Daniel Warren Johnson is a fucking genius and I love him, never thought I’d live to see Batman break some dude’s arm while they’re doing the mustache man salute and then literally hit an One-Winged Angel on a corrupt cop and turn his head and spine into silly putty. Hope Chuck Dixon had an aneurysm from this, lol!
Issue is Absolute Batman Annual #1.
This comic is essentially the origin of his no-kill rule in the Absolute Universe!
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Later on the comic, a priest that had saved him from those same white supremacists earlier comes to give first aid to them, and Batman asks him “why”, and he responds with “It’s just my way. You have yours”. The thing is, this priest was good friends with Bruce’s father, and he even protested for peace alongside him in various anti-war protests, and Bruce is like “well I don’t think pops would like me killing people” while reflecting. I do think Bruce was going through Killer’s Remorse there, which pretty much cemented his idea to never kill anyone again. Altho, as we see in the regular run, I don’t think his pops said anything about not putting people in the ICU…
I mean to be fair, he absolutely wrecks dudes in the Arkham games.
I still think this is his most fucking unnecessarily violent knockout he had on Arkham City lol. Like, man, you just used that woman as a lockpick AND THEN gave her a left orbital bone fracture and 35 concussions, you did not have to violate shawty like that 😭😭
they’re sleeping!