you know, this kind of blows ass
>>150656939No way fag, ASS is better.
Absolute Cringe
>>150656939WHAT IF BATMAN BUT BIGWHAT IF JOKER BUT SERIOUSWHAT IF ALL VILLAINS ARE GOTHAM HIGH MEME FRIENDS OF BRUCEWHAT IF AI DESIGNED ALL THE VILLAINSWHAT IF EVIL WHITE NAZIS WHAT IF THE VILLAIN YOU KNOW BUT THE OPPOSITE EXPECTATIONS SUBVERTED
>>150657286>what if Batman was SCP
>>150657286Batman's been big before.
>>150656939It's just your typical Snyderslop, I really don't understand the kind of people that look at something that unintentionally retarded and go "but it's fun!" as a cope for its garbage writing.
>>150657491not 6'9" 451 pounds as a baseline human big
I read the first issue and wasn't compelled to read any further. The older I get the harder it is to deny that Batman is inherently a dumb character.
>>150656939Still better than Fraction’s run and Zdarsky run
BATMAN AF
>>150656939I feel it would work as a parody Batman, like Midnighter or Hawk-Owl, otherwise it just seems off.
It's not really for me, not a Snyder guy, but I don't have any beef with him or it or anything. There's a lot worse, more awful, more cloying. It seems like harmless dumb guy normie comics, and it has its place.
Even the complaints about the book in this thread are coming off more low-effort than usual
>>150657905You are a secondary retard
>>150657545TDKR Batman is about 12 feet tall.
>>150656939I liked it at first but I think they dropped the ball with the villains.The growing up friends idea was nice but they didn’t all need to learn he was Batman.He could’ve had a whole arc just learning his friend Oswald is actually climbing the ranks of the mob.
>>150657286What if Bane had big tiddies.
>>150658801This is one of my issues as well. We get one story arc setting up Bruce's friends just to have them disfigured by bane and turn into villains the next story
>>150656939
>>150656939It's fine, it's just not for everyone.
>>150659018I can't even find an image reaction to convey better what the text itself does.
>>150659018Based
>>150659010I wish their turn to villainy had been gradual and a symptom of Darkseid's whole "in this universe: good loses, evil triumphs" metanarrative. The deeper in Batman goes, the more those around him are twisted into evil to oppose him. Disagreements turn into sabotage which leads to them finally giving up on saving Gotham and instead wishing to control it.
>>150657286>>150657513Fine. Name a better Elseworlds take on the Batman Mythos. I'll wait.
>let's make Batman like in The Dark Knight Returns but somehow even shittier
>>150657286you forgotWHAT IF BANE CREATED ALL OF BATMAN'S VILLAINS IN A SINGLE DAY BY PUNCHING THEM
>>150657545The dark knight returns batman is the size of brian shaw.
>>150656939I know this is a hate thread but is Absolute Batman really just aura farming and hype moments or is it a good grittier alternative to whatever Fraction is shitting out
>>150656939It can't decide if it's serious, if it's camp, if it's a parody, if it's lovingly goofy and ridiculous, or desperately gritty and violent. I get why people enjoy it being so fucking stupid that it loops back around to being amazing again, but I'm not entirely sure if Snyder is in on the joke or not. He seems to genuinely believe he's writing the most badass, gritty, awesome Batman comic ever.
>>150659671It is what it is.If you want over-the-top action and absurdity, that is what you get with it.
>>150659671it is LEAGUES better than whatever the fuck Zdarsky was doing. haven't read Fraction's stuff yet.
>>150656939The only Absolute lines which I like more than the main series are Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter (who doesn't even have a main series)Batman, Superman, the Flash, and Green Lantern are all better in their regular incarnations.Which makes me wonder why the Absolute line even really exists.Maybe they should have just done a new Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter ongoing with those teams.
>>150660154>Which makes me wonder why the Absolute line even really exists.To boost sales, mimic what Ultimate did with Marvel by enticing creators to come work on projects with NO set canon or history and allow them to "do whatever you want", and finally to give a reason to do more "Crisis" events when the sales start to drop or the creators leave/run out of ideas.
>>150658138that bar is underground
>>150658801I think that's my main problem (besides how stupid everything is), the pacing is way too fast
>>150659739Snyder's writing style ever since the Metal books has been "it's so stupid it loops around to being awesome, right? right!?!?"
>>150656939It's pretty god dammed mid to be sure. "What if Batman wasn't rich...but still had a a ton of resources somehow?"
>>150659374I feel like the writers got rushed. They had to wrap everything up so they can end that universe soon in the next bullshit crisis. Remember any interesting elseworld stories or changes of the status quo never stick in DC
>>150659474The Dark Knight Returns
>>150660154Do zoomers like this
>>150657286bravo, scott
>>150659374DC definitely were not expecting the Absolute stuff to sell as well as it did and it was originally intended to be a temporary thing
>>150659374>Darkseid's whole "in this universe: good loses, evil triumphs" metanarrativeMy main problem is that this "metanarrative" is all but nonexistent in everything but Martian Manhunter. Nothing about Absolute Batman feels particularly darker than mainline, it's just more retarded and ridiculous.
>>150663371Absolute Green Lantern just showed that the Black lanterns are the defacto law enforcement in the universe and kill all the other lanterns on sight and Absolute WW shows that pretty much every single "good" magical being has been trapped or is missing in the modern age and Diana herself only "survived" to modern day because she was hidden in Tartarus. I don't read Absolute Batman because it felt like complete schlock, but the metanarrative of evil winning in this universe is clearly a thing in other runs too.
>>150656939Was mid at the beginning, and went full retarded in a very short timing
Why ruin it all with Darkseid?
>>150659018He's so real for this
>>150664674Someone high up at DC really wants him to be the big bad final boss of the DC universe at the moment for some reason
>>150660202>To boost sales,And it is working>DC Comics is sending Absolute Batman #1 to a Ninth Printing with a cover by Nick Draoptta and Frank Martin, Absolute Batman #10 and #11 to a second printing, Absolute Superman #10 to a second printing with a cover by Rafa Sandoval & Ulises Arreola, and Absolute Wonder Woman #11 also to a second printing with a Hayden Sherman & Jordie Bellaire cover, all out for the 29th of October.
>>150662609Ya fr fr
>>150664845It's stupid.
