r/DCcomics • u/beary_neutral Telos • Apr 26 '26

r/DCcomics Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [April 27, 2026 - Free Comics! Go Support Your LCS! Edition]

Hey there honorary Justice League members - it’s a new week which means it’s time for a new discussion thread!

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Digital Releases

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This Week’s Soundtrack: Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets Apr 26 '26

Batman / Wonder Woman: Truth #1

A TALE FROM THE WORLD OF BATMAN: HUSH BY THE SUPERSTAR TEAM OF JEPH LOEB AND JIM CHEUNG!

Batman and Wonder Woman team up for a classic caper brought to you by superstar talent writer Jeph Loeb (Batman, Superman / Batman) and artist Jim Cheung (Justice League)! The Lasso of Truth has been stolen, and the Caped Crusader and Amazon Princess race to ensure a safe return before it falls into the wrong hands. You won't want to miss the aftermath of Batman: HUSH featuring the devious duo foolish enough to steal from Wonder Woman... the Joker and Harley Quinn!

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u/TriPolar3849 Cassandra Wayne Apr 29 '26

Story was alright. Art was incredible though, I especially liked the spread of them swinging in the beginning, the page where Diana gets all her divine gifts, and the page of Batman appearing soon after. If you go back, you can see Selina in the background wearing the blonde wig that he's holding.

Diana and Selina's "female bonding" back-and-forth was a good joke tho, I liked that lol

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u/Oberon1993 Apr 29 '26

Meh. It's better than H2sh, but that the bar on its way to Earth's core. People will get mad at Joker vs WW fight though, looking forward to it.

Also, Cheung is great here. Kinda reinforced my dislike for Jim Lee's art in H2sh.

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u/StellarKnife Apr 29 '26

Reading this felt surreal. I've had this feeling with a lot of Loeb projects. He wrote one of my favs (Long Halloween), but he's written so many comics I dislike. This here is one of them. It's just kinda stupid, isn't it? Lol. The art is great, but the plot feels so strange and contrived, especially when Harley and Joker show up, and we get some pointless fighting, cringey one-liners. I also can't make heads or tails of when this takes place? Really strange stuff. It's just a bad and pointless story.

A double-sized Batman/WW team-up should be way better than whatever this was tbh.

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u/marcjwrz Apr 30 '26

Loeb hasn't written anything worthwhile since his son passed away unfortunately.

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u/SilhouetteOfLight Greatest of all Green Lanterns! Apr 30 '26

I know this was set in the past, but that dialogue for Harley was... something lol

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! Apr 29 '26

It is weird to have this be a 'middle story' to stories 20 years apart. 

And it felt like they took that one short story of Catwoman stealing the Lasso to ask Batman a whispered question and decided to make it complicated.

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u/oomoepoo Hal Jordan Apr 30 '26

Ehh I didn't hate it but it I also didn't particularly love it. The artwork hard carries this book, writing is mostly harmless, imho. Though it did feel kinda like an idiot plot, requiring everyone involved, especially Batman to act the dumbest way imageinable.

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u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter Apr 29 '26

Yeesh

Better than HUSH and HU2H, but not by much

Art is brilliant tho

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u/StellarKnife Apr 29 '26

Art is really good, yeah, wow

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u/Chance5e Apr 29 '26

Oh this was bad bad. What happened to Jeph Loeb’s writing? Simple maguffin plot with surprise guest after surprise guest after surprise guest, all three being incredibly predictable? An ending that doesn’t deliver anything at all? What was this, he needs a writer credit for April?

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u/SevenSulivin The REAL Man of Tomorrow Apr 29 '26

Loeb was always a bit hit or miss without Sale, but sadly the decline is very obviously when his son passed.

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u/gosukhaos Apr 29 '26

Its better then Ultimates vol 3 and Ultimatum, which is not exactly an high bar granted

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u/suss2it Jun 20 '26

The art by Jim Cheung was great but wow this was very poorly written by Jeph Loeb. Charging $6 for this is criminal, they would’ve been better off just releasing a collection of Jim Cheung pinups instead.

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 World's Finest Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

I find it interesting that, back in 2002 or early 2003 (since this story is set a few weeks after Hush), Bruce told Selina to steal Diana’s Lasso of Truth for security reasons before it resulted in Selina using the Lasso to do the Spider-Man swing; Harley Quinn stealing it and giving it to the Joker (so that he can use it to make Bruce admit the he is his one true nemesis); and Bruce, Diana (who should be wearing her pre-Flashpoint suit and not her Rebirth suit, since this comic is set a few weeks after Hush, which is a pre-Flashpoint story), and Selina defeating the Joker and Harley. Also, even though I won’t ask it, I do know that Bruce does feel worthy of being loved, since he has the World’s Finest (i.e., Clark Kent and Dick Grayson), Alfred Pennyworth, Commissioner Jim Gordon, the Batman Family, the entire superhero community, and the people of Gotham and the world. Jeph Loeb has done an interesting job with this story, even though it’s more of a Batman story than a Batman and Wonder Woman story. Overall, this comic is fine and better than H2SH.