Absolute Batman reaches the penultimate chapter of its first story arc today, with part 5 of 'The Zoo.' In the new issue Batman meets with Black Mask, nominally with the intention of accepting his offer of $200m in order to leave the Party Animals free to terrorize Gotham. That's not quite how things go down, of course…
A couple of issues back Alfred described Bruce's entire personality as being "Batman AF." This is a Caped Crusader who is even more committed to the theatrical bit than his regular DC universe counterpart, one who is willing to make ever-more-extreme gestures in the cause of terrifying and wrong-footing his foes. In this month's issue he does so by putting a twist on a famous scene from The Dark Knight – then taking a quite improbable amount of punishment. Let's get into it…
