io9 sat down with Absolute Batman team Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta to discuss reshaping Batman—literally and metaphorically—for a new age.
of the classic trinity of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman—which has already announced a second printing for its sold-out debut issue, and received rave early reviews ahead of its launch next week, and also Absolute Batman, this new take on Bruce Wayne.
“I was thinking about my kids, the things that they’re up against in the world, their view of things as as more difficult and what aspects of Bruce feel unrelatable,” Scott Snyder—the superstar writer returning to DC after years focusing on creator-owned work to team onwith artist Nick Dragotta, colorist Frank Martin, and letterer Clayton Cowles—told io9 over Zoom.
An initiative is a little different than an event. You know, an initiative, it feels like when the entire company really collectively joins forces to make a mission statement and say, “This is what we’re about at this moment.” Every single book is a part of it. It’s less of a driving event or narrative than it is a sensibility. It’s about saying who we are in a kind of, yeah, almost putting your stamp on how you want to be seen at that moment. And so Josh and I really started talking.
io9: Nick, what was the process for you when you first started hearing about these plans and this initiative? What drew you to the idea of not just working on theI received a call out of the blue from Scott. He texted me and said, ‘Do you mind, this is Scott Snyder?’ I’ve never met him before—just briefly once, and shook his hand and that was it—and he texted me, said, “Can you get on the phone real quick? I’d like to talk to you.
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