Absolute Batman Archives

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[...]

DC has gone All-in with the launch of the Absolute Universe, spearheaded by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta's Absolute Batman, which netted well over 200,000 orders I am told 210,000 through Lunar Distribution, another 30,000 through Diamond UK, and a few more thousand through Canadian distributors, as close to 250,000 as you can get before[...]

Absolute Batman #4 will see Gabrial Walta draw a guest issue instead of Nick Dragotta in DC Comics' January 2024 solicits, with Scott Snyder telling the "secret origin of Absolute Batman" While Absolute Superman #3 tells the story of Krypton, and Absolute Wonder Woman #4 sees Diana take on the Tetracide… Read the rest of[...]

Absolute Batman #1, despite having a quarter of a million copies on shelves, has sold out twice, gone to a third printing, and rising up the eBay sales charts as a result, which has exposed a weird trick of the printing processes. The standard Nick Dragotta cover is seeing sales between $10 and $20 raw, which[...]

And it's a huge presence for Absolute Batman #1 selling almost four times its nearest competitor, Ultimates #5, close behind Transformers #13, as Terminator #1 from Dynamite also gets a spot in the top ten It's the only DC title in the top ten however, with one from Dynamite, two from Image and six from[...]

Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta went on sale on Wednesday It was ordered rather well and sold rather well A second printing had already been ordered… but a few days later it seems that this is just not enough either Scott Snyder posts "Crazy news -DC just got in touch and[...]

Eight years later, some aspects seem rather resonant to Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta's Absolute Batman. Whether that be the use of the cloak for offensive or defensive reasons. All-Star Batman by Scott Snyder & John Romita Jr (2016) Absolute Batman by Scott Snyder + Nick Dragotta (2024) Or The Riddler as a friend from childhood. All-Star Batman by Scott[...]

Absolute Batman selling out in stores was the most-read article on Bleeding Cool yesterday 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 further[...]

Scott Snyder has just been answering an AMA on League Of Comic Geeks in the wake of yesterday's launch of Absolute Batman #1 with Nick Dragotta from DC Comics And he's told readers how long he'll be around—at least "I'm signed on for two years right now with Nick! So as long as you guys keep buying, I'll keep[...]

Absolute Batman #1 had a quarter of a million copies ordered and a second printing on the way but it still isn't enough. Bleeding Cool's Jeremy Konrad tells us, "My god- I opened 20 minutes ago, and all variants and 25 copies of Absolute Batman are gone. Had a line at the door for once." Comic Store In[...]

Absolute Batman Spoilers were the most-read article on Bleeding Cool yesterday 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 further fifteen years before[...]

It has been established through much coverage, reviews, previews, spoilers and scoops, that Absolute Batman by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta features a Bruce Wayne who grew up without a silver spoon in his mouth Living in Gotham alongside those who would one day become the Batman rogues Though with one other distinct and spoilery[...]

Tomorrow sees the publication of Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, a radical retelling of the Batman legend, with Bruce Wayne as kid born without a silver spoon in his mouth, with a teacher for a dad and a social worker for a mother, in a Gotham where the usual pyramid of[...]

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[...]

This Wednesday, DC Comics release a quarter of a million copies of Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta. In previous coverage, I stated that "Absolute Batman sets out a new language for Batman, but that embodies Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli via Frank Quitely. It's a big book, but it is made even bigger by the many double-figure panel counts for pages[...]

To start, we have the first pages of Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta It begins with young Bruce Wayne on a school trip to Gotham Zoo with his father, Thomas Wayne, a state school teacher And which appears to have its own bat cave And with the lesson for life for[...]

Last week, Bleeding Cool reported that Absolute Batman #1 has received "well over" 200,000 orders from comic book retailers but that it has also sold out from distributors and was going to a second printing with a new cover by Nick Dragotta.. though we didn't know what that looked like But it seems they won't[...]

Printwatch: Bleeding Cool understands that Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta has sold out at the distributor level, two weeks before it goes on sale and will head back to press for a second printing Absolute Batman #1 Second Printing will be on Final Order Cutoff on Monday, the 7th of October,[...]