Scott Snyder has loads of causes to be joyful. Final yr, he launched Absolute Batman, the first title in DC’s Absolute line, and it was successful. The primary subject grew to become the best-selling comedian of 2024, and every subsequent subject has scored excessive on the gross sales charts. The opposite Absolute titles, resembling Absolute Superman and Absolute Wonder Woman, are doing properly with readers and critics.
This isn’t the first time Scott Snyder has used Batman to assist DC launch a brand new universe. In 2011, Scott Snyder grew to become the author for Batman when it was relaunched for DC’s New 52 publishing initiative. Nevertheless, Snyder says the Absolute expertise is far totally different than what DC was doing with the New 52.
“I strive and be fairly sincere as a lot as I can be,” Scott Snyder tells Popverse. “For the first 10 years I used to be at DC, for lots of causes, because of the transformative setting it was the place we had been shifting to LA, we had been purchased by AT&T, then you definitely’re purchased by Discovery. There’s numerous churns, numerous new bosses, and numerous fluidity. There was kind of I believe a push and pull between what we had been purported to be.”
“The 2 type of unusual binary relationships that fashioned between we’ve to do new, new, new, and throw out the predominant universe. And no, no, no, we’ve obtained to go traditional and re-embrace all the pieces that’s legacy and overlook. It all the time felt actually kind of counterintuitive to me and my fellow creators. You possibly can do each at the identical time and followers not solely settle for it however find it irresistible because it offers them totally different choices. Having DC rejoice that proper now has been an actual pleasure.”
For extra of Scott Snyder’s insights into the Absolute line’s success, try the full interview under:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C45xzwZ29tI