Author Jason Aaron is returning to DC for a brand new Batman story alongside artist Doug Mahnke and inker Jamie Mendoza, as introduced by IGN. The sequence will mark Aaron’s second time writing a narrative within the mainstream DC Universe following 2008’s Joker’s Asylum: Penguin one-shot.
Although he is principally been related to Marvel Comics for a while, together with prolonged stints on the X-Males and Avengers franchises, Aaron made his identify in comics on his lengthy working creator-owned title Scalped with artist RM Guera, printed by DC’s now-dormant Vertigo imprint. Scalped ran for 60 points from 2007-2012.
Now Jason Aaron returns to DC for Batman: Off-World, a six-issue restricted sequence wherein Batman takes an journey off-planet – his first solo journey into area within the trendy period.
Batman: Off-World #1 will function quite a lot of variant covers, all seen within the gallery beneath:
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“A routine evening in Gotham Metropolis for a younger Batman proves to be something however routine when the crime-fighter is confronted with a kind of foe he’s by no means confronted earlier than – one from past the celebs!” reads DC’s official description of Batman: Off-World. “A universe of doable alien threats leads Batman to make a daring determination – to enterprise alone into the far reaches of the cosmos for the very first time, the place the Darkish Knight will face the battle of his life!”
Batman has been to area loads of instances alongside the Justice League and different allies, and he had some off-world adventures again within the zany sci-fi days of the Golden Age of comics within the late ’40s and ’50s. However that is his first time going out into area solo since DC up to date its continuity with 1985’s Disaster on Infinite Earths restricted sequence.
“I fell in love with comics due to DC. The primary books my younger, beardless self ever plucked from a grocery retailer spinner rack had been the New Teen Titans and World’s Best and Batman. Books that opened the door to a universe of tales that might fairly actually change the course of my life,” Jason stated in a press release. “So it’s with nice honor and pleasure that in the end I get to make my correct debut as a DC author, with a Batman story that takes a younger Darkish Knight on his personal first journey into the far, wondrous reaches of the DC cosmos.”
Batman: Off-World #1 goes on sale November 21.
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