Overview
- The issue was released Wednesday, October 28, 2026, and is available through major digital storefronts and comic retailers.
- Creator Scott Snyder wrote the issue with art by Nick Dragotta, colors by Frank Martin, and letters by Clayton Cowles, and he says #25 will reshape the series going forward.
- Reviews praise the issue’s visceral visuals and heavy tone while describing it as the first major, long‑teased face‑off between Batman and the Joker in this alternate universe.
- Absolute Batman reimagines Bruce Wayne as impoverished and the Joker as powerful, a premise Snyder says grew from a cultural moment of superhero fatigue after Avengers: Endgame.
- DC and Snyder plan the series through issue #50, with a November one‑shot and a January Barbara Gordon issue filling the pause before Act II resumes in early 2027.