Antifa Batman? Come On, DC Man

The Joker, Two-Face, the Penguin — in Absolute Batman, the rogues’ gallery is all guys that Wayne grew up with. Wayne wasn’t raised in a mansion but in Crime Alley. Wayne’s father is not a rich doctor and philanthropist but a school teacher at a state university. The Batman is created not as a result of a botched crime but by a mass shooting — at a zoo.

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As comic book reporter Joe George put it, “In other words, this is a complete reinvention of Batman for a new generation of readers. Not the tony crimefighter of the 1930s, but a rough and tumble underdog who sees chaos, not order, as a way to deliver justice.”

Ed Morrissey

There's a good and logical reason why Bruce Wayne was a billionaire -- to explain the technology he needed to use as a substitute for superpowers in other comic-book series. Almost alone in this genre, Batman's just a normal man (albeit with some martial-arts training in the Dark Knight incarnations). The only way to explain his success and dominance is his fortune and technical ingenuity. Otherwise, the whole concept is, well ... batty.

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