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All of DC Comics\u2019 Absolute titles<\/a> have been swinging for the fences. The line, featuring classic characters reinvented for a darker universe than the main DC timeline<\/a>, has been packed<\/a> with stellar work<\/a>. This past Wednesday, though, the final pages (or\u2026 page?) of Absolute Martian Manhunter<\/em> #1 took things to a whole new level. Writer Deniz Camp and artist Javier Rodr\u00edguez wrapped their series launch with an art trick that can only be properly experienced if you\u2019ve got an actual physical copy of the comic in your hands. <\/p>\n

[Ed. note:<\/strong> The rest of this piece contains spoilers for the general plot of Absolute Martian Manhunter<\/em> #1, because there\u2019s really no way to describe the final page otherwise.]\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Camp and Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s first issue is all about family man FBI agent John Jones, of the Stochastic Terrorism Task Force, whose recent brush with death seems to be triggering a break with reality. Everyone around him \u2014 doctors, witnesses, the people he walks by on the street \u2014 is emitting colored smoke that only he can see. The smoke is very real, however, and only getting thicker and more oppressive. <\/p>\n

In the climactic pages of Absolute Martian Manhunter<\/em>, John begins to choke on it, even as a soothing voice in his head encourages him to breathe in even more. Eventually, the strange truth becomes clear: The smoke is the thoughts and memories of the people around him, John isn\u2019t alone in his head anymore, and he owes his life to his new passenger, the Martian Manhunter. <\/p>\n

Camp and Rodr\u00edguez bring this home with a trick of double-sided printing: two pages printed back to back that, when held up to the light as instructed, combine four panels into two, and John Jones and the Martian Manhunter into one. <\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a banger of a way to introduce your new comic series, and one I knew I had to show around to the Polygon team \u2014 specifically Polygon\u2019s own Oli Welsh, who\u2019s had a soft spot for the psychic alien hero dating back to 1992\u2019s Martian Manhunter: American Secrets<\/em>, another reinvention of the character for another era. <\/p>\n

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Susana:<\/strong> DC\u2019s Absolute line is definitely pitched to old readers and new ones alike: These are revamped characters in a new continuity, starting at the beginning of their stories. That makes you the exact target audience, Oli. What\u2019d you think of the issue? <\/p>\n

Oli: <\/strong>I really liked it. I\u2019ll buy into anything Martian Manhunter-flavored; I don\u2019t know why, but I just dig the character. I haven\u2019t been an active comics reader since, God, the late 1990s. I remember J\u2019onn J\u2019onzz as a weary but indulgent straight man amid the chaos of Justice League International<\/em><\/a>, and also a very cool reimagining of the character as a Cold War gumshoe in American Secrets<\/em><\/a> by Gerard Jones and Eduardo Barreto. I love the idea of an alien detective, and of a superpowered character who mostly chooses to solve problems with his intellect. And I like that he\u2019s just a bit of a boring nerd.<\/p>\n

Absolute Martian Manhunter <\/em>doesn\u2019t have much of the \u201cgroovy green guy\u201d factor I remember from those days, because he seems to be mostly a psychic presence in this one, and he\u2019s inhabiting a real human John Jones, instead of using his shape-shifting powers to pose as one. So that\u2019s a bit of a loss. But I love that it seems to fundamentally be a detective story \u2014 that\u2019s what Martian Manhunter <\/em>should be.<\/p>\n

This is clearly a very different take on the Martian Manhunter character. What\u2019s the deal with this Absolute DC line?<\/p>\n

Susana:<\/strong> Oh, yeah, we should explain for folks who aren\u2019t up on their Martian Manhunter lore: Martian Manhunter\u2019s solo books often have him living as a human detective called John Jones. (His actual Martian name is J\u2019onn J\u2019onzz.) Sometimes John is an identity J\u2019onn invents, and sometimes he\u2019s a slain detective whose identity J\u2019onn honorably adopts \u2014 John Jones the actual human detective, and J\u2019onn J\u2019onzz, the last Martian, don\u2019t typically share the page together! <\/p>\n

As for the Absolute line and the Absolute Universe, there are in-fiction reasons for this. (Darkseid<\/a> did a thing, don\u2019t worry about it.) But essentially, it\u2019s a new parallel Earth in which everything is worse: Same heroes, broadly, but they\u2019re all beginning their stories yards behind their usual starting lines. Batman is a city engineer, not a billionaire, for example. Wonder Woman was raised in hell, not an island paradise. <\/p>\n

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That sounds pretty grim, but the effect \u2014 the Absolute<\/em> Batman<\/em>, Superman<\/em>, and Wonder Woman<\/em> books have all finished out their first arcs already \u2014 is really just taking the most famous and powerful superheroes in DC\u2019s stable and adding a heaping helping of the underdog status we don\u2019t usually associate with them. The books are really good, the creative teams are all bringing highly creative ideas to bear, and they\u2019ve been selling incredibly well<\/a>. Absolute Martian Manhunter<\/em> is one of three books in the second wave of titles; Absolute Flash<\/em> #1 came out March 4, and Absolute Green Lantern<\/em> is coming on April 2. <\/p>\n

Oli: <\/strong>I was instantly wowed by the art \u2014 the bright, psychedelic color palette wasn\u2019t what I expected of a story like this, in a good way, and the layouts are really clever. There\u2019s a fantastic panel early on which is a close-up of John Jones as he comes out of hospital \u2014 he\u2019s had a serious head injury, but he\u2019s insisting on going back to work. You can see his wife\u2019s appalled reaction reflected in his sunglasses. It\u2019s both efficient storytelling and stylistically really cool.<\/p>\n

\"\u201cHow<\/p>\n

Also, the loose, inky, crime-y illustration style made me think of more down-to-earth alt-comics classics like Love and Rockets <\/em>or (a personal fave) David Lapham\u2019s Stray Bullets<\/em><\/a>. Tell me more about Javier Rodr\u00edguez! I haven\u2019t encountered his work before. What else has he done? Is it always this striking?<\/p>\n

Susana: <\/strong>Rodr\u00edguez is a Spanish illustrator who\u2019s been around in the U.S. comics industry for more than two decades now \u2014 and it probably won\u2019t surprise you, given Absolute Martian Manhunter<\/em>\u2019s use of color, to find out that he usually works as a colorist. It\u2019s always a treat when he steps up to solo the art on a series, like he does here. <\/p>\n

My favorite thing he\u2019s done recently is Defenders<\/em><\/a> and Defenders: Beyond<\/em><\/a> with writer Al Ewing. In it, the five colors of magic<\/a> in the Marvel Universe are depicted as black (ink), white (the page), magenta, cyan, and yellow \u2014 that is, the colors that make up the four-color printing process that defined the look of American comics. It\u2019s not hard to see a line from those Defenders books to the bright colors and playful use of physical printing in Absolute Martian Manhunter<\/em> #1. It feels like writer Deniz Camp is just stepping out of the way so Rodr\u00edguez can show off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That said, Camp has a real talent for making superhero books that have biting and pertinent things to say, without skimping on the fantasy of it all, so I\u2019m looking forward to seeing more of what they\u2019ve cooked up together.<\/p>\n

Oli: <\/strong>It\u2019s funny you say that, because the primary vibe I felt Camp was cooking up in this issue had less to do with superhero comics than it did with prestige TV detective shows. (Although that might just be about what makes a bigger part of my media diet these days.) You\u2019ve got a central character who\u2019s a detective, who\u2019s in a weird headspace, who\u2019s burdened with too much insight<\/em>, and who\u2019s going off the books to investigate a case on his own, to the detriment of his personal life. And the case, an apparent suicide bombing, is both grimy and a bit sad in classic prestige-crime style.<\/p>\n

Reading it, I thought a lot of True Detective<\/em><\/a>, a similarly trippy, paranormal take on police procedurals. I was so deep in this line of thinking that when I got to that incredible final page(s) and the final line, \u201cWe\u2019re the Martian Mind****er,\u201d my mind instantly interpreted this as a reference to David Fincher\u2019s Netflix serial killer show, Mindhunter<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I imagine that\u2019s not how you read it, though!<\/p>\n

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Susana: <\/strong>Haha, not quite, although I agree that Camp and Rodr\u00edguez don\u2019t seem to be cooking up a standard superhero adventure here \u2014 but then, the Martian Manhunter\u2019s solo books aren\u2019t usually standard superhero adventures! Trippy and psychic and visually mind****ing is exactly what I was expecting from these two on this book. <\/p>\n

This first issue does a lot of setting up in limited time, and tucked in among the bold visuals are some interesting threads I\u2019m looking forward to seeing play out. Like that the suicide bomber might be connected to a larger organization, for example, or an FBI division called something as superhero-y sounding as the \u201cStochastic Terrorism Task Force,\u201d or the subtle indications that John Jones\u2019 son Tyler struggles with his speech \u2014 that\u2019s a parent-child gulf ready to be crossed by Martian telepathy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a great first issue, in a line with a lot of great books, and I can\u2019t wait to get more of it. <\/p>\n

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Absolute Martian Manhunter #2 hits shelves on April 23.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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All of DC Comics\u2019 Absolute titles have been swinging for the fences. The line, featuring classic characters reinvented for a darker universe than the main DC timeline, has been packed with stellar work. This past Wednesday, though, the final pages (or\u2026 page?) of Absolute Martian Manhunter #1 took things to a whole new level. Writer Deniz Camp and artist Javier Rodr\u00edguez wrapped their series launch with an art trick that can only be properly experienced if you\u2019ve got an actual physical copy of the comic in your hands.  [Ed. note: The rest of this piece contains spoilers for the general plot of Absolute Martian Manhunter #1, because there\u2019s really no way to describe the final page otherwise.]\u00a0 Camp and Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s first issue is all about…<\/p>\n

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