Absolute Evil #1 (review)
Writer: Al Ewing Artists: Giuseppe Camuncoli and Stefano Nesi DC Comics, January 2026 As ever, our critique contains spoilers. The cover to this title is deceptive in a number of ways. It invites a purchaser to engage in a guessing game. We assume that the owners of the hands gathered together in a handstack will appear in the comic. The Cheetah? The gloved white hand of the Joker? But, first, this title sits in the Ultimate universe, a well-crafted shadow-version of DC Comics’ regular continuity, and so the characters do not appear in their typical mainstream manifestation – there are no white gloves and claws in any of the Absolute-branded titles thus far. Second, there is no handstack or figurative semblance of a handstack within the title. Indeed, the villains who have been assembled barely have common cause and although they describe themselves as “allies”, even by the end of
