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Absolute Poison Ivy Revealed On Absolute Batman #18 Cover (Spoilers)

Absolute Poison Ivy Revealed on the unredacted cover of Absolute Batman #18 (Spoilers)



Article Summary

  • Absolute Poison Ivy makes her dramatic debut on the unredacted Absolute Batman #18 cover
  • New story arc reveals Poison Ivy as a deadly, monstrous force manipulating Gotham City
  • The Absolute Rogue Gallery's latest member uses beauty to lure victims before revealing her horror
  • Batman faces Ivy's mutated monsters as Gotham unravels and new villain alliances form

This is how the main cover Absolute Batman #18 was originally solicited for March 2026 with a bunch of redactions.

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Absolute Batman #18

While we also had these retailer variants for Absolute Batman #17 and #18 for the look of Absolute Poison Ivy…

Because where else do you find brightly coloured feathers that seem incongruous? On a fishing lure. Pretty displays designed to attract fish and then plunge hooks through their stupid fishy faces. That's what the Absolute Poison Ivy is. She is something pretty to attract people. Before the monster emerges. Absolute Poison Ivy is just as monstrous as any of the other Absolute Rogue Gallery, possibly even more so. Just that the readers, as the characters, are distracted and attracted, by the pretty-pretty… and of course, where you have feathers, you have owls… And now DC Comics has revealed the cover of Absolute Batman #18. With Absolute Poison Ivy and the Absolute Court Of Owls…

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Note that Poison Ivy's face, such as it is, is within a huge Venus flytrap… it's not going to be pretty…

  • ABSOLUTE BATMAN #17
    (W) Scott Snyder (A) Eric Canete (CA) Nick Dragotta
    ABSOLUTE POISON IVY SINKS HER TEETH INTO ARK-M! Dr. Pamela Isley has been unleashed from the Ark-M facility with an unending hate and burning fire for revenge on Gotham City, and those who put her in the belly of the beast. When Batman hunts her down, he must survive a labyrinth of leveled horrors, one more gruesome after the next, as he tries to save the city from a monster it created. $4.99 2/18/2026
  • ABSOLUTE BATMAN #18
    (W) Scott Snyder (A) Eric Canete (CA) Nick Dragotta
    ABSOLUTE IVY'S TENDRILS CONTINUE TO INFECT GOTHAM CITY! After the explosive reveal ending last issue, and Batman continues to fight Poison Ivy's mutated monsters and winds up uncovering an even more gruesome horror that has embedded itself in the city's very foundations. All while the Joker's machinations start to coalesce in a partnership with a new ally. $4.99 3/11/2026

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of comic books The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne and Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and Forbidden Planet. Father of two daughters, Amazon associate, political cartoonist.
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