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Absolute Batman (1): The Zoo

Scott Snyder

published: 2024, read: 10/10/25
192 pages, genre: Graphic Novel
rating: 7/10, normalized: 6.667/10
-0.23σ worse than average
-0.627σ or -0.395/10 worse than average in Graphic Novel genre
-0.708σ or -0.167/10 worse than average by Scott Snyder

Interesting alternate universe where Bruce Wayne isn't a biollionare, nor a full-on orphan. Gordon is Mayor, Martha Wayne is deputy, Bruce is a boot-strapped (YOLKED) engineer vigilante with deep-seeded anger towards his father's killer (a mass shooter). The villain, like all Batman villains, tries to break Batman by showing him the depravity of the people of Gotham he's trying to defend; using some crypto masks which put bounties on heads and crimes. Jackedman is way more violent, but still somehow non-lethal (except maybe for the Sionis guy, who somehow kept talking after getting eye-daggers).

This volume contains the first six issues and was good enough for me to pickup the next volume

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