LAST KNIGHT CONTINUES
Posted: 061019

With #1 out and #2 not scheduled until the end of July, now's the perfect time for folks out of the know to catch up with Scott Snyder's "last Batman story." When Scott Snyder came up with Batman's Zero Year arc he planned out how his Batman would die. Grant Morrison did the same thing and told Snyder he might as well do the same while they were sitting together at a comic convention. The three issue limited series Batman: Last Knight on Earth is supposed to be the last Batman story for Snyder and artist Greg Capullo. When the idea of the project first came up Sean Murphy was going to draw it but Snyder decided Capullo should get the chance to finish what the two had started with Zero Year. When he came up with the idea Capullo was doing Reborn with Mark Millar but that work had long since been done when it was time to actually do the book. Snyder’s concept behind the series would end their Batman story but show the ways in which Batman always has to be reborn for new generations. So within the three issues we will investigate what Batman means to people and who he is which allows the team to expand the boundaries of what we will be seeing. Which makes it normal to see Batman wandering around in the future carrying around the Joker’s head in a lantern; totally normal like seeing Wonder Woman with a Mohawk. Batman’s journey will take him across the entire DCU. Snyder says that this is the end for his version of Batman but he and Capullo are working on things that have Batman in the story. The two are planning some independent projects also.

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