>June 1’s Batman Rebirth #1 by writers Tom King and Scott Snyder and artist Mikel Janin will not only kick off DC's new approach to Batman, but will introduce new elements to the Batman mythology - including a new role for Duke Thomas and a return to some of the classic aspects of Batman's world.
>King, who's best known to DC fans for his revamp of Dick Grayson as co-writer of Grayson, will re-launch the Batman title on two weeks after the Batman Rebirth issue, working with rotating artists David Finch and Mikel Janín as the comic book ships twice a month.
>According to King, Finch will draw Batman’s first arc, with Janín drawing the second arc — all as part of a year-long trilogy.
>Snyder, who has been on the Batman title since the last time it relaunched in 2011, will be working with a list of superstar artists on a new Batman title, All-Star Batman, which launches in August.
>Both writers emphasized that Snyder's All-Star Batman is in continuity, and King went one step further and said that not only is it "not some side project" but "it's the center of the Batman universe."
>The pair are working together to coordinate the events in Batman and All-Star Batman, and also hinted that readers would see the Bat-writers doing coordinated stories in the future. As Snyder said, Bat-office writers would be "doing some storytelling together in ways that will fun."
>For their co-written Batman Rebirth issue, the pair are revamping the Batman villain Calendar Man. Newsarama talked to Snyder and King to find out more.
>Newsarama: Tom and Scott, I feel like this issue is — not to be too cliché — passing the baton on the Batman relay. Is that what this issue represents? Or is it more that you both had an idea and wanted to co-write?
>Scott Snyder: I had kidded around that my original plan was just to leave everybody dead for Tom, and just be like, here you go! Have Batman and everyone just totally dead.