The performances are incredible, the casting choices sublime, and the screenplay itself (which Nolan co-wrote with his ...

Written by Scott Snyder, with art by Nick Dragotta, Absolute Batman #1 opens with a flashback showing Bruce Wayne as a child.

He turned down a fourth Batman film pitched by Warner Bros., sticking to Christopher Nolan’s vision for the trilogy. “Let’s not stretch too far and become overindulgent,” he declared ...