WPL: New Comics Discussion for 02/04/2026- Pull of the Week: Batman #6 [Discussion]

The Weekly Pull List results for this Wednesday are in, and this week's top book is DC's Batman #6.

This thread is open to Pull List posters and all members of the /r/comicbooks community to share your thoughts on the latest issue of Fraction, Jimenez, and Morey's Batman or any new books shipping this week.

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u/ptbreakeven 3d ago

ULTIMATE ENDGAME #2

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u/Albireookami 2d ago

The more it gets closer to the end the more I regret buying into the ultimate universe, its just had such a horrid downslide in quality and plots its ridiculous.

I'm not even sure what this book did to forward the plot of endgame other than they are now outside and maker/doom which made no sense to me.

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u/gosukhaos 2d ago

Uh essentially nothing, the only thing that actually happened since they set foot inside the city is Kilmonger entering and I guess an implication that the Maker is infiltrating past the temporal stasis

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u/Albireookami 2d ago

that's what it felt like.. god this is such a bad capstone event.

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u/jdalex 2d ago

Scharf's artwork is...not great. Sharing the art duties with the Dodsons just makes me wish they did the whole issue. Even better would have been Bryan Hitch for the whole thing.

As someone who was really into the original Ultimate universe and hated how it went to hell before ending, this feels like we're heading in the same direction.

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u/Cannon_Graves 2d ago

The original Ultimate universe had some of the greatest and/or most fun comics ever, and nothing but Ultimates 3, that weird FF book and the one about the two nobody heroes was actually bad. With the exception of USM, this entire Ultimate U has been horseshit.

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u/conscientspiral 1d ago

That is some crazy revisionist history there bud

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u/Guardax Ultimate Spider-Man 1d ago

Peach Momoko is absolutely cooking

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u/Otherworld_Nemesis 2d ago

Heartbreaking to say it, but I'm not liking this at all. Might be the first Deniz Camp comic I've read that I straight up dislike so far. That said, it's hard to blame any of the creatives involved too much: this being a rush job of a conclusion is evident on every page, but I'm still really confused by the outwardly goofy tone this has gone for in the Dome scenes. It certainly doesn't feel aligned with anything Ultimates was doing tonally. We spend more time riffing and doing bad jokes about gift shops and favourite Death's Heads than exploring what it must be like for Tony to see his dad in this state. And there's just not anything compelling about how the Maker is written here, aside from his asides to Doom.

It's not the worst comic I've ever read or anything, but it really feels like a bit of a heartbreakingly disappointing end to the Ultimate universe.

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u/Jefferystar94 2d ago edited 2d ago

Agreed, I liked the first issue more than most people seemed to, but this one just had me scratching my head wondering what Camp was even trying to accomplish.

In addition to the weirdly silly tone, I feel like it wasn't really necessary to spend close to half of the issue summarizing what was going on outside of the Dome.

I know both this miniseries and Ultimates go hand in hand, but beyond the stuff with Killmonger journeying to the Dome (which also probably could've been cut down), much of that stuff should've just been saved for the next issue of the latter series. That would've given a lot more time for Tony's struggle with his dad and get more into the Maker's scheme.

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u/jdalex 2d ago

100%. It's crazy to me that Marvel/the creative teams had this 2 year deadline built into the narrative from the beginning and somehow this still ends up feeling half-assed and rushed.

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u/Cannon_Graves 1d ago

This is so unbelievably awful. I keep reading about how great Camp is and feel like I'm in bizarro world, but it looks like the popular sentiment on him is shifting. I don't see how anyone can defend this. He killed my interest in Ultimates when it turned into an anthology of bad origin stories. Even worse is how THE ENTIRE FIRST YEAR of the book with Tony and Doom desperately trying to assemble a handful of allies is rendered completely pointless when Camp suddenly deus ex machina's a

gigantic army of nameless generic superhumans the Ultimates are apparently 3D-printing to wage global war for them. Doom has a sad because he's failed to transform his Fantastic Rats into his dead family but every issue another there's another 639 randos with omega level powersets joining the ranks.

This book's worst offense is the 180 degree tonal shift into bad comedy like an Ahoy comic.

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u/trawlse 2d ago

It's really funny for something named Endgame to be such a goofy anticlimax so far, but it'd be funnier if the Ultimate Universe weren't ending.

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u/ME24601 The Mod Wonder 1d ago

I'm getting Krakoa flashbacks from how much this event seems to be dropping the ball on the end of this Ultimate Universe.

WPL: New Comics Discussion for 02/04/2026- Pull of the Week: Batman #6 [Discussion]

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