My shop had all the books out today. Flipped through ABM 7 and didn’t see any Joker.
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I have a feeling that Matches = Joker. Matches has never, to my knowledge, been more than an undercover alias for Batman / Bruce Wayne when he infiltrates the criminal underworld for info.
Also, Joker has never had a definitive identity before. The Absolute Universe is turning everything on its head. I can see the Joker being given a true origin and identity as part of that new spin. Keep in mind all of his previous archrogues seem to be childhood friends.
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I did say at the end of the spoilers it was a possibility. Considering all the typical villains in Batman’s rogues gallery seem to be his childhood friends.
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Maybe.
However it looks like DC has changed the solicitation for this issue to no longer refer to Joker.
“It’s about to get icy cold in Gotham City… as we reveal the connections between a young, up-and-coming scientist named Victor Fries, and his history with the Ark M experiment. A bombastic two-parter with a guest artist, the one and only super-star Marcos Martín, starts here!”
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Possibly to hide the revelation?
I missed that, but sounds like maybe we know why the solicitation was changed.
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They definitely changed the solicitation. I saw the the Joker reference and order a bunch. Burned…
web of venomverse
especially the venomized mouse
Web of Venomverse
- I think there’s a new symbiote (at the end?) named Yaleo?
Wolverine 8
- an assessment of this f*/king Adamantine’s supposed appearance. Is it anything worthwhile?
Dang… good timing. Ask and ye shall receive.
No Yaleo though. Is there a one page story at the end?
There is a one page story at the end. Little girl is sick and sneezes out a symbiote booger.
Sounds like a glamorous first appearance.
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come on they couldn’t make the mouse some mickey variant
fail opportunity
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They could. They did miss the boat.
I’m pretty sure that would be frowned upon by Daddy Disney.
So the booger becomes… Boogom? Sounds like an amazing character. I think Marvel should go full throttle on this and the main villain will be Magic Nose Goblin… 
It’ll be a big hit with kids age 5-10…
