Absolute Batman, DC’s comedian e book sensation, is heading to the display.
The comedian is being tailored as an animated collection and could have the comedian’s creators, author Scott Snyder and artist Nick Dragotta, concerned with its improvement.
The collection is certainly one of three animated tasks that present a rising DC-oriented animated slate and was a part of a joint DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation presentation on the 2026 Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Pageant.
The showcase featured DC Studios co-chairman and co-CEO Peter Safran and Warners Animation president Sam Register alongside Warner Animation artists who shared first seems to be and artistic insights into the following wave of DC animation.
Additionally making information was DC’s first anime collection, Joker: Snicker Riot, being greenlit and a brand new collection centered on superdog Krypto going into improvement.
Absolute Batman, the comedian, reimagined the Caped Crusader from the bottom up when it ushered within the Absolute line of comics in late 2024. Bruce Wayne solely misplaced one guardian, not two. He was a blue collar employee from the tasks, not a moneyed child from certainly one of Gotham Metropolis’s wealthiest households. And he was jacked, a hulking man who was not afraid to drop kick a child who was a part of a gang of evil doers.
The collection has bought greater than six million copies whereas Absolute Batman has gone No. 1 by 11 printings. The comedian, and the road, have helped DC overtake Marvel in marketshare for the primary time this century and made superstars out of Dragotta and different artists. And this week, it was revealed it’s getting the Funko treatment.
Snyder will function government producer and showrunner, with Dragotta as producer.
‘Joker Laugh Riot’
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Joker is being government produced by longtime DC animation vet Jim Krieg, who labored on the latest variations of DC classics Watchmen and Disaster on Infinite Earths. Yasuhuro Aoki is directing whereas SOLA Leisure of Japan is working with Warner Animation and DC Studios. The venture has but been set with a community.
In what seems like a compelling hook, the story sees the Clown Prince of Crime changing into a variation of his archnemesis, a detective fixing a killing. The logline revealed at Annecy states, “When Batman is murdered, the Joker launches a ruthless crusade through Gotham’s underworld to find the killer who took away his greatest adversary. But as his violent quest for answers pushes him closer towards vigilante than villain, Joker is forced to confront the truth that without Batman, he doesn’t know who he is.”
‘Krypto’
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Lastly, Warners and DC Studios have set C.H. Greenblatt (SpongeBob SquarePants), one other animation vet, to exec produce an untitled Krypto collection. The canine has been within the highlight as he has appeared in final 12 months’s Superman and performs a key position in Supergirl.
The logline states, “When he’s not hanging out with Superman or Supergirl, Krypto tags along with a gang of misfit criminal wannabes who live down the block, and they soon discover he’s a ball of destructive, lovable energy worse than any of them! As he follows them into misadventures and poorly laid plans, Krypto’s pure nature slowly ends up redeeming them, whether they want it or not.”
Warner Animation and DC have a number of tasks on deck, amongst them season two of Batman: Caped Crusader and the upcoming Batman: Knightfall.
