Author Matt Fraction will decide up the Batman baton this September, DC Comics introduced on the annual ComicsPRO business convention at the moment, becoming a member of present Batman artist Jorge Jimenez for a brand new Batman #1 hitting cabinets in September.
Choosing up after Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee’s Hush sequel, H2SH, concludes with August’s Batman #163, the brand new Batman period will include a redesigned Batman costume — a recent tackle his traditional blue and grey shade scheme, a brand new Batmobile, and a brand new pop-influenced search for Gotham Metropolis, in line with Jimenez.
As for Fraction, he most not too long ago wrote Batman in his final guide for DC Comics, the rollicking comedy Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, but it surely’s protected to imagine that the character will probably be just a little totally different than his appearances there.
“Jorge and I’ve a really superhero-forward sort of tackle Batman,” Fraction mentioned in DC’s information launch. “We’ve bought a brand new Batmobile, we’ve bought a brand new costume, we’ve bought new characters, and we’ve bought a number of outdated ones too —good and dangerous; all of the stuff that makes Batman the good character in comics. We wish to rejoice all of it.”
Fraction and Jimenez’s Batman will start with a recent construction, too: A sequence of related tales that provide one self-contained chapter in every subject.
DC didn’t simply come to indicate off Batman information, not in their very own “Summer time of Superman” initiative. The writer additionally introduced a brand new Supergirl sequence launching Might 14, that includes her small city adventures, from author and artist Sophie Campbell (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles):
In addition to a brand new five-issue miniseries beginning June 18, Krypto: The Final Canine of Krypton, a Krypto origin story comedian from artist Mike Norton (Battlepug) and author Ryan North (Incredible 4, Squirrel Woman, Dinosaur Comics), one other famous canine lover. “We don’t cheat by studying his ideas in balloons,” North joked in DC’s information launch, noting that Norton’s artwork does the speaking for this tremendous man’s finest good friend.
Rounding out the bulletins was a brand new artistic group and course for Motion Comics: Author Mark Waid (Batman/Superman: World’s Most interesting) and artist Skylar Patridge, a veteran of DC’s anthology specials, will refocus the guide on Clark Kent’s early years as Superboy in Smallville, beginning with June’s Motion Comics #1087.
