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If there was any doubt that DC’s Absolute comics line was a hit, you just have to look at the sales numbers. Issues of Absolute Batman and all the other Absolute comics continually hit high numbers on the comics sales charts, making it clear that the new direction is more than a fad and readers are sticking around. Scott Snyder, the writer of Absolute Batman, says he knows why, and the key is giving readers what they want.

“A lot of the stuff [we’re announcing] has to do with creator-forward books,” Scott Snyder tells Popverse. “We’re trying to bring in people who have a real voice and a vision. Some people we’ve never worked with, some people that we haven’t worked with in a long time and allowing them to really flex and take these characters and say something about this moment. I believe that we’re in a really special moment in comics right now.”

“The retailers seem really confident, but the way they’ve shown up, I mean, our last issue is hovering around almost 200,000 copies. That sort of wave, where all the Absolute titles, and the Ultimate universe titles, Energon Universe, all that stuff, is bringing in so many new readers. You realize they’re just hungry for passionate, original takes on this stuff. And it doesn’t mean throwing out the main universe or doing anything like that. It just means bold, visionary takes. Whether they’re in continuity, out of continuity. But not corporate-driven spinoff stuff quite as much in my opinion. Really organic kind of creator-driven work.”

For more of Scott Snyder’s insights into the Absolute line’s success, check out the full interview below.

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