The Absolute Universe Gave DC a Nice Comics 12 months

In 2024, DC Comics launched the Absolute Universe, which provided fascinating new spins on A-listers like Batman, Marvel Lady, Superman, and Flash. Your complete line simply accomplished its first full yr, and the writer used the chance to brag about how good it’s doing. And spoiler: it’s doing actually good.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, your entire line has offered 8.2 million copies up, as of November 2025. The massive earner is Absolute Batman, Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta’s very viral ongoing that sees a blue collar (and fairly huge) Bruce Wayne fight crime and reinvented variations of his classic enemies in Gotham. That guide accounts for 35% of the Absolute guide’s success—so round 3 million copies total—and its first problem is now on its tenth printing. Its five-bestselling books of 2025 embody the current Absolute Batman #15, Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee’s Batman #158, Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez’s Batman #1, the writer’s Batman/Deadpool crossover, and Snyder and Javier Fernandez’s DC K.O. #1.

Anne DePies, DC’s basic supervisor, credited the choice to maintain the universe in its personal continuity as an enormous win, ditto its “recent look that inverted the basics of our characters, and it’s an replace that stunned our followers. It’s not so overwhelming that we’re altering every thing directly. That made an enormous distinction. We knew it was going to do properly, however we didn’t know it could do that properly.”

Even past Batman, the vast majority of Absolute books are reportedly doing higher than 2011’s New 52 and 2016’s Rebirth relaunches. These 5 particular books weren’t listed by THR, which is the one outlet to see these retail numbers, but it surely did be aware that Absolute Martian Manunter from Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez has gotten orders within the six figures, one thing outstanding contemplating Manhunter’s not high-tier like his fellow headliners.

That guide shall be ending quickly, however the Absolute books will proceed for apparently so long as its varied inventive groups need, so if a selected guide’s caught your eye, go forward and bounce in.

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