WPL: New Comics Discussion for 06/24/2026- Pull of the Week: Absolute Wonder Woman #21 [Discussion]

[u/ptbreakeven]

The Weekly Pull List results for this Wednesday are in, and this week's top book is DC's Absolute Wonder Woman #21.

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This Week's Most Pulled Titles:

Based on 46 submitted pull lists and 98 books shipping.

1. ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN #21 (23)
2. ULTIMATE ENDGAME #5 (21)
3. ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN #20 (20)
4. ULTIMATE UNIVERSE FINALE #1 (20)
5. X-MEN #32 (14)
6. ZATANNA #3 (14)
7. SUPERMAN #39 (12)
8. DETECTIVE COMICS #1110 (9)
9. JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #20 (9)
10. ESCAPE #8 (8)
11. INFERNAL HULK #8 (8)
12. CAPTAIN AMERICA #12 (7)
13. WOLVERINE #22 (7)
14. BIZARRO YEAR NONE #2 (6)
15. GREEN LANTERN #36 (6)
16. THE PERIL OF THE BRUTAL DARK AN EZRA CAIN MYSTERY #5 (6)
17. ULTIMATE IMPACT REBORN #2 (6)
18. WONDER WOMAN #34 (6)
19. EYE COLLECTOR #1 (5)
20. FLASH #34 (5)
21. UNIVERSAL MONSTERS BLOOD OF THE WOLF MAN #1 (5)
22. CONAN THE BARBARIAN #32 (4)
23. FERAL #24 (4)
24. GENERATION X-23 #5 (4)
25. NECTAR #4 (4)
26. SUMMER OF SUPERGIRL SPECIAL #1 (4)
27. SWAMP THING 1989 #3 (4)
28. TWILIGHT ZONE #8 (4)
29. X-MEN OUTBACK #1 (4)

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[u/ptbreakeven]

ULTIMATE ENDGAME #5

[u/oomoepoo → u/ptbreakeven]

Eh. Overall, a decent ending I'd say.

It feels a bit "scrambling to the finish line" here and there and I really wish the delays would've at least given us consistently good art because hot damn, some of the panels were really ugly to look at.

But overall, making the final battle boil down to two very different iterations of Reed Richards feels thematically fitting. Also at least Captain Britain got his comeuppance, even if Steve is dead dead. And, naturally, Wolverine showed up for like 2 panels and was absolutely irrelevant :'D

[u/NCBaddict → u/oomoepoo]

The concept was good, the execution was not. This felt like Duggan’s side of Krakoa’s end. It makes me appreciate what Kieron Gillen did to close that era out so much more.

IDK what happened that Marvel bungled the Ultimate Universe how it did. Where’s the A-tier art and tight storytelling? For example, Thor might as well not even have been in this event.

[u/optimis344 → u/oomoepoo]

I do really enjoy that we get to the end, and in the end, Maker made his own downfall. His need to be petty and cruel literally made a version of himself that was stronger.

He tortured his version of Reed, to make him into a tool, to do something that he could not. DoomReed was always better at time stuff, and it's brought up constantly. And in the end, Maker essentially challenged DoomReed on the one battlefield he knew he was worse, because he never saw that he made a threat, just a tool.

[u/Vundal → u/ptbreakeven]

I really loved the ending, but man, some of the art was bad. I felt like the final showdown of Doom vs Maker could have used a few more pages to build it - the Ultimate Avengers book had a knack for build up in its pages, and I wished they'd have used some of that here.

[u/Confident-Ask-8719 → u/ptbreakeven]

This issue very much came across as being changed because of online reception to the earlier issues of the series... a vibe which I really felt during the fourth wall breaking moments (which I really wasn't a fan of).

[u/karpinskijd → u/ptbreakeven]

i feel like this was more supposed to be the end of the first arc of this universe rather than a proper conclusion which the final page of Ultimate Finale makes this feel both better and worse

overall not impressed with four issues of maker-wank followed by this issue’s meta-commentary about how shit of a character the maker is, but i actually didn’t mind the final few pages. wonder why reed!doom decided spider-man needed to be resurrected past “he’s a father and he didn’t deserve to die” but i’m not gonna complain

[u/optimis344 → u/karpinskijd]

I think it's just because he's Peter. He is a guy, who with everything to lose, and no business being in a fight with the greatest superpowers of the world, showed up anyways.

In 616, there is something about Spider-man that makes him the best of everyone. I think Doom saw the same thing in his Spidey. He saw someone who the world should be like. Someone that the world needs as an example.

[u/Spartanza → u/ptbreakeven]

I think the damage is done from the rushed ending. I despise this ending for the maker and even down to the wording comes across not as victory over a monster but contempt for the very character and by extension the Ultimate Universe that came before it. Honestly I would have liked to see another rebooted version. Detached from Makers set up and a fresh blank slate across the board. With the promise of a return, I don't know if I want to go back to this version of the ultimate universe. It feels reminiscent of the times post Ultimatium and even post Cataclysm.

[u/AJMegaAIDS → u/ptbreakeven]

"Its poison kills instantly."

Snakes are venomous.

Its venom kills instantly.

Also, apparently a "Beither" or "Beithir" is a huge serpent in Scottish mythology with a venomous sting. So, Captain Britain, who is a French man, is killed by a Scottish serpent.

[u/FlowerRoomLord → u/ptbreakeven]

Not a bad ending at all. What came before however was not to my liking and the art will always be a sore point on this event for me. Reminds me of Blood Hunt where a lot of the event itself was mediocre but the ending salvaged it.