Whenever there's a new Batman movie, the jokes fly about how we all will again have to watch Bruce Wayne's parents be murdered, gunned down in an alleyway before their young sons' eyes, setting him on the path to (dark) knighthood.

Folie à Deux puts the spotlight on Arthur Fleck and Lee Quinzel, is there room for Bruce Wayne and his future alter-ego, Batman? Here's everything you need to

Check out the preview for Absolute Batman #1, where Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta strip the Dark Knight of his wealth and gadgets. Can Batman still save Gotham without his billions?

The first issue of Absolute Batman went on sale earlier today and, if you've grown tired of the Dark Knight's all-too-familiar origin story and supporting cast, then this is definitely the comic for

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.