Written by: Sina Grace, Nicole Maines
Art by: John Timms, Travis Mercer
Colors by: Hi-Fi, Adriano Lucas, Pete Pantazis, Rex Lokus
Letters by: Dave Sharpe
Cover art by: John Timms
Cover price: $5.99
Release date: September 18, 2024
Absolute Power: Super Son #1, by DC Comics on 9/18/24, takes a chaotic trip through Jon Kent’s mind as he fights the last remnants of Brainiac Queen’s possession.
Is Absolute Power: Super Son #1 Good?
There’s nothing like an Absolute Power tie-in comic to remind you just how terrible Jay Nakamura is as a character. Absolute Power: Super Son #1 goes a long way toward getting you inside the head of Jon Kent, uncovering potentially confusing feelings toward Dreamer, but this issue is unnecessary to complete your understanding of the Absolute Power event.
In Absolute Power: Super Son #1, we find Jon Kent mostly recovered from the events of Absolute Power #3. He remains on Themyscira, undergoing several rounds of therapy to ensure the Brainiac Queen’s programming is purged from his mind. Jon is eager to get back into the world to join the fight, but his allies are determined to ensure Jon doesn’t leave the island prematurely.
Sina Grace and Nicole Maines begin the story on fairly solid footing. Given the extreme nature of Jon’s “possession,” nobody should expect him to fully recover from Brainiac Queen’s influence with the snap of a figure. Interspersed through the beginning and the end of the comic is Jon’s texting conversation with Jay Nakamura as the two make plans to reunite shortly.
The Amazons approach Jon to undergo one more round of treatments to confirm Brainiac Queen’s programming is completely purged. Jon reluctantly agrees. Under the mind scan, Jon recalls how his consciousness was distracted by a hallucinatory version of his world to keep him from regaining control of his body. There, Jon spent considerable time with Dreamer and, secondarily, Damian Wayne as they acted as guides through an assortment of typical Super-Family adventures.
During his imagined vignettes, Jon encountered Galaxy to help with a fight against a projection of Brainiac Queen, Drummer Boy summoning a sea monster to stop the destruction of an LGBT Disease Testing Center, and eventually, with the remnant of Brainiac Queen’s programming. Dreamer heavily supports Jon in his fight.
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