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Absolute Martian Manhunter (2025-) #3
ABSOLUTE MARTIAN MANHUNTER #3 (OF 6) CVR C DAN PANOSIAN CARD STOCK VAR
A journey into the psychosphere of Middleton, where newly-minted partners John Jones and the Martian trace the source of unexpected, destructive behavior affecting people worldwide.
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September 24, 2025
Enter the White Martian!
The story is starting to coalesce, and instead of John fighting the Martian, he's starting to listen to what he's trying to tell him. Together, they try to save lives. But while John is trying to save the lives in a burning building, the Martian is trying to save our entire world.
Very cool concept, very cool art, very cool coloring.
Highly Recommended.
The story is starting to coalesce, and instead of John fighting the Martian, he's starting to listen to what he's trying to tell him. Together, they try to save lives. But while John is trying to save the lives in a burning building, the Martian is trying to save our entire world.
Very cool concept, very cool art, very cool coloring.
Highly Recommended.
June 4, 2025
”Most people… don’t get it. They think it’s about the fire. It’s not. It’s about the smoke.”
We’re finally getting somewhere with this series. There is a clear problem, a threatening and interesting villain, and a heroic but flawed protagonist. Before it was like being in some drug induced haze.
We’re finally getting somewhere with this series. There is a clear problem, a threatening and interesting villain, and a heroic but flawed protagonist. Before it was like being in some drug induced haze.
May 29, 2025
The whole package is literally out of this world - the book is just stunning. But after being wowed by the art and lettering, it’s the bits of surreal poetry that emerge in the interactions between what’s said and what’s thought by the characters that push this book right to my core: “make a paramecium understand property.”
November 28, 2025
The white Martian makes a bunch of random people set a bunch of homeless people on fire. It then makes a lot more people set their homes on fire, before getting people to burn down the biggest homeless shelter in town.
John and the Martian save a lot of people from burning, but not all of them. Then the white Martian tells them it's not about the fires but about the smoke. What the fuck right? Yeah, me too, but the thing still déy go well shà!
John and the Martian save a lot of people from burning, but not all of them. Then the white Martian tells them it's not about the fires but about the smoke. What the fuck right? Yeah, me too, but the thing still déy go well shà!
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May 28, 2025
The art is absolutely the selling point in this issue. Not that the story isn't good, but the art was on some next level shit. The Smoke....hmmmm something is brewing!
August 18, 2025
And so the journey and philosophical dialogue continues. Absolute Martian Manhunter offers a spellbinding walk through what it means to think, love, have purpose and be human. It breaks down the simple notions of safety and belongings and places a fire at their feet and asks what that means. This is EXACTLY the kind of comic I love to read. The art is magnificent and trippy and adds another layer to the mystery of meaning. I am loving this run!
June 7, 2025
Visual heavy issue. And sadly, due to how visual focus this issue is, the story isn't as compelling as the last two. The overall narrative is loose on this one. However, seeing how this book plays, the plot most likely will make sense in the next one, as newer characters are introduced, putting its readers at a standstill - a confusing one at that. One of the strengths of the issue however is the intrapersonal conflict between its main lead and its titular Martian personification, and its effects on his life at home, creating a sub-plot that I hope takes action at some point. This trippy noir title continues to be engaging, but the issue at hand raises more questions than answers. One that hopefully comes full circle within the next few issues.
June 1, 2025
the art is so great sometimes I just pause reading just to take it all in
fantastic issue
9/10!
fantastic issue
9/10!
May 30, 2025
Just read Absolute Martian Manhunter #3 by Camp & Rodríguez — this one continues to carve out a weird, compelling space between noir and cosmic horror. The arson cases are eerie and unsettling, and the visuals are both trippy and stunning. It’s definitely a slow burn, but there’s something hypnotic about the pace and tone. This series keeps pushing boundaries in style and storytelling, but wanting more to happen…
July 4, 2025
Great art.
July 23, 2025
Damn! This series is heavy, adult, complex. Very surprised and impressed by how much I’m enjoying this.
Read as a single issue.
Read as a single issue.
August 8, 2025
MY GOD MARTIAN MANHUNTER HAS THE BEST ART AND STORY OF THE ABSOLUTE UNIVERSE
September 1, 2025
This comic is so epic
June 26, 2025
what a trippy issue, except theyre all trippy issues.
May 31, 2025
“I know I sound crazy. I know that. But the Martian who lives in my head assures me I’m not.”
One of the best series out right now, just purely amazing that it’s hard for John and myself to even wrap out heads around it. I love how much the green Martian is used externally in this issue, finally John has accepted what he is and now sees him everywhere. And his child continuing to work on clay formations (even though I still question why the Martian was helping him) becomes even more fitting with the Martians beautiful claymation like design. I love the different size of body parts from the giant hands to the slim feet, it all feels so fluid.
But now that we know of the presence of the white Martian, John is stuck chasing it a few steps behind…constantly searching for understanding that the green Martian cannot begin to explain. And in this issue the white Martian begins to strike through fire, taking over the minds of seemingly random people and causing them to commit arson. Right off the jump of this issue 24 unhoused people are burned alive by 24 different people in the streets. All the while the smoke coming off them is thick as John can see their final thoughts. John doesn’t understand it yet, but the green Martian tells him right from the beginning why the white Martian targeting them. It’s not targeting the people specifically, but it’s targeting the concept of safety and shelter. They weren’t in a shelter because they felt safer out there…and it took that away from them in their final moments. We even highlight one of their deaths, big Al, because his final thought was about going home…even though he hasn’t had a solid home for 20 years. The concept of home and safety he did have was stripped away.
As John and the Martian bring the 24 suspects in for interrogation, none of them know each other or have criminal records…but all of them burned someone alive in perfect unison…and although it’s not in the report, they each had a cloud around their heads. We see as the green Martian desperately tries to explain it to John, but he doesn’t have a grasp on the human language yet. Which leads to John getting home and finding an entire war zone playing out in his head on his front lawn. All that the Martian can really make John understand is the white Martian is a predator, a destroyer, and that is its great purpose. So spend time with your family while you can John…because the white Martian has decided on tragedy.
But things aren’t so great at home right now, John can see the smoke clouds clog up his house with all the things unsaid. but it doesn’t take long before he is once again called by his work, but as he steps outside…he sees why. Fires are burning all across the city, all of the smoke trails are combing together into one giant creature, feeding off the tragedy. It all still seems to random to John, he just sees strangers burning down strangers homes or people burning their own homes. But that is when the green Martian finally has John open their eye, as Martian vision is the absolute perspective. In doing so John is able to see his own home, but it’s standing alongside everyone else’s homes. It’s not the homes that are important…it’s the idea of shelter and safety. Which allows John to figure out what the next target is…sunnsyide hotel, the largest homeless shelter in town.
John isn’t too far away as he calls in the rest of the forces to get down there and help, but he is still too late before the fire started. But it’s not just the fire that’s dangerous…it’s the smoke. All of the people there are desperate and running from something. Whether it be other family members, poverty, addiction, responsibilities, etc. And within the smoke the things they are running from manifest and begin to attack them! But the Martian knows more than the direct paths, he can move through space. And this allows John and the Martian to get to the hotel as fast as possible, John moves quickly to get people out by moving through space…while the Martian immediately starts throwing hands with the colorful clouds of smoke trying to haunt these people. It’s tragic, and glorious, and quite amazing. But some things refuse to be extinguished…and within the hotel John looks up to see a woman burning white with a message for the green Martian. She says that it knows it is hiding in “meat,” and it knows he is looking…but it welcomes you to watch as it loves an audience. Most people think it’s just about the fire, but it’s really about the smoke. “It’s all in the smoke.” How demented, it’s so interesting to see how similar their powers manifest, but the white Martian is content in manifesting and feeding off tragedy.
One of the best series out right now, just purely amazing that it’s hard for John and myself to even wrap out heads around it. I love how much the green Martian is used externally in this issue, finally John has accepted what he is and now sees him everywhere. And his child continuing to work on clay formations (even though I still question why the Martian was helping him) becomes even more fitting with the Martians beautiful claymation like design. I love the different size of body parts from the giant hands to the slim feet, it all feels so fluid.
But now that we know of the presence of the white Martian, John is stuck chasing it a few steps behind…constantly searching for understanding that the green Martian cannot begin to explain. And in this issue the white Martian begins to strike through fire, taking over the minds of seemingly random people and causing them to commit arson. Right off the jump of this issue 24 unhoused people are burned alive by 24 different people in the streets. All the while the smoke coming off them is thick as John can see their final thoughts. John doesn’t understand it yet, but the green Martian tells him right from the beginning why the white Martian targeting them. It’s not targeting the people specifically, but it’s targeting the concept of safety and shelter. They weren’t in a shelter because they felt safer out there…and it took that away from them in their final moments. We even highlight one of their deaths, big Al, because his final thought was about going home…even though he hasn’t had a solid home for 20 years. The concept of home and safety he did have was stripped away.
As John and the Martian bring the 24 suspects in for interrogation, none of them know each other or have criminal records…but all of them burned someone alive in perfect unison…and although it’s not in the report, they each had a cloud around their heads. We see as the green Martian desperately tries to explain it to John, but he doesn’t have a grasp on the human language yet. Which leads to John getting home and finding an entire war zone playing out in his head on his front lawn. All that the Martian can really make John understand is the white Martian is a predator, a destroyer, and that is its great purpose. So spend time with your family while you can John…because the white Martian has decided on tragedy.
But things aren’t so great at home right now, John can see the smoke clouds clog up his house with all the things unsaid. but it doesn’t take long before he is once again called by his work, but as he steps outside…he sees why. Fires are burning all across the city, all of the smoke trails are combing together into one giant creature, feeding off the tragedy. It all still seems to random to John, he just sees strangers burning down strangers homes or people burning their own homes. But that is when the green Martian finally has John open their eye, as Martian vision is the absolute perspective. In doing so John is able to see his own home, but it’s standing alongside everyone else’s homes. It’s not the homes that are important…it’s the idea of shelter and safety. Which allows John to figure out what the next target is…sunnsyide hotel, the largest homeless shelter in town.
John isn’t too far away as he calls in the rest of the forces to get down there and help, but he is still too late before the fire started. But it’s not just the fire that’s dangerous…it’s the smoke. All of the people there are desperate and running from something. Whether it be other family members, poverty, addiction, responsibilities, etc. And within the smoke the things they are running from manifest and begin to attack them! But the Martian knows more than the direct paths, he can move through space. And this allows John and the Martian to get to the hotel as fast as possible, John moves quickly to get people out by moving through space…while the Martian immediately starts throwing hands with the colorful clouds of smoke trying to haunt these people. It’s tragic, and glorious, and quite amazing. But some things refuse to be extinguished…and within the hotel John looks up to see a woman burning white with a message for the green Martian. She says that it knows it is hiding in “meat,” and it knows he is looking…but it welcomes you to watch as it loves an audience. Most people think it’s just about the fire, but it’s really about the smoke. “It’s all in the smoke.” How demented, it’s so interesting to see how similar their powers manifest, but the white Martian is content in manifesting and feeding off tragedy.
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October 18, 2025
Another exceptional issue. I am really loving how this series is one hundred percent full leaning into the metaphorical and the abstract and not just the literal. Usually I have to hunt for this. here it’s fucking everywhere and just rich with meaning. Why is the white martian trying to destroy the concept of a home? The more i think of it, the more it sounds the end goal is actually kill everyone on earth since th most basic home we inhibit is our own body, followed by the physical home where we feel safe and can rest for some time. But there is mention that th fire isnt the point, the smoke is? when i think of smoke i think of opaque and obstructed vision. Something is not visible. John in issue one asks where all the smoke is coming from. Initially i was thinking it was a representation of everyone’s humanity and he’s only seeing it because he was confronted with his own mortality. But now there seems to be more layers to it. Usually if smoke is involved in a crime it makes it harder to see things, but crimes such as arson and death by fire are all loud and public and everyone knows immediately. There’s urgency, there’s literally and emotionally fire. So why use that? Me thinks the white martian wants to be caught and wants to be persuaded of humanity and why it should live and it wants Jonh or someone to tell him to stop and be with in this process of finding there’s another way.
June 29, 2025
Finally out of my hiatus of reading, and I started back off in this Martian Manhunter series.
This Absolute series is still going insanely strong with its use of colorful imagery, language, concept, etc. Agent Jones is slowly becoming more in tune with the Martian in his mind, and this issue definitely pushes Jones into learning to trust the voices and really push the boundaries of understanding what he is experiencing from his visions. Now on the case of chasing the White Martian that is causing pure chaos with the act of arsons around the city, Agent Jones is really put to the test of beating the clock and learning to work with his new “abilities” of seeing internal thoughts once locked away.
Easily a 5 out of 5 issue in the series, as I believe that will be the same sentiment I feel for most of the issues. Camp and Rodriguez are going absolutely crazy with the work in this. Easily my favorite storyline in the Absolute saga thus far.
This Absolute series is still going insanely strong with its use of colorful imagery, language, concept, etc. Agent Jones is slowly becoming more in tune with the Martian in his mind, and this issue definitely pushes Jones into learning to trust the voices and really push the boundaries of understanding what he is experiencing from his visions. Now on the case of chasing the White Martian that is causing pure chaos with the act of arsons around the city, Agent Jones is really put to the test of beating the clock and learning to work with his new “abilities” of seeing internal thoughts once locked away.
Easily a 5 out of 5 issue in the series, as I believe that will be the same sentiment I feel for most of the issues. Camp and Rodriguez are going absolutely crazy with the work in this. Easily my favorite storyline in the Absolute saga thus far.
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November 27, 2025
Es increíble lo fascinantemente inteligente que es esta oportunidad de reinventar a un personaje que ha sido tan relegado al arquetipo. Deniz Camp sigue desarrollando un planteamiento de narración totalmente alienígena que va totalmente de la mano con el curioso arte y composición de Javier Rodríguez. Se reafirma la presencia antagónica de esa contraparte blanca de la presencia marciana verde ligada a John generando una serie de impensables atentados donde cualquier individuo puede ponerse a prender fuego a edificios o mismamente a sus congéneres. Esto siendo anulados (o "anestesiados") en estos actos que parece anteceder a una desgracia de mayor magnitud y virulencia. Porque una vez prendida la mecha en un polvorín... Solo queda esperar a la explosión.
July 12, 2025
I almost don’t want to give this a review with stars — not because I don’t like it, but because I’m hooked. This series has reeled me in, but it’s so different and unlike the other books I’m reading right now that I really don’t know how to feel about it piece by piece. I want to see the whole picture!
With that in mind, this issue (and series) has everything it needs to succeed. A clear emotional story for the protagonist, a clear plot to follow (the introduction of the enemy, the white Martian), and even a good bit of social commentary. Looking forward to more.
With that in mind, this issue (and series) has everything it needs to succeed. A clear emotional story for the protagonist, a clear plot to follow (the introduction of the enemy, the white Martian), and even a good bit of social commentary. Looking forward to more.
June 5, 2025
loving this series. Rodriguez 's art is stunning and beautiful while still capturing a 1960s feel. Camp's writing is brilliant, making this series a revolutionary analysis of modern society in late-stage capitalism disguised as a super hero noir. between this, Assorted Crisis Events & The Ultimates, Camp has become my new favorite comic author next to Tynion & Joe Hill where I HAVE to read everything the make *chef's kiss*
May 28, 2025
The art is still fantastic, but the writing cannot back it up.
I think if this were presented to me as a limited-issue run, I think i could put more trust into it. But as a continuing run, I think I’m falling out of love with it quite quickly.
I think if this were presented to me as a limited-issue run, I think i could put more trust into it. But as a continuing run, I think I’m falling out of love with it quite quickly.
August 4, 2025
This. This is the feeling I got when I was 14 and found my first issue of Vertigo.
Art is completely overwhelming, the plot is as thick as it gets.
Super curious about where it's going.
Love the mental fights.
Gosh, this. This is DC at its best.
Godammit.
Art is completely overwhelming, the plot is as thick as it gets.
Super curious about where it's going.
Love the mental fights.
Gosh, this. This is DC at its best.
Godammit.
May 28, 2025
Straight up delicious.
May 28, 2025
so so obsessed with the art and color usage
May 29, 2025
This run is just SO good. I really like the way colors are used and the way the Martin is explored. It’s so cool seeing the fighting and conflicting points of view. I really like this!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 29, 2025
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
May 29, 2025
Truly one of the most unique runs I've ever read.
May 30, 2025
just when i think i understand it, it throws a curve ball.
June 1, 2025
deniz camp cannot be stopped
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