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Absolute Batman (2024)
Absolute Batman, Vol. 2: Abominación
¿QUÉ OSCUROS SECRETOS OCULTAN LAS INSTALACIONES DE ARK M?
Black Mask fue apenas el principio. Luego de arrasar con sus Animales Festivos, Bruce Wayne decide investigar un misterioso centro clandestino con la ayuda de sus amigos, pero fuerzas más allá de su percepción buscan asegurarse de que no llegue muy lejos. Bane llegó a Gotham para proteger los secretos de Ark M, ¡y podría ser demasiado para el nuevo Batman! ¿Cuál es su salvaje origen? ¿Y cómo se relaciona todo con el misterioso Joker?
¡En el Universo Absoluto, los héroes familiares son reinventados para una nueva generación! Separados de sus contextos originales, sus esencias se mantienen intactas. Scott Snyder y Nick Dragotta regresan junto a los dibujantes invitados Marcos Martín y Clay Mann para un demoledor segundo arco de la serie más exitosa de los últimos tiempos.
AUTORES: Scott Snyder • Nick Dragotta • Frank Martin
FORMATO: Libro | 17x24 cm | 208 págs en ilustración.
ISBN: 978-987-819-560-5
Recopila: Absolute Batman #7-14.
Black Mask fue apenas el principio. Luego de arrasar con sus Animales Festivos, Bruce Wayne decide investigar un misterioso centro clandestino con la ayuda de sus amigos, pero fuerzas más allá de su percepción buscan asegurarse de que no llegue muy lejos. Bane llegó a Gotham para proteger los secretos de Ark M, ¡y podría ser demasiado para el nuevo Batman! ¿Cuál es su salvaje origen? ¿Y cómo se relaciona todo con el misterioso Joker?
¡En el Universo Absoluto, los héroes familiares son reinventados para una nueva generación! Separados de sus contextos originales, sus esencias se mantienen intactas. Scott Snyder y Nick Dragotta regresan junto a los dibujantes invitados Marcos Martín y Clay Mann para un demoledor segundo arco de la serie más exitosa de los últimos tiempos.
AUTORES: Scott Snyder • Nick Dragotta • Frank Martin
FORMATO: Libro | 17x24 cm | 208 págs en ilustración.
ISBN: 978-987-819-560-5
Recopila: Absolute Batman #7-14.
208 pages, Unknown Binding
First published February 3, 2026
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Scott Snyder
1,785 books5,451 followersScott Snyder is the Eisner and Harvey Award winning writer on DC Comics Batman, Swamp Thing, and his original series for Vertigo, American Vampire. He is also the author of the short story collection, Voodoo Heart, published by the Dial Press in 2006. The paperback version was published in the summer of 2007.
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October 27, 2025
boldly asking the question: What If There Was An Even Bigger Guy
February 22, 2026
Absolute Batman vs Absolute Insanity.
A lot happens in this one, and I kind of had to talk myself down off a ledge as the characters and lore leaned more and more into the supernatural.
But.
I've had a come-to-Jesus meeting with my dislike of some of the plotlines, and just decided that if you're going to have that OTT version of Joker or the crazy deep conspiracy through time kind of villains, then an Elseworlds like Absolute is the place for it.
There are some very cool moments in this volume, from the appearances of Catwoman, Bane, & the chilling Absolute Mr. Freeze, to the twists the story takes when it comes to seeing how Riddler, Two-Face, Penguin, and Killer Croc's origin stories all play out.
Snyder really decided to pull out all the stops. And, overall, I enjoyed it.
I read this one in single issues on DC Infinite, and already reviewed each of those individually, so I'm not going to go into anything deep here. I'll leave links at the bottom if you're interested in those. If not, I think it's enough to say that if you're looking for something that doesn't hold its wacky side back, this just might work for you.
Recommended.
Absolute Batman #7
Absolute Batman #8
Absolute Batman #9
Absolute Batman #10
Absolute Batman #11
Absolute Batman #12
Absolute Batman #13
Absolute Batman #14
A lot happens in this one, and I kind of had to talk myself down off a ledge as the characters and lore leaned more and more into the supernatural.
But.
I've had a come-to-Jesus meeting with my dislike of some of the plotlines, and just decided that if you're going to have that OTT version of Joker or the crazy deep conspiracy through time kind of villains, then an Elseworlds like Absolute is the place for it.
There are some very cool moments in this volume, from the appearances of Catwoman, Bane, & the chilling Absolute Mr. Freeze, to the twists the story takes when it comes to seeing how Riddler, Two-Face, Penguin, and Killer Croc's origin stories all play out.
Snyder really decided to pull out all the stops. And, overall, I enjoyed it.
I read this one in single issues on DC Infinite, and already reviewed each of those individually, so I'm not going to go into anything deep here. I'll leave links at the bottom if you're interested in those. If not, I think it's enough to say that if you're looking for something that doesn't hold its wacky side back, this just might work for you.
Recommended.
Absolute Batman #7
Absolute Batman #8
Absolute Batman #9
Absolute Batman #10
Absolute Batman #11
Absolute Batman #12
Absolute Batman #13
Absolute Batman #14
May 18, 2026
4.5 stars
"I was saying . . . 'It's not the strongest or most intelligent of us who survive this war called life, but those most adaptive to change.' That's Xenophon, Corinth, Athens circa 400 B.C." -- Bane, hulking erudite supervillain
"'Shove it up your ass.' That's Batman, circa now!" -- Batman, not in a particularly sociable mood
Absolute Batman, Vol. 2: Abomination is absolutely bonkers, cranking up the drama, violence and action from the excellent initial volume. After an intro story where the icy Mister Freeze receives a good thrashing - if there was ever an adversary from the rogues' gallery who deserved a drubbing it's that cold-obsessed freak show, just sayin' 🫢 - we quickly careen into the book's primary extended storyline involving the particularly sadistic Bane and his protecting the mysterious facility known as 'Ark M.' It's an often brutal and terrifying but yet also exhilarating plot where Batman is severely put through some paces - he's held in captivity for months (!) and subjected to unbelievable body-horror experiments and psychological torture - and some of his friends assisting him suffer as well, in their aptly referred to 'war' against crime in Gotham City. Yes, it was all sorts of crazy, but also crazy good in its utter 'anything goes' style of storytelling. A post script of sorts - if you've ever wondered how big Batman is, his formidable physical statistics are quoted here as a towering 6 ft 9 in and a hefty 421 lbs. Just what exactly were in those breakfasts served inside stately Wayne Manor ?!
"I was saying . . . 'It's not the strongest or most intelligent of us who survive this war called life, but those most adaptive to change.' That's Xenophon, Corinth, Athens circa 400 B.C." -- Bane, hulking erudite supervillain
"'Shove it up your ass.' That's Batman, circa now!" -- Batman, not in a particularly sociable mood
Absolute Batman, Vol. 2: Abomination is absolutely bonkers, cranking up the drama, violence and action from the excellent initial volume. After an intro story where the icy Mister Freeze receives a good thrashing - if there was ever an adversary from the rogues' gallery who deserved a drubbing it's that cold-obsessed freak show, just sayin' 🫢 - we quickly careen into the book's primary extended storyline involving the particularly sadistic Bane and his protecting the mysterious facility known as 'Ark M.' It's an often brutal and terrifying but yet also exhilarating plot where Batman is severely put through some paces - he's held in captivity for months (!) and subjected to unbelievable body-horror experiments and psychological torture - and some of his friends assisting him suffer as well, in their aptly referred to 'war' against crime in Gotham City. Yes, it was all sorts of crazy, but also crazy good in its utter 'anything goes' style of storytelling. A post script of sorts - if you've ever wondered how big Batman is, his formidable physical statistics are quoted here as a towering 6 ft 9 in and a hefty 421 lbs. Just what exactly were in those breakfasts served inside stately Wayne Manor ?!
February 17, 2026
7.9/10
The second vol. of Absolute Batman is wilder, crazier and even more brutal than the first. Snyder seemed to think that bigger is indeed better. While this has the most impressive moments, i found the writing on the first volume to be a bit better and more cohesive with a smoother pace. The highs on this one however make up for that. So overall i would say i enjoyed them equally.
The second vol. of Absolute Batman is wilder, crazier and even more brutal than the first. Snyder seemed to think that bigger is indeed better. While this has the most impressive moments, i found the writing on the first volume to be a bit better and more cohesive with a smoother pace. The highs on this one however make up for that. So overall i would say i enjoyed them equally.
February 13, 2026
Batman’s pal Matches Malone tells him about a black site called Ark M where a mysterious company called JK run by a man in white (gee I wonder who that could be) is conducting evil and highly illegal Dr Moreau-style experiments on people. As Batman investigates, he encounters his most lethal foe yet: Baaaaaane!
Absolute Batman is back with a second, absolutely silly book: Abomination. For all its superficial appearances of being “not your grandpappy’s Batman!”, in fact it really is just that - the story of this is the same story you get every time you put Batman and Bane together: it’s Batman vs Bane, and it’s back-breakin’ time agin!
I think that quite a large proportion of the audience is seeing familiar characters with redesigns and their relationships slightly altered and think that they’re getting something new. Absolute Mister Freeze is an ice monster here, in the first couple of pointless issues that opens this book, but he’s still basically Mister Freeze, the same Batman villain, and the slightly different origin does nothing to alter their dynamic or basic conflict. What happens? They fight - and that’s it.
Absolute Bane is absurdly big. He’s always drawn absurdly big but I mean Nick Dragotta draws him like Tetsuo from Akira-BIG - it’s laughably nutso. What does he do? Fights Batman over and over. Breaks his back. The usual Bane stuff.
I believe this is the first time Snyder’s written Bane before, which surprised me. Considering how closely associated this writer is to Batman, I felt sure that he’d covered him before during his New 52 run or any of his subsequent Bat-books but this is the first time Bane’s been the star heel in a Scott Snyder Batman book - and, fair play to him, he writes Bane really well.
Bane’s origin in Santa Prisca is basically again the same origin readers familiar with the character have read before, again with minor changes. Still, it’s no less compelling and Snyder’s retelling is strong. Batman’s numerous attempts to escape Ark M were fun to read and just the reframing of Arkham as a black site is interesting. And having Bane be the one to “create” Batman’s rogues gallery is the one original concept Snyder does in this book - clever stuff.
But I’m not a fan of jumping-around-storytelling - present-day storyline JUMP flashback sequence JUMP another flashback sequence JUMP back to present-day storyline - (which is a style that’s used in way too many shitty shows and movies) especially when the subplots we jump to aren’t engaging. Bruce and Waylon training for a MMA fight - pointless. All to show us they’re buds. Bruce and Selina humping, to show us they were lovers once, is similarly pointless and dull.
And that’s essentially the whole book. Really underwhelming stuff from Scott Snyder. All his creativity went into reimagining the characters - who aren’t all that changed really - and when it came to the story, there’s nowt here but standard Batman fare, dressed up in flashy bells and whistles to distract from its lack of originality or substance.
Marcos Martin’s art on the Freeze issues was… cool - I liked that he drew Absolute Batman like Mumm-Ra from Thundercats (the weird hook cape swirls like Mumm-Ra’s bandages). Nick Dragota’s Killer Croc redesign - like all of his redesigns in this series - is completely OTT and bonkers. His Catwoman design is ok but his Harley redesign is godawful.
I’m a Joker guy though. Freeze and Bane storylines can be good, though neither were that worthwhile here, and the glimpses we caught of Joker made me wish I was reading Absolute Joker instead of Freeze/Bane. So I’m definitely looking forward to the next book when we do get Absolute Joker. This book though? Much like Bane, it’s noisy, roided-out forgettable smush.
Absolute Batman is back with a second, absolutely silly book: Abomination. For all its superficial appearances of being “not your grandpappy’s Batman!”, in fact it really is just that - the story of this is the same story you get every time you put Batman and Bane together: it’s Batman vs Bane, and it’s back-breakin’ time agin!
I think that quite a large proportion of the audience is seeing familiar characters with redesigns and their relationships slightly altered and think that they’re getting something new. Absolute Mister Freeze is an ice monster here, in the first couple of pointless issues that opens this book, but he’s still basically Mister Freeze, the same Batman villain, and the slightly different origin does nothing to alter their dynamic or basic conflict. What happens? They fight - and that’s it.
Absolute Bane is absurdly big. He’s always drawn absurdly big but I mean Nick Dragotta draws him like Tetsuo from Akira-BIG - it’s laughably nutso. What does he do? Fights Batman over and over. Breaks his back. The usual Bane stuff.
I believe this is the first time Snyder’s written Bane before, which surprised me. Considering how closely associated this writer is to Batman, I felt sure that he’d covered him before during his New 52 run or any of his subsequent Bat-books but this is the first time Bane’s been the star heel in a Scott Snyder Batman book - and, fair play to him, he writes Bane really well.
Bane’s origin in Santa Prisca is basically again the same origin readers familiar with the character have read before, again with minor changes. Still, it’s no less compelling and Snyder’s retelling is strong. Batman’s numerous attempts to escape Ark M were fun to read and just the reframing of Arkham as a black site is interesting. And having Bane be the one to “create” Batman’s rogues gallery is the one original concept Snyder does in this book - clever stuff.
But I’m not a fan of jumping-around-storytelling - present-day storyline JUMP flashback sequence JUMP another flashback sequence JUMP back to present-day storyline - (which is a style that’s used in way too many shitty shows and movies) especially when the subplots we jump to aren’t engaging. Bruce and Waylon training for a MMA fight - pointless. All to show us they’re buds. Bruce and Selina humping, to show us they were lovers once, is similarly pointless and dull.
And that’s essentially the whole book. Really underwhelming stuff from Scott Snyder. All his creativity went into reimagining the characters - who aren’t all that changed really - and when it came to the story, there’s nowt here but standard Batman fare, dressed up in flashy bells and whistles to distract from its lack of originality or substance.
Marcos Martin’s art on the Freeze issues was… cool - I liked that he drew Absolute Batman like Mumm-Ra from Thundercats (the weird hook cape swirls like Mumm-Ra’s bandages). Nick Dragota’s Killer Croc redesign - like all of his redesigns in this series - is completely OTT and bonkers. His Catwoman design is ok but his Harley redesign is godawful.
I’m a Joker guy though. Freeze and Bane storylines can be good, though neither were that worthwhile here, and the glimpses we caught of Joker made me wish I was reading Absolute Joker instead of Freeze/Bane. So I’m definitely looking forward to the next book when we do get Absolute Joker. This book though? Much like Bane, it’s noisy, roided-out forgettable smush.
September 23, 2025
"Bane is the scariest guy i know" is unironically the best way to describe this
June 10, 2026
This volume of Absolute Batman goes hard on body horror and brutal violence. That isn't really the kind of thing that I like to see in comics. However, the story is doing interesting things with the characters in the Batman universe, and it demands your attention once you start reading it as the stakes are high.
April 14, 2026
Whoa.
Looks like I need to dust off one of my all-timey favourite GIFs to adequately express my feelings about this one.
Jack Black. Way hardcore.
This might not work for all audiences as it is a graphic and extreme story of traumatic violence and ridiculous "come at me bro!" masculinity (at least on its surface) but I give Snyder full credit for absolutely (heheh) going for it and giving us alternative origins and arcs for a whole spate of familiar Bat-characters while tantalizingly leading up to the introduction of perhaps the most iconic one of all.
Big Boi Bane.
Without getting too ahead of ourselves, though, I've got to give this version of Bane his due. As you can see his use of Venom has essentially turned him into Goliath versus Batman as David, though his cunning and strategic use of ultraviolence is far more threatening even than his grotesque physicality.
Lastly, I love how Snyder casually drops that this iteration of Bruce Wayne is 6'9" and weighs north of 400lbs (that's 2m+ and over 180Kg, EuroNerds), I'm sorry but those are freakish proportions as well and IRL he would absolutely dwarf nearly everyone he ever meets. For comparison's sake Alan Ritchson of Jack Reacher fame is 6'3" and weighs 235lbs, so Bruce could effectively ragdoll him with one arm.
/endrant
Looks like I need to dust off one of my all-timey favourite GIFs to adequately express my feelings about this one.
Jack Black. Way hardcore.
This might not work for all audiences as it is a graphic and extreme story of traumatic violence and ridiculous "come at me bro!" masculinity (at least on its surface) but I give Snyder full credit for absolutely (heheh) going for it and giving us alternative origins and arcs for a whole spate of familiar Bat-characters while tantalizingly leading up to the introduction of perhaps the most iconic one of all.
Big Boi Bane.
Without getting too ahead of ourselves, though, I've got to give this version of Bane his due. As you can see his use of Venom has essentially turned him into Goliath versus Batman as David, though his cunning and strategic use of ultraviolence is far more threatening even than his grotesque physicality.
Lastly, I love how Snyder casually drops that this iteration of Bruce Wayne is 6'9" and weighs north of 400lbs (that's 2m+ and over 180Kg, EuroNerds), I'm sorry but those are freakish proportions as well and IRL he would absolutely dwarf nearly everyone he ever meets. For comparison's sake Alan Ritchson of Jack Reacher fame is 6'3" and weighs 235lbs, so Bruce could effectively ragdoll him with one arm.
/endrant
March 26, 2026
Love the absolute universe!
Read
October 13, 2025the concept of absolute batcat
February 23, 2026
A great second chapter to series. On a personal and formatting note I really appreciate DC for covering the whole arc in a single volume. If anyone thought the first volume was brutal the theme continues. The artwork matches the story.
Playtime is over!! After the Absolute Batman brutalising the criminal operations in Gotham the Absolute Bane appears. His job to break the Batman. Nobody is safe. Bruce and his friends' good intentions will put them all in harms way. Will Bruce/Batman realise that he is in over his head in the big time now? However Batman might be able to call in some favours of his own.
As good and as brutal as this book is, I have a feeling volume 3 is going to be off the rails especially who is next. The book finishes with a variant cover gallery.
Playtime is over!! After the Absolute Batman brutalising the criminal operations in Gotham the Absolute Bane appears. His job to break the Batman. Nobody is safe. Bruce and his friends' good intentions will put them all in harms way. Will Bruce/Batman realise that he is in over his head in the big time now? However Batman might be able to call in some favours of his own.
As good and as brutal as this book is, I have a feeling volume 3 is going to be off the rails especially who is next. The book finishes with a variant cover gallery.
February 19, 2026
Damn, this is some dark shit even for Batman. So, of course, I'm loving it. Scott Snyder's Absolute Batman, Volume 2: "Abomination" is an alternate universe version of Batman and the rest of the gang---Bane, Killer Croc, Mr. Freeze, Penguin, Riddler, Two-Face, and even the Joker, all with very different origin stories.
Bruce Wayne stumbles upon a black site set up underneath the city of Gotham where unspeakable human experiments are being conducted. It's called Ark M, and it's funded by a mysterious corporation called JK Industries. One of the monstrous creations is a homicidal creature called Bane, who has it in for the Batman. Bruce is totally out of his league here---outmanned, outgunned---but he can still surprise the shit out of everyone.
I still detest Batman, but I love this series and Snyder's wickedly inventive take on one my least favorite heroes. I'll definitely be reading more.
Bruce Wayne stumbles upon a black site set up underneath the city of Gotham where unspeakable human experiments are being conducted. It's called Ark M, and it's funded by a mysterious corporation called JK Industries. One of the monstrous creations is a homicidal creature called Bane, who has it in for the Batman. Bruce is totally out of his league here---outmanned, outgunned---but he can still surprise the shit out of everyone.
I still detest Batman, but I love this series and Snyder's wickedly inventive take on one my least favorite heroes. I'll definitely be reading more.
March 19, 2026
Well, damn. That was gruesome. And I enjoyed it a lot.
March 8, 2026
This volume – this series – is very frustrating for me. Here, Snyder develops a nightmarish setting that makes your mouth water, but then systematically ruins every good idea by going too far. Everything, absolutely everything, is over the top, and when the result isn't simply ridiculous, it's grotesque. I feel like I'm reading the story of a 10-year-old kid who's just been given a set of action figures and starts telling himself a story: "And then it looked like Batman was fighting Bane, but Bane had a superpower and he was 5 metres tall and he inflated like a balloon with crazy muscles. Wham! Bam! Crash!"
And it's exhausting.
I think that the exact same story, but under the control of an adult, would be absolutely brilliant. Pure horror, unbridled action, a little character development... It’d be an instant classic.
And it's not Dragotta, clearly the second child in the room who likes to take his crayons to draw big guys beating each other up, who is going to temper little Scott S.'s delusions.
And it's exhausting.
I think that the exact same story, but under the control of an adult, would be absolutely brilliant. Pure horror, unbridled action, a little character development... It’d be an instant classic.
And it's not Dragotta, clearly the second child in the room who likes to take his crayons to draw big guys beating each other up, who is going to temper little Scott S.'s delusions.
February 11, 2026
Holy crap. The brutality of this book is unreal. The sheer cruelty as well as the disgusting body horror. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the likes in a superhero comic before. This volume really proves to me that the absolute universe was molded in Darkseid’s image.
If this had come out in the 90s, the hyper violence comic fans would have lost their minds.
If this had come out in the 90s, the hyper violence comic fans would have lost their minds.
March 8, 2026
!!!I NEEEED IT ANIMATED!!!!
They pull out so many batman characters in a distinct yet satisfying way. The story exemplifies the clash between Batman and Bane as two tactical genius that ends in an epic conclusion that is hard to forget. A page turner from beginning to end and I can't wait to see what happens next.
They pull out so many batman characters in a distinct yet satisfying way. The story exemplifies the clash between Batman and Bane as two tactical genius that ends in an epic conclusion that is hard to forget. A page turner from beginning to end and I can't wait to see what happens next.
November 29, 2025
Scott Snyder once again proves I underestimated the fuck out of him, writing a deranged, glorious story that mainline DC would never see. The art here is just as stunning, of course, but that's to be expected from the greats.
September 19, 2026
This reprints issues 7-14 of Absolute Batman, picking up right after the first volume.
Batman confronts Bane and we see Bruce being close to broken. Bane also goes after Bruce’s childhood friends, remaking them into versions of characters we have seen before, but in totally different forms. Bruce’s relationship with Catwoman also takes a turn.
I haven’t been this into the Batman universe in years. Easy to see how it has split fandom. I look forward to volume three.
Batman confronts Bane and we see Bruce being close to broken. Bane also goes after Bruce’s childhood friends, remaking them into versions of characters we have seen before, but in totally different forms. Bruce’s relationship with Catwoman also takes a turn.
I haven’t been this into the Batman universe in years. Easy to see how it has split fandom. I look forward to volume three.
March 11, 2026
Holly Toxic Masculinity Batman!
When men would rather beat each other into littleral puddles of goo than go to therapy.
At first I thought this Bane was interesting, but then we got the backstory and there is little if any difference between Absolute Bane and normal Bane. Like uninterestingly so.
Hopefully we get a Catwoman story about how she got all those cool new toys and it is not as pedestrian as much of these stories in the Absolute Batverse.
When men would rather beat each other into littleral puddles of goo than go to therapy.
At first I thought this Bane was interesting, but then we got the backstory and there is little if any difference between Absolute Bane and normal Bane. Like uninterestingly so.
Hopefully we get a Catwoman story about how she got all those cool new toys and it is not as pedestrian as much of these stories in the Absolute Batverse.
February 24, 2026
the story finally moves away a bit more from the beaten path but sadly it's in a direction that I don't find interesting at all. Physically grotesque monsters and over the top violence is just boring, especially if nothing really is said with it. It's all just bla bla bla about war and fighting and how to break people.
February 15, 2026
One of the best Batman stories to hit stands in a loooong time. The Abomination arc is especially gripping. Great Elseworlds appeal and just some awesome dialogue and plotting. Absolutely loving Absolute Batman.
5/5
5/5
February 12, 2026
Violència i body horror
March 15, 2026
absolute boner
February 24, 2026
Best Batman series ever? I don't know. Maybe.
May 16, 2026
Continues to be a banger of a Batman series. Abomination opens with my favorite part of the book, a two-parter that introduces Absolute Mr. Freeze. Terrifying character! And absorbing storytelling that build's Bruce's world and friendships.
Then Bane arrives. Scott Snyder seems to have thought "Bane getting all big and veiny is cool, but what if he got even BIGGER?" and then basically wrote the story from there. Bane is also super-smart, outclassing Batman in their first encounter. Batman lands in Ark M, the new Joker-run prison in Gotham's harbor. (There's a fair bit of world-building around Ark M and Joker that definitely has me excited for future volumes)
The "Bane tortures Batman" issue is startling - and also a little out there (). Gigantic Bane, venom everywhere, Bruce's friend group being abused - it's all a bit much, over the top, and jam=packed, but Snyder makes it work. He even adds Catwoman to the cast in a surprisingly natural way. My only complaint would be that the big twist finale comes a bit out of nowhere - but it also comes in the midst of a gargantuan battle with Bane, so let's just say I was too distracted to care.
Then Bane arrives. Scott Snyder seems to have thought "Bane getting all big and veiny is cool, but what if he got even BIGGER?" and then basically wrote the story from there. Bane is also super-smart, outclassing Batman in their first encounter. Batman lands in Ark M, the new Joker-run prison in Gotham's harbor. (There's a fair bit of world-building around Ark M and Joker that definitely has me excited for future volumes)
The "Bane tortures Batman" issue is startling - and also a little out there (). Gigantic Bane, venom everywhere, Bruce's friend group being abused - it's all a bit much, over the top, and jam=packed, but Snyder makes it work. He even adds Catwoman to the cast in a surprisingly natural way. My only complaint would be that the big twist finale comes a bit out of nowhere - but it also comes in the midst of a gargantuan battle with Bane, so let's just say I was too distracted to care.
February 14, 2026
This is batshit crazy. I love it. More please
April 11, 2026
4.5 stars! What a ride! Batman vs Bane and it’s worth the price of admission. Batman is captured and Bane and company do a real number on him with the beat downs and experiments. Bane is trying to make Batman the next him so he can retire. Snyder came up with some really cool ideas for Batman in his many failed attempts to escape. Also really digging the spin on Batman’s rogues gallery in this book. Waylan (Croc), Dent (Two Face), Edward (Riddler) and Oswald (Penguin) are his circle of friends in this universe. Th opening arc with this universe’s Mr Freeze was dope too. What Bane and company do to them is F’d up and a nice spin on their main universe counterparts at the same time. This book is dark, gritty and gruesome. After seeing Catwoman in here, I’m interested in reading her Absolute mini series.
February 8, 2026
Still Incredible! This is pure theme park reading. Not the deepest story you're ever going to read (though not devoid of emotion) but just endlessly fun!
Bane is absolutely brutal and I love that, this being an alternate universe it's allowed to take chances with it's characters and it feels way more unpredictable than other comics.
So much fun! Really helped me get out of a reading slump.
5☆
Bane is absolutely brutal and I love that, this being an alternate universe it's allowed to take chances with it's characters and it feels way more unpredictable than other comics.
So much fun! Really helped me get out of a reading slump.
5☆
February 24, 2026
Something so therapeutic about seeing an entirely unsexualized version of Harley Quinn <3
July 6, 2026
Lekker Batman lezen tijdens de eindeloze treinritten van vandaag!
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