Scott Snyder’s Absolute Batman Vol. 2 was a parade of grotesqueries, overlaying on Batman some of Snyder’s horror chops. Kelly Thompson’s second volume of Absolute Wonder Woman was also good, but with nowhere near the intensity of the Batman volume.
Jason Aaron’s Absolute Superman Vol. 2: Son of the Demon falls into the Absolute Batman category, with visceral chapters of torture and murder, perhaps such to show that as far as the Absolute Universe is concerned, DC is “not just for kids anymore” (again). Of course, given that the central character is still a guy in a red cape who can fly, some of that darkness in this book is inherently mitigated, and for better or worse with every step we get closer to an Absolute Superman indistinguishable from his mainstream counterpart.
