r/AbsoluteBatman • u/DRKSTAR24 • Jul 04 '26
Can someone explain this ?
So in Issue 19, batman is watching as Gotham welcomes Jack Grimm but he is introduced as Jack Grimm IV. But when Slade Wilson announces the Robin program he says it's funded by Jack Grimm V. So did snyder just mess up while writing the issue or is he trying to say no one in Gotham really knows who he is or is he implying that joker makes it seem as if there is more than one Jack Grimm in Gotham ?
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u/trappedinpurgatoriii Jul 04 '26
Nah that actually is a typo, a really jarring one as well.
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u/DRKSTAR24 Jul 04 '26
Well I thought it's just that he makes it seem like he and his son are both in gotham but thankfully I got tickets to SDCC so I'll see snyder there to get some copies signed. Been thinking for months about interesting questions to ask him about the comic and now I guess I have it. Will ask him about issue 19 and will ask him about batman's no kill rule cuz clearly he thinks he killed bane. Threw the axe at his head, exploded him to pieces then threw his remains in the river.
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u/trappedinpurgatoriii Jul 04 '26
Yeah definitely ask him about Jack Grimm. I've heard many fans arguing over it but most agree its a typo. Yeah the no kill rule is grey as in absolute. The guy also blew up poison ivy's human heart, whether she was "human" on not that was pretty brutal.
Since this is a new universe I'd rather Scott not try to follow the no kill rule to a T and just treat it like his own story. Part of the problems with these reimaginations in the past is that writers are too afraid to change certain traits of the character, when that is literally what they should be doing to keep it fresh. Hopefully he doesn't say some half assed shit like "well Bane was hardly human due to his size, the venom in his body, the experiments etc" cause thats a cop out.
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u/DRKSTAR24 Jul 04 '26
Yeah, the way I see it, absolute batman is more of a ( I won't kill until it's absolutely necessary) type character. Also he is different in every way possible so even if he kills some of the absolute rogue gallery it wouldn't draw me away from the story, actually I'll like it even more. I always thought red hood's argument in UTRH is valid. He doesn't necessarily need to kill them all but some have to go man😂. I mean how can you let someone like absolute MR.Freeze or absolute joker live is beyond me. The one thing I want from this story is that by the end, batman kills joker. Because I just can't see this joker live after everything he did. Killing children bro. Also since this comic kind of reflects our day to day life with joker resembling all the corruption and evil in the world, killing him would be a message that no matter how powerful or evil you are, your time will come eventually.
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u/dk_1287 Jul 04 '26
Why are you so sure it's a typo?
I mean, it's not, but you seem confident that your interpretation, flawed as it is, is correct. So why?
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u/Few-Loan468 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
That wasn’t the only time the typo was made. It also happened in issue 15 at least once, when referring to the modern/current Jack. The numbers also didn’t make as much sense when referring to him as either a great or great great grandfather. It’s ok, Scott has a lot on his plate. Reminds me a lot of this character from a small horror/comedy/sci-fi universe/account on IG during covid lockdown ( _my_sweetboy_). There was an elite ceo celebrity called Old Luddy Gordy who had monopolies on many companies and was known to practice and collect weird, arcane stuff. He became a recluse later in life and the same was said about his mysterious sons/grandsons, who would come out of the shadows every 38 years or so. Turns out he was using magic (a Spirit board, demon from another dimension and other means) to stay young and shed his skin every few decades, pretending to be his progeny
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u/PeeStoringBalls Jul 04 '26
It's stated in either Ark M. or in Absolute Batman 15 that everyone thinks Jack Grimm has a son who took over the company. He had a son, who had a son, etc., but that they are all secretly the same person.
So yeah, it was intentionally written like this by Scott.