Batman Solicits!

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BATMAN AND ROBIN #26

Written by DAVID HINE
Art by GREG TOCCHINI
Cover by CHRIS BURNHAM
1:10 Variant cover by J.G. JONES
Le Jardin Noir – France’s very own Arkham Asylum – falls under siege! Someone has freed the lunatics, and unless they can be stopped, they’ll turn Paris into a surreal Hell on Earth! Batman and Robin join Nightrunner in a mind-bending battle with the strangest lineup of villains this side of Bizarro World.
On sale AUGUST 10 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

Spot the references!

Well, there's a Clockwork Orange, obviously. Nightrunner's gone a bit Dali and... errr, and the Effiel Tower being used as an Eye Trauma Comics homage.

BATMAN: GATES OF GOTHAM #4-5


Written by SCOTT SNYDER and KYLE HIGGINS
Art and covers by TREVOR MCCARTHY
1:25 Variant covers by DUSTIN NGUYEN
Batman, Red Robin, Robin and Black Bat are all thrown into a race against time as The Architect’s true plan is revealed! But what does that mean for Oswald Cobblepot and Tommy Elliot? And just how does the first Super Villain of Gotham City factor into The Architect’s plot to destroy the city’s first families? Be here for the exciting penultimate issue!

And in issue #5, it’s Batman vs. The Architect! The downfall of a major Gotham family! The betrayal of Damian Wayne! It’s all here in this final issue, plus the untold fate of Gotham City’s first Super Villain! Be here as GATES OF GOTHAM sets the stage for a bold new direction in the Bat books!
Issue #4 on sale AUGUST 3
Issue #5 on sale AUGUST 17
4 and 5 of 5, 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

And Cass is mentioned in the actual solicits. Sweet. ^^ Admittedly in the last two issues, it looks like a cool mini so I'm not gonna complain. The covers certainly have been all kinds of gorgeous.

BATGIRL #24

Written by BRYAN Q. MILLER
Art by PERE PEREZ
Cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN
Stephanie Brown has done her best to put her past behind her, but as the Repears’ mysterious client stands revealed, Batgirl’s going to learn the hard way that those who fail history are doomed to repeat it. This issue has it all: Secrets unearthed! Alliances broken! Splash pages!
On sale AUGUST 10 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

Hm, mysterious cilent? Someone from Steph's past? Oh no, it's the flaming bum!

Or the dude with the dreads who knocked her up, whichever.

The cover's certainly pretty though.

And finally,
BATMAN BEYOND #8

Written by ADAM BEECHEN
Art by CHRIS BATISTA and RICH PEROTTA
Cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN
Batman’s slipperiest foe steps out of the shadows and into the spotlight for a “Legends of the Dark Knight” issue that reveals, for the first time, the full story of Inque! Her past is blacker than anyone ever knew… and considering the new ally she’s fallen in with, her future could be darker still!
On sale AUGUST 3 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

This could be interesting. For those young folk out there who don't know who Inque is, she's the blob monster in this clip,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksa_VPodygI

Comments

[ebailey140]

Seems a little beyond his range. Whatever the client's master plan is, it involves needing that nun's DNA. That suggests someone who's mixing the mystic with science which, well, doesn't sound like Cluemaster.

This is someone who, I'm guessing, is to be Batgirl's Joker, the way Alice is Batwoman's and Anarky is supposed to be Red Robin's. So, it'll need tobe someone who's Steph's opposite, but matches up well to her.

However, unlike Kate's and Tim's Jokers, I expect this one to be the opposite of the Chaos/Order dynamic that's the norm with Bats and their main adversaries. The client is always referring to sticking to the plan, how this or that person is in the place the client wants them, etc. Steph, meanwhile, is, as Bruce calls her, the wild card.

[red_menace]

You may have a point there, but was mysticism implied in the previous issues? I don't have them with me right now, or I'd check, but I really don't remember.

[ebailey140]

The nun who's DNA they're after had "the ability to remove maladies from the acursed". So, the client is thinking this mystical power is in the DNA, and that DNA is needed for whatever the master plan is.

[drexer]

I've always thought we would get an explanation such as 'the miracles of yesteryear are the products of mutants and superpowers when such words did not exist'. So I'm not quite seeing a direct mystical connection; we'll have to wait and see.