Title Batman: Absolution Format graphic novel Binding hardcover Date 2002 Writer(s) J.M. Matteis Artist(s) Brian Ashmore Collects n/a Storyline Batman tracked the leader of a terrorist group called the Children of Maya, who'd bombed a Wayne Enterprises building ten years previous. He'd been tracking her ever since. He'd followed her to cities throughout the world, only to have her slip through his fingers. In India, he caught up with her the final time. After obsessively tracking her without sleep for days, he passed out when he got to her. He awakened to find her nursing him back to health. She tried to convince him she wasn't the woman he was looking for, she tried to convince him she'd changed, she tried to rationalize her actions by her unhealthy upbringing. She finally gave up and agreed to return to Gotham City with him. It was a ploy - she'd orchestrated her group to raid the village and mission she'd been living in. They "kidnapped" her. The group turned on her and set off four explosions in her village. She died, as did most of the Children of Maya.