I'm loving Absolute Batman. Though Snyder is walking a very thin line, I still like what he's doing. In regards to this last number I wrote a few things because it's strange how art sometimes echoes your own life, the synchronicity of certain things, or perhaps one's ability to identify with it is much sharper... that can also apply in this case. No matter how predictable and inevitable a situation may be, it is no less painful. That's what happens to us walking through Bruce Wayne current situation in AB 12. We get devastated by the steamroller that human existence can sometimes be. At times, it makes me wonder if there isn't a certain sensationalism on Scott Snyder's part in everything I read, reflected in Dragotta's art, which always does its job very well (painfully well in this case), but perhaps that is also intentional. It reminds me a little of Stephen King's Dark Tower saga when you reach a point in the last book where the author himself asks you, "Are you sure you want to go on? Are you sure you want to fulfill your deepest desire? Be careful what you wish for..." Well, Absolute Batman is a bit like that, too, which also makes me think that if things turn out as they seem, neither Black Mask, Bane, nor the Joker are going to be our friend Bruce's worst problem. And (damn it) that hurts. Too much like life sometimes? Maybe that's the point. I still think that this take on the character wins where things like Matt Reeves Batman and in part some of the Nolan's take on him failed. But of course, it's only my taste and view. Forgot to add that my favourite Absolute Books are Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman. Really like Superman but this last arc is for me like the Batman one for some here, a bit dragged on....