Absolute Batman #5 3rd Print cover-artist-Mike Wolfer the status quo is tossed

the status quo is tossed out the window as embedded war journalist Matty Roth returns from his misadventure in Staten Island to find Parco Delgado in office as provisional governor of New York and details his first 100 days at breakneck speed

most action-packed books that Brubaker and Phillips have ever done

if Carnage and his dark doppelgangers get their way

and Phoebe are moving into the Firehouse and ready to take on the Spengler family business

Absolute Batman #5 3rd Print cover-artist-Mike Wolfer the status quo is tossedWILL THE PARTY END HERE FOR ABSOLUTE BATMAN? With his friends lives at stake, will a broken, beaten, and ultimately defeated Bruce Wayne finally compromise and give up both himself and his morals to Black Mask? Or does he have something even BIGGER than himself to help? And what does this have to do with Mayor James Gordon and his relationship with a young Bruce Wayne? All this and more in the penultimate issue to the first arc of ABSOLUTE BATMAN!