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With the launch of this fall's Absolute Universe, a new version of Batman is about to hit comic store shelves - and he's unlike anything fans have seen before. ScreenRant spoke with creators Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta to discuss their Absolute take on Bruce Wayne, which includes a new origin, new friends, a new career, and so much more.
Nick Dragotta: I mean, you need a massive symbol for a massive Batman. All my designs are dictated by story. And the character of this book, and particularly this Bruce, he’s someone— you know, in every way we're going bigger. So it's a bigger Batman. It's a bigger Bruce. As an artist and a designer, I thought about the practical nature of the symbol and who this character is. And first and foremost, that symbol was for protection. So it's going to protect his vitals.
It meant that instead of being associated with the system and with order that he would be that small amount of chaos and anarchy. And his villains would be the things that sort of held the system together in that way. And so that sort of demanded a size to him that would feel almost like a primal beast, like this force of nature in Gotham. As opposed to somebody that has to pretend to be rich and powerful and wear a tuxedo. He could be unleashed in that way, because he's nobody.
SR: Yeah, it was really exciting to see everyone talking so passionately online about a comic that hadn't even come out yet, and specifically about the design of a comic as opposed to story decisions or anything. I feel like that kind of goes under-discussed a lot in comic circles. So I wanna stick with Nick for a second because I love the way you were talking about your design choices, how these design choices fit into the story and the character.
When you draw comics, these characters grow and evolve. And the costume, Bruce, my Batman will grow and evolve as I get more comfortable drawing this massive guy. How Are the Core Elements of Batman Preserved in Absolute Batman? And How Are They Completely Stripped Back? Close SR: You know, I teach creative writing at a university, and I've been spending a lot of time this week sending feedback to my intro poetry students, and I promise this has a point, because I've been asking them the whole week, literally constantly, to embrace the strange and unexpected in their writing, in their poetry.
He’s still the kid with the impossible fuel to make sure that the same thing doesn't happen to anyone else. ND: For me, it's the process, and just the act of doing. You know, talking so much with Scott about the story and these characters and then going and drawing so like, going back to your poetry students, you'll find something in just the act of writing. So it's just very much like just the act of me and Scott doing this is leading to all these— I don't want to say happy accidents.
ND: I'm trying to draw violence that the reader feels. And I always think less is more. The reader will inject more of themselves into your story if you give them the pieces, but not all of it. So I like to start there. And then when you see Bruce, he's a big dude and he's always in his gear. He doesn't have to have a secret identity, really, because he's a nobody in our book. No one's going to be looking for this guy. But the way he carries himself, I think it's so believable when you see our Bruce. He's not the flamboyant playboy at all, and he looks like he would just fit right in and live among us.
I almost feel like our Batman or our Bruce wouldn't get along with the classic Bruce that I wrote before? He really is more of a guerrilla fighter. He works in the power grid and then he works in the sewers and then he interns at City Hall. He knows the city like the back of his hand and he hasn't been able to travel the world. He hasn't trained with the best people everywhere. He has to be resourceful in a different way.
SS: This might be a minor spoiler, but for example, in this version, Bruce grows up in Park Row. Crime Alley. And he knows all these kids from childhood, so he knows the Penguin and Riddler and all these characters around the neighborhood. The scariest thing for me in all of superhero comics, or comics in general, is to come back and do more Batman, and I feel like I made it out alive, having done books that I was proud of. So it isn't easy at all. It's the biggest challenge, and it's why we wanted to do it for All In, as part of the initiative. But you know, this book really will be, I promise, surprising, true to core, but also really bold.
SR: One last question before I let you get on with your days! What are you most looking forward to in the other Absolute books other than your own?
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