Absolute Batman #5 First Printing image and pulse-pounding action begins when

and pulse-pounding action begins when an attempt is made on Selina Kyle's life at a fundraiser with Gotham's high society

Batman knows he must be willing to do anything to save him

A new era of Barbaric begins

Rhino and Kraven to play

Absolute Batman #5 First Printing image and pulse-pounding action begins whenWill 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!