Each weekday, Tim will take a look at what we know about each of the upcoming 52 new comics from the September DC relaunch, one series at a time. Today: BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT!The Concept and Characters: Here’s the big question readers would probably have about this series: what makes this comic different from Batman or Batman & Robin or Detective Comics, all of which are hitting the stands around the same time as this series. The answer: David Finch.
Because this is still just a Batman comic — one that tells about the adventures of Bruce Wayne in Gotham City, cape and cowl and gadgets and punching and all.
But David Finch’s take on Batman is a more horror-intense version, with a bigger emphasis on the Gotham City grotesqueries than the other Batman variations. And it’s a series with a name that not only alludes to one of the greatest Batman stories ever told (Frank Miller’s seminal The Dark Knight Returns), but also a movie that a few people probably watched around the planet that one summer (Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight).
It’s also one of the weirdest DC relaunch titles.
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