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It was announced by DC Comics General Manager and Senior Vice President Anne Leung DePies during her Keynote speech at ComicsPRO, the comic book retailer summit being held at Glendale, California, that Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta will be getting a sixth printing Although she pretended she announced it by accident… Anne[...]

Absolute Batman #5 tops the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List for the 15th of February, 2025, beating out the big Marvel event launch for One World Under Doom That is an astounding success for DC Comics, though they only place one other title in the Top Ten, which has six from Marvel and two from[...]

PrintWatch: Absolute Batman #4 gets a second print with a cover by Guillem Match and a 1:25 variant by Gabriel Hernandez Walta & Frank Martins Bug Wars #1 gets a second printing with a cover by Mahmud Asrar & Matthew Wilson And Geiger #10 gets a third printing by Gary Frank & Brad Anderson #gallery-1 { margin:[...]

As spoiled by Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder at Megacon over the weekend, Absolute Batman #5 features a reversal of the scene in the movie The Dark Knight, in which The Joker steals the money already being stolen from the mob-owned Gotham National Bank, before later burning it, much to the upset of those working with him. Absolute[...]

Well, in this week's Absolute Batman, it looks like the situation is being reversed At Megacon, which was held this weekend in Orlando, Florida, Scott Snyder was running spoilers at the DC Comics panel He says, "In Issue 5, Bruce gets a deal from the Party Animals where they offered him money to stand down[...]

And this week, Absolute Batman #5 will no doubt do exactly the same as Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta take the Batman to the Black Mask, after agreeing to all manner of corruption and concession, pragmatic defeat rather than a chance at victory that could cost everything and seems impossible to achieve anyway But is[...]

In his latest Substack newsletter, Scott Snyder has talked about Absolute Batman and the Absolute Universe Both in terms of sales, with Absolute Batman #5… "It is probably our most violent issue And I just wanted to say thank you, honestly, I just got the sales when I was talking to DC for the latest issue[...]

DC Comics Solicits made the top of Bleeding Cool traffic yesterday. Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround.

DC Comics will be collecting Absolute Batman Vol 1: The Zoo by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta and Gabriel Walta on the 5th of August, 2025, followed by Absolute Wonder Woman Vol 1: The Last Amazon by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman collecting #1-7 on the 12th of August With Absolute Superman to presumably follow fairly shortly[...]

PrintWatch: Happy birthday Scott! Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta is getting a fifth printing from DC Comics, while Absolute Batman #2 gets a third printing, and Absolute Batman #3 and Absolute Batman #4  get second printings That fifth printing is likely to take Absolute Batman #1 over the sales numbers of Ultimate[...]

And he has made an edit to the just-published Absolute Batman #4, drawn by Gabriel Walta. This was the original, as printed: Absolute Batman #4 by Scott Snyder and Gabriel Walta, in print Scott Snyder says "There is one beat that didn't make it into the print version of ABSOLUTE BATMAN 4 in time (my fault!), but is[...]

Scott Snyder posts the following "Absolute Batman 5 tease This issue pulls no punches." Before adding, "The zoo is 6 issues (then we have a 2 issue story called absolute zero, and then another 6 issue arc and onward!)" Absolute Zero? One of Scott Snyder's best-known Standard-Batman comics was Zero Year with Greg Capullo, looking at[...]

Yet again, Absolute Batman tops the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, well ahead of the competition, with a 50% lead on the big Xbook launch, Magik #1 But the X-Men titles take three in the Marvel-dominated top ten, with one more for DC in Aquaman #1 and for Image with Transformers #16 Elektra and New[...]

Absolute Batman #4 sees Gabriel Walta as a guest artist on the series, with a style that is less flashy, more sketchy, and designed to fit the idea of a young Bruce Wayne taking advice from his father when it comes to designing an architectural prize entry. Absolute Batman #4 by Scott Snyder and Gabriel Walta And[...]

Absolute Batman #4 by Scott Snyder and Gabriel Walta is out this Wednesday; told in flashback from the perspective of Bruce Wayne both before and after his father was murdered by Joe Chill at Gotham Zoo. But because this is Bleeding Cool, we go further than DC Comics' "media partners" and get to go beyond the preview[...]

Next week sees Gabriel Walta take over artistic duties for Absolute Batman #4 from Nick Dragotta (and watch for others to do similar in upcoming issues) who will be back for issue 5, as Scott Snyder and Walta out Bruce Wayne in the dock for a very important trial… Absolute Batman #4 by Scott Snyder and[...]

Absolute Batman #1 First Printing was the best-selling comic book in comic book stores in 2024, according to the Bleeding Cool Annual Bestseller List, followed by Ultimate Spider-Man #1 First Printing DC's Absolute books get four places in the top nine, while Marvel gets three Ultimate titles The other two are Marvel's X-Men #1 and[...]

Absolute Batman #3 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta continues to show a different Batman making different choices courtesy of different circumstances A Bruce Wayne without means, while those around him are making megadeals With Harvey Dent looking into such a deal with the redolent phrase "Ark M Fund" JK Holdings stands for the Joker… making private,[...]

In The Power of Shazam!, Ordway introduced Professor Bibbowski, Bibbo's pacifist scientist brother. Absolute Batman #3 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta In today's Absolute Batman #3 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, we meet the Absolute Bibbo, as a sparring partner for Roman Sionis, the Absolute Black Mask Who also describes himself as a pacifist, a[...]

Gabriel Walta is drawing Absolute Batman #4 instead of Nick Dragotta, which is a step away for the title As the solicitation asks, "How did he get to this point? How did he push himself? And how did the tragic events of his childhood, and the advice of his father, shape the man who he[...]

DC Comics PR made a claim that Absolute Batman #1 at around 400,000 copies were ordered by stores across printings Bleeding Cool tried to provide some context to those figures, but other news sources reported it uncritically. David Brooke at AIPT headlined "'Absolute Batman' #1 breaks records: How it became 2024's best-selling comic 'Absolute Batman,' with[...]

PrintWatch: Second printings for Absolute Batman, Ultimate X-Men, Rocketeers, Rat City, Violator, third printings for Mark Spears' Monsters, and oh, another fourth printing for Absolute Batman. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ PrintWatch: Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta gets a Fourth Printing[...]

In a new press release, DC Comics states that "As Absolute Batman #1 from creators Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, Frank Martin and Clayton Cowles tops the charts at retail after a successful launch and multiple additional printings, the new DC comic book series is undisputedly the bestselling comic of 2024." Undistputeably? Bleeding Cool reported that[...]

Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta smashed the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller list, topping even the Image Comics launch of GI Joe #1, albeit by around 10% Strong performances from both and well away from the rest of the pack, with Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men and the Psylocke launch Absolute Batman[...]

With Jim Gordon having a relationship with the child Bruce Wayne, Superman meeting the Omega Men teased in the first issue, and Wonder Woman still in battle with the Tetracide… ABSOLUTE BATMAN #5 Written by SCOTT SNYDER Art and cover by NICK DRAGOTTA Variant covers by MEM JONES and IAN BERTRAM 1:25 variant cover by BMUS DRAPER-IVEY 1:50[...]

And maybe you just have. Absolute Batman #2 Absolute Catwoman and the top ten stories on Bleeding Cool yesterday Our First Look At Absolute Catwoman (Spoilers) Avatar: The Last Airbender: Netflix Series Welcomes 8 to Season 2 Cast Future Changes To Cyclops And Nightcrawler Revealed (X-Men Spoilers) Two More Weeks Of Marvel Comics' February 2025 Solicits Yes, Zatanna Is Getting A New[...]

Absolute Batman #2 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta is published today by DC Comics And it expands Bruce Wayne's social group, the kids he grew up with as seen in the first issue last month… Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta … and giving us the adult versions of Absolute Penguin, Absolute King Croc, Absolute Two-Face and[...]

Absolute Batman #2 Spoilers topped the traffic on Bleeding Cool yesterday, as you might expect Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well as over the past six years Founded fifteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip a[...]

We ran a bunch of Absolute Batman #2 spoilers over the weekend, collecting a variety of previews and leaks that DC and others had put out over the last month But there may be a few more teases worth putting out there before the publication of the comic by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta tomorrow. Again, most of[...]

This week sees the publication of Absolute Batman #2 The new Absolute line from DC Comics has been a real shot in the arm of the comic book industry, getting record sales and record sellouts to match Absolute Batman #2 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta is the first Absolute comic book to put out[...]