It really is gonna be his "Uncle Ben" moment. His dad was dead but he couldn't do anything. Here, Martha might get hurt or even die, because he *chose* to not do anything.
She gets wounded, end up in the hospital. Bruce rushes to the hospital but she dies before he can get to her. He's filled with remorse and RAGE, bursting out of the hospital not caring about the deal--kaching! Turns out the week had just ended just as Bruce was about to burst out of the hospital and so he gets the notification that hundreds of millions of dollars have been donated into his account. And Bruce feels like Judas and he gets blind stinking drunk. His friends catch up to him, after hearing news of the deputy mayor's death and they drag him, forcibly, with great effort home. Selina draws the short straw and stays overnight to watch over him. Bruce wakes around noon with a major hangover headache and in his boxers. Selina had stripped off his clothes, soaked in booze, and put them in a the wash. Selina tells him she could take the day off to watch over him but he insists he's fine. She tells him she made a pot of coffee and she'll go to work for the half day and leaves. Bruce barely pours a cuppa when the doorbell rings. Bruce opens it to see Pennyworth, looking from waving at Selina as her bus arrives at the bus stop, and then apologizing, not realizing Bruce would take solace with a ladyfriend only for Bruce to drop his cup and bodily drags Pennyworth inside and slam the door. As the bus leaves we see glimpses through the windows of the fist fight going on. Inside Alfred stops and says he quit his agency and is willing to help Bruce as penance for his mom's death. His skills are Bruce's. He works for Bruce, no charge.
I like the ending because main line batman would never accept a deal like this. Or would have some insane convoluted plan but in the real world sometimes you have to make morally questionable choices to be a hero.
Batman makes morally questionable decisions all the time, like Keeping the Joker and his other villains alive, having contingencies against his friends and himself (that have backfired seriously many times in the comics I.e. Tower of Babel and Failsafe). Recruits children to fight with him even after one was tortured and died.
@@Zechariah_Mathieson1871contingency plans for basically gods who get mind controlled weekly isn’t that morally questionable. Would you rather he’s nice and let’s he potentially let’s them slaughter their families and destroy the world or would you rather he non lethally incapacitates them
Bruh I think the entire planet earth is thinking the same thing like it's really starting to get confusing like they have some of the best material and they just go off script with these directors trying to be creative like it is crazy
It just hit me, that the Party Boys are "barrowing" from the John Wick films. The way the masks work are like their network, black coins are gold coins, etc.
You know I just click on rob vids mindlessly as I’m doing my work, and the second I saw this was new Absolute Batman I said OH MY GOD and stomped my feet like a child. Just had to put that out there, thanks Rob.
IDK how you could possibly confuse that with a bulldozer. It's wild that a blind man can be so successful at reviewing a visual medium like comic books.
I feel so bad for this bruce because for the first time be is actually seeing the scale of what he is challenging and facing. Unlike canon bruce gotham usually faces small scale issues but this absolute batman/bruce is facing a much larger scale issue from a much weaker position
ngl if i was asked by a time travelling genie to see what would happen in the future and how it ends id grab him and look into his and ask *"tell me the whole Absolute Batman storyline. START TO FINISH."*
@keeganguyer5237 I saw someone mention that in Rob's 1st abs.batman video, I think. I'd love it, but then I wonder... do the former sidekicks all become villains/heads of crime families/syndicates? 🤔
@@Rage_Templar Brother Eye most likely. A super intelligence who knows anything all around the world ? Yeah. Amazo is not really "Batman centric" villain so feels better to have that.
Not gonna acknowledge black mask breaking his arm with a cross armbar , his leg with what looks like to be a kneebar and then knocking him out with a rear naked choke comics explained lol
Soooo interesting like u can't wait to see how all this ends it's gonna be epic and now you know look at the lesson he's learning right here that no matter how much of a hero you want to be look how the money play the part so now we have to look back at the prime universe Batman and be like okay if you didn't have money would you have all that I don't kill and this and that like it really puts in the question of what Bruce Wayne really is in the prime universe
I like that Black Mask is getting a little bit of respect in absolute Batman. Lately he's just been a punchline or a means to an end. It still may happen but as of right now he seems like a dope villain once again.
That last panel is an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS move to make 😂. That panel is either going to lead us into the greatest Batman story told or the worst Batman story told 😂😂
I love the fact that I’m up and current with DC comics and I can come hear to listen to his take and he clears some of my questions as well Love Rob and his channel I wish I had nerdy friends to geek out with about this stuff but Rob is second best 😂
Hills head in that last frame of his, looks like a possible candidate for the Joker. i say that based on features. odd little smile, way the hair line is, etc.
This is a Parody of who Batman is, he’s supposed to be an Underdog despite all his wealth. A man with weaknesses that can only be seen when he wears a bat costume to fight insane people by Himself in secret. You take this poetic character and drown out all the subtlety until “aBsOlUtE BaTmAN” is the remainder.
My guess is Bruce takes the deal and leaves town to investigate the other Ark sites. While hes gone the party animals are going to attempt to assassinate Gotdon and his mom is going to get shot protecting him in some way. Then when bruce returns he'll start an all out war on Black Mask
All the Batman villains being set up are fire as fuck for this verse, but above them all, with the corruption and tone of Gotham we are having set up so early.....The Court would be *hella* interesting in this verse.
Because I’m not seeing anyone talk about it ARK M is going to end up being Arkham asylum. Just as simple as skipping the space between ARK and M and you have ARKM. A terrible place where human experiments are a regular and human rights basically don’t exist makes for a perfect place for most of Batman’s villains to be made.
Am I tripping. I thought Alfred was a former solider of fortune. At least it was portrayed that way before. Maybe in a TV show or something, but I definitely remember him being that in something before this. Point being this isn't the first time his background was a mercenary....right?
Maaaaaaan i cant wait for issue 4! Something majors going to happen and itll be a turning point for bruce. All ima say is if something happens to his mom hell itself will come for whoever did it in the form of a bat
Absolute Batman: "This is the darkest moment of my life."
Absolute Joker: "The darkest moment of your life SO FAR."
Ah ya beat me to u
Yeah , mayor Hill's smile kinda gives it away.
Wait, WHAT?!
@@Darth_Bateman take a good, close look at Hill's big smile and hairstyle
I don't think he's Joker.we met joker in the first issue, he's like a hitman and i believe another of Bruce's old childhood friends
Martha is gonna get hurt during this week Bruce takes off and it’s gonna mess him up. He’ll come back and turn the memorial light into the bat symbol
It really is gonna be his "Uncle Ben" moment.
His dad was dead but he couldn't do anything. Here, Martha might get hurt or even die, because he *chose* to not do anything.
So batman but with spidermans origin ?
and he’s gonna become a god damn Demon. Kinda funny Snyders Batman feels like the evolution of Absolute Batman.
She gets wounded, end up in the hospital. Bruce rushes to the hospital but she dies before he can get to her. He's filled with remorse and RAGE, bursting out of the hospital not caring about the deal--kaching! Turns out the week had just ended just as Bruce was about to burst out of the hospital and so he gets the notification that hundreds of millions of dollars have been donated into his account.
And Bruce feels like Judas and he gets blind stinking drunk. His friends catch up to him, after hearing news of the deputy mayor's death and they drag him, forcibly, with great effort home.
Selina draws the short straw and stays overnight to watch over him. Bruce wakes around noon with a major hangover headache and in his boxers. Selina had stripped off his clothes, soaked in booze, and put them in a the wash. Selina tells him she could take the day off to watch over him but he insists he's fine. She tells him she made a pot of coffee and she'll go to work for the half day and leaves.
Bruce barely pours a cuppa when the doorbell rings. Bruce opens it to see Pennyworth, looking from waving at Selina as her bus arrives at the bus stop, and then apologizing, not realizing Bruce would take solace with a ladyfriend only for Bruce to drop his cup and bodily drags Pennyworth inside and slam the door. As the bus leaves we see glimpses through the windows of the fist fight going on.
Inside Alfred stops and says he quit his agency and is willing to help Bruce as penance for his mom's death. His skills are Bruce's. He works for Bruce, no charge.
@@StuartRobertson-y4n No, this is still Batman. It's just not happening all at once.
Main Universe Batman's super power: Being rich
Absolute Batman's weakness: Being poor
"It's expensive to be poor."
Oh, Bruce. You're about to learn THAT lesson!
Duality.
How is he supposed to maintain his insane muscle mass on one pack of ramen a day? 🤣
Superman “Bruce, do you really need all this money?”
Batman “My grocery bill is $30,000/month”
Flash “Damn that’s more than I eat!”
@@sebastiannock942 gotham rats grows abnormally big it packed with protein and venom chemicals
I hope the Absolute Universe stays
If it stays this good expect either a new live action universe or a new animated universe
@@gregviewsthe comics are enough
@@gregviewsI would like a animated movie but a whole universe is asking for a bit much for me
Definitely cuz I'm an absolute universe Wonder woman fan like she is the s*** real talk that's Wonder woman
My crew is big and it keeps getting bigger
That's why Edward is my Nygma
~Absolute Batman, 2024
Ayyyyyyo
I like the ending because main line batman would never accept a deal like this. Or would have some insane convoluted plan but in the real world sometimes you have to make morally questionable choices to be a hero.
main batman also isn't tempted by two hundred million dollars
@@suckerphreemain line batman has no need for 200 million dollars. The man is a billionaire
I don't think he'll end up taking the deal. Killing the whole "working class Batman" thing literally 4 issues into the comic would kinda suck I'm ngl
Batman makes morally questionable decisions all the time, like Keeping the Joker and his other villains alive, having contingencies against his friends and himself (that have backfired seriously many times in the comics I.e. Tower of Babel and Failsafe). Recruits children to fight with him even after one was tortured and died.
@@Zechariah_Mathieson1871contingency plans for basically gods who get mind controlled weekly isn’t that morally questionable. Would you rather he’s nice and let’s he potentially let’s them slaughter their families and destroy the world or would you rather he non lethally incapacitates them
Why is it so difficult for DC to transfer these awesome comic books and source material onto the silver screen?? This Absolute-verse is amazing.
If it goes well enough, this may be one of the cooler iterations. The timing is rough though given that Gunn is just now kicking off a new DCU
@@jordan_unbound870 DC elseworlds and animation will still be there.
@dakotaskyes true. Just didn't wanna assume they'd get the same love if Gunn's projects perform well
@@jordan_unbound870 from what I can tell, Gunn has been supportive of those projects, with Harley Quinn getting another season and reeves' The Batman
Bruh I think the entire planet earth is thinking the same thing like it's really starting to get confusing like they have some of the best material and they just go off script with these directors trying to be creative like it is crazy
It just hit me, that the Party Boys are "barrowing" from the John Wick films.
The way the masks work are like their network, black coins are gold coins, etc.
You know I just click on rob vids mindlessly as I’m doing my work, and the second I saw this was new Absolute Batman I said OH MY GOD and stomped my feet like a child. Just had to put that out there, thanks Rob.
0:37 Yo, that impression had me 😅😅😂😂
"NERRRRP ACTUALLY!!!" lol who cares ❤
IDK how you could possibly confuse that with a bulldozer. It's wild that a blind man can be so successful at reviewing a visual medium like comic books.
I feel so bad for this bruce because for the first time be is actually seeing the scale of what he is challenging and facing. Unlike canon bruce gotham usually faces small scale issues but this absolute batman/bruce is facing a much larger scale issue from a much weaker position
The script is flipped.
I was getting withdrawal from this comic, it's so addicting
Honestly 😂
ngl if i was asked by a time travelling genie to see what would happen in the future and how it ends id grab him and look into his and ask *"tell me the whole Absolute Batman storyline. START TO FINISH."*
And it's like all of them Wonder woman Batman Superman the absolute universe is sick 💯
7:32 I didnt expect to be called out like that
I love this take on existing characters, kinda reminds me of marvel's ultimate universe, with more grounded characters.
I don't know why...but ''Party animals'' is a really great name for a villain crew don't you think? I kind love it
The animals are a criminal gang in cyberpunk.
The robot will become riddler. Nygma may even download himself into it.
Yea the living forever thing could be a potential hint but I expect yet another curve ball lol
@@jordan_unbound870 imagine that curve ball is that Absolute Bruce’s friends will become the Absolute Bat-family; something quite interesting.
@keeganguyer5237 I saw someone mention that in Rob's 1st abs.batman video, I think. I'd love it, but then I wonder... do the former sidekicks all become villains/heads of crime families/syndicates? 🤔
The Batman mission becomes compromised. this is something Batman would never do because he never had to.
8:11 could be a prototype Amazo ☝️🤓
or Brother Eye
@@Rage_Templar Brother Eye most likely. A super intelligence who knows anything all around the world ? Yeah.
Amazo is not really "Batman centric" villain so feels better to have that.
@@Juju2927brother eye most definitely
I thought so too. It certainly has the appearance of, but it's too soon to pull out that big gun. He'd demolish the triad now.
Finally, peak has returned!
I think the robot will be failsafe. brainiac is normally tied to superman, it'd be weird to tie him to batman
I dunno it looks riddler themed
HARDAC maybe?
@sandman45981 maybe or I've seen speculation brother eye
@kylecooper8088 what about Zeta?
@sandman45981 hmm maybe you never know honestly. I'm honestly excited
This is the only UA-cam series I’ve watched consistently in three years
I'm blown by Bruce's agreement to the deal, I can't imagine how this gonna end.
The cryptocurrency reveal for the black masks is so delightfully fucked up.
These fanfic darksaid be cooking kinda peak
Darkseid showing that jobber Barbatos how to do things right
Not gonna acknowledge black mask breaking his arm with a cross armbar , his leg with what looks like to be a kneebar and then knocking him out with a rear naked choke comics explained lol
No shot Bruce doesn’t intervene for a week. He won’t honour the deal
Absolute Batman is the most interesting Batman has been in a long long time.
Soooo interesting like u can't wait to see how all this ends it's gonna be epic and now you know look at the lesson he's learning right here that no matter how much of a hero you want to be look how the money play the part so now we have to look back at the prime universe Batman and be like okay if you didn't have money would you have all that I don't kill and this and that like it really puts in the question of what Bruce Wayne really is in the prime universe
@@toedish2103 My only problem with this series is waiting for the next issue.
10:16 this sounds like an idea that was taken from pyscho pass
I think the robot is the bat computer that will eventually be named ALfred, especially if bats and Alfred somehow stay in cahoots
I am loving this version of Batman! My favorite story of the Absolute Universe.
It's kinda like a good TV show, I wanna binge the whole thing. The waits in between are too long.
12:43 didnt Black Mask have some little girl who looked like so alien cat on his boat? Maybe he is actually making metahumans.
I like that Black Mask is getting a little bit of respect in absolute Batman. Lately he's just been a punchline or a means to an end. It still may happen but as of right now he seems like a dope villain once again.
9:55 AB: “question 2….where do I get some?”
Batman! That’s a good segway into doing a DC most powerful characters hierarchy that you promised!!
21:40 this is absolutely a scene from Morning Joe.
Dude. Batman is gonna turn that light into the bstsignal, someone is. You can FEEL IT.
Crypto bros being the bad guys is very funny lmao
'IT'S DARK .. AND HELL IS HOT' - ABSOLUTE BATMAN
The more I hear about this universe the more hype I get about the absolute justice league
4:17 EJECTO SEATO 😂😂😂
What the entire series does is bring back suspense to the comics
Its nice not knowing where this goes
We trust the past more than we trust the future.
That quote is so profound!
Dude loves himself so much he has "bat boots". LOL
It would be great if Batman’s response to Hill was to turn the Zoo Shooting Memorial Light into the Batsignal as his way of saying no deal.
Dang! These ABSOLUTE titles keep getting better and better!
I want to see "Absolut Batman", where he just sits in a chair all night drinking mediocre vodka.
That last panel is an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS move to make 😂. That panel is either going to lead us into the greatest Batman story told or the worst Batman story told 😂😂
Fuck yeah, _finally,_ another Comic.
And a continuation at that!
I really hope you finish all of them!
15:41 i was thinking moreso that this could be the early framework for brother eye
Right on time!!!
12:01 Bruce looks like Akira.
As SOON as he said “J.K. Holdings” I knew it was time 🤣
Picked up my copy today. Great stuff!
Beer check food check absolute batman check
Banger night fr
Missed opportunity to put the bat signal on the city zoo light
I’m ashamed of how clever I think “Ark M” is.
We can all argue that absolute Batman is 🔥so far
I love the fact that I’m up and current with DC comics and I can come hear to listen to his take and he clears some of my questions as well
Love Rob and his channel
I wish I had nerdy friends to geek out with about this stuff but Rob is second best 😂
Okay so that memorial light is OBVIOUSLY gonna become the Bat Signal right??? So sick man!
Perfect timing dawg
It's gonna turn into the Bat Signal. 😅
Hills head in that last frame of his, looks like a possible candidate for the Joker. i say that based on features. odd little smile, way the hair line is, etc.
"fear is the most powerful emotion...." Don't tell Hal Jordan that 😂
This is a Parody of who Batman is, he’s supposed to be an Underdog despite all his wealth. A man with weaknesses that can only be seen when he wears a bat costume to fight insane people by Himself in secret. You take this poetic character and drown out all the subtlety until “aBsOlUtE BaTmAN” is the remainder.
That robot in Riddler‘s warehouse reminds me more of early stage Amazo tbh
3:57
I think you meant “do the ends justify the means” not the other way around 😂
Distinction without a difference
I just watched your first two videos last night, so this is a treat
😂😂😂 he did a "ejecto seat cuz...HAHA"
~ Roman Pearce
Thank you 🙏
Thats right we’re talking about Batman’s dump truck…..
feel like in this universe batman will makes his friends become villains somehow the way he keeps asking them for their input and help
Fantastic.
If that robot is not Brainiac, it should be the Oracle.
Please consider covering the image comics energon universe
instead of being a guy who reads comics he could have been a therapist 6:42
My guess is Bruce takes the deal and leaves town to investigate the other Ark sites. While hes gone the party animals are going to attempt to assassinate Gotdon and his mom is going to get shot protecting him in some way. Then when bruce returns he'll start an all out war on Black Mask
All the Batman villains being set up are fire as fuck for this verse, but above them all, with the corruption and tone of Gotham we are having set up so early.....The Court would be *hella* interesting in this verse.
Sacrificing your life just to be morally righteous is so stupid
Precisely the type of thinking that brings the downfall of humanity
This batman would probably give some of that money to his friends and burn the rest.
"What could possibly go wrong."
- |Bruce| probably.
Because I’m not seeing anyone talk about it
ARK M is going to end up being Arkham asylum. Just as simple as skipping the space between ARK and M and you have ARKM.
A terrible place where human experiments are a regular and human rights basically don’t exist makes for a perfect place for most of Batman’s villains to be made.
I don’t know for some odd reason it makes me laugh when I think this Batmobile has a bathroom in it!!!
Hmm Mayor Hill looks like a lot like a pre joker
Brother eye for sure
I was thinking Absolute Brother Eye too
Thomas Wayne was killed by Alfred... calling it now
Am I tripping. I thought Alfred was a former solider of fortune. At least it was portrayed that way before. Maybe in a TV show or something, but I definitely remember him being that in something before this. Point being this isn't the first time his background was a mercenary....right?
Not a dump truck anymore!!
A week without batman? ok. The question is, will it be a week without the rogue's gallery?
This is the true origin!!! Wow
I love this version of Batman
Is it me or did the unconscious Bibbo look a lot like Solomon Grundy?
Happy Wednesday everyone!
Sooooo..after initial ad, the video intro started with him saying the ending of "absolute batman" so i heard "lewd batman" and was not ready 😅
Oh, what absolute Bruce Wayne had to go through here………..
You mean Brother Eye not Brainiac. He could even be a prototype Failsafe. Brainiac is a superman problem. 😂😂😂
I did not expect him to take the deal ngl😢
Maaaaaaan i cant wait for issue 4! Something majors going to happen and itll be a turning point for bruce. All ima say is if something happens to his mom hell itself will come for whoever did it in the form of a bat
This Batman story is great
Bruce better be lying and yeah obviously that memorial light will be the new bat signal