In the wake of DARK NIGHTS: DEATH METAL (2020-2021), a new universe joined Earth-Prime at the centre of the multiverse. But it’s not until Darkseid is transported to the Elseworld that we see its true nature as a dark mirror to Earth-Prime.
Initially launching with a Wonder Woman who’s a princess of Hell, a brooding Superman and a beefcake Batman, the Absolute Universe became a surprise success for DC Comics. Despite appearances, the line shows DC’s three biggest characters in a new light that mirrors events from the characters’ earliest days and, despite the darker world they inhabit, prove their heroism to be unshakable.
This reading order will be ongoing and added to over time and these titles are still ongoing.
Must Reads: Story arcs marked with a ✔ are must-read stories from this time period, along with any key related stories and often-forgotten tales that are worth a read.
Anthology Issues: When an issue contains multiple stories, the relevant story is denoted with square brackets. For example, [2/5] refers to the second story of the five stories in that issue, so you don’t need to read the other four.
Chronology: Every appearance of the Absolute Universe from this period is included in chronological order, laying out their timeline rather than just the order the issues were released.
Spoilers: The issue/story overviews may include spoilers, so be warned!
Want to keep it simple? Here’s the core reading order without story descriptions, page-by-page breakdowns – just the stories:
- Dark Nights: Death Metal #7
- DC All-In Special #1
- Absolute Wonder Woman #1-5
- Absolute Wonder Woman #6 [1/3]
- Absolute Batman #1
- Absolute Wonder Woman #7 [1/3]
- Absolute Superman #1-3
- Absolute Batman #2-3
- Absolute Superman #4
- Absolute Martian Manhunter #1-2
- Absolute Batman #4-6
- Absolute Martian Manhunter #3
- Absolute Superman #5
- Absolute Flash #1-3
- Absolute Superman #6
- Absolute Flash #4-12
- Superman #23
- Absolute Wonder Woman #8
- Free Comic Book Day: All In 2025 Special Edition #1 [2/2]
- Absolute Wonder Woman #9-12
- Absolute Green Lantern #1-7
- Absolute Superman #7-8
- Absolute Batman #7-9
- Absolute Martian Manhunter #4
- Absolute Superman #9-10
- Absolute Superman #10
- Absolute Martian Manhunter #5-6
- Absolute Evil #1
- Absolute Superman #11-12
- Absolute Batman #10-11
- New Gods (2024) #8
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| Dark Nights: Death Metal #7 (2021) Following the reality-rending war with Perpetua, the collection of Earth’s greatest minds who call themselves the Totality discover Earth-Prime is no longer at the centre of the multiverse – it now shares this position with another universe, which contains another Earth dubbed ‘The Elseworld’. 1st appearance: Future State (cameo – Batman/Jace Fox, Batman/Bruce Wayne, Harley Quinn/Harleen Quinzel, Superman/Jon Kent, Wonder Woman/Yara Flor, Gotham City, Metropolis), Totality, Death Sun, Elseworld (cameo), Omniverse/Infinite Frontier | DARK NIGHTS: DEATH METAL | |
| ✔ | Absolute Wonder Woman #6 [2/3] (2025) Absolute Wonder Woman #6 [3/3] (2025) Absolute Wonder Woman #7 [2/3] (2025) Absolute Wonder Woman #7 [3/3] (2025) Li’l Diana of the Wild Isle makes a phoenix happy and frees some creatures from a worm monster in Hell; li’l Diana helps more of her friends in Hell, despite driving Circe to despair! | ALL IN |
| Must Reads | Title, Synopsis & First Appearances | Event / Crossover |
| ✔ | DC All-In Special #1 [2/2] (pp.1-8) (2024) 52 days ago (during the events of ABSOLUTE POWER, 2024) on Earth-Prime, Darkseid chopped off his own left hand and sacrificed his son Kalibak to charge his Miracle Machine powered by Element X; Darksied traversed Hell and Heaven… | ALL IN |
| ✔ | DC All-In Special #1 [1/2] (pp.1-11) (2024) 52 days after the fall of Amanda Waller (during ABSOLUTE POWER, 2024), the Justice League are back in action as Justice League Unlimited; the League have built a larger Watchtower in Earth’s orbit; membership is thrown open, far wider than before; Superman invites Booster Gold personally… New identity: Justice League as Justice League Unlimited (Prime Earth) | ALL IN |
| ✔ | DC All-In Special #1 [2/2] (pp.9-14) (2024) Darkseid kills Eclipso, before using his Miracle Machine to wish for the Spectre to bond with him; the Spectre won’t reveal the truth Darkseid seeks… | ALL IN |
| ✔ | DC All-In Special #1 [1/2] (pp.12-13) (2024) Reality aboard the new Watchtower seems to shift as the League sense great evil… | ALL IN |
| ✔ | DC All-In Special #1 [1/2] (pp.14-19) (2024) DC All-In Special #1 [2/2] (pp.15-19) (2024) Darkseid – still bonded with the Spectre – materialises instead the Justice League’s new space station, causing a break in reality; Zatanna and the magic-users empower Superman to break Darkseid’s bond with the Spectre; Darkseid thanks the League as he implodes… | ALL IN |
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| ✔ | DC All-In Special #1 [1/2] (pp.18-22) (2024) Darkseid’s apparent death leaves a rip in time and space and gives Justice League Unlimited their first mission; Orion warns that, if Darkseid is gone, the universe will create a new one; the blank JLU membership card in the mission room is now an Anti-Life-empowered doorway to the Elseworld (aka the Alpha World, first hinted at during DARK KNIGHTS: DEATH METAL, 2021) that exudes chaos; only time-travellers can go there, so Booster Gold volunteers; Mister Terrific sets a timer in Skeets that’ll bring Booster back in 10 minutes… | ALL IN |
| ✔ | DC All-In Special #1 [2/2] (pp.20-24) (2024) Darkseid finds himself on another, more tumultuous Earth – a world where Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman are far darker; this is where Darkseid will thrive and grow before returning to crush Earth-Prime… 1st appearance: Batman/Bruce Wayne (unnamed), Diana of the Wild Isle (unnamed), Pegasus (unnamed), Superman (unnamed) | ALL IN |
| ✔ | DC All-In Special #1 [1/2] (pp.23-26) (2024) DC All-In Special #1 [2/2] (pp.25-26) (2024) Skeets goes missing when Booster Gold makes the jump; now he’s trapped on an Earth ruled by Darkseid and his dark Legion of Super-Heroes! 1st appearance: Legion of Super-Heroes (Brainiac 5/Querl Dox, Chameleon Boy/Reep Daggle, Colossal Boy/Gim Allon, Cosmic Boy/Rokk Krinn, Element Lad/Jan Arrah, Ferro Lad/Andrew Nolan Lightning Lad/Garth Ranzz, Kid Quantum/Jazmin Cullen, Phantom Girl/Tinya Wazzo, Saturn Girl/Imra Ardeen, Shadow Lass/Tasmia Mallor, Shrinking Violet/Salu Digby, Star Boy/Thom Kallor, Timber Wolf/Brin Londo, Triplicate Girl/Luorno Durgo, Ultra Boy/Jo Nah (all unnamed)), Absolute Universe/Elseworld (full appearance) | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Wonder Woman #1-5 (2024-2025) Years ago, Diana of Themyscira was taken from her Amazonian people by Zeus as part of an unspecified punishment; Apollo took the infant to Hell to be raised by Circe; now, Diana beats back creatures who are swarming Gateway City, California, as well as their master, Harbinger Prime; Diana reunites with Steve Trevor of the US Air Force – a man she saved in the past when he washed up in the Wild Isle in Hell, cutting off her right arm to bring him home – before the Tetracide arrives in Gateway City; Barbara Minerva dubs Diana ‘Wonder Woman’; Diana’s only means of defeating the Tetracide is by using her Nemesis Lasso’s shape shifting abilities, but she’s immediately transported away by an unseen mystic! 1st appearance: Wonder Woman, Diana of Themyscira/Diana of the Wild Isle/Medusa (named), Amazons of Themyscira (mention), Aphrodite (mention), Apollo, Artemis (mention), Athena (mention), Veronica Cale, Ettc Candy, Gia Candy, Cerberus, Circe, Commander Cole, Demeter (mention), Pegasus (named) Harbinger Prime, Harbingers, Hephaestus (mention), Hecate, Hestia (mention), Hydra, Barbara Minerva, Nike (mention), Pegasus (named), President of the United States (unnamed), Prometheus (mention), Steve Trevor, Gateway City, Hell, Themyscira (mention), White House, Wild Isle, Athena Blade, Harbinger’s ship, Θυσία/Lasso of Sacrifice, Nemesis Lasso | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Wonder Woman #6 [1/3] (2025) Brought before Hades in the Underworld, Wonder Woman tells the origin of her Nemesis Lasso; to create it, she obtained the blood of Prometheus for Circe to create the Lasso and he also granted her the animated corpse of Pegasus as an additional gift; the final ingredient was the venom from the Last Basilisk; now, Wonder Woman discovers Circe is Hades’ prisoner! 1st appearance: Dike (mention), Hades, Last Basilisk, Promethean Eagle, Prometheus, Themis (mention), Blue Lasso (unnamed), Hades/Underworld | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Batman #1 (pp.1-29) (2024) When musclebound Bruce Wayne isn’t training at Croc’s Gym with his friend Waylon Jones, he’s donning his cowl as the Batman; ageing MI6 agent Alfred Pennyworth witnesses the Batman brutally taking down dozens of the murderous members of the Party Animals gang when they threaten to kill everyone at Gotham City Hall… 1st appearance: Batman/Bruce Wayne, Commissioner Harvey Bullock, Joe Chill (unseen, unnamed), Ozzie Cobblepot (mention), Harvey Dent (mention), Carmine Falcone, Officer Barbara Gordon, Mayor Jim Gordon, Hamilton Hill (mention), Joker (cameo), Waylon Jones, Selina Kyle (mention), League of Assassins (mention), Sal Maroni, Eddie Nygma (mention), Party Animals (Dr Benjamin, Roman Sionis), Alfred Pennyworth, Julia Pennyworth (voice), Martha Wayne, Thomas Wayne, Crime Alley, Croc’s Gym, Gotham City, Gotham City Hall, Gotham Zoo | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Wonder Woman #7 [1/3] (2025) Wonder Woman is forced to battle the Chimera in Hades’ arena; Wonder Woman figures out a way to trick Hades, thanks to his wife Persephone angering her husband; Diana frees Circe, but must spend one month per year in the Underworld. 1st appearance: Persephone | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Batman #1 (pp.30-41) (2024) 24-year-old engineer Bruce Wayne leaves a flower at Gotham Zoo where his father, teacher Thomas Wayne, was killed by a rogue gunman; Bruce then visits his mother, social worker Martha Wayne; Alfred Pennyworth has already discerned Batman is Bruce Wayne and worked out his history; against orders, Pennyworth passes up on the chance to kill Bruce in front of his mother; later, Pennyworth confronts Bruce Wayne at his lair in the unused upper floors of an oligarch’s skyscraper, but Batman gets the better on him with a non-lethal round from his own gun and escapes on Pennyworth’s motorcycle; after getting fixed up, Alfred Pennyworth reports in on his failed mission; elsewhere, Pennyworth’s previous mark, the Joker, is arrested in Manila. 1st appearance: Joker (cameo) | ALL IN |
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| ✔ | Absolute Superman #1-3 (2025) Years ago, on Krypton, the planet was divided by a class system with the Science League at the very top and the Labourers (or the ‘Els’) at the bottom; rejected scientist-turned labourer Jor-El tried to warn the Science League about the stress to Krypton that he noticed while working mines, but they wouldn’t listen; the House of El rebelled and chose to leave the planet together; now, on planet Earth, Kal-El interferes with another life-threatening mining situation in Brazil run by Lazarus Corp; their Peacemakers are armed with alien tech; dubbing Kal ‘Superman’, Agent Lois Lane attempts to arrest him, but the Peacemakers’ assault on Kal-El endangers her life and the lives of nearby kids; Superman saves them all, endearing himself to Lois who allows him to fly to freedom. 1st appearance: Superman/Kal-El (full), Brainiac, House of El (Jor-El, Lara-El, Krypto), Martha Kent, Kryptonians (Labour Guild, Law Guild, Science League), Lazarus Corp (Agent Lois Lane, Brainiac (cameo), Director/Ra’s al Ghul, Peacemakers), Omega Men (mention), Peacemaker/Smith, Sol, Kandor, Krypton, Green Kryptonite, Superman’s armour/spacesuit | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Batman #2 (2025) Absolute Batman #3 (pp.1-12) (2025) Batman has escalated his offensive against the Party Animals over the last two weeks, with Pennyworth secretly assisting him so he can gather data on Roman Sionis; Bruce Wayne turns to his friends Waylon ‘Croc’ Jones, Ozzie Cobblepot, Harvey Dent and Eddie Nygma for advice on the Party Animals’ motivation and connection to Hamilton Hill; when Batman breaks into one of Roman Sionis’ buildings and discovers his Ark M fund, Sionis offers Batman a deal; but Alfred Pennyworth also offers Batman a truce as they affect their escape from Sionis’ Party Animals in the monstrous dumpster truck Batmobile; Batman makes a deal to work with Pennyworth to bring down Roman Sionis, aka Black Mask; Bruce recalls meeting Selina Kyle when he was a boy… 1st appearance: Joe Chill (full), Ozzie Cobblepot (full), Harvey Dent (full), Hamilton Hill (full), Eddie Nygma (full), Red Hood (mentioned), Blackgate Penitentiary, Batmobile Identity revealed: Roman Sionis is the Black Mask | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Superman #4 (2025) Against orders, Agent Lois Lane continues her search for Superman; the rebel Omega Men try to recruit her when Superman arrives; Peacemaker Chris Smith interrupts the reunion; Superman subdues Smith with freeze-breath and departs, but civilians appear to be caught in the crossfire. 1st appearance: Agent Alpha/Jimmy Olsen, General Sam Lane, Omega Men (full), Primus/Omega Prime, Qurac (mention) Identity revealed: Peacemaker/Smith is Christopher Smith | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Batman #3 (pp.13-20) (2025) Eddie Nygma’s robotic computer AL and Harvey Dent give Bruce Wayne an understanding of how big Black Mask’s operation is, including Sionis’ intention to build the massive Ark M prison under Gotham City… 1st appearance: AL/Riddle-Man, Bibbo Bibowski | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Martian Manhunter #1-2 (2025) FBI Agent John Jones miraculously survives a suicide bombing in Middleton, Colorado that leaves him questioning his reality and identity; the cyclopean Martian Mind****er reveals he’s bonded to John and tries to assist him in stopping a shooting. 1st appearance: Human Flame/Mike Miller, Bridget Jones, Agent John Jones, Tyler Jones, Madame Xanadu (mention), Martian/Martian Mind****er, Special Agent Nelson, Agent Newell, Senior Agent Suttree, Trigger Taylor, White Martian (mention) | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Batman #3 (pp.21-25) (2025) Absolute Batman #4-6 (2025) Martha Wayne refuses to stop getting votes for Jim Gordon’s mayoral collection; Julia Pennyworth is monitored by her father; Batman makes the deal with Black Mask; flashbacks reveal how Bruce Wayne became a vigilante; Batman breaks his deal with Black Mask when they meet face to face’, but things don’t all go to plan and Batman quickly finds himself facing a horde of Party Animals; rejected by Pennyworth, Bruce turns to Waylon ‘Croc’ Jones for help, revealing he’s Batman; Black Mask tries to recruit everyone in Gotham, dropping crates of masks and guns throughout the city; Alfred Pennyworth forces his daughter, Julia Pennyworth, aboard a plane out of Gotham; Batman locates Black Mask’s boat and blows it up; Pennyworth returns to save Batman and patch him up; hearing of Black Mask’s fall, the Joker orders Bane to go to Gotham City! 1st appearance: Bane (mention), Julia Pennyworth (full) Randal Powers, Dr Leslie Thompkins, Gotham Cemetery, Memorial Light | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Martian Manhunter #3 (2025) Under the Martian’s guidance, Agent John Johns investigates a series of bizarre arson attacks on homes and the homeless that point to the White Martian. 1st appearance: Detective Mayweather | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Superman #5 (2025) Six years ago, Jor-El and Lara-El discovered the Kryptonian Science League’s ruse to escape their dying world, letting the Labour Guild die; their efforts to save a handful of workers failed, and only their young teenaged son, Kal-El survived – hurtling through space in a shuttle; now, Superman breaks off his search for murderous Peacemaker Chris Smith and heads to Smallville. | ALL IN |
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| ✔ | Absolute Flash #1-3 (2025) Two days ago, fifteen-year-old army brat Wally West was shown around Fort Fox’s Project Olympus by resident scientist Barry Allen; now, Barry is pursued by Captain Leonard Snart’s Rogues while he’s observed by the Mirror Master, and he only escapes because of his speed-based powers; Wally’s abilities show him glimpses of two futures – one great, one horrific – which all started when exposure to Barry Allen’s experiment granted Wally powers but left Barry dead; Snart sends the telepathic ape Grodd to find Wally, but the pair of them bond over their telepathically-shared trauma; Wally dons Barry’s costume and flees from Snart’s crew with Grodd! 1st appearance: Wally West, Dr Barry Allen, Grodd, Digger Harkness, Jesse James, Mirror Master (unnamed), Project Olympus, Rogues (unnamed), Captain Leonard Snart, Lisa Snart, Elenore Thorne (cameo), Mary West (mention, unnamed), Colonel Rudy West, Fort Fox, Prowler (unnamed) | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Superman #6 (2025) Young Kal-El hurtled through space for 18 months before crash-landing on the Kent Farm in Smallville on planet Earth when his powers kicked in; he eventually drew the attention of the Lazarus Corp who sent Peacemakers to bring him in, only for Kal to fly away; in the present, Lois Lane continues to search for Superman; Ra’s al Ghul emerges from a Lazarus Pit to plot with Brainiac against Superman! 1st appearance: Director/Ra’s al Ghul, Jonathan Kent, Kent Farm, Smallville | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Flash #4-5 (2025) Wally West arrives in Central City and meets fellow runaway Linda Park at Ralph Dibney’s youth mission; Rudy West investigates Barry Allen’s Lazarus Corp project; Dr Elenore Thawne reveals Project Firestorm, Project Heatwave, Project Wizard and Project XXXXX also escaped on the night Wally gained his powers; Rudy finds an alien craft in Fort Fox; Grodd leads Wally to Project Heatwave as it terrorises Central City; Wally dons the costume and, with Grodd’s help, absorbs the heat to help cure Heatwave. 1st appearance: Ralph Dibny, Sue Dibny (mention), Linda Park, Project Firestorm (mention), Project Heatwave/Mick Rory, Project Wizard (mention), Project XXXXX (mention), Rogues (named), Dr Elenore Thawne (full name revealed), Central City | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Flash #6 (2025) Flashbacks: In 1944, Captain Jay Garrick tried to stop Eobard Thawne’s experiment when it appeared to lose control; six months ago, Rudy West recruited the Rogues into Project Olympus for a suicide mission; now, Rudy West has discovered the source of Project Olympus’ technological advancements; Dr Thawne has Rudy bound and hooded. 1st appearance: Captain Jason ‘Jay’ Garrick (cameo), Corporal Jesse James/Trickster (full name revealed), Captain Leonard Snart (full name revealed), Sergeant Lisa Snart (full name revealed) | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Flash #7 (2025) Rudy West convinces Elenore Thawne not to kill him; Wally West agrees to go back with the Rogues, but instead runs off to find the missing Grodd; Wally absorbs lightning to power up and take down Project Wizard when he runs into his storm; the Rogues ask Wally to join them in turning their backs on Project Olympus. 1st appearance: Project Wizard (full), Prowler (named) New identity: Wally West referred to as ‘Kid Flash’ | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Flash #8 (2025) Flashbacks: Dr Thawne brought Barry Allen into Project Olympus; her grandfather Eobard Thawne worked on a project called Blue Trinity that led to Eobard – along with Jay Garrick – vanishing off the face of the Earth; the first trip into the other-dimensional Still Point uncovered an alien craft; Barry saw a vision of his future self, warning him “it must be Wally West”! 1st appearance: Blue Trinity, Captain Jason ‘Jay’ Garrick (full), Dr Eobard Thawne (full), Still Point (full), Red Matter | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Flash #9-12 (2025-2026) Wally agrees to accompany the Rogues on a mission to rescue Rudy West from Project Olympus, unaware Trickster has sold them out; Grodd saves the Rogues from Trickster’s treachery; Dr Thawne tells Rudy West that his son is the sacrifice needed to access the Still Point; Thawne sends Project Heatwave to attack the Rogues, but they’re saved by Project Wizard; Wally is tricked into opening the gateway to the Still Point, only for a mutated Eobard Thawne to emerge and switch dimensions with Wally; Barry Allen’s ‘spirit’ explains the Still Point to Wally before he returns to Earth to face the raging Eobard Thawne. 1st appearance: Flish, Nalaak New identity: Captain Leonard Snart as Captain Cold | ALL IN |
| Superman #23 (2025) Absolute Legion of Super-Heroes cameo; at the End of Time, the Time Trapper is attacked by the Legion of Super-Heroes who want to mine his mind for everything he knows about Earth-Prime’s Superman. | ALL IN THE MANY DEATHS OF DOOMSDAY |
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| ✔ | Absolute Wonder Woman #8 (pp.1-15) (2025) Wonder Woman resumes the search for the lost Amazons on Earth, starting in Gateway City where she magically constructs the Hieron; Director Veronica Cale of the Global Anti-Terrorism and Emergency Services (GATES) enters Area 41 where Doctor Poison gives her a sound file of the Tetracide… 1st appearance: Global Anti-Terrorism and Emergency Services/GATES (Director Veronica Cale, Doctor Poison), Hera (mention), Hestia (mention), Area 41, Hieron | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Free Comic Book Day: All In 2025 Special Edition #1 [2/2] (pp.1-4) (2025) The Mirror Master observes Batman beating up a cop in Gotham City; he jumps to Smallville and watches Superman defeat a band of Peacemakers… | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Wonder Woman #8 (pp.16-17) (2025) Wonder Woman heads into Gateway City’s Union Square which is overrun with robotic Tetra-Spiders… 1st appearance: Tetra-Spiders (named) | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Free Comic Book Day: All In 2025 Special Edition #1 [2/2] (pp.5-6) (2025) The Mirror Master witnesses Wonder Woman dealing with the Tetra-Spiders before he departs Gateway City… 1st appearance: Tetra-Spiders (unnamed) | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Wonder Woman #8 (pp.17-22) (2025) Absolute Wonder Woman #9-12 (2025) Wonder Woman tracks the source of the Tetra-Spiders and finds Doctor Poison who claims to know there whereabouts of an Amazon; Wonder Woman overpowers and outsmarts Doctor Poison and opens a portal to the ancient maze below Area 41; after aiding Ferdinand the Minotaur against the maze’s Men-Fish, Wonder Woman rescues Petra the Siren from the deadly Queen Clea; finding the Amazon Io in Clea’s pit inspires Wonder Woman to free those trapped with her and confront Clea directly; Diana floods the maze and leads Clea and the Men-Fish to freedom; Io is magically transported to Themyscira where she tells Hippolyta that Diana is alive; Veronica Cale decides to send Zatanna after Wonder Woman! 1st appearance: Artemis (unnamed, panther form, wolf form), Athena (statue), Cheetah (tail only, cameo, unnamed), Queen Clea, Cuca (cameo, unnamed), Ferdinand the Minotaur, Fish-Men/Men-Fish, Fish-Woman (cameo, unnamed), Hippolyta, Io, Petra the Siren, Zatanna (cameo), Zeul (cameo, unnamed), Project-SS1, Themyscira, Trident of Poseidon | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Green Lantern #1 (pp.1-14) (2025) Stranded in the Nevada desert, collectibles dealer Hal Jordan accidentally kills a cop by unknown means, never revealing his right hand; Hal finds a diner where the news reports a giant, green structure in the middle of the town of Evergreen, Nevada… 1st appearance: Hal Jordan | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Free Comic Book Day: All In 2025 Special Edition 1 [2/2] (pp.7-10) (2025) The Mirror Master emerges back home where he notes that there’s a mysterious dark void at the centre of everything; he’s surprised to find himself facing the Mirror Master of Earth-Prime! 1st appearance: Black Stars (mention), Despair-O (mention), Hector Hammond (cameo), Helmet of Fate (cameo), Temple of the Fourth World (mention) | ALL IN |
| Absolute Green Lantern #1 (pp.15-30) (2025) Absolute Green Lantern #2-7 (2025) Days ago, an alien called Abin Sur disintegrated Sheriff Guy Gardner and slaughtered some of his officers while a colossal ‘Green Lantern’ object floated above Evergreen, Nevada; Abin Sur obliterated Jon Stewart for throwing gold at the green barrier around Evergreen; Jo Mullein accidentally harmed Abin Sur, causing the Green Lantern to fall and crush Evergreen; Abin Sur cursed Hal with the Black Hand; Hector Hammond sought profit from the incident; now, Hal Jordan’s black hand kills everyone in the diner; Jo Mullein, turns up, bearing the symbol of the Green Lantern and clashes with Hal; having become Ain Aur, John Stewart explains the Spectrum of Light; Jo expels the Black Hand from Hal, but it spews from the Green Lantern and covers Hammond’s people; Jo takes Hal to Coast City; in space, Mogo destroys planet J586. 1st appearance: Ain Aur/John Stewart, Agent Simon Baz, Black Hand/Kilowog, Black Star/Blackstar World/Mogo, Blackstars/Weaponers of Qard (mention), Blue Devil (mention), Abigail Cable (mention), Cameron Chase, DEO/Department of Extranormal Operations (unnamed), Agent Jonny Double, Carol Ferris (unnamed), Sheriff Guy Gardner, Hector Hammond (full), Sojourner Jo Mullein/Anomaly, Agent Pemberton (mention), Officer Rita Powell, Tomar Re, Todd Rice, Arisia Rrab, Thaal Sinestro/Controller of MU/Abin Aur, Abin Sur, Bolovax Vik (mention), Coast City (mention), Evergreen, OA/Omega-Alpha, Aur/Gold Flame/‘Total Understanding’, the Black Hand, Qard/‘Chaotic Action’, Rao/Red Flame/‘Restraint from Action’, Spectrum of Light, Sur/Green Level of Light/‘Correct Actiona | ALL IN |
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| ✔ | Absolute Superman #7-8 (2025) Absolute Superman #9 (pp.1-7) (2025) Brainiac kills the Omega Men who enter his Nevada base and makes it clear he’s obsessed with Superman; after recalling his twisted origins, Brainiac contacts the Brainiac Collective who share the chemical composition of Krypton’s mineral remains; Brainiac puts the painful finishing touches to the cyborg inserts he’s forcing on Christopher Smith; Superman visits Martha Kent; both Lois Lane and Omega Men leader Agent Alpha (Jimmy Olsen) track Superman to Smallville and argue about winning him over; Superman is shot with a shard from the Krypto-Meteorite bullets by Peacemaker Smith; Agent Omega takes Superman through a Boom Tube, leaving Lane to the Peacemakers; the Omega Men heal Superman with a Father Box; Ra’s al Ghul orders Lois Lane to bring his son to him… 1st appearance: Brainiac 419,732 (full), Brainiac Collective, Colu, Daily Planet (cameo), Metropolis, Boom Tube (unnamed), Brainiac’s Skull Ship, Father Box (unnamed), Kryptonite (unnamed) New identity: Ra’s al Ghul as the God’s Head | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Batman #7-8 (2025) A month after Black Mask’s defeat, Gotham City is under martial law; ‘Matches’ Malone’s efforts to create a fake ID for Bruce Wayne so he can ‘work’ at the Ark M construction site just got him killed by a bacterium; Bruce gets into the V-Core building – a cryogenics lab – as a city engineer to investigate the bacterium’s origins and meets scientist Dr Victor Fries Jr; but Fries previously died and came out of the cryogenics process with the ability to take a mutated form; Fries puts Bruce in a cryo-chamber, but he escapes and confronts Fries as Batman, battling a slew of V-Core subjects before escaping; Fries manufactured the ‘snowfall’ in Gotham which has genetically marked 92% of the city’s population; Waylon Jones is kidnapped and taken to Ark M. 1st appearance: Nora Fries, Victor Fries Sr, Victor Fries Jr, Isley (mentioned), JK Holdings/JK Industries (mentioned), Langstrom (mentioned), Mitchel ‘Matches’ Malone, Strange (mentioned) | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Martian Manhunter #4 (pp.1-6) (2025) Ten days into a heatwave in Middleton, Agent John Jones continues to avoid his wife by investigating recent outbreaks of violence… | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Batman #9 (2025) Batman has been fighting his way through criminals for two weeks, searching for Waylon Jones; with help from his friends and Pennyworth, Batman breaks into Ark M, finding the real Ark M 100 metres below the main prison but is instantly captured by the monstrous Bane! 1st appearance: Bane, Dick Grayson (cameo), Sargon of Akkadia (mentioned), Slade Wilson (cameo, unnamed), Akkadian Empire (mentioned), Bialya, Kahndaq (mentioned), Venom (unnamed) Identity revealed: MI6 is SIS | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Martian Manhunter #4 (pp.7-18) (2025) The inexplicable outbreaks of violence continue through days twelve to thirteen of the heatwave; Bridget Jones confronts her husband over his lack of connection to his family; rage-fuelled citizens get organised and blow up Middleton’s nuclear, coal and gas plants. | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Batman #10 (pp.1-7) (2025) Ark M staff spent days removing Bruce’s Batman costume; he wakes in a cell and cuts loose in the facility, naked, until his escape is blocked by Bane… New identity: Batman/Bruce Wayne as Subject 27 | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Superman #9 (pp.8-22) (2025) Superman and the Omega Men disable the Lazarus Embassy in Pakistan; the Kryptonian AI Sol warns Superman against further contact with the Father Box; Omega Men warrior Primus tries to convince Superman to kill the Peacemakers to avenge the murdered workers; Agent Alpha is captured by Lois Lane. 1st appearance: Peacemechs, Father Box/‘God Box’ (named) | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Batman #10 (pp.8-12) (2025) Bruce Wayne has been a prisoner as Ark M for a month; he escapes again, trying to make his way through the Isley Ecosystem, but is beaten by Bane once more… | ALL IN |
| Must Reads | Title, Synopsis & First Appearances | Event / Crossover |
| ✔ | Absolute Superman #10 (2025) Absolute Superman #11 (pp.1-8) (2025) Superman tracks Jimmy Olsen to the Lazarus Corp base in Greenland and quickly overcomes their jets, firepower and the amped-up cyborg Peacemaker Smith; Omega Prime berates Superman for not killing Smith, but Ra’s al Ghul proudly refers to Kal-El as the ‘Son of the Demon’; Omega Prime kills the Omega Men and unmasks as Ra’s daughter, Talia al Ghul; Brainiac immediately begins conditioning Superman to see Ra’s al Ghul as his father/master… 1st appearance: Kryptonite (named), Magmoles Identity revealed: Omega Prime is Talia al Ghul | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Martian Manhunter #5-6 (2025) The blackout in Middleton has been going for what feels like weeks; people’s shadows are committing crimes; someone has been killing people’s dogs; John Jones’ wife refuses to see him; John is hit by an ambulance driven by psychopaths; the Martian saves John and sends him to protect his wife and son from the dog-killer; the Martian battles the White Martian. 1st appearance: White Martian (full) | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Superman #11 (pp.9-11) (2025) On the fifth day of Brainiac’s conditioning, Superman overcomes a scenario in which he’s meant to kill Brainiac without question… | ALL IN |
| The Flash #22 (2025) Absolute Legion of Super-Heroes cameo; Inspector Pilgrim observes the Legion’s attack on the Time Trapper in the future. | ALL IN BAD MOON RISING | |
| ✔ | Absolute Evil #1 (2025) In 1951, the masked vigilante Hawkman agreed to give up his secret identity to the House Un-American Activities Committee; in the present day, Ollie Queen decides to take out corrupt fellow-billionaire Jubal Slade; Veronica Cale calls a meeting with Ra’s al Ghul, Hector Hammond, the Joker and Dr Elenore Thawne and proposes they work together against the rising threat of people like Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman upsetting the status quo; Hawkman is now working for Global Anti-Terrorism and Emergency Services and has brutally murdered Ollie Queen which, along with the Joker’s revelation regarding the Omega Particle, convinces the group to becomes allies… as the Justice League; Brainiac and Mirror Master spy on the meeting and decide the group needs a man called Lex Luthor as their final member! 1st appearance: Dian Belmont (cameo), Roy Harper (off-panel, first name only), Hawkman/Carter Hall, Justice League, Dora Luthor (cameo), Lex Luthor (cameo), Iron Munro, Oliver Queen, Sandman/Wesley Dodds, Jubal Slade (mention), Wildcat/Ted Grant, Arrowcave, Hall of Justice, Luthor Farm, Star City, Arrowcar (unnamed), Omega Particle | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Superman #11 (pp.12-22) (2025) Absolute Superman #12 (2025) On the 11th day of Superman’s captivity, the Brainiac clones rebel against Brainiac, having seen his will to fight for liberty in his mind; on Day 14, Sam Lane gets into the Lazarus facility on a rescue mission to save his daughter from al Ghul’s cells; while Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen work to free Superman, Talia kills Sam; when Superman tries to kill Brainiac, the Sol AI reactivates and transports Superman, Jimmy and Lois to Kansas; Ra’s al Ghul sends his forces to Smallville. 1st appearance: Lana Lang New identity: Sol AI as Sol-El | ALL IN |
| ✔ | Absolute Batman 10 (pp.13-22) (2025) Absolute Batman 11 (2025) Absolute Batman 12 (pp.1-6) (2025) Trapped in Ark M for over 90 days, having been subjected to a craniotomy, a brain-stem insertion and pumped him with Venom; he’s given his Bat-gear and he attempts an escape through the Langstrom Experiments; his clash with Bane results in the mutated Waylon Jones breaking free; Batman and the now-literal ‘Croc’ escape to the sewers; Pennyworth recalls the origin of Bane; Bane targets Bruce’s friends; Batman refuses to kill Croc who flees into the sewers… 1st appearance: Dr Arkham, Cielos Libres, Deathstroke (mentioned), KGBeast (mentioned), Peña Duro, Santa Prisca, Venom (named) New identity: Waylon ‘Croc’ Jones as Mutation 523 | ALL IN |
| New Gods #8 (2025) Absolute Universe cameo; Maxwell Lord explains the existence of the Absolute Universe to DeSaad – it appears as an egg with Darkseid growing within it. | ALL IN |
| Collected Edition Title | Collects… |
| All In Saga | Absolute Power #4 Batman #153 DC All In Special #1 Justice League Unlimited #1 Superman #19 Wonder Woman #14 |
| Absolute Batman vol.1: The Zoo | Absolute Batman #1-6 |
| Absolute Batman vol.2: Abomination | Absolute Batman #7-14 |
| Absolute Flash vol.1: Of Two Worlds | Absolute Flash #1-6 |
| Absolute Green Lantern vol.1: Without Fear | Absolute Green Lantern #1-6 |
| Absolute Manhunter vol.1: Martian Vision | Absolute Martian Manhunter #1-6 |
| Absolute Superman vol.1: Last Dust of Krypton | Absolute Superman #1-6 |
| Absolute Superman vol.2: Son of the Demon | Absolute Superman #7-14 |
| Absolute Wonder Woman vol.1: The Last Amazon | Absolute Wonder Woman #1-7 |
| Absolute Wonder Woman vol.2: As My Mothers Made Me | Absolute Wonder Woman #8-14 |
| Collected Edition Title | Includes… |
| Dark Nights: Death Metal – Deluxe Edition | Dark Nights: Death Metal #7 |
| Superman: Rise of the Superwoman (vol.4) | Superman #23 |
Reading Order © Omniverse Comics Guide 2026
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