Absolute Batman #1 had a quarter of a million copies ordered and a second printing on the way but it still isn't enough. Bleeding Cool's Jeremy Konrad tells us, "My god- I opened

Part of the brief, veteran Batman writer Scott Snyder tells Polygon, was modernization. “The challenge with the Absolute Universe was: If you think about the world as it is now, and if you had the ability to change any of the contextual elements about the character,

Batman grew up as a childhood friend of Catwoman, Riddler, Two-Face, Penguin, and Killer Crock in DC's Absolute Universe.