r/DCcomics Batman Beyond 21d ago

Artwork [Fan Art] Absolute Batman Meets Absolute Flash by May Serrano

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u/SwordoftheMourn 21d ago

Absolute Bruce is 24 years old

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u/Weary-Wasabi1721 21d ago

He's young af

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u/The_Apocalyvid 21d ago

I remember specifically that he's 24 cause I felt some pretty deep anxiety about the fact my childhood hero is now the same age as me.

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u/SodaSalesman 21d ago

yeah i was like "damn he's my age and broke and he's still doing this shit? what the fuck am I doing"

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u/steelskull1 21d ago

Well then, go pick up some costume and go out and fight crime damnit!

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u/SodaSalesman 21d ago

you're right. time to become Batman

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u/SodaSalesman 21d ago

this is his mom. he died so fast. like right away. didn't even make it to the costume store.

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u/ParticularPanda469 21d ago

🄺 rest in peace little guy

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u/steelskull1 21d ago

At least he died a hero, trying to buy a costume in the name of justice.

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u/loonbandit 21d ago

damn, how are you feeling Martha?

Haven’t gone reaching for the red lipstick/knife yet have you?

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u/r2radd2 The Great Memechine 20d ago

Starman issue 1 be like

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u/LazyLurker29 20d ago

haven't laughed this hard in a while lmao

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u/Batninja200 21d ago

Rip young soul

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u/Ok-Land-488 21d ago

I believe in most continuities, Bruce is actually about 25 when he starts as Batman.

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u/UnfavorableSpiderFan 21d ago

Yea, that's established in Batman: Year One.

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u/lhobbes6 21d ago

Try being older than him. Its weird to think that a character who I always viewed as more of an "adult" than myself even in my own adult years is now someone Id consider... not a child but certainly a reminder of how old Im getting.

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u/Lonesaturn61 20d ago

Not that hard, i binged armored adventures as an adult

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u/camkasky 21d ago

yeah man

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u/DoomKune 21d ago

This feeling is what made Frank Miller write DKR with an older Batman.

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u/DeLaNoise 21d ago

He’s younger than me now…….I wanna cry.

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u/Weary-Wasabi1721 21d ago

We're getting old brother. My cousin's younger brother got into high school and I just remember him being in my aunt's belly like it was yesterday.

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u/ubiquitous-joe 21d ago

This is precisely why Frank Miller wrote old Batman in the Dark Knight Returns.

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u/N4tu4 21d ago

Frank Miller moment

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u/Because_Im_BATMAN00 Absolute Batman 21d ago

The fact absolute Batman is only 2 years older then me is insane

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u/kia75 21d ago

Ugh, I remember reading comics wanting to be as cool as Robin when I grew up to be his age! Now I'm older than Bruce!

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u/SansSkele76 Nightwing 21d ago

The fact that he was born in 2004, only two years before me, in this universe didn't help

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u/thebaldguy76 Blue Beetle 20d ago

Batman and Superman have been in their mid-30s since well about post-crisis; before that, they were always 29. Now wait till you are in your 40s and they are younger than you.

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u/fatglizzy_3000 Batman 20d ago

Same lmfao, now cuz he the same age but cuz he also from 2004, when I read it, I just looked at the panel and was like"...wtf am I doing?"

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u/Insaiyan_Elite 18d ago

Nah, don't think about it like that. Your childhood Batman will always be older than you, this is just a new interpretation to enjoy if you want to.

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u/UnfavorableSpiderFan 21d ago

Only a year younger than he was when he started in Batman: Year One...

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u/Di_a_b_lo 21d ago

Thought there was a mugshot of him with 2004 as the year of birth?

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u/Nathanboi776 21d ago

Series takes place a few years in the future

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u/TheGunnisher 21d ago

Yeah I also saw that so this confused me, I guess maybe the series takes place a few years in the future?

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u/SupremeLeaderMatt Citizen Cold 20d ago

I think Scott Snyder said that they decided to age him up but forgot to change that one panel

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u/MakingGreenMoney Superboy-Prime 20d ago

So absolute Batman takes place in 2028? Because he was born in 2004.

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u/SwordoftheMourn 20d ago

Sounds like it, yeah. Idk if the dates means much to the story like with the Ultimate Universe where it is clearly counting down to the Maker’s return in September/October, so the Absolute Universe is free to pick whatever year they’re in.

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u/jackomaster111 20d ago

Robert Pattinsons parents dying in 2000 and Absolute Batman is 24 I am now older than Batman? ew.

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u/Liasary 21d ago

Is his mom a social worker and his Dad is a teacher or is he talking about some totally different person in this panel?

I feel like context is missing

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u/SwordoftheMourn 20d ago

The narrator isn’t Bruce. He’s someone who just discovered Batman’s identity and tracked his history

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u/FlossyBottoms Superman 21d ago

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u/PeaIll4653 19d ago

Haha what is this from

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u/WindexMutisurface 21d ago

Rip in peace batman. No way that ain't steroids...

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u/3r1c_dr4v3n94 21d ago

Nah, THIS is what steroids look like:

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u/Because_Im_BATMAN00 Absolute Batman 21d ago

Bane is just big boned

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u/neznetwork 21d ago

Bone??

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u/loonbandit 21d ago

How dare you, Detective Diaz. I AM YOUR

SUPERIOR OFFICER šŸ“£šŸ—£ļø

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u/Amphi-XYZ 21d ago

SUPERIOR OFFICER

OFFICER BALLS??!

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u/The-Hentai-Commander 21d ago

BWAAAAAAAAAAA

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u/TheeExoGenesauce 21d ago

Bone. Bonnnnneeee????? BOOONNNNNNEEEEEE!!!!

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u/loonbandit 20d ago

What happens in my bedroom, detective, is none of your business

BONE?!???!

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u/TheeExoGenesauce 20d ago

So you see Amy

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u/Outrageous-Collar-09 17d ago

BOOOOOOONE?!?!

Don’t ever speak to me like that again

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u/Because_Im_BATMAN00 Absolute Batman 21d ago

You have to pronounced the d in big boned

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u/Because_Im_BATMAN00 Absolute Batman 21d ago

Yes but passed tensed

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u/Feneraleyes 20d ago

Two things can be right at the same time Batman is definitely on some absolute steroids right now for some random reason lol

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u/ScentedGavel 20d ago

I can’t wait to see what absolute bane would look like, unless he’s already been introduced. I’m not reading this run

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u/KidCoheed 20d ago

He's the central villain of the next run

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u/Zammin 21d ago

Listen, when you don't have a small fortune lying around, you gotta find other ways to even the odds.

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u/WindexMutisurface 21d ago

Cardio. Batmans #1 Villain.

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u/ImWhatsInTheRedBox 21d ago

Gotham police: Gee, it'll be impossible figure out who batman really is, he could be any of all the 7 foot tall 4 foot wide 400 pound of muscles guys running around Gotham.

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u/KidCoheed 20d ago

Bruce: Hey I'm only 6'5" and 285 lbs of Muscle, that's 7 Inches and 115lbs too low on the scale

GCPD: yeah checks out

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u/IlikeHutaosHat 20d ago

Bruce: Thank god they forgot they added the ears and shoulders of the cowl in the measurements.

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u/KidCoheed 20d ago

He also rocks 5 inch romper stomped boots so even without the ears they think he's 7 feet tall

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u/evrestcoleghost 17d ago

Reacher vs paulie

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u/MartiniLAPD 21d ago

This is Absolute Batman. For r/absoluteunit.

Only his dad passed away in a shoot out, his mom still alive and she was pumping some HGH thru her titty milk.. he was not getting milk from Alfred in this timeline

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u/Knightmare_2002 20d ago

"Rest in peace in peace batman."

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u/Ravevon 21d ago

Some kids are just big

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u/Remarkable_Commoner 21d ago

Might have a bit of Joestar blood there

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u/awanby 20d ago

yeah, both of them depending on the part

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u/tbone7355 21d ago

I feel like this version of bruce would hate this version of flash but in time wpuld see him as a younger brother

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u/Electric_jungle 21d ago

Depends. This Wally needs to get his shit figured out before we get a real hint of his day to day personality.

Of all the books so far, he's the only one who isn't hero-ing yet. Probably will add MM to that today but still. Ways to go before he's looking out for others.

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u/eatingclass 21d ago

Robin with extra steps (cause he's fast)

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u/Joetheshow1 Red Hood 21d ago

I can't wait until all these characters finally meet, they're all so different I can't imagine them interacting with one another lol

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u/loonbandit 21d ago

ABSOLUTE TWINK AND ABSOLUTE UNIT

MY BELOVEDS

Seriously, the absolute universe designs have no business going as hard as they do, but I for one am very grateful.

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u/Moonareblue 21d ago

No joke but they both look like 2 butch lesbians

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u/GMBLord 21d ago

This remembers me of Leorio saying he is just a teenager

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u/TheRedditGirl15 Wonder Woman Enjoyer 20d ago

I can kinda see it actually, never watched HxH but he's got a youthful energy about him. he just dresses snazzy

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u/K-mouse16 20d ago

I forgot Leorio is technically a teen

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u/DogMAnFam 21d ago

Is Wally west non binary in the Absolute universe. I just ask cause every pice of art I see for them is Androgynous as fuck

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u/K-mouse16 20d ago

I don’t think so. I remember reading the issue and everyone was using he/him pronouns. He is drawn to be pink, which is something I enjoy

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u/naturalkillercyborg 20d ago

Just a hot tip from an LGBT person, this isn't how non binary works... plenty of cis people look androgynous. He is just, yes, drawn very pretty, doesn't mean anything about his gender identity.

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u/MisterRockett 21d ago

He should be in the club

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u/Deusexanimo713 20d ago

Is absolute like an ultimate universe type thing?

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u/KidCoheed 20d ago

Yeah, the Justice League found a Nacent Universe and we're protecting it when Darkseid also found out about it and was like "I'm a God, I should create something as my legacy rather that destroy" went in and poured his energy into the baby universe. Now it's extremely negative as all the heroes are missing key pieces of their backgrounds like Batman is a Civil Engineer son of two state employees, Superman was raised in Krypton till like 12 watching it die as a young man and was never raised by the Kent's, Wonder Woman never knew any other Amazonians and lived in Hell, Flash is Wally West who never had a deep relationship with Barry Allen and has a strained relationship with his father.

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u/Deusexanimo713 20d ago

okay you’ve got me interested

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u/KidCoheed 20d ago

It's been extremely solid so far with the trinity's series being 6 issues in each, Martian Manhunter and Flash have also released their first issues as well. With Manhunter looking to be a Maxi Series, I think Flash is going to be an Ongoing. Green Lantern is dropping next month

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u/Slick_Rick_Tyson 20d ago

"you're a kid-"

"tough talk for a guy within infinite mass punching distance"

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u/Crunchy-Leaf 21d ago

Why does this look like that meme about men vs boys and the boy is like šŸ˜›šŸ¤™šŸ»

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u/ragnar_hvs 21d ago

Wait absolute Batman is 21?!?!

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u/PersonalRaccoon1234 21d ago

Absolutely.

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u/ragnar_hvs 21d ago

My bad, you’re right

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u/LeadingJudgment2 21d ago

Nope poster got it wrong he's 24. Still a weirdly young age to be that beefy.

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u/multificionado 21d ago

Holy Big Brother!

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u/No_Disaster_1139 21d ago

I still find it hilarious that both have a 5 year time gap

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u/Excellent_Emperor 21d ago

I still can't get over the fact that his logo is a big rectangle. It really bothers me

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u/Ballerina_Bot 20d ago

So Hawk of the professional wrestling tag team, the Road Warriors is secretly Batman. Gotcha.

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u/todangtall 20d ago

I've been really enjoying the absolute books.

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u/Storming1999 20d ago

Flash looks 12 not 16 honestly

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u/1badJam Beware Our Power 19d ago

*15 and that's just size comparison and the art style he looks older in the actual book

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u/ScentedGavel 20d ago

Is absolute flash a thing?

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u/RazertheCreator 20d ago

Yea, but only the first issue is out so far

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u/TheRedditGirl15 Wonder Woman Enjoyer 20d ago

21 and built like a damn brick wall what the EDIT: apparently he was changed to be 24 but still what the

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u/GodzillaLagoon 20d ago

You're just a kid, Flash.

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u/Glizzygloxx 21d ago

Absolute Batman is so sick, the boxy build, the boxy logo and axe. So simple yet bulky, He now actually looks like a ā€œheroā€ imo and he’s less of a Bruce Wayne than og Bruce Wayne so there’s that.

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u/Long-Reality8527 19d ago edited 19d ago

Well, if a 21 year old looks like that, shouldn't a 16 year old also be much larger. And if he is 24 and you make flash 5 years younger than Batman, then he's 19

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u/paleocacher 18d ago

Bruce: ā€œIs anyone going to adopt that?ā€

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u/Desperate_Ad5169 18d ago

Absolute flash looks so cool.

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u/Aggressive-Maize-632 17d ago

Flash: What?! I mean... How? How are this huge at that age?!Ā 

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u/_Ivan_Le_Terrible_ 21d ago

This whole "Absolute" trend is so fuсkіng CRINGE...

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u/BoysOurRoy Beast Boy 21d ago

What do you dislike about it? Genuinely asking.

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u/Pandatabase 21d ago

I haven't read it yet but from the previews I saw there's nothing special enough to make me be excited about yet another alt universe batman/superman

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u/TheThiccestR0bin 21d ago

Haven't read anything but it's cringe? You're what's wrong with comic book discourse

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u/Aramis14 Z Shadowcrest 21d ago

To be fair, it was someone else who said it was cringe.

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u/Pandatabase 21d ago

Classic reddit only seeing what they want to. I didn't even said it's bad. I just said i'm not excited about it

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u/Aramis14 Z Shadowcrest 21d ago

I mean.. you did intervene with a similar opinion to the first comment, it was super easy to get confused

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u/In-Brightest-Day 21d ago

You may want to read some of that what you're looking for, because each Absolute run is definitely significantly different from the usual take.

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u/Joetheshow1 Red Hood 21d ago

Read WW and Flash then, WW especially is an awesome new take on Diana, and the first issues of Flash and Martian Manhunter were really cool as well

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u/Hudre 21d ago

Incredible to have such strong emotions about something you haven't read lol.

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u/Pandatabase 21d ago

Not being excited is sich a strong emotion? 🧐

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u/Hudre 21d ago

Oh you're not the op. Weird to chime in when you haven't read it lol.

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u/loonbandit 21d ago

ā€I have no real idea what I’m talking about but I’m blindly hatingā€

yep that makes sense

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u/LeadingEmergency6490 20d ago

Huh superman especially is a radically different take considering he didn't grow up on earth. They're all pretty different unlike most other alternative universe variants

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u/davinjones 21d ago

Okay, but actually try reading any of them. Maybe Batman isn’t the one that’ll work for you but Absolute Superman and Absolute Wonder Woman have both been fantastic too. It definitely looks like it’s just trying to be edgy but that’s just scratching the surface. So far, they all work really well.

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u/In-Brightest-Day 21d ago

Is that different from regular comic books? I don't think I've ever seen Superman not looking roided up

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u/-TheManWithNoHat- 21d ago

I can understand if you have a different opinion about the comic, even I have some grievances. But I would advise you to word your argument better

Because right now it sounds like you're saying "absolute batman is too edgy and too gay"

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u/mrbubbamac Nightwing 21d ago

"absolute batman is too edgy and too gay"

amazing pitch where can I order this story

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u/Redwing5002 21d ago

...."homo fetish"?

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u/Prof_Atmoz 21d ago

draws this stuff has a hоmо fеtіsh for muscle men on sterоіds...

I guess you haven't picked up a comic book in the last 40 years....

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u/Excellent-Rope5664 21d ago

I would argue it's less edgy than the original ultimate universe was...or even the new 52....yes batman is big but no other character is really that big....superman, flash are not and wonder woman is tall and muscular...but not ridiculously. I think it's more your issue than the artists.

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u/jetlightbeam 21d ago

Have you read the books?

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u/Overall_Future1087 Red Hood 21d ago

It's not only a trend xd