May 7, 2025

05/07/25 • 8 min

DC Action News

Alex Jaffe reports bravely and boldly from the center of the multiverse on events for the week of May 7, 2025.

Comics Featured This Week:

Absolute Green Lantern #2
Absolute Superman #7
The DC All-In/Absolute Universe 2025 Free Comic Book Day Special
Justice League: The Atom Project #5
JSA #7
Two-Face #6
Poison Ivy #33
Black Canary: Best of the Best #6
Batgirl #7
Secret Six #3

DC Action News was created by Alex Jaffe, and is produced by Alex Jaffe and Esper Quinn.

DC Action News is a listener supported broadcast. Keep us running every week with your help at patreon.com/DCActionNews.

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Alex Jaffe reports bravely and boldly from the center of the multiverse on events for the week of May 7, 2025.

Comics Featured This Week:

Absolute Green Lantern #2
Absolute Superman #7
The DC All-In/Absolute Universe 2025 Free Comic Book Day Special
Justice League: The Atom Project #5
JSA #7
Two-Face #6
Poison Ivy #33
Black Canary: Best of the Best #6
Batgirl #7
Secret Six #3

DC Action News was created by Alex Jaffe, and is produced by Alex Jaffe and Esper Quinn.

DC Action News is a listener supported broadcast. Keep us running every week with your help at patreon.com/DCActionNews.

Support the show

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April 30, 2025

Alex Jaffe reports bravely and boldly from the center of the multiverse on events for the week of April 30, 2025.

Comics Featured This Week:

The Question: All Along the Watchtower #6
The Power Company: Recharged
Detective Comics 2025 Annual

DC Action News was created by Alex Jaffe, and is produced by Alex Jaffe and Esper Quinn. Special thanks to Jadzia Axelrod, Brett Bachman, Tamara Brooks, Neil Burnand, Will Battle, Ben Chrobak, Brian Gleine, Tyler Haggard, Evan McDevitt, Ash Parrish, Will Roar, Dylan Roth, Esper Quinn, Ripley Quinn, and Cole Wardell.

DC Action News is a listener supported broadcast. Keep us running every week with your help at patreon.com/DCActionNews.

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Comics Featured This Week:

Fire and Ice: When Hell Freezes Over #2
Batman and Robin #21
Supergirl #1
Absolute Batman #8
Green Lantern Corps #4
Action Comics #1086
DC vs. Vampires: World War V #9
Aquaman #5

Additional voices by Brian Gleine and Ben Kahn.

DC Action News was created by Alex Jaffe, and is produced by Alex Jaffe and Esper Quinn.

DC Action News is a listener supported broadcast. Keep us running every week with your help at patreon.com/DCActionNews.

Support the show

DC Action News - May 7, 2025

Transcript

So... is he not here? Should I go? All right. For May 7th, 2025, this is DC Action News, reporting bravely and boldly every Wednesday as the news breaks from the center of the multiverse. I'm Absolute Alex Jaffe.

Our top story: In Evergreen, Nevada, the colossal entity identified as Abin Sur which, on our last report, emerged from a Green Lantern-shaped structure from space, entered a standoff with local police, with the power of a weaponized green light at his command. First among the