Ken and Pat brought Tangential Giants to Comic-Con 2026 to talk about money, which is a strange thing to do in a building full of people who just spent their rent on variant covers.The panel gets into the simple observation: Absolute Batman and Absolute Green Arrow are both doing huge numbers, and both are books that make the billionaire part of the hero feel a lot less like a given. So is that readers getting tired of the rich guy in the cape, or are we reading too much into two good comics? We didn’t fully settle it, but we got somewhere interesting.Kareem couldn’t make it, but he sent over a video intro as the CEO of an evil corporation that is, as he puts it, about to go private. It’s the best thing that happens in the first five minutes, and we’re not even a little bit sorry.Marina Sharpe has a stretch in the middle that’s worth the whole video on its own. She breaks down how power gets shown through female characters when men are the ones writing them, and why it so often gets misunderstood by readers and sometimes by the writers themselves. It changes how you read the money question, because power and wealth are not the same thing even though comics love to treat them that way.Then Ray-Anthony Height asks the one that stuck with everybody: who is Batman without the money? Nobody had a quick answer, which tells you something.If you’ve got your own answer, leave it in the comments. We’ll be reading them, and probably arguing with each other about them later.#TangentialGiants #ComicCon2026 #SDCC2026 #AbsoluteBatman #AbsoluteGreenArrow #ComicsPodcast #BillionaireHeroes #DCComics #ComicBooks