Batman and Riddler together again!
In Detective Comics Futures End the Dark Knight and master of manipulation are working together as allies?
September 2014 is the third anniversary of The New 52 reboot of the DC Universe. Every book this month is jumping five years into the future.
“Anniversary” by regular Detective Comics co-writer Brian Buccellato is set in the near future but ties into two recent arcs.
It’s the anniversary of The Zero Year Blackout (from Scott Snyder’s Batman: Zero Year New 52 origin of the Dark Knight) and Calendar Man is threatening Gotham City. Julian Day’s family tragedy fuels his systematic crimes but his latest scheme is a copycat crime with a deadlier twist.
The story acts as a sequel to Zero Year and Icarus (the first Detective Comics arc by Buccellato and Francis Manapul) with a fast-paced, fun alliance between Batman and Riddler with a twist I didn’t see coming.
Artists Scott Hepburn, Cliff Richards and Fabrizio Fiorentino help Buccellato continue the gritty feel from the regular series. It’s a thrilling match of mindgames and punches as the two rivals battle their way into Arkham Island.
Futures End is a possible future with some powerful teases: How did the Riddler become a free man thanks to Batman? How did Calendar Man gain control of the Dark Knight’s greatest rogues in Arkham? Perhaps we’ll learn in future issues of Detective.
By Editor