I was reading and thank God I learned how to do the Heimlich with one hand cause I COULDN’T PUT THIS DOWN!

Deniz and Javier you guys are a match made in Heaven

[Carly · Rating 5 out of 5]

i need to get my hands on a physical copy for that ending

[Colin Post · Rating 5 out of 5]

A thrilling capper to a hands down perfect comic book arc. We get a big showdown but done Abso MM style - a metaphysical fight between good and bad ideas, illustrated by Rodríguez who effortlessly pulls any visual idiom out of his tool bag and makes it his own. Plus, we get a Gravity’s Rainbow allusion.

[Nick LeBlanc · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! This is a really interesting and original use of the comics medium. And a hell of a capper for the first half of the run. I am seriously impressed with what Camo and Rodriguez are doing. This is not casual easy reading, this is heavy literary stuff. Really looking forward to what comes next.

Read as a single issue.

[Devon Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Metaphor fights are the best

[Craig Schorling · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was so fun and unique. There is nothing else like it. Another hugh kudos to having a feature that supports buying a physical copy. I must have looked ridiculous to my kids hold the book up to a light but damn, was it cool. Super excited for the next half.

[Luca Mendes · Rating 5 out of 5]

The art in this is fantastic

[Eddie Gomez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jean-Paul Sartre levels of existential philosophy

[nat · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was so freaking epic

[Siegfried · Rating 5 out of 5]

With this, there's no doubt in my mind that this is art.
Perfect. Love the metaphorical conflict vs physical.
The fight of ideas, the anti-life.
Sublime.

[Tojuan Gordon · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is the comic book medium at its height.

[Cybernex007 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am so GLAD this series is getting more issues, I love that this was a natural conclusion and the doorway to more issues could of easily been shut, but omg with that ending setup I am so GLAD they are doing more. Let Camp and Rodriguez do whatever they want! As we pickup from the last issue, things aren’t looking good, the agents of the white Martian have come to John’s house and he is getting a bit of “overexposure to fundamental reality,” resulting in “anti-rife spiral.” Everything with the Martian can’t be taken too literally, but wow that is some fresh concepts to wrestle with as John is fighting for his life while being reminded of the threat inside that his wife and son face. The one specifically going scherzo Bridget and Tyler is so in tune with the white Martian that he has learned most things accumulate to nothing, which means he can walk through space or even had Bridget blow his head off and he will be completely fine. As John is struggling to keep a saw from ripping himself apart, he finally asks for help and the green Martian is literally able to come out of his eye and physically take down the people trying to kill him. At this point it’s important to understand that one of the people trying to kill John had his head fully taken over by the white Martian, culminating into a white globe. The one going after Bridget has the exact same setup after Bridget blew his head off, which means that the green Martian is able to take john and travel through one of them to get to the other so John can protect Bridget. He orders her away to get to safety as the fighting begins, on the ground a punch is a punch and Johnathan and the killer are able to go at one another. But just as John has the green Martian, the killer has the long black figure of the white Martian backing him up. Originally John wanted Bridget to go to his agencies HQ, but as the outside of their house becomes sustained by white Martian agents, he hands her the shotgun and orders her to Tyler’s room to hunker down, but she doesn’t want to leave, they are partners after all.

As I said the fight between John and the killer is fully physical, and John is able to deliver a pretty brutal beatdown. But the one between the Martians can get very abstract and very enthralling. For instance, across town the white Martian mag take the head of a sleeping boy with terminal brain cancer and have him dream the tumor is as bit as the city to use in the fight. The green Martian will then counter by taking the revolutionary brain cancer cure the young girl in the same building will help develop 20 years from now. The white Martian takes the fear of the atomic bomb from an aging hippie and the green Martian will tap into the same hippie’s belief in military incompetence to make the bomb a dud. All the while John has defeated the main killer and is now trying to contend with a mob of people trying to break into his house. The Martian is trying to help John break their connection to the white Martian by using his Martian vision on them to help them see themselves clearer, but all John can see is their entangled connection back to the white Martian and the chaos that comes with it, John isn’t seeing clearly. And right as the mob has gained control over him and brought him down, ready to kill him…a shotgun blast rattles off as Bridget stands there to protect them…they are a team after all, and all John can think about is why he couldn’t just talk to his wife. Tyler is up stairs raging a battle of his own with the clay figures he made, the entire battlefield between the Martians have made their ways into the eyes of every residence of Middleton…even the eyes of Tyler who is now faced with the poison bag of Chocos he picked up last issue. And whole there is a battle being lost upstairs as the white Martian moves for Tyler to eat the Candy, John is fighting a battle with himself as he finally admits that he was wrong to hide from Bridget. Finally he is having a breakthrough and this breakthrough allows his mind to open and expand his Martian vision to everyone! Suddenly everything is clear, he can understand the emotions of everyone, and allow them to experience it themselves, to open their minds and push out the white Martian. All the while Tyler is dead, succumbing to the poison. The green Martian sees his chance, and although what really happens is inexpressible, the mind expresses it through the green Martian taking the crescent moon and slashing the white Martian to bits! The day is saved and as John and Bridget run upstairs to check on Tyler…he seems perfectly fine. The sun is once again coming up, and John is done with secret. But with the Sun we are able to activate our own Martian vision, and this allows us to see that Tyler is not okay, the white Martian is still alive and is now inside Tyler! THIS SERIES CAN’T GO ON A BREAK, PLEASE!!!

[Alexis Moreno · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great issue to wrap up the mini series. I really appreciate how the fight the BBEG was both literal but also metaphorical and didn’t go so far its own ass it forgot to do one well and not the other. The fight for the minds of others who have lost their edge and lost their sense of self and thus seek for a purpose even if that is purpose if destruction and choas. i think in someways those are chosen because those actions force others to say no that’s important please protect that and stop it and i will stop you. that’s what i think was really happening behind the punches or abstract ideas of punches being thrown. but they were literally punched because in order to show how something is important, you must throw literally punches to save the literal but the embodied meaning and thought that goes into it. The ending of the true or the reveal more identity of Bridget leaves me surprised but makes so much sense why John would gravitate towards someone who is more then just human. It’s such a in your face mirror to issue one but i still love it. This series was absolutely wonderful.

[Seth Daub · Rating 5 out of 5]

this series keeps getting more bizarre by the issue. is this a bad thing? absolutely not.

with the strangeness comes more clarity on what’s happening as well. the whole series thus far has been intensely metaphorical and heavily worded, at times a bit confusing, but it’s making more sense to me now.

the actual writing is beautiful and is worthy of a novel in my opinion. the art is still outstanding as always. i liked the parallels drawn to real life tragedies in this issue, like the atomic bomb, or someone close to you dying. the way i interpreted it was the middleton residents accepted their pain, fear and suffering and used to to defeat the white martian. maybe i’m wrong? let’s see where it goes from here.

9/10

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

review for #1 - 6

Finally, a comic that surprises me with every issue.

The art and words work together like a spell ; this is a comic you feel more than you read. Javier Rodríguez’s abstractions and color shifts tell a story all their own, and when paired with Camp’s staccato, almost Beat-like verbiage, the result is pure storytelling magic.

This arc has been wild, and I can’t wait to reread it. The creative team’s command of the medium — swinging so effortlessly from literal to metaphor, sometimes within a single panel — is as brilliant as it is exhilarating.

This isn’t superheroes. It’s an epic poem about what it means to be human.

[Jenna · Rating 5 out of 5]

(cover variant by riley rossmo rather than javier rodriguez, couldn't find it on here). at least john has finally decided that communication is healthy in a marriage lol. also the son who has been lowkey insignificant until now?? getting into potential danger and destroying the family bond from within?? smart move. the final fight between the white martian and green martian was amazing, definitely some of the most abstract fight scenes i've seen in a comic.

[Aidan Bonner · Rating 5 out of 5]

if anybody is curious about comic books, give this series a shot. Absolutely breathtaking art and a super emotional story that encapsulates EXACTLY what I love about comics as a medium, it doesn't get much better in my book. This feels so specifically targeted at my personal tastes I can't look away.

[Arch Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

To this day, Absolue Martian Manhunter is easily the best comic in the Current Absolute Universe.

The visuals, writing, pacing; it is all done at the highest level of artistry.

I will not divulge more in this review as this comic is such a short run, just go and read it! Yall see the other reviews. This is amazing.

[Madison · Rating 4 out of 5]

This run was SO good. I really liked the mind bending and what they were trying to say. I’d love if they made more for this because wow has it been trippy and confusing and like so gripping at the same time. Overall pretty good!

[Juliano Stefani · Rating 5 out of 5]

In a very clever way this first arc is over, touching the possibilities of Absolute Universe and its center (Darkseid is). Creating a great origin storyline, the Martian appears as a brilliant new view for DC.

[Ushnav Shroff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun.

[Neil Carey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not to be graded on the Good Superhero Book Curve; but rather the curve for Promethea or Lucifer

[grimbamreads · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5/5


so fucking trippy in the best way possible. holy shit.

[viktor · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW WOWOWOWOWOW

[Powerman61 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent issue of the Absolute Martian Manhunter.
The artwork and storyline remains incredible.
The character interaction takes on a me vs me vibe.

[Alex Fyffe · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5