[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”26416″ img_size=”600×910″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Get ready for a comic book series about Batman and death. From DC Comics, we’ve learned that Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch have reunited for a twelve-issue monthly max-series. The Batman’s Grave will be about “life, death, and the questions most are too afraid to ask”.
In The Batman’s Grave, the Caped Crusader will be faced with a case that forces him to inhabit the mind of a murder victim – who has half of their face eaten off.
In these issues, we will also see Alfred Pennyworth tending to the cemetery plot in the Wayne Manor grounds where Thomas and Martha’s headstones are.
Ellis expressed:
“My very first work at DC was two issues of Legends of the Dark Knight. So, it’s been twenty-five years since I did a full-length story with the Batman. I’ve decided to revisit the crime scene where my career in American comics began, and I’m so grateful that my old comrade Bryan Hitch is doing this midnight run with me. It’s been too many years since we last did a long campaign together.”
The Batman’s Grave Batman has an almost “psychotic identification with murder victims”. We will see him immersing himself into the lives of these slain people and obsess over every single detail. Even after evidence was processed, he would live inside “the life of the victim as they approached their death.”
Hitch stated:
“I’ve drawn some covers and used Batman in Justice League and JLA. But, since I read Jim Aparo and Don Newton’s Batman runs in the 80’s I’ve wanted to do a proper, big Batman story. Fellow Authoritarian Warren Ellis had one to tell, so when he mentioned it I said ‘yes’ before even asking what it was about. That’s what you do when Warren says ‘I’ve got a proper, big Batman story.’ It’s been over twenty years since we changed Superhero comics together, and now we get to give Batman the fight of his life.”
You can grab a copy of The Batman’s Grave #1 on Wednesday, October 9th. Written by Warren Ellis, the art is by Bryan Hitch and Kevin Nowlan. The cover for issue #1 is done by Hitch and a variant cover is by JeeHyung Lee.[/vc_column_text][vc_images_carousel images=”26415,26414″ img_size=”800×644″ speed=”3000″ autoplay=”yes” wrap=”yes”][vc_single_image image=”26413″ img_size=”600×911″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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