I've seen @thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net post about it but I put it off. So I picked it up today and it's good folks. Bruce Wayne as a working class dude who makes his own tech is a nice fresh spin on it. Plus he's an absolute beast of a man, so that's bonus points if you like hunky dudes 
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DAMN, I kind of didn't believe the hype, but FUCK DO I LOVE THIS!! I decided to just give a go randomly today and ended up reading every issue of Absolute Batman back to back, this shit slaps hard! I never read many comics in my live, specially hero ones other than a few here in there, but I absolutely loved this one, I can't wait for the next issue and now I want to read all the other Absolute comics, I heard nothing about the Superman one, but I have heard that both the Martian Manhunter (my absolute goat on the old Justice League animation) and Wonder Woman are pretty good, and seeing she has a big fucking sword, I'm even more excited to read it.
[Spoiler] Plot points
Some of the inversions and twists of established things off usual Batman stories are pretty great, I did not expect for Bruce to be childhood friends with Catwoman, Killer Croc, Penguin, Riddler and Two-Face, not only that but I actually like them a lot, I got really sad seeing what Bane did to them, they didn't desert that at all.Speaking of Bane, this mf really betrayed the revolution on the first chance he got, and what that got him? He lived a life dedicated to being Joker's dog in exchange for the prosperity of his country and now he's a bunch of organs together in a tube watching his country, wife and kid get bombed to shreds.
And wow Joker is fucking terrifying in this story, a billionaire/trillionaire that's probably immortal and is a literal shapeshifting monster that uses children's bodies and cells to live forever, what the fuck.
Also I obviously really liked the extra issue where Batman beats the ever living shit out of those fascists. My only complaint would be that the end is a bit ambiguous, where I didn't get if he feels bad because he misses his father or because he beat them, I hope the intent was that he simply misses his father because he was more than right to beat those fuckers.