DC’s Absolute Batman Is an Absolute Unit

Last week, DC Comics teased retired immoderate much details astir its upcoming Absolute comics, which purpose to reintroduce classical DC characters with new, updated origins and contexts. While it’s canonically got thing to bash with Darkseid, the large gully is the caller looks for Batman (beefy!), Superman (long hair!), and Wonder Woman (sword!).

It was the Dark Knight that raised the astir eyebrows since much often than not, Bruce has a slimmer physique than the gargantuan mammoth of Absolute Batman. During today’s sheet astatine San Diego Comic-Con, Snyder shared immoderate caller details connected his and Nick Dragotta’s Absolute Batman comic owed retired successful October. If you’re a size person, Snyder revealed that this mentation of Bruce is 6’2, 250-pound 20-something taking a stab astatine crimefighting. And alternatively of pretending to beryllium a affluent socialite, he’ll beryllium a metropolis technologist for Gotham. Also a French bulldog owner!

Snyder wasn’t kidding erstwhile helium called this a “top to bottommost reinvention” of the character. While airy connected crippled details, helium further revealed the book’s main villain (at slightest for now) would beryllium Black Mask, and Alfred Pennyworth volition beryllium the book’s POV character. While inactive old, this Alfred (or rather, “Penny”) is perfectly not, and ne'er has been, a butler. Instead he’s a erstwhile MI-6 spy and “old defender of empire” who’s not truthful bushed that helium can’t spouse with Batman retired successful the field.

After Snyder, Jason Aaron spoke astir his and Rafa Sandoval’s Absolute Superman. After being approached by Snyder to leap implicit to DC from Marvel, Aaron decided that helium “really wanted” to bash the Man of Steel and cooked up a caller instrumentality connected the character. He assured that his extremity wasn’t to alteration the hero’s core, but to “look astatine [his] archetypal concepts and inquire what he’d beryllium similar if created today.” This caller Superman lacks his classical enactment strategy of the Kent family, the Fortress of Solitude, and he’s fundamentally homeless. To Aaron, the Absolute universe’s large gully is the Trinity being truthful isolated from each other. “Things didn’t enactment retired the mode they were expected to,” helium said. “That’s near Superman a small spot isolated, a small spot angry…and kinda sexy, if you inquire me.”

Finally, Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman’s Absolute Wonder Woman will spot Diana arsenic “the past Amazon and the archetypal superhero,” said Sherman. Of the trio, she’s got the astir absorbing look with her limb tattoos and big-ass sword. In summation to being a warrior, she’s besides a witch virtually raised successful hellhole who’s “armed to the teeth. […] She is occurrence underneath.” If that weren’t metallic enough, her achromatic skeletal equine with wings whitethorn seal the deal. The woody with this Diana and what conflicts she’ll beryllium facing are inactive presently nether wraps.

Along with the Trinity, there’s besides a 4th Absolute book connected the way. Come aboriginal 2025, Jeff Lemire and Nick Robles volition introduce Absolute Flash into the world, though the sheet didn’t connection immoderate details beyond its existence:

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