The Bat Signal shines brighter ahead of New York Comic Con with exciting announcements via USA Today for fans of the Dark Knight.
Coming next spring, BATMAN ETERNAL is a new weekly series from “showrunner” and BATMAN writer, Scott Snyder, along with writers James Tynion IV, John Layman, Ray Fawkes, and Tim Seeley, and artist Jason Fabok.
BATMAN ETERNAL will “set the stage for a new Gotham and new characters and a new set of stories that will take Batman into 2015,” Snyder told USA TODAY. “We want this to be a place where you get to tell a story about anything you want in Gotham, so long as we’re also moving this big story forward in the background. You’ll see bombastic arcs as well but there’ll be plenty of room for Ray to explore some of the darker, more mystical aspects of Gotham that he loves or Tim to explore some of the crime we haven’t seen before.”
Brace yourselves Batfans for even more news: DETECTIVE COMICS #27 will be an anniversary spectacular serving as an homage to the original DETECTIVE COMICS #27, which marked Batman’s comic debut in 1939, and features an all-star roster of Batman creators past and present!
The mega issue includes a modern-day retelling of the Dark Knight’s origin by the team of writer Brad Meltzer (Identity Crisis) and artist Bryan Hitch. Plus, all-new stories by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy of The Wake, Peter J. Tomasi and Guillem March, Paul Dini and Dustin Nguyen, Gregg Hurwitz and Neal Adams, new art by legendary Batman writer/artist Frank Miller.
This milestone issue will include variant covers by Neal Adams, Jim Lee, Greg Capullo, Chris Burnham, Kelley Jones, Patrick Gleason and Mike Allred.
This issue will include John Layman and Jason Fabok’s final storyline, “Gothtopia,” before the new creative team of Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato (The Flash) take over writing duties for the series in the spring.
“We want to bring him closer to his roots and be more of a street-level type of hero,” Manapul told USA TODAY about his and Buccellato’s plans for the Dark Knight. “His superheroics will still be present, but the investigative part of Batman will be at the forefront …We’ve always written stories about hope, and it will be very interesting to see what comes out when we walk through the sullen streets of Gotham City.”
“Stylistically, we will use the tools in our toolbox to capture what we think the Bat-universe looks and feels like,” added Buccellato. “Gotham won’t look like Central City, so you won’t be seeing all the bright reds, oranges and yellows that defined Flash’s world.”
On the side you see Jason Fabok’s first cover for BATMAN ETERNAL, Chris Burnham’s variant cover for DETECTIVE COMICS #27, and a first look at what Manapul’s artistic rendering of the Dark Knight will look like.
Stay tuned for more details from NYCC.
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