Chad Burdette
Today, DCComics is announcing a new twelve-issue comic book series by creators Dan Watters and Hayden Sherman, Batman: Dark Patterns.
Set during the early years of Batman’s career, the series will focus on a new cycle of crimes for the World’s Greatest Detective to crack covering four mysterious cases! Told as a series of four self-contained, street-level, evergreen Batman mysteries that explore the early days of Batman’s place within Gotham City and his healing presence within its streets.
Set early in his career as he attempts to cement his place as Gotham City’s protector while the city itself fights back against him, yhis is the Dark Knight Detective at his most stripped-down core, a man relying on his wits, his skills, and little else as he tackles some of the most twisted mysteries Gotham City and its protector have ever encountered.
Following the tradition of books such as Year One, The Long Halloween, and Dark Victory. Writer Dan Watters (Nightwing) teams up with the incredible Hayden Sherman (Absolute Wonder Woman) to tell a series of three-part, standalone mysteries set in the early days of Batman’s career, as the detective comes to accept and embrace his own place as a new part of the mythology of Gotham.
In the press release announcing the series Watters said about the upcoming series:
“I love the strangeness of Batman. A man dressed as a huge, gothic bat, solving crimes in a hostile city of black magicians, mad scientists, and superstitious, cowardly criminals. I’ve always wanted to write a series of mystery stories that would home in on that aspect of the character—a dweller in the shadows of Gotham’s towering, delipidated spires.
After watching The Batman, this desire was reaffirmed. Batman: Dark Patterns explores the pulpiest part of the Dark Knight’s rich history and gives readers an entirely new perspective on the early years of DC’s Dark Detective.”
“Each case is born from Gotham and its people adapting to the horrors they’ve been subjected to over recent and not so recent years—from Joker poisoning the water supply to the Falcone gang war. The criminals are superstitious and cowardly… but how could the whole city not be superstitious and afraid? And Batman’s role as a wounded healer shrouded in urban myth, who seeks to give hope to the hopeless.”
Check out the first interiors and variant covers for issue #1:
Stevan Subic Variant Cover:
Batman: Dark Patterns #1, written by Watters, art by Sherman, color by Tríona Farrell and lettering by Frank Cvetkovic, will publish on December 11 with covers by Sherman and a variant cover by Stevan Subic.
