Cover: Nick Dragotta

Absolute Batman #3

Feb 2025 · DC · 4.99 USD

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“The Zoo, Part Three of Five”

The third chapter of Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta's "The Zoo" arc arrives with a cover that commands attention — a massive, silhouetted Batman looms from above against a blood-red sky, his cape spreading like dark wings over a gun-wielding figure below who stands ready for a fight. Dragotta's composition brilliantly emphasizes the sheer physical scale of this Absolute Batman, making him feel genuinely imposing against the gritty brick-and-shadow backdrop. Part three of five, this issue keeps the tension of the arc building with the creative team of Snyder, Dragotta, and colorist Frank Martin firing on all cylinders.

writer Scott Snyder · artist, inker Nick Dragotta · colorist Frank Martin · letterer Clayton Cowles · cover Nick Dragotta

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Written by Scott Snyder, illustrated and covered by Nick Dragotta, colored by Frank Martin, lettered by Clayton Cowles; published December 18, 2024 (cover date February 2025).
First in-person appearance of Absolute Universe Selina Kyle: she appears in a childhood flashback set the night of Thomas Wayne's death, teaching young Bruce rooftop wire-walking and taking him to a Zorro screening — a scene that rewires the Bat-mythology's most famous film reference.
First appearance of Absolute Universe Bibbo Bibbowski: reimagined from Superman's dockside pal into an MMA/wrestling champion and Black Mask's personal trainer; Roman Sionis breaks Bibbo's arm and chokes him unconscious during a meeting with Harvey Bullock.
End-issue plot pivot: Batman accepts Black Mask's offer to stand down in exchange for resources, a moral compromise unavailable to the wealthy mainstream Bruce Wayne and central to the series' working-class-hero thesis.
Confirms the dual identity of Roman Sionis and Black Mask within the narrative: Alfred, drawing on MI6 intelligence, explicitly names Sionis as Black Mask and leader of the Party Animals terrorist network to Batman during their Batmobile chase.
Eddie Nygma's proto-Riddler AI robot 'Al' decodes the Party Animals' Black Coin cryptocurrency network, seeding both the Riddler's technological character direction and the larger Ark M / JK Holdings conspiracy that drives the first arc.
Martha Wayne is established in-issue as accepting Mayor James Gordon's offer to serve as deputy mayor of Gotham — a role with no mainstream-continuity parallel, made possible by her survival in this continuity.
Harvey Bullock endorses Hamilton Hill's mayoral campaign over Gordon's in exchange for Sionis's resources, establishing the corrupt political subplot that runs through the first arc; the issue is collected in Absolute Batman Vol. 1: The Zoo.