Bane co-creator Graham Nolan is, ahem, breaking his silence on that viral Absolute Bane design. When the luchador-inspired Batman villain debuted in the pages of writer Chuck Dixon and artist Nolan’s Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 in 1993 — a 64-page origin story for the back-breaking archvillain of the Knightfall storyline — Bane was in perfect physical condition even before being injected with the strength-enhancing super steroid Venom. Big and brawny, Bane was built like a brick house, but with a physique more similar to a bodybuilder than the grotesquely exaggerated, hulking monster depicted on artist Kelley Jones’ cover for Batman #497 (the iconic Bat-breaking issue).
So when Absolute Batman artist Nick Dragotta revealed his extra-burly Bane — who is even bigger than the 6’6′′ tall, 275-pound Batman — Nolan called the redesign “a terrible abomination” in a viral social media post that racked up over 1.6 million views.Absolute batman and absolute bane by nick dragottaRELATED: Absolute Batman Teases the Dark Knight’s Next Big Villains In Second Arc “After being asked countlessly for my opinion on this version of Bane, I gave an honest answer,” Nolan wrote in a subsequent post on X.
“I’ve been called everything from a ‘has been,’ to ‘bitter,’ to ‘old.'” “Relax! It’s just my opinion,” Nolan’s post continued. “It shouldn’t affect how you feel about it.
1.6 MILLION people viewed the post and it seems that many had their own.
