ABSOLUTE BATMAN #1 Preview Shows The Dark Knight Using His Bat Chest Symbol As An Axe With Bloody Resuls

ABSOLUTE BATMAN #1 Preview Shows The Dark Knight Using His Bat Chest Symbol As An Axe With Bloody Resuls

DC Comics has shared a first look inside Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta's Absolute Batman #1 and it shows the new Dark Knight using an axe to remove the arm of one of the crooks he crosses paths with...

By JoshWilding - Sep 15, 2024 02:09 PM EST
Filed Under: DC Comics
Source: AIPT

During this past July's San Diego Comic-Con, DC Comics announced plans for a new Absolute Universe of comic books launching this October, November, and beyond. 

Essentially, this is meant to be DC Comics' Ultimate Universe and each of these characters has been drastically reinvented, as a result. Whether what we see in these titles will influence DC Studios' plans remains to be seen and likely hinges on how these comics are received by fans. 

AIPT recently sat down with Absolute Batman writer - and the man overseeing DC Comics' "All In" relaunch - Scott Snyder and artist Nick Dragotta to learn what to expect from this bold new take on the Caped Crusader. 

"We drew upon bats for inspiration," the latter offered. "When you read the story, I think we’re gonna reinforce what I just said. The idea was this wouldn’t be a new Batman and look, but function. And what’s interesting is that everyone is now talking about how different he looks. It really informed giving him that new feel."

"It all goes back to story and who this Bruce Wayne is and every aspect of his costume," Dragotta continued. "It’s not just a utility belt anymore. It’s a utility cowl or a utility suit cape. Everything’s usable."

Snyder elaborated on that point by saying, "As an engineer, he’s a builder, and he built Batman. In the first issue, you see, like, one of the first things he did as a kid was an engineering project based on a bat’s wing."

"It’s about establishing the world and the relationships and seeing it all through the eyes of this Bruce," the writer said of putting a fresh spin on the iconic hero. "So we don’t want it to be like villain fest. We don’t want it to feel like it’s existed before. We want you to feel like everything is new and you’re being introduced to it in a way that feels organic and has oxygen, all of it."

A first look inside the debut issue has also been released which shows just how different this "Absolute Batman" really is. With a gun-toting Alfred Pennyworth watching on, Batman leaps into action and removes the emblem on his chest as an axe which he promptly uses to cut off a thug's arm!

Check out the first preview pages from Absolute Batman #1 below. 

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Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta introduce fans to a new Batman with the release of Absolute Batman #1. In this iteration, fans will be introduced to a version of the Dark Knight that doesn’t have the money, mansion, or butler of his core-line counterpart. Readers will quickly find out what makes this the “Absolute” version of Batman when the debut issue, with colors by Frank Martin and letters by Clayton Cowles, arrives at participating comic book shops and digital retailers Wednesday, October 9.

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harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 9/15/2024, 3:02 PM
didn't like it in The batman film, don't like it in the comics, just let the symbol be a symbol.
DrDReturns
DrDReturns - 9/15/2024, 8:02 PM
@harryba11zack - So stupid. Unnecessary and over-designed. All in a pathetic attempt to be original.
JonAwesome
JonAwesome - 9/15/2024, 8:08 PM
@harryba11zack - it always makes me think of when Superman pulled off his symbol and threw it at Zod and his people.
JonAwesome
JonAwesome - 9/15/2024, 8:11 PM
@harryba11zack -
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ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 9/15/2024, 3:02 PM
Seems like Venom is flowing like water in this universe. Even the random thugs are beyond jacked.
MuadDib
MuadDib - 9/15/2024, 3:04 PM
I say let them cook. I can dig it
soberchimera
soberchimera - 9/15/2024, 3:10 PM
"So we don’t want it to be like villain fest. We don’t want it to feel like it’s existed before.”
Certainly looks like Black Mask and the False Face Society to me.
1stDalek
1stDalek - 9/15/2024, 3:34 PM
@soberchimera - Snyder talking like the rogues gallery aren't the life blood of superhero comics.
AnthonyVonGeek
AnthonyVonGeek - 9/15/2024, 3:13 PM
How can he easily move around and fight with something so big and hard on his chest?
I’m talking about the bat ax you pervs! 🤣😜
1stDalek
1stDalek - 9/15/2024, 3:33 PM
@AnthonyVonGeek - It must really affect his ability do almost anything with his arms, a smaller ax would actually be highly more functional.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/15/2024, 3:22 PM
Looks great.

He shouldn't kill though, even though it's the extreme Absolute universe. Wonder Woman can kill, Superman can kill when there is no other choice, but Batman?
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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 9/15/2024, 3:45 PM
@ObserverIO - TBF he didn't kill, he just disarmed his opponent.
BeyondTheGrave
BeyondTheGrave - 9/15/2024, 6:14 PM
@ObserverIO - It's an elseworld, normal rules don't apply. The no killing rule only applies to main Batman.
SummersClan
SummersClan - 9/15/2024, 10:28 PM
@ObserverIO - Naw Superman shouldn’t kill either.
RolandD
RolandD - 9/16/2024, 12:30 AM
@ObserverIO - Superman should not kill. It’s a more important code for him than it is for the Batman.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/16/2024, 4:21 AM
@HashTagSwagg - I know, the dismemberment is cool. I got no gripe with that. He can chop as many arms and legs and dicks off people as he wants, that's cool.

@BeyondTheGrave - This is more than an just Elseworlds, though, it's a reboot. This is to Earth 0 what the Silver Age Earth 1 was to the Silver Age Earth 2.

@SummersClan @RolandD - I feel like if Superman did the tram experiment, he'd choose to save the many over the few, whereas Batman would refuse to act at all.
BeyondTheGrave
BeyondTheGrave - 9/16/2024, 6:07 PM
@ObserverIO - I figured it was more like what the Ultimate Marvel Universe was to 616. It's an alternate universe cause by Darkseid but not Earth Prime/0
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/16/2024, 6:30 PM
@BeyondTheGrave - Yeah same kinda deal.
BeyondTheGrave
BeyondTheGrave - 9/20/2024, 7:04 PM
@ObserverIO - Hence I will give it a shot. It's different, seems curious. We have our main universe and now we have this. It will live or die by it's own merit; we shall see.
1stDalek
1stDalek - 9/15/2024, 3:24 PM
There have been too many Batman Elseworlds for me to get much excited about this book. I'm more interested in learning more about Superman & Wonder Woman books, I only keep seeing Batman stuff.
dragon316
dragon316 - 9/15/2024, 3:35 PM
Batman breaks two rules in this video kill darkseid and use gun

https://youtube.com/shorts/2ViWx6COFDU?si=W81jC5W2PK34GmW7
dragon316
dragon316 - 9/15/2024, 3:40 PM
@dragon316 - https://youtube.com/shorts/xZdAXvTiQ2U?si=VPvxEdSmpllYTiqw
8 times Batman broke his no kill rule
0bstreperous
0bstreperous - 9/15/2024, 3:37 PM
Earth one was better this seems ill conceived
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 9/15/2024, 3:50 PM
Ngl I [frick]s with it 🤷‍♂️

And yeah, it was 100% the Bat-symbol axe thingy that did it for me.
HistoryofMatt
HistoryofMatt - 9/15/2024, 3:59 PM
Today's comic book writers are awful. They're just fracking awful. They don't know how to write in a coherent and cohesive way. They don't know how to step outside their own worldview, so all their implicit biases are imbued in everything they write. As they themselves exist in a perpetual state of adolescence due to their arrested development from never having a childhood where they were allowed to fail and learned those lessons because their parents couldn't bare to see their precious baby's fee-fees get hurt, they have no real concept of anything that is compelling storytelling. Everything is surface-level with them. They're incredibly shallow people, so their art is incredibly shallow. Yes, all the Woke b.s. is a problem, but the fact that they fall so easily for the Woke b.s. and believe in it as much as they do is more proof of their shallowness and inability to think critically.

Awful people, awful art. It's like the Soviet Union circa the 60's and the 70's. That kind of ideology cannot and does not produce anything that is beautiful. It's just all ugly.
HeeroG
HeeroG - 9/15/2024, 4:53 PM
@HistoryofMatt - It's just comicbooks dude. Go seek some professional help.
thundershocked
thundershocked - 9/15/2024, 5:29 PM
@HistoryofMatt - You got all of this, from batman with a axe?
SuperJefe
SuperJefe - 9/15/2024, 7:29 PM
@HistoryofMatt - Uhm, Scott Snyder is almost 50.
HistoryofMatt
HistoryofMatt - 9/15/2024, 8:23 PM
@SuperJefe - It isn't about age, it's about world view.
RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 9/16/2024, 3:59 AM
@HeeroG - they mean a lot for some people.
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Fares
Fares - 9/15/2024, 4:19 PM
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KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 9/15/2024, 8:58 PM
Looks like Todd McFarlane's take on Batman if he created him in the early issues of Spawn. 2nd year Capello'ish... 🪙 🪙
Beer85
Beer85 - 9/16/2024, 3:01 AM
I am not a fan of the designs at all, and Scott Snyder is more of an Edgy dad than anything else. I do appriciate that they are trying, really trying to make a comic book that makes money, since most comics have pathetic sales. So this is like an effort, probably one of the last efforts from the comic book division to create a comic that has good sales numbers. So appriciate the effort, dont like any of the designs. If this actually ends up being "really great" , then I can pick up a trade.
IcePyke
IcePyke - 9/16/2024, 4:48 AM
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smgmayhem
smgmayhem - 9/16/2024, 8:18 AM
That's actually pretty clever because he now has an armor plated chest piece in case anyone tries to shoot him in the heart.

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