Author Matt Fraction will decide up the Batman baton this September, DC Comics introduced on the annual ComicsPRO business convention right this moment, becoming a member of present Batman artist Jorge Jimenez for a brand new Batman #1 hitting cabinets in September.
Selecting 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 contemporary tackle his basic blue and grey coloration scheme, a brand new Batmobile, and a brand new pop-influenced search for Gotham Metropolis, in response to Jimenez.
As for Fraction, he most not too long ago wrote Batman in his final ebook for DC Comics, the rollicking comedy Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, however it’s secure to imagine that the character shall be a bit of completely different than his appearances there.
“Jorge and I’ve a really superhero-forward type of tackle Batman,” Fraction stated in DC’s information launch. “We’ve acquired a brand new Batmobile, we’ve acquired a brand new costume, we’ve acquired new characters, and we’ve acquired a number of previous ones too —good and unhealthy; 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 contemporary construction, too: A collection of linked tales that provide one self-contained chapter in every challenge.
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 collection launching Could 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 (Unbelievable 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 pal.
Rounding out the bulletins was a brand new inventive crew and path for Motion Comics: Author Mark Waid (Batman/Superman: World’s Best) and artist Skylar Patridge, a veteran of DC’s anthology specials, will refocus the ebook on Clark Kent’s early years as Superboy in Smallville, beginning with June’s Motion Comics #1087.
