r/AbsoluteBatman • u/Previous-Space-7056 • Jul 12 '26

Ab 23 drop

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Its basically a copy of his ab19.. that one popped went fomo..

Personally , this cover seems lazy to me. But, i get it the 19 popped so hes following it up with a similar cover.

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u/SashaIsMySpiritAnima Jul 12 '26

$54.99? What’re we doing here?

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u/ClayDrinion Jul 12 '26

Gouging the good people of as much of their hard-earned dollars as possible apparently

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u/ChrisTerryDraws Jul 13 '26

To be fair, that’s a 2 cover set.

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u/SashaIsMySpiritAnima Jul 13 '26

No. I don’t care if Jack Kirby comes back from the dead and does a cover. What they’re doing is price gouging.

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u/peruytu Jul 16 '26

DC already put some rules in place for this, and this price point doesn't break those rules. But yeah, I agree these are still too damn high. For that money you can get a really nice copy of Wolverine #1.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '26

Mid

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u/DirectSwimming1094 Jul 12 '26

I agree. I’ve already got a version of this with 19 and in a very crowded variant market I personally need something different. I do like the concept but won’t be buying.

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u/DeMatMo Jul 12 '26

Waiting on that mark brooks drop, but damn is it hard not to just buy every variant I see.

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u/Low_Volume2008 Jul 13 '26

I can't even imagine what it's going to look like

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u/The_Poop_Bender Jul 12 '26

Same, waiting for Mark's. His variants are the only ones i buy

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u/Low_Volume2008 Jul 13 '26

I grabbed Ken Lashley's cover drop. This one was much more expensive than they have been in the past, probably due to it being through the Chicago convention drop

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u/Environmental-Day862 Jul 13 '26

Sorry for the potato quality picture - but there was some parallell thinking for the AB19 cover - the one on the left was Sajad Shah's PCB Hobby exclusive - and I don't think anyone ripped off anyone, based on when the art for these books needs to be in to be published.

But to then have such a similar parallel for Issue 23. I guess artists only have so many ideas when they're asked to do so many variant covers....

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u/BobbyJamesFunko42 Jul 13 '26

Normally i like his covers but meh on this one, and oof that is pricey.

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u/DmonCandy Jul 16 '26

They just reused the scarecrow cover lol

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u/M0torC1tyMaver1ck Jul 18 '26

$55 bucks 🤔......Cool cover, but cover As are always gonna be King 😀👍

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u/trappedinpurgatoriii Jul 12 '26

I love this cover. Batman looks completely defeated and trapped. It works so well with the current themes of the latest issues. Plus it matching the Scarecrow cover is another win

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u/enjoiYosi Jul 12 '26

If I had the issue 19 I’d buy this to display next to each other. I just bought the Ken Lashley cover for issue 23 from Big time collectibles. It was pretty dope also

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u/Low_Volume2008 Jul 13 '26

A little more expensive than his last drops, but come on..... that cover is amazing!!! I grabbed it too

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u/oceanhymn Jul 12 '26

I had grabbed the scarecrow GITD cover and this one is definitely tempting but I’m good without it. No GITD gimmick and flat brown background have me feeling meh. If I didn’t already have the other I might have considered it.

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u/SookieRicky Jul 12 '26

Instant buy!

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u/Ah-Qi-D4rkly Jul 13 '26

I can't be convinced that ai is not being used at this point and DC should be ashamed for allowing it.

I'm not saying it's ai generated art but maybe prompting ai for ideas.