#Jason Aaron

[lostsoulincssea]

Superman... If you can hear me... Your friends were wrong. I'm not chasing the storm. I am the storm. And you can't hide from me forever [....] All right, Superman. It's just you and me now, Sunshine. Just you and me. — Lois Lane, Absolute Superman #4

[kryptonbabe]

A boy, his dog and their doomed planet

From Absolute Superman #2 (2024)

[vertigoartgore]

2016's Doctor Strange Vol.4 #9 (LGY : #363) cover by Chris Bachalo & Tim Townsend.

[wwprice1]

Incredible preview art for Absolute Superman!

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Absolute Superman 5 (2025) by Jason Aaron & Rafa Sandoval

Cover: Rafa Sandoval

[evilhorse]

Behold the regal king of the deep blue sea!

(Namor Volume 2 #5)

[joezy27]

HAWKEYE - Clint Barton riding a Unicorn

War Of The Realms (2019) #5 by Jason Aaron & Russell Dauterman

[ballinandcantgetup452]

What does "No Kents" in Absolute Superman even MEAN?

I’m worried that Absolute Superman’s gonna be booty cheeks and too edgy. The writer has a mixed track record. Jason Aaron is known for writing the best parts of recent Thor and he created The Mighty Thor (Jane Foster). So I think he can handle the action that comes with writing god-tier characters quite well. I’m just really concerned that Aaron’s not gonna get the spirit.

I’m hoping that this does what Henry Cavill’s Superman was SUPPOSED to be: a cynic who’s still trying his best to smile despite all the pain he’s been through because he STILL believes in doing the right thing simply because it’s good. I hope that Absolute Superman is a story about letting people in, and how Clark doesn’t need the Kent’s to be fundamentally compassionate. I suspect that if you take away the Kents, then you still have a good person, but one that’s slow to trust anybody

I just don’t know what they mean by “no Kent’s”

All we really have is the artist showing us an action scene, and the knowledge that Superman’s cape is all Misty because it’s the “ashes of Krypton” which means that his suit is purely Kryptonian in origin

Did he LIVE on Krypton? Was he in the foster system? Was he raised by a different, shitty family? The phrase “no Kents” is just really vague. “No money” is relatively easy to work around. Granted, Bruce has an inciting incident that creates The Batman, so it's not too much of a stretch to put him in any circumstance. “No Amazons” probably means you just switch pantheons (I'm partial to the idea that she's raised by the pantheon of the New Gods). But “no Kents” has borderline infinite unrelated possibilities that I don’t know what the ACTUAL premise is of the book. Perhaps you could say the same about Diana, but I'm worried for Clark because edgy Supermans are just now fading in popularity, and I don't want to see them make a comeback over a POORLY written edgy Superman.

Shot in the dark, I think each Absolute line is going to be a commentary on the misconceptions of the traditional line. Absolute Batman was about debunking the “Batman beats up poor and mentally ill people” bullshit. If that’s actually a pattern and not malarky, I don’t know what Absolute Superman would address. Thoughts?

[onepanel]

Stone Cold Vader

Star Wars Modern Era Epic Collection - Skywalker Strikes!

[lostsoulincssea]

Superman and Lois in Absolute Superman #2

[kryptonbabe]

Textless 4x4 icons of emo Kal-el in Absolute Superman #1 (2024) by Rafa Sandoval

[vertigoartgore]

2011’s Wolverine & the X-Men Vol.1 #2 cover by Chris Bachalo and Tim Townsend.

[justanunrealpotato]

Kal-El getting in problems for writing his homework instead of generating it... I love the implicit commentary with what we're living rn. I'm really fan with Absolute Superman.

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Absolute Superman 2 (2024) by Jason Aaron & Rafa Sandoval

Cover: Rafa Sandoval

[evilhorse]

No surrender. Imperius Rex.

(Namor Volume 2 #3)

[ultrameganicolaokay]

The Savage Sword of Conan #6 by Jason Aaron, Michael Downs, Matthew John, Geof Isherwood and Piotr Kowalski. Variant cover (1) by Alex Horley. Main cover (2) by Jason Shawn Alexander. Out in December.

"Featuring the conclusion of JASON AARON'S and GEOF ISHERWOOD'S KING CONAN epic two-part comic, a haunting DARK AGNES tale from writer MICHAEL DOWNS and artist PIOTR KOWALSKI, a chilling Conan prose story from MATTHEW JOHN, titanic covers from ALEX HORLEY and JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER, a slew of astounding art pin-ups, and more – Issue #6 closes out the first year of THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN with a bloody bang!"