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Batman has been around for 86 years, but Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta’s Absolute Batman is still finding new and exciting things to say about the character. The best-selling series reimagines the Dark Knight, his allies, and his enemies in a new reality, and there are no guard rails. Martha Wayne is alive, Batman is more brutal than ever, and his iconic villains are some of his best friends.

“Absolute Batman is clearly a personal book. I can’t believe they’re letting us get away with everything we’re getting away with,” Scott Snyder says during an interview with Casually Comics. “The Joker issue is coming and that one is really rough,” Snyder adds, referring to December’s Absolute Batman #15.

Snyder also teased other characters and concepts getting the Absolute treatment, Harley Quinn and Arkham Asylum.

“We have Catwoman and I won’t say where, but Harley Quinn is coming into the book really soon. And Dick Grayson comes back in a really big way. Nick [Dragotta, series artist] sat here with me in the office and we planned out the entire series such as we see it right now, and it was a good 35 to 40 issues, and we just laid it out.”

“We’re bringing the villains together in September for Absolute Evil, which will be really fun. It has a big twist. It’s got two big twists in it. And then in October we’ll announce the books officially. A couple books for the line that we’re doing, and we have Wonder Woman and Batman meeting in January. And then we have some more fun developments later.”

“We have an Arkham special we’re going to do too. It’s really fun. It’s all these things you didn’t know about Arkham Asylum, and the introduction of some of the characters that they’re keeping trapped in there.”

Keep in mind, we’re only 12 issues into this. If this is what we’ve seen so far, I can’t imagine all the madness Scott and Nick have in store for 40 issues.

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