Absolute Batman #1 introduces a serious Joker.
that Batman’s rogues gallery “will be more powerful” and “have more resources” in this new universe, where it’s Bruce Wayne — re-imagined as a scrappy engineer raised in Crime Alley without the wealth and resources of his DCU counterpart — who is “That includes Roman Sionis, a.k.a. Black Mask, a connoisseur of death masks and leader of The Party Animals gang that has single-handedly raised Gotham’s murder rate by 700 percent.
Batman is an axe-wielding, bone-breaking beast who brutalizes his opponents with near-fatal precision. Using his spiked cape and horned cowl ears as knives, the Dark Knight draws the attention of Alfred Pennyworth: an MI6 agent sent to Gotham City to clean up the “zoo.”Alfred deduces that the Batman is 24-year-old engineer Bruce Wayne, a former star college football player raised in Gotham’s Crime Alley by his social worker mother and his teacher father.
Agent Pennyworth spent five years tracking him across the globe as he trained with Henri Ducard and the shadowy League of Assassins, only to then kill them. At a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Manila, a pilot instructs his co-pilot to refer to their passenger — one of “the thirty richest men on the planet” — only as “sir.” The target has used aliases like “Jack” and “Arthur,” a nod to Jack Nicholson’s Jack Napier in 1989’s“The guy never laughs. Not at anything. Ever,” the pilot says.
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