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Scott Snyder ’s plans for Absolute Batman , Absolute Dick Grayson and The Absolute Joker for DC Comics to come … ( Spoilers )
Scott Snydergave theComic Watchers YouTube podcasta massive run down about his design and for the Absolute Universe of titles . We get somesales figures , hints as to what else is comingas well as a crossover , but there was much more besides .
But it is deserving remember that he was never blend in to do Absolute Batman to begin with . bleed Cool previously report thatDonny Cateswas the original choice , before that was impossible . He enjoin the podcast " Batman was the only book I told them I would not do in the Absolute Universe . I enjoin to DC that I do n’t require to do Batman , I wanted to doWonder Womanto be honest . Although I ’m so thankful I did not becauseKellyandHayden ’s version is so much good than what I would have done but I wanted to do Wonder Woman . "
And it turns out it was n’t DC Comics who persuaded him . " It really came down to the wire for Batman , and it was almost New York Comic Con 2022 ; DC was really putting pressing on me about it ; you ’ve got to regain somebody to do Batman ; it has to be somebody with a name at this point . Because they wanted it to be a flagship book and the first one out of the gate , and soJames Tynioncalled me up because I ’d been asking him on and on if you have any ideas through petite Onion , and he was like , ' I know somebody who should do it' . I was like , who ? He ’s like , ' You should do it ' , I was like , ' Stop , I ’m not gon na do it , you know I do n’t want to do that , ' and he was just like , ' Well , you ’ve been soft pitching this book for like over a year , you ’ve been allege this musical theme to everybody , you know you require to do it ' and I did n’t really desire to do it but it was more that I was really afraid , but what James pointed out which was true which was that everyone I went to , the whole approximation was let ’s take a big swing music and do the thing you ’re afraid of , you put this fictitious character up against your biggest veneration , what ’s the affair that you retrieve could really make a German mark on the DCU ? What ’s your large swing music form of challenge ? for me , as much as I did n’t want to admit it , the thing that was shivery and the biggest swing was to go back to Batman and to do this idea and really flesh it out . And so the next step became like if I did , it would have to be really intensely different than anything I ’d done before . “Because Scott Snyder knows who Batman is . " Batman , when I when I really displume him down , all he is , is a boy that suffer a horrible harm . And ultimately determine that instead of letting that thing break him , he ’s going to use it as fuel to make the earthly concern better . That ’s really all it is . What to me makes Batman so abide and makes him so adaptable and all these versions of Batman that we jazz . And the fact that he wins . There ’s a sure joy to watching Batman win because he is again like he ’s human , he ’s obtain no powers , no rings , no alien abilities and ultimately , he ’s someone that we can all relate to in the way that all of us have suffered something traumatic in our life . Batman is like , I ’m not even going to dwell on it , I ’m gon na succeed . He ’s one of the few superheroes who feels like their resting position is awesome , like f – k yeah ! … So if you approach it from that kind of a lens of the eye and look at the entire mythology , it becomes really exciting . "
Absolute Dick Grayson as an adult
And we get a look at what ’s encounter forAbsolute Batmanand the Absolute Batmaniverse . Such as Dick Grayson … " You ’ll see some friendly , familiar look . You ’ll see Dick Grayson at some point this yr — he ’s come . It was an interesting set of choice because it was like , ' Is he a kid , or is he a grown - up ? ' Because if Barbara is a grown - up and he ’s a kid , is that too weird ? So , you know , what if he ’s a grown - up ? Who would he be ? And then that open up this whole door . You ’ll see some favorable Bat fictitious character and some vicious Bat characters , all arrive before long . "
Might Mayor Jim Gordon be making a move on Absolute Batman ’s still very live and pretty hot mother , Martha Wayne ? " A lot of the supporting cast , like Jim and Martha , have a really big plot . I really love what Martha does — Martha ’s the best . Barbara plays a really bighearted role in the Bane spark coming up too , and Leslie Thompkins is in stuff , too . They see a lot . We ’re go for it with this one — with everybody . You hear mentions of a bunch of citizenry too , and there ’ll be peripheral consultation you ’ll see in the next arc to a lot of the villain characters — or not always villainous , but characters you recognize as part of the gallery . So , you ’ll see references to Kirk Langstrom and all those characters . "
Well , he has been write ahead . " I hope you may tell it ’s really plot for a long clip . The Bane arc is all plot , and that pick out us all the way through issue 15 . The next couple of government issue — I hump what they are because they ’re part of the launch of that series I was telling you about , the third - undulation stuff . Then the Joker arc — I’ve had that in my headland since I think of the flavour , what bump between these two . It might get pushed back — we might wind up doing some account in between . That ’s always what happens on an ongoing , withAmerican Vampire , with Batman itself . Sometimes you plan on doing an arc right away after another arc , and then you get an idea , and you ’re like , ' Actually , this will create an even bigger crescendo for that electric discharge , ' and I do n’t want to do that before I do more with this character . "
What about Absolute Joker?
And what about the Joker ? " I can already feel that kind of brewing where it ’s like , I do n’t do it if I want to get all the mode to Joker . Joker is n’t the terminal of the serial ; it is just a big tentpole moment . But I do n’t know if I desire to get to that before I search these other characters that might filter into it . So , it ’s plan out , but the minimum amount is through issue 24 . The maximum amount , if I added some of the things I ’m believe about , would be closer to 34 , I guess . "
And where is he now ? " Well , we ’re plat through 24 . The 2nd interstitial bow , mean the I between the Big Arc , is a two - issue story about Mr Freeze that ties into what you take in the first Arc and arrange up the 2d one , um , by Marcos Martin . You get the newfangled design of Mr Freeze . He ’s part of the whole Victor / Nora thing , but , um , I wo n’t give away precisely how he works , um , but he ’s vicious and everybody in the book is meaner and , like , the baddie are just tougher and meaner . I hump it . "
So what make out next ? " Starting with # 9 , it ’s a Bane Arc , which I ’m very unrestrained about , and it really deals with Ark M. Bruce is desperately prove to figure out what they ’re progress there and what it is underneath this prison , and it ’s like a real horror show . So you get , you get a bunch of villain revelation that go # 9 , # 10 , # 11 , # 12 , # 13 , # 14 . And then # 15 , # 16 , and # 17 are sort of another interstitial Arc with the riposte of a case who you ’ve seen a little number in the yesteryear , and then after that , we have Joker . "
So we are getting Joker , then . " Right now , that ’s where we ’re planning our Joker write up is . After that , I have n’t settle yet . There are a couple of things we might desire to do in between , like a piddling Scarecrow thing , and I ’m not sure . I keep deliver other estimate . Nick and I both keep experience idea of , but yeah , so it ’s design for a very foresighted clock time . I just write # 10 , so we ’re well ahead in terms of in terms of what ’s number . "
Winners And Losers
And thematically , for the Absolute Universe , he say , " These heroes are not pose to succeed right aside , not getting to know that their legal action are break down to win , and having villain in tremendous position of power , so I just cheer harder for them . I think they ’re more awesome , you know what I mean "
One exemplar comes inAbsolute Batman#6 , which Scott Snyder report as his favourite moment . " At one point in time , Batman is defend Black Mask . There ’s a mess of laughable moments that I love , but there ’s this one here and now where he ’s fight Black Mask , and Black Mask starts to tell him , if you opine this is move to have any impact , you intend what you ’re doing will do anything except lend down all the force of the nation , the system on your head , and Bruce just does n’t even let him land up a sentence . He just , like , rams him through the floor into a bowling alley and starts hitting him with bowling orb and , like , he punching him in the head , and he ’s just , like , tell me again that I do n’t matter , and he ’s , like , I love it , roar , I f - cking love it , and he ’s just beating on him , say , and I was just , like , that ’s who he is , like , that ’s who he is . He ’s , like , tell me again that I do n’t think of sh - t , that none of this matters , do it , because all it does is fire me . I do n’t give a farad - ck what you say , I ’m still going to do it , even if I eff this boat is sinking , and I ’m go to die , I do n’t care , I ’m still doing it . And that , it ’s so exciting to me to write characters like that , you bang , where you , there ’s just a different energy , because the universe has tilted against them in a big way , like , they ’re not , they do n’t have the power to win or mold a Justice League or that stuff , really , not , I mean , even in the smallest way … "
No Justice League ? More on that to come , I am sure … And the cognition thatChe Graysonis writing an Absolute Batman - refer comic . " Che Grayson , who I bonk to end , is doing one book that we have n’t announced yet . He ’s a good booster of mine , doing some stuff at Tiny Onion and has done some stuff at IDW . I ca n’t await for you hombre to see it — it ’s sort of in the Absolute Batman universe . "
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