Batman The Return and Batman INC

Like what we mentioned on our previous blog. Another one-shot bat-title that’ll hit this October is BATMAN: THE RETURN, Written by Grant Morrison with art by David Finch and inker Scott Williams, giving us hints on what’s coming up next for the original Dark Knight after his return.

From DC:

BATMAN: THE RETURN #1
Written by GRANT MORRISON
Art by DAVID FINCH & SCOTT WILLIAMS
Cover by DAVID FINCH
1:25 Variant cover by TBD
1:200 Variant cover by TBD

The event of the year is here! Bruce Wayne made his long journey back through the time stream in RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE, Dick Grayson and Damian uncovered important secrets in BATMAN & ROBIN, Gotham City’s bravest heroes made their mark in BRUCE WAYNE – THE ROAD HOME…and now it’s time for BATMAN to return! What happens to Dick Grayson now that the “real” Batman is back? How will Bruce Wayne handle a reunion with his son, Damian? This special one-shot bridges two exciting eras of The Dark Knight and sets up a surprising new status quo that’s just on the horizon.

Featuring the talents of Batman mastermind Grant Morrison and superstar artist David Finch providing interior art, this issue is a can’t-miss for comics’ fans!

Retailers please note: This issue will ship with three covers. Please see the Previews Order Form for more information.

ONE-SHOT • On sale OCTOBER 27 • 56 pg, FC $4.99 US



But that’s not all, as revealed on the BATMAN panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Grant Morrison will be helming a new, ongoing Batman series: BATMAN INC. (You heard it right. GM will incorporate the bat in a major way), featuring art by Yanick Paquette (we saw this guy’s great work in The Retrun of Bruce Wayne #3).

So what’s in store for us in THE RETURN and BATMAN INC., better hear it from the man himself.

Grant Morrison:

“The notion is really about bringing back Bruce Wayne into the mix in a big way because people over the years said ‘there’s no real Bruce Wayne it’s just a persona, the real man is Batman’. And we know that’s not true, there’s only one guy there, sometime he wears hat, sometimes a suit. It’s the same man, and that’s the whole idea behind RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE series; to bring him (Batman) back to that guy (Bruce), cut him loose from the cape and the cowl and see him still function as Batman. Back in R.I.P we showed what would happen to Batman if we took Bruce over him and the result is the Batman of Zur En Arrh…this where INC enters, so what happens if you put Bruce back, big-time; As he comes back from a very bad experience, he’s been really messed over…he faced an enemy which he can’t quite figure out. His normal methods didn’t work with Dr. Hurt. So we’ve seen batman in this insane time travel adventure, something that he’s not really equipped with normally but he got to survive it…and now he’s back and he’s looking at his mission in a much wider perspective…and think ‘I can be more effective in this’…so we want to take that aspect to batman, corporatize it, franchise the idea of batman as he goes global and see how it’ll affect his allies

In The first 12 issue of INC, he’s going to team up with someone; it’s kind of the brave and the bold like the current animated version which I really love. I was looking at that team-up aspect at batman’s life and I thought I can play that in a new way. So basically we’ll see him travelling around the world dealing with characters from the club of heroes and other allies that he’s had and try bringing them under the structure. Yes’ there’s going to be friction with some character because although these guys are influenced by batman they have their own mind. So that’s when the adventure begins”.