Popverse's top stories

• Absolute Superman is designed to be "the ultimate immigrant story" for our times, says DC writer Jason Aaron
• Simon Kinberg on writing X-Men movies, producing Glenn Powell's The Running Man remake, and co-creating Star Wars Rebels [Popversations]
• Better angels and online demons: A trip down the rabbit hole of Downton Abbey fandom

Two opposite things can be true - look no further than DC's Batman, who is both the ultimate loner and the ultimate family man. So far in the hit series Absolute Batman by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, the Dark Knight has been pretty solitary besides Alfred and memories of childhood friends - but that is about to change because the Bat-Family is coming to DC's Absolute line.

"My favorite part of writing this book, is [Bruce's] relationship with his friends," Snyder says about Absolute Batman during the DC All In: What's Next panel recently at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2025. Snyder says that the Absolute Bruce Wayne grew up with lots of different characters, and even though they all went their separate ways he still has "friends."

"I have a vision of a new Bat-family idea," adds Snyder. "You'll see."

During an interview back in March on the Comic Watchers, Scott Snyder said that an Absolute Dick Grayson was imminent, and also brought up Barbara Gordon.

"You'll see Dick Grayson at some point this year. He's coming. It was an interesting set of choices because it was like, 'Is he a kid, or is he a grown-up?'" said Snyder. "Because if Barbara is a grown-up and he's a kid, is that too weird? Does that feel off? So what if he's a grown-up? Who would he be? And then that opened this whole door. You'll see some friendly Bat characters and some fiendish Bat characters, all coming soon."

He is vengeance, he is the night, he is... one of Popverse's favorite subjects. Learn how to do a Dark Knight movie marathon right with our Batman movie guide, and for the true World's Greatest Detectives out there, dive deep into the heart of Gotham City by getting to know Batman with Popverse. Here are some of our latest Batman stories:

• Batman and his prank war side from Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen days will pop out some in Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez's upcoming DC relaunch
• How The Wire, prank wars, and superhero-forward comics inspired DC's upcoming Batman relaunch according to writer Matt Fraction
• DC's Batman teams up with Inception storyboard artist Gabriel Hardman for R-rated "open class warfare" story pitting the Dark Knight vs. Green Arrow and the Question