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New Looks For Familiar Characters In Absolute Batman #1 (Spoilers)

Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta is published this week, Wednesday, the 9th of October.



Article Summary

  • Explore the revamped origin of Absolute Batman, with Bruce growing up on Gotham's rough streets.
  • King Croc now runs a gym in Gotham, shedding his usual villainous ways in this reimagining.
  • Oswald Cobblepot partners in a pet store, hinting at more beneath his innocent facade.
  • Barbara Gordon is now a policewoman; her future as Absolute Batgirl remains uncertain.

Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta is published this week, Wednesday, the 9th of October. Before Final Order Cut-Off, Bleeding Cool ran a little gossip and spoilers that, we have been told, may have helped lift sales by around 50,000. I should be on commission. But with copies in the wild, even Scott Snyder has been signing them.

New Looks For Familiar Characters In Absolute Batman (Spoilers)

As well as rewriting much about the character, including the events that led to his origin, this Absolute version of Bruce Wayne did not grow up in riches, but instead amongst the very people that traditionally the Batman would fight against.

And they have been reinvented too, such as King Croc running a rundown gym in Gotham.

New Looks For Familiar Characters In Absolute Batman (Spoilers)
Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta
New Looks For Familiar Characters In Absolute Batman (Spoilers)
Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta

With King Croc looking a little different… but then, of course, so is Bruce Wayne.

New Looks For Familiar Characters In Absolute Batman (Spoilers)

Ozzie would, of course, be Oswald Cobblepot, and going in together on a pet store. Which sounds a lot more innocent than whatever it is Coblepot is also up to with his penguins.

And there are plenty of others.

New Looks For Familiar Characters In Absolute Batman (Spoilers)

New Looks For Familiar Characters In Absolute Batman (Spoilers)

Riddler, Two-Face, Penguin, Catwoman, with King Croc and Batman all growing up together. There's one notable unnamed exception to that list of course.

But a world away, there is something else going down.

New Looks For Familiar Characters In Absolute Batman (Spoilers)

With King Croc addressing Mayor Gordon, former police commissioner, now mayor of Gotham, with Harvey Bullock running the police. But also a different story – and look  – for his daughter.

New Looks For Familiar Characters In Absolute Batman (Spoilers)

Barbara Gordon, daughter of Jim Gordon, and a policewoman herself now, Also sporting a new look, and suggesting a new history for the character,

How long till she will be Absolute Batgirl? Will she ever? And will being a cop rather than just a cop's daughter, complicate that?

New Looks For Familiar Characters In Absolute Batman (Spoilers)

Obviously more to come… Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta is published this week, Wednesday, the 9th of October

ABSOLUTE BATMAN #1 CVR A NICK DRAGOTTA
(W) Scott Snyder (A/CA) Nick Dragotta
BATMAN LEGEND SCOTT SNYDER AND ICONIC ARTIST NICK DRAGOTTA TRANSFORM THE DARK KNIGHT'S TALE FOR THE MODERN AGE! Without the mansion…without the money…without the butler…what's left is the Absolute Dark Knight! Retail: $4.99 In-Store Date: 10/9/2024

 


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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 The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and FP. Father of two daughters. Political cartoonist.
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