Scariest Joker Story Since Killing Joke? Tom King’s Brave and the Bold

James Gunn‘s Batman film based mostly on the Grant Morrison/Andy Kubert storyline Batman & Son, can be known as Batman: The Brave and the Bold. So it is the proper time for DC Comics to launch a brand new Batman: The Brave And The Bold anthology comedian ebook, following up on the 1955 authentic, despite the fact that all three issues may have nothing to do with one another. Batman: The Brave And The Bold will kick off in May with a brand new 64-page difficulty one, with 4 new tales.

• Tom King and Mitch Gerads will ship a “horrifying four-part retelling of the first bloody clash between The Joker and the Batman” to inform a “terrifying tale of loathing, lies, and laughter,” that can be “the most frightening Joker story in a generation.” Since The Killing Joke, mainly. That was 1988 in any case. There are 35 12 months olds who have been solely simply born when that was revealed.
• Dan Mora will write and draw a brand new collection of Batman: Black & White brief tales with “Gotham City overrun by the cybernetic henchmen of The Joker”.
• Ed Brisson and Jeff Spokes will create Down with the Kings that can proceed their story of Director Bones of D.E.O. as the chief of a brand new StormWatch satellite tv for pc, a repurposed Justice League’s former Watchtower. When final we noticed, the staff consisted of Shado, Flint, Ravager, Peacekeeper -01, and the Ukrainian superhero, Core. Might it play into no matter it’s Bryan Hitch is doing with The Authority? He is doing certainly one of the covers.
• Christopher Cantwell will mark his arrival at DC Comics with The Order of the Black Lamp drawn by Javier Rodríguez, a Superman comedian that sees Superman discover a decoder ring with a secret message – “Save Me” – which sends him on a quest to unravel a thriller with ties to his previous.

Batman: The Brave And The Bold #1 can be revealed on the sixteenth of May. Covers by Simone Di Meo, Jim Cheung, Frank Cho, Bryan Hitch, and Nathan Szerdy.