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Warning ! Spoilers onward for Absolute Batman # 7!It take away a while , but DC lastly obtain the staring mode to update a particularBatmancharacter that the New 52 fail to do . There were a lot of changes that came with DC ’s most ambitious first step , and one in a flash had fans ' stemma stewing . Butthe Absolute Universe finallyfigured out the perfect way to update a Greco-Roman Batman villain .
InAbsolute Batman # 7by Scott Snyder and Marcos Martín , Batman is appear intothe mysterious Ark M project and his probe leads him to the cryo - tech company V - Core . Bruce makes his way into the company , where he forgather V - Core representative , Victor Fries , Jr.
Batman investigate if Jr. ’s parents , Victor and Nora Fries , are still oversee the company with their son . nestling reveals they are and opens a display that show his parent are in set aside vivification . Absolute Batman looks on in repugnance as he run across Victor and Nora frozen , but together , even holding hand in the ice .
The Absolute Universe’s Victor and Nora Fries Are Still Together
DC isn’t Repeating a Batman Mistake it Made During the New 52
For those who were n’t around for it , DC Comics wholly rebooted its universe in 2011 , go to sweeping retcons that affected character relationships and personal history . Among the changes to the unexampled DCU was a disgraceful handshaking - upto Mr. Freeze ’s backstory , which revealed that in the rebooted macrocosm , Victor Fries and Nora were never hook up with . Nora was just a preserved woman he had fallen for while consider cryogenics . The alteration was a bridge circuit too far for many reader , who lambasted the decisiveness , leadingDC Comics to finally restore Mr. Freeze ’s backstory to the one fan vastly favour .
ReadBatman Annual # 1 ( 2012)to see the controversial update to Mr. Freeze !
Interestingly enough , Scott Snyder , author ofAbsolute Batman , is the same someone who wrote that updated origin for Mr. Freeze inBatman Annual # 1all those long time ago . Like with the New 52 , Snyder was yield the chance to completely reinvent Mr. Freeze ( which he has with Fries ' nightmarish son , Victor Jr. ) . But the one thing he ensure to keep this time around is Victor and Nora ’s kinship . Granted , this way out does n’t go too profoundly into their human relationship . ButAbsolute Batmanrecognizes that no matter what changes are made to Mr. Freeze , it ca n’t part Nora and Victor .
The Absolute Universe is Keeping What Makes the DC Universe Work
Things Will Be Different, But Still Familiar
The New 52 ’s changes were about taking big swing and experimenting in unexpected way . The Absolute Universe , on the other hand , is taking a more metric approach and find ways to update these grapheme while remaining true to who they are . remove Victor ’s relationship with Nora was a miss , but Absolute Batman empathize that it ’s an integral part of his character . While this does n’t undo the controversial change toBatmanlore in the New 52 , this does show that when it comes to the Absolute Universe , fan can expect more intimacy no matter what changes may come .
Absolute Batman # 7is available now from DC Comics .
