Absolute Batman #1-13 /// My review
It probably comes as no surprise to most of you reading that I enjoy Batman comics. As a player of Cyberpunk 2020 and consumer of cyberpunk culture, I'm deeply invested in the slightly dystopian technobabble of modern Batman comics. I can trace my personal journey to a contingent point of no return , namely the launch of the Dark Knights: Metal run written Scott Snyder and penciled by Greg Capullo. This spiraled into an obsession for me, as I had briefly read Watchmen as a kid (and understood none of it), loved Alan Moore's V for Vendetta and was familiar with some Batman storylines through my childhood memories of BTAS and Justice League . I won't speak at length about my journey reading comics - but Dark Knights kickstarted it and, a few months later, I was crawling at DC's doorstep for more White Knight . One of my favorite types of comics are Elseworlds and the like, where the main run of a character isn't touched - rather, a single author gets to throw a j...