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Scott Snyder Parodies His Own Absolute Batman In MAD Magazine

Scott Snyder parodies his own Absolute Batman with James Harren in MAD Magazine, and Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo and Chip Zdarsky also have a go

This is the scene from Absolute Batman #6, part of "The Zoo", that kicked off (literally) all sorts of controversy until people got to the page with the Absolute Joker baby suit. Batman punting a kid into the ocean in the fashion of Cerebus Pope.

But in today's MAD About DC #1, it seems that Scott Snyder has been obsessing over it a bit. To be fair, he does that a bit. He cares. Consider this therapy in print form. Of course, maybe every comic is therapy in print form these days… and he's doing it with James Harren, the artist on The Demon that no one at DC Comics is admitting to yet.

And while Absolute Batman can't revisit that scene in his own comic, he can in MAD Magazine. By going back to the scene of the crime.

As Absolute Batman rescues that kid and makes him his. Yeah, throughout everything, Scott Snyder has been thinking of nothing else. The Absolute Joker may have five Robins, but Absolute Batman has… this one Robin.

Hey, Maxie Deus isn't *that* D-List! Created by Denny O'Neil and Don Newton for Detective Comics #483 in 1979, a former Greek history teacher who goes insane following the death of his wife, escaped Arkham Asylum to form the Greek mythology-based superteam New Olympians, and turns up in lots of Batman and Robin, rebooted in the New 52 when Deacon Blackfire's ghost possesses Maxie Zeus in an attempt to resurrect himself, he was in cartoons Batman: The Animated Series, The Batman, Harley Quinn, the NES Batman: The Video Game, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Scribblenauts Unmasked and more. He's not the Absolute Condiment King. Anyway, time for this Robin to enter the fray. And Absolute Batman only knows one way.

He'll get letters. But at least he got it out of his system. And is this now the lowest Absolute Batman print run comic book and about to go for $1500? But then we get to see Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo's take on the Absolute Universe. Neither Tom nor Bruno are on an Absolute Universe book. Maybe, like Matthew Rosenberg, they turned it down. But I'm sure they're not bitter, right?

No, not bitter at all. As Absolute Cash-In launches a new member of the Absolute Universe.

Oh no, they are talking a lot about sauces, relishes, dips… there can be only one.

Okay, Scott, this is how you do an Absolute D-Lister…

I can see no reason why this cannot be Absolute Canon, can you? And then, of course, there is Chip Zdarsky. Well, this is his magazine. For one issue only…

Well, Absolute Batman is meant to be big… as Chip says;

"Did we really need ANOTHER hot take on ABSOLUTE whatever? Or is this just another case of a freelance cartoonist who grew up reading MAD MAGAZINE so when asked if he'd like to contribute to a MAD issue about comics he answered YES to check off some unfulfilled childhood nerd dream of being in the pages of MAD instead of saying NO because his schedule was already overflowing and he ABSOLUTELY had no time to actually do it, resulting in him trying to bail on his similarly overworked friend who decided it would be a good idea to try to herd a bunch of artists like a MAD man. When he was guilted by friend turned editor into NOT bailing, he may have pitched him an idea that worked in theory but was pretty tragically not funny at all in execution so in a very MAD MAGAZINE-like tradition he changed his mind the day before the art was due and therefore decided that the world ABSOLUTELY needed another hot take on ABSOLUTE whatever because ABSOLUTE is ABSOLUTELY crushing the entire industry in the sales department and you know what they say, WHEN IN DOUBT, ABSOLUTE IT OUT! Okay, no one says that, but without further ado, we present you with…"

Scott's therapist? I think we might have a referral for you…

MAD About DC #1 by Tini Howard, Jim Zub, Mark Waid, Gail Simone, Mattie Lubchansky, Steve Lieber, Ty Templeton, Joe Quinones 
Chip Zdarsky is a funny guy. Remember when he made that whole April Fools' gag comic with rub 'n' smell farts? Oh, wait, that was me, DC Comics E-I-C Marie Javins. Chip was the one saying, "I'd turn back if I were you," but he couldn't stop me. Editors are a self-destructive lot. Which is why this year, I said, "I give up, you do it, Chip, you are so much funnier and prettier and also better with cats than I am." And look, he went and did it. Chip demoted himself to "editor." Chip is turning the DC universe on its ear and bringingyou savage mockery of all we hold dear, and he is assisted in this brutal task by Matt Fraction, Gail Simone, Skottie Young, and many, many more. Next year? Back to farts. Includes MAD favorite Sergio Aragonés with "A MAD Look at Comic Book Stores," "Guy vs. Spy" by Jim Zub and Ramon Perez, and a DC Fold-In by Charles Soule and Ryan Browne. Plus a slew of MAD-style parodies of all DC Comics you hold dear, and some you've always hated anyway. MAD About DC #1 will fulfill your every comic book dream, or at least three or four of them.

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