Hi everybody, I’m Colin, and I produce shoot and edit these comics etc episodes with James and Remy. You might recognise me if you visited the store twenty years ago when I used to work behind the counter.

I just wanted to put my own 2 cents in, because we shot this episode before all the previews for the three launch titles were released.

After reading these Absolute versions I think they share a similar theme.

These writers have re-written Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman’s origin stories, and stripped away some of the core myths.

Batman’s wealth, privilege and upbringing are gone.

As James and Remy mention: Wonder Woman’s island home and the amazons have been taken away and she has been raised by Circe, instead of Hippolyta.

Superman’s an interesting one, it seems like he doesn’t have a home country anymore, and Jonathan and Martha Kent’s farm is abandoned. There’s also something about the way he interacts with other characters in the story that makes him seem more like an outsider, or immigrant.

So even without wealth, a different mother and an upbringing that’s in question. Does changing the origin change the core concept of who these superheroes are?

That’s what I think this series is exploring. How far can the concept of Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman be pushed, and it’s that difference where you can see the essence of the characters are still fundamentally the same.

The original ultimate universe by comparison, was something more like Batman the Animated series. Where the creators could pick and choose the most interesting parts of a characters history and re-tell it in a modern setting, remixing parts that have aged most of the time for the better, but sometimes for the worse.

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