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DC Comics' Absolute Batman succeeds because “new and legacy can coexist” — unlike the 'New 52' era says Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder believes DC went against its instincts with the New 52 and those mistakes are being avoided with the Absolute line
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Scott Snyder has plenty of reasons to be happy. Last year, he launched Absolute Batman, the first title in DC’s Absolute line, and it was a hit. The first issue became the best-selling comic of 2024, and each subsequent issue has scored high on the sales charts. The other Absolute titles, such as Absolute Superman and Absolute Wonder Woman, are doing well with readers and critics.
This is not the first time Scott Snyder has used Batman to help DC launch a new universe. In 2011, Scott Snyder became the writer for Batman when it was relaunched for DC’s New 52 publishing initiative. However, Snyder says the Absolute experience is much different than what DC was doing with the New 52.
“I try and be pretty honest as much as I can be,” Scott Snyder tells Popverse. “For the first 10 years I was at DC, for a lot of reasons, because of the transformative environment it was where we were moving to LA, we were bought by AT&T, then you’re bought by Discovery. There’s a lot of churns, a lot of new bosses, and a lot of fluidity. There was sort of I think a push and pull between what we were supposed to be.”
“The two kind of strange binary relationships that formed between we have to do new, new, new, and throw out the main universe. And no, no, no, we’ve got to go classic and re-embrace everything that’s legacy and forget. It always felt really sort of counterintuitive to me and my fellow creators. You could do both at the same time and fans not only accept it but love it because it gives them different options. Having DC celebrate that right now has been a real joy.”
For more of Scott Snyder’s insights into the Absolute line’s success, check out the full interview below:
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