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

Why can’t you see the funny side?” Joker asks Batman in The Killing Joke. “Why aren’t you laughing?” In Wednesday’s Absolute Batman #1 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta — a reinvention of the Dark Knight set in the new Absolute DC Universe — it’s the Joker who isn’t laughing.

These new versions of old heroes have the same heart as their predecessors, and they face the same challenges, but they have fewer resources at their disposal. Part of the brief, veteran Batman writer Scott Snyder tells Polygon, was modernization.