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I mean, the movie has a comparatively smaller budget, and is going to be shown in China (which always seems to be a big boost to a movie's box office) so it should be fine, probably.

Heck, even with Superman 2025 there were people who rushed to call it a bomb, despite it having a shortened time in cinemas and apparently did really well in streaming etc. afterwards.

More previews for Batman: Caped Crusader Season Two (out 31st July)

Huh, looks like Detective Flass is still a cop after murdering Harvey Dent last season.

Another look at the Batman: Caped Crusader version of the Joker, who appears to be doing a reference to a panel from the original debut story of the character from all the way back in the 1940s.

Plus a look, via IGN, of some of the new characters being introduced.

Including, a female version of the Mad Hatter!

The Riddler

Firefly potentially? Maybe the Scarecrow, who is meant to be appearing this season?

The Grey Ghost... Wait, is that Carrie Kelley again?

Their interesting version of Harley returns!

Mr Freeze potentially, with a Commander Codie-inspired helmet (he was referenced in the Harley episode in the previous season)? EDIT: Oh, it's Roxie Rocket! That makes the Commander Codie look make more sense.

I mean, it's not really changed the ending to Peacemaker, it just means that for the past two years Lex Luthor has been manipulating Rick Flagg and Argus into abducting metahumans and sending them to another planet/dimension as a kind of Rick and Morty-Australia situation.

My best guess is that when Brainiac shows up, it turns out to be too large a threat for Clark to handle on his lonesome (like how the Justice Gang had to help out stopping the invasion Lex was involved with while Superman dealt with the dimensional rift Lex had opened in Metropolis)...

While I am largely liking Absolute Batman (Absolute Wonder Woman is my actual favourite though), I will admit to being a little sad that James Tynion IV convinced Scott Snyder to write Absolute Batman himself instead of James.

Like, yeah I get that Tynion is happy with his indie stuff these days (one banger after another) and I am a fan of Scott Snyder's writing, I'm just really curious what Tynion's take would have been.

What with how both writers come from a horror comics background and are both politically left-leaning, Tynion generally tends to be more overtly political with his work, with use of timely social commentary, and at least of his protagonists will be explicitly LGBTQ (such as Ghost-Maker or the current bi version of Julia Pennyworth, whom he co-created with Snyder), while Snyder's politics tend to be a bit more broad and secondary to the story (the corruption of the wealthy and the military is a frequent topic in his work, however) and focusing more on bombastic absurdity than the more subtle stuff Tynion has done with the characters.

Theoretically? I could see a Tynion-headed Absolute Batman being more in-line with Pornsak Pichetshote's work on Absolute Green Arrow, but lacking the absurd over the top action and characters (such as how Abs!Bruce making up for his lack of ninja training by being physically enormous and yoked) it might not have gathered as much of an audience?

As someone else said on the costume reveal post, Lex's armour appears to have the Argus logo on it.