Matt Reeves’ Batmobile Is Badass, But ‘Absolute Batman’ Took Things Completely Off the Rails
Matt Reeves officially kicked off production on The Batman Part II yesterday, sharing a pair of behind-the-scenes monitor shots that […]

Matt Reeves officially kicked off production on The Batman Part II yesterday, sharing a pair of behind-the-scenes monitor shots that […]

And honestly? That’s exactly what makes it so badass.
But speaking of monsters…
You guys already know where I’m going with this. I can’t help myself. I’m obsessed with Absolute Batman.
And unlike a lot of websites suddenly pretending they care about the book because they discovered it gets clicks, I genuinely love this series. I’ve been screaming about it since day one because it feels dangerous, weird, violent, and completely unlike anything DC has done in years.
Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta basically injected manga insanity directly into Absolute Batman. The series pulls from Berserk, horror films, The Thing, Hellraiser, Evil Dead, all of it. Every issue escalates into something more grotesque and more intense, and somehow they keep topping themselves.
Which brings us to one of the coolest Batmobiles ever created.
In the Absolute Batman universe, Bruce Wayne isn’t a billionaire. He’s blue-collar. He’s a massive working-class bruiser who survives off grit, intelligence, engineering skills, and sheer force of will. Meanwhile, Joker and the elites are the ones with the money and power in this universe. So naturally, Bruce doesn’t build a sleek supercar.
He builds a goddamn war machine out of a dump truck.
The Batmobile first appeared in Absolute Batman #2 before its full origin was explored in Absolute Batman Annual #1.
And yes, it’s literally a gigantic modified dump truck.

Not metaphorically. Not aesthetically. An actual hulking construction vehicle that Bruce steals from a group of white supremacist extremists before converting it into the most absurdly oversized Batmobile imaginable.
This thing is enormous. Two stories tall. Covered in armor plating. And when it shows up in the comic, it feels like a horror movie creature smashing through the page. (There’s a sequence where Batman uses it during a massive escape, and the entire thing just bulldozes through Gotham like an unstoppable industrial beast.)
Then the newer issues somehow crank things up even further.
The redesigned Batmobile that reappears later in the series moves less like a truck and more like some giant acrobatic death machine. It twists between buildings, flips through tight spaces, and even confuses the police. Harley Quinn nicknames it the “Bat-Nasty,” which honestly fits perfectly because the thing barely even resembles a car anymore.
And honestly, that’s why both Reeves’ Batmobile and Absolute Batman’s Batmobile work so well; they aren’t trying to copy the past, they’re trying to reflect who Batman is in those worlds.
Reeves gave us a young, angry Batman who built a terrifying muscle car out of rage and obsession. Absolute Batman gave us a working-class Bruce Wayne who weaponized industrial machinery and turned a dump truck into a rolling nightmare.
Both are absolutely fucking badass.
