Absolute Batman

by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta

Young, broke Bruce Wayne tries to build Batman from scratch in a Gotham that doesn’t believe in him yet.

Geek’s cut

Comic-book storytelling with the density of a good tech spec: every panel doing double duty, every line of dialogue carrying lore, emotion, or both.

Deeper dive

This isn’t billionaire Batman doing victory laps; it’s the version where the gear barely works, the city doesn’t care, and every night feels like a prototype run. Snyder leans into raw obsession and urban paranoia, and it reads like watching a legend brute‑force itself into existence.