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Absolute Batman #11 tops the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, beating out the Black Cat launch and the latest issue of Amazing Spider-Man, all ahead of Absolute Flash Five for Marvel, three for DC and one from Image Comics/Skybound This is the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List for the 16th of August, 2025. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1[...]

PrintWatch: In a recent PrintWatch, we ran listing for forty Absolute Universe titles from DC Comics that were going to new printings, including Absolute Batman #1 getting an eighth printing Well we have the details for the Absolute Batman reprints, with Absolute Wonder Woman to follow later… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1[...]

Okay, so this is a lot more spoilery than yesterday's Absolute Batman #11 article You have been warned But first, a trip back twelve years Forever Evil was a 2013–2014 crossover comic book storyline published by DC, showrun by Geoff Johns, with a central series drawn by David Finch, the first line-wide crossover of the[...]

This week sees the publication of Absolute Batman #11 by Scott Snyder and Clay Mann, telling the origin of Absolute Bane in this universe With some similarities and differences along the way What did they keep, what did they junk, what did they make better? And just how spoilery will this get? I'm going to[...]

But now he is shifting to the Absolute Batman annual, and getting even more interest… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Screencap from Daniel Warren Johnson YouTube Screencap from Daniel Warren Johnson YouTube Screencap from Daniel Warren Johnson YouTube From the San Diego Comic-Con[...]

The Gotham panel at San Diego Comic-Con with Batman editor Rob Levin, Matt Fraction, Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, Daniel Warren Johnson, Dan Jurgens, and Kyle Higgins onstage has just finished. Daniel Warren Johnson is working on the new Absolute Batman Annual from DC Comics in October, which, as the solicitation tells us, is about how Batman gets his[...]

In the latest issue of Absolute Batman #10 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, published by DC Comics, Bruce Wayne takes a different approach than he may have done in previous battles with the Joker and his minions The most recent issue revealed that this version of Batman has been captured and imprisoned by those[...]

Recently, Scott Snyder shared some of Nick Dragotta's designs for Absolute Catwoman, as appearing on the cover of Absolute Batman #13 solicits and solicitations Well, Nick Dragotta decided to share a little more… wth a mirrored helmet, pouches, and Absolute Catwoman's prehensile tail… which can wrap, whip, pick and hang With retractable Wolverine-style claws[...]

We have met Selina Kyle in the Absolute Batman Universe, Bruce Wayne's former girlfriend, while having sex on a bed covered in money It's that kind of comic book Well, in October, it looks like she will be taking on her Catwoman identity to match the Absolute Batman Might she get a spinoff book as[...]

The cover of Absolute Batman #12 by Nick Dragotta shows the new Killer Croc Or at least some of him, submerged in the waters… and looking like this. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Absolute Batman #12 by Scott Snyder and[...]

The DC Comics panel schedule lists all manner of projects, including an Absolute Batman Annual 2025, and that Transformers writer/artist Daniel Warren Johnson is credited for it Has DC Comics and Skybound done a creator swap between him and Dan Mora? Eitehr way there will be multiple artist on that annual, to be written by[...]

We've already had a glimpse of this month's upcoming Absolute Batman #10 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, with Bruce Wayne captured and held, naked, aside from bandages and possibly his socks, prone in a cell after a number of medical operations and looking a little worse for wear Now we have some letters to[...]

It may be a month late, but as it hits Final Order Cut-Off, DC Comics wants shops to order more copies of Batman #161 by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee than they did of Absolute Batman #4 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta As is a more and more common promotional push by DC Comics,[...]

This is how Absolute Batman #9 ended, with Bruce Wayne held aloft by a much-expanded Absolute Bane. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Absolute Batman #9 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta And this is how Bruce Wayne will appear in Absolute[...]

Absolute Batman #9 tops the chart and how, selling over twice as many copies as its nearest rivals, launches for the Death Of Silver Surfer #1 and New Avengers #1 as well as the latest One World Under Doom One for DC, one for Image, one for IDW, seven for Marvel in the Top Ten[...]

About three weeks ago, Bleeding Cool ran some big-time spoilers for Absolute Batman #9 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, which is published this Wednesday, on the 11th of June, courtesy of some black and white pages that had been sent our way Bleeding Cool has already spotlighted the first appearance of the new Absolute[...]

About three weeks ago, Bleeding Cool ran some big-time spoilers for Absolute Batman #9 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, which is published this Wednesday, on the 11th of June, courtesy of some black and white pages that had been sent our way And a few minor things have changed Bleeding Cool has already spotlighted[...]

Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers… Absolute Batman #9 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta is published on the 11th of June, but goes to FOC tomorrow, I get the word that the comic, which Bleeding Cool has already spotlighted for the first appearance of the new Absolute Bane, for Scott Snyder throwing some shade on Bane co-creator's[...]

Scott Snyder has announced that he is "thrilled to officially announce the next big ABSOLUTE BATMAN arc from me and Nick Dragotta Meet Bane in… ABOMINATION More info on issue #9 FOC, along with the #8 release, our live comic fundamentals class tomorrow, and @FANEXPOPhilly in my newsletter" The last chance readers have to order[...]

This Wednesday, Marcos Martin draws Absolute Batman #8, and Nick Dragotta returns with some Batman bedroom antics next month in Absolute Batman #9 But we have a confrontation between Absolute Batman and Absolute Mister Freeze to find a way through And a history of the now-late Matches Malone And his presence on the day of the murder of Thomas Wayne at[...]

That appears to be Absolute Batman.   Absolute Batman And that also appears to be Absolute Bruce Wayne, in bed with Absolute Selena Kyle Let us distort that image to straighten it up As it were… Absolute Batman Well, it appears that, in this regard at least, Absolute Batman is continuing to follow the Catwoman path that Batman has followed[...]

The Full Preview of DC All In/Absolute Batman FCBD Special for tomorrow's - or tonight's- Free Comic Book Day 2025

But might Absolute Bane suit him better as the just-dropped DC Comics July 2025 solicits and solicitations read "what awaits Batman is far more terrifying than anything either has faced…the true form of Bane is revealed." Maybe it will be one that Graham Nolan will prefer? ABSOLUTE BATMAN #10 In other Absolute news, the Omega Men are[...]

These are the covers to Absolute Batman #8 featuring the new Absolute Mister Freeze He looks rather different from the traditional DC version There's no ice suit here; he's something more like Nosferatu or Slender Man right out of your nightmares And in this week's Absolute Batman #7 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, we[...]

But in Absolute Batman #7 by Scott Snyder and Marcos Martin, out this Wednesday, it's time to discover the Absolute Matches Malone Limited spoilers ahead… Absolute Batman #7 by Scott Snyder and Marcos Martin Because while the solicit and the intro are all about the new Absolute Mister Freeze, Victor Fries, son of an ice-plorer… Absolute Batman #7[...]

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool reported on a comment that Bane co-creator Graham Nolan made about the design of the new Bane as seen on the cover of Absolute Batman #9, out in June, in which he said, "As the designer /co-creator of Bane…this is a terrible abomination." And the comment exploded, with more views[...]

Comic book artist Graham Nolan posts regarding the appearance of the new version of Bane appearing in upcoming issues of Absolute Batman, redesigned by Nick Dragotta with Scott Snyder for DC Comics, and Graham is not happy He writes "As the designer /co-creator of Bane…this is a terrible abomination." When asked, "Is it the head?",[...]

Absolute Batman is big Absolute Bane is even bigger Here's a breakout look at the Absolute DC June 2024 solicits, starting with an even bigger Absolute Bane… …and apparently he knows Alfred So not too different to the DC Prime universe… as Superman heads to Smallville, Wonder Woman enters Theseus' maze,  Wally West is in Central[...]

Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! We saw the Absolute Joker of Absolute Batman at the end of the first issue of the series by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta A figure seen halfway around the world, checking in on his semiconductor manufacturing plant Like the one that Philips owns And a real indicator of wealth. Absolute Batman #1[...]

This week sees the publication of Absolute Batman #6 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, the finale of the first arc, The Zoo, of the series And joining where we left off, the Black Mask has put bounties on everyone in Gotham, just some are more valuable than others. Absolute Batman #6 And everyone can play! While[...]