DC Comics is constant to flesh out the shared world of Tim Burton’s Batman and Richard Donner’s Superman. Each Batman ’89 and Superman ’78 are getting sequels in November 2023, that means we’ll lastly meet the Burtonverse variations of Scarecrow and Harley Quinn.
As revealed by ComicBook.com, Batman ’89: Echoes brings again author Sam Hamm (who additionally penned the screenplays for 1989’s Batman and 1992’s Batman Returns) and artist Joe Quinones for one more story starring Michael Keaton’s Darkish Knight. On this sequel, Batman himself has gone lacking following his tragic showdown with Two-Face, prompting the extraordinary residents of Gotham to wage warfare on crime in an more and more harmful state of affairs.
Primarily based on the duvet to difficulty #1, the sequence seems to be specializing in Scarecrow and Harley Quinn as its major two villains, suggesting Echoes is at the least loosely impressed by the deserted Batman: Unchained screenplay from the late ’90s. Unchained reportedly centered on the 2 villains teaming as much as drive Batman insane, and would have launched Harley because the daughter of Jack Nicholson’s Joker. The script was even stated to have featured a scene the place Nicholson’s Joker returned within the type of a concern toxin-induced hallucination, a scene which seems to be represented in artist Riley Rossmo’s variant cowl.
Quinones’ idea artwork reveals off the redesigned Batsuit, which takes on a extra tactical, armored high quality for Batman’s fourth Burtonverse journey. As Quinones notes’ affirm, the brand new go well with can also be drawing inspiration from Keaton’s look in The Flash.
In the meantime, Superman ’78: The Metallic Curtain pairs returning author Robert Venditti with artist Gavin Guidry. This sequel offers with the revelation that one other relic of Krypton crash-landed within the Soviet Union, fueling the rise of a strong new enemy for Christopher Reeve’s Man of Metal (seemingly Metallo, primarily based on the duvet artwork).
Superman ’78: The Metallic Curtain #1 shall be launched on November 7, 2023, adopted by Batman ’89: Echoes #1 on November 28.
The unique Batman ’89 and Superman ’78 comics debuted in 2021. DC later confirmed each comics are set on the identical world – Earth-789 within the DC multiverse – although there’s been no signal of a direct crossover between Keaton’s Batman and Reeve’s Superman but. You’ll be able to study extra about how Batman ’89 reveals the misplaced historical past of Michael Keaton’s Batman.
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