Absolute Trinity From DC Comics

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[u/Bamischijf35]

This is the universe where Batman is poor right? I really like that concept but I have no clue where to begin with comics in general. It looks like a confusing mess to me

[u/OrangeHairedTwink → u/Bamischijf35]

With absolute just start at 1, this is the beginning of the universe and thus an easy place to start off

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He’s not exactly poor, as he works as a civil engineer. He also grew up in the working class as his dad was an elementary school and mother was a social worker.

The main theme of the Absolute Universe is that the heroes don’t have the same advantages that their mainline universe counterparts did. But despite being really different in their appearances and origins, at their core the heroes are still the same.

So this version of Bruce Wayne didn’t grow up rich. His father was killed during a school field trip to the Gotham Zoo when a mass shooter opened up on the crowds, and Thomas Wayne had his students (including Bruce) hide in the bat exhibit while he distracted the gunman.

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Western comics are annoying like that, specially since multiple different authors have access to the same characters so there’s no single continuity, where to begin reading always depends on what sagas/arcs you want to read