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Absolute Batman #2 - Bruce And Friends Play A Game

Bruce finally meets up with his childhood friends for a game of cards, which he also uses as an opportunity to pick their brains about one of Black Mask's henchmen's masks he "found" while repairing the damage left behind by their battle with Batman....

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The idea of a lower income Bruce having grown up with several members of his (regular universe) rogues gallery is fun, but I do think that it's kind of hilarious that Oswald is also really buff in his own way here. What comes from their mutual friend, Waylon, owning a gym I guess.

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight - The Kryptonian Age #6 - Diana Meets Another Familiar Face

As Diana heads north by boat from the South Pole, it turns out that a mysterious Stranger has appeared in the hold.

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I really really like the design of this version of Wonder Woman, even if she's thus far not really had a lot to do in the story. Also, kind of funny that this is the second Elseworld story in several years where he's impersonating another DC character.

THE QUESTION: ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER #4

Written by ALEX SEGURA

Art and cover by CIAN TORMEY

Variant covers by JORGE FORNÉS and LUCIO PARRILLO

$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)

ON SALE 2/19/24

Cornered and betrayed, The Question and Batwoman must rally a ragtag  group of allies to retake the Watchtower from a surprising villain—as the  true mastermind behind the conspiracy to take over the Justice League’s  headquarters stands revealed.

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Man, it's odd being able to see Kate's eyes while she's in costume. IU wonder if she'll discuss how in her recent Outsiders series she kinda discovered how she, Renee and everyone they ever knew are all fictional characters in a serialised comicbook setting?

TWO-FACE #3

Written by CHRISTIAN WARD

Art by FÁBIO VERAS

Cover by BALDEMAR RIVAS

Variant cover by CHRISTIAN WARD

$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)

ON SALE 2/5/25

When Scarface is kidnapped, Gotham’s underworld is thrown into chaos. Is this an isolated incident or the work of the “Shadow Hand” that Harvey’s been tracking of late? Only Two-Face can bring order to the proceedings, but the culprit isn’t another mob boss or criminal mastermind—it’s a once-famous actor? And she’s not after money or revenge, she’s after love?! It’s a trial of tribulation and romance, and Good Harvey must get to the bottom of it before Bad Harvey takes over.

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Baby Doll! Making her first appearance in the comics proper, it seems.

BIRDS OF PREY #18

Written by KELLY THOMPSON

Art by JUANN CABAL

Connecting Covers by DAN PANOSIAN (Issues #18 and #19)

Variant cover by SERG ACUÑA

Variant cover by EDWIN GALMON

1:25 variant cover by RIAN GONZALES

$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)

ON SALE 2/5/25

When Oracle intercepts chatter about Sin from the ninja clan long bent on  acquiring her, Dinah, Sin, and Megaera decide to set a trap instead of waiting  for an ambush. Meanwhile, Constantine reaches out to Oracle for last-minute  help moving a tricky demon across a dimensional plane, but Oracle only has the skeleton crew of Big Barda and Cass Cain on hand…and they might not be the best fit for this particular mission.

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Cass, Barda and John Constantine team-up, let's gooo!

Bonus points if Xanthe is also there.

BATGIRL #4

Written by TATE BROMBAL

Art by TAKESHI MIYAZAWA

Cover by DAVID TALASKI

Variant cover by SOZOMAIKA

$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)

ON SALE 2/5/25

As Batgirl grapples with the unlikely allies Lady Shiva has assembled to combat the Unburied, a surprise attack derails their burgeoning plans. Suddenly, it’s all-out war with Cassandra Cain caught in the middle of the deadliest hands in the DC Universe! Will she stand and fight alongside the enemies of her enemy? Or will she take them all on herself?

DETECTIVE COMICS #1094

Written by TOM TAYLOR

Art and cover by MIKEL JANÍN

Variant covers by BRUNO REDONDO and ARIEL OLIVETTI

1:25 variant cover by JUAN FERREYRA

Black History Month variant cover by RYAN BENJAMIN

Hush variant cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN

$4.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)

ON SALE 2/26/25

The shadows of Gotham extend and darken as Asema’s bladed grip on the city’s underworld tightens. Now, while Batman struggles to keep his city safe, he begins to suspect that he has uncovered the identity of this bloodthirsty menace…and it may be someone very close to Bruce Wayne. Tom Taylor and Mikel Janín’s epic journey through the bloodied streets of Gotham continues, and it needs to be seen to be believed!

ZATANNA #1

Written by JAMAL CAMPBELL

Art and Cover by JAMAL CAMPBELL

Variant covers by CHRIS BACHALO and SOZOMAIKA

1:25 variant cover by SAOWEE

1:50 variant cover by JAMAL CAMPBELL

Foil variant cover by SOZOMAIKA

Black sketch cover

DC Showcase variant cover by DERRICK CHEW

$3.99 US | 32 pages | 1 of 6 | Variant $4.99 US (card stock) Limited to 2,500 copies

ON SALE 2/19/25

Zatanna Zatara, the Mistress of Magic, is back on tour! She’s got her stage crew back together and is looking forward to a new, less chaotic chapter of life. However, her plans are disrupted before they even begin when her stage crew is abducted by a ghostly new adversary, The Lady White. Now, Zatanna is plunged into machinations of tricks, swords, and curses that threaten to tear her apart from the inside out!

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To be honest a little disappointed that this is just a mini-series. Ah well, maybe if it does well it'll get extended like the Poison Ivy book.

ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN #5

Written by Kelly Thompson

Art and cover by Hayden Sherman

Variant covers by Homare and Jeehyung Lee

1:25 variant cover by Mike Perkins

1:50 variant cover by Homare

$4.99 US | 32 pages | Variants $5.99 US (card stock)

ON SALE 2/26/25

Wonder Woman has thrown everything she can think of at The Tetracide, and still it pushes forward, devouring Gateway City. With everything on the line, Diana has one big idea left, but in her current state, she has nowhere near the power she needs to pull it off…

A thing that I thought was interesting in a tragic way in the Penguin show, is that Oz repeatedly made the argument of how the accomplishments of working people are often stolen by wealthy, powerful people while the people who helped them get there die in anonymity.

Without going into spoilers, I do think that it's interesting how in the Matt Reeves' Batman universe both the Riddler and the Penguin style themselves as "men of the people" who even manage to gain a level of popular support, but are ultimately just motivated by their own self-interests which come to hurt the very communities that they claimed to be representing.

Admittedly between the two Oz is the only who who explicitly tries to make an (arguably insincere) appeal to class solidarity, while the Riddler is more a disaffected person that feels society as a whole let him down in more of a generalised, Unabomber kinda way.

It's also kind of notable that Oz seems to believe in some level that things can be made better and will do things that while ultimately are self-serving also benefit enough folk around him that he can create the illusion of actually improving things for other working class people, whereas the Riddler's language and actions talk of the corruption inherent in the system but ultimately does nothing constructive to fix these issues (even trying to have the newly elected progressive, anti-corruption mayor shot), and as the events of the Penguin show those predominantly effected by his flooding Gotham were Gotham's lower income neighbourhoods.

I know that there is as of yet no plans for a season two of the Penguin (dependant on Colin Farrell's schedule and the events of the Batman Part 2), but if there is one, I think I can see where it might go...

He is coming back, although I've not really heard when (besides a separate animated show I think?). Considering how the JLI is a thing in the new DCU (a corporate-backed one by a currently good Max Lord is appearing in next year's Superman), I guess he could show up filling in for Ted Kord's Blue Beetle next time the JLI show up OR if that Booster Gold show ever materialises maybe they build on the friendship that developed between him and Jaime there. Maybe.

Ah sweet, new Zatanna series! And one that also stars Madame Xanadu and Mikey from the Paul Dini book (a character who I can see being handled a heck of a lot differently in the 2020s than the 2000s when he was created) from back before the New 52 reboot.

Also, mild yay for John Constantine not being involved thus far. Like, I like John, but not EVERY Zatanna story has to have him lingering in the background somewhere (Xanthe showing up could be fun though).