During yesterday’s DC Comics Justice League panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that writer Scott Snyder and artist Jock are teaming up for a new five-issue miniseries spinning out of Dark Nights: Metal and focusing on The Batman Who Laughs.
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“I wanted to get back to my roots and door horror,” said Snyder. “I wanted to make the scariest, darkest Batman story I’ve ever done. The Batman Who Laughs is coming back… he’s got a really evil plan. And he’s got a new Dark Knight with him, an evil Batman that picked up Joe Chill’s gun in the alley and shot him. It’s another one of Batman’s worst nightmares. This is like Punisher Batman, but it’s also Bruce Wayne, which makes him terrifying…he’s rich, he has access to everything. He’s the deadliest Dark Knight ever and he’s coming to the DC Universe as a henchman of the Batman who Laughs.”
And speaking of this new ‘Punisher Batman’, here’s a first look at Jock’s design for the new incarnation of the Dark Knight:
The Batman Who Laughs #1 will go on sale in November.
