>Writer Scott Snyder and artist Sean Murphy will reunite for DC Comics’ Batman: Last Knight. “I want it to be my last Batman story for a long time,” Snyder said this afternoon at New York Comic Con.
>Both creators are, of course, well-acquainted with the Dark Knight: Snyder is well known for his work on Batman, All Star Batman and the current Batman-centered event, with artist Greg Capullo, Dark Nights: Metal, while Murphy just launched Batman: White Knight.
>“Batman suddenly wakes up and he’s … young,” Snyder teased during DC’s Batman panel, “but he wakes up in this post-apocalyptic wasteland, crawling out of the sand in this Gotham City that’s been ruined. He’s got the Joker’s head chained to his belt, but it’s alive and like ‘You gotta move, kid!’ It’s got old Wonder Woman, Baby Superman — it’s like my Lone Wolf and Cub Batman story.”
>Snyder explained that he received advice from Grant Morrison about how to write iconic heroes like the Caped Crusader. “He said you’ve got to give them a birth and a death,” he recalled. “So this isn’t really a death, but this is a closing a chapter in my version of Batman.”
>Gordon and Murphy previously collaborated on Vertigo’s American Vampire and The Wake, and a short story for DC’s Detective Comics.
>No release date was announced for Batman: Last Knight.
This is what, his second or third last Batman story?
Kayden Martin
>He’s got the Joker’s head chained to his belt, but it’s alive and like ‘You gotta move, kid!’
James Gunn wept.
Dylan Moore
>He’s got the Joker’s head chained to his belt, but it’s alive and like ‘You gotta move, kid!'
Right when I'm ready to give Snyder another chance, he gives me a reason not to. Every time.
Daniel Diaz
>Snyder explained that he received advice from Grant Morrison He recalls that fucking anecdote every time they interview him about Batman. I'm not sure whether to laugh at the guy or pity him
Gabriel Barnes
>no more SnyderBat comics Hell yeah
Brody Ortiz
>another batman miniseries
I mean i'm game if its good but right now im getting like 4 batman books already
Ethan Powell
>Another Batman book
I want Batfags to commit collective suicide for funding this shit
Nathan Miller
What is it with working on Batman that keeps you coming back, despite promising to move on?
Nathan Hernandez
snyder needs to go, it's been too long at this point, nothing he's done comes close to grant's run
Julian King
The mighty dollar.
Grayson Ross
Jesus Christ. Why doesn't Snyder just write a Joker mini series and be done with it? That's obviously the only character he cares about.
Brody Anderson
Sean Murphy said on his Twitter that after this he will retire from working with other writers and only work on his own stuff.
Samuel Thomas
desu I just want him to have a whole Joker ongoing. That will keep him busy for a while since he doesn't write that many books at once.
Adam Richardson
Well if it gets him away from Batman I'll be happy, now we just need to get Slott away from spider-man
Thomas Thomas
>tfw Superman's 80th birthday is next year and he doesn't get a mini at least.
Matthew Rodriguez
>Snyder on Spider-Man >Slott on Batman
The new world order
Liam Jenkins
I'm usually not for this kind of extremist think even if done in hyperbole, but with Batman I really do have to wonder what DC would do if all his sales just vanished suddenly. Would they just push those slightly below him in sales to compensate? Would they try to raise everyone equally to avoid the same brand disproportionately weakness?
Camden Lewis
They'd probably push JL, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Flash more since those seem to be the next franchises that sell decently.
Mason Nguyen
He's getting Action Comics #1000, which will be pretty major.
James Rivera
I going to expect some homoerotic scenes between Doctor ock and Spider-man.
Snyder will reintroduce Jackal and create some dark clone nation.
John Reyes
Wait I still find snyders batman not unreadable. dont let Slott anywhere near him!
Angel Nguyen
Green Lantern has also become more high-profile since Johns' run.
Samuel Nelson
It started selling like shit after Johns' left.
Carter Robinson
You must have a high tolerance for crap then if you didn't black list Snyder after Death of the Family
Anthony Cruz
>“I want it to be my last Batman story for a long time,”
So six months?
Aiden Rodriguez
Was BatGordon that bad?
Jonathan Johnson
Is it physically impossible to write a Batman story without using knight wordplay?
Zachary Mitchell
It was pretty bad. Not as bad as Death of the Family, but not great.
Nicholas Carter
Frank Miller and JRJr are doing Superman Year One. That's something.
Jeremiah Martin
... Why Frank Miller? I don't really think I want to read that.
Evan Brown
He wanted something good, not god awful.
Julian Perry
Did they ever explain how Gordon managed to drop 20 years off his age and ignore the effects that prolonged years of tobacco smoke has on his body? Or did all that go away when he shaved his mustache off?
Michael Lopez
I tihnk it was said he went through training
Daniel Davis
Slott wrote a pretty good Batman during Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, but I'm not sure how he would do with the main title.
Tyler Sanchez
Well, sign me up for that training, my knees hurt, I could do with shaving off twenty years of my life.
Austin Moore
Well, at least he looked cool. Still don't understand the bunny ears, though.
Julian Miller
He's not a good writer tho
Evan Moore
are the people who want snyder gone from batman the same people who like King?
Luke Harris
He went through training, stopped smoking, and had the super suit to help him. But he still wasn't very good at the job, some Z-listers called the Devil Pigs kicked his ass. He went back to smoking when Batman showed up.
Nicholas Taylor
Also artificial muscle implants or something, that I guess they just removed once he stopped being Batman?
Josiah Hernandez
>JRJr Why couldn't they get Mazzuchelli back?
Austin Lee
I think Snyder and King are both just OK at Batman
Lincoln Stewart
No, I hate both.
Robert Campbell
he has some great issues of Batman Adventures too
Evan Campbell
He's got an ego the size of a battleship. Dude is completely insufferable in twitter, and no, he actually doesn't tweet about politics or whatever, he just comes across as a huge douche.
Jonathan Martin
>This is what, his second or third last Batman story? Third. The second one was Metal. He said the very same words like, two months ago.
Levi Hall
So is Snyder only going to write Batman for the rest of his career? This is like forced fame at this point.
Juan Cruz
Please get Batman away from this cocksucker as soon as possible. I am so fucking sick of seeing Scotty Snyder and Batman in the same sentence.
Mason Martin
Sorry guys. Scotty is going to write more Batman issues than Slotty has written Spider-Man issues or die trying. He was even nice enough to give Slotty a head start because Scotty knows he'll outlive the fat bastard.
Adam Gonzalez
I'm a Batfag and even I am sick of this shit.
Jaxon Bailey
DC should just publish more of Landis' Superman fanfic.
Liam King
>Pretty major Being written by Tomasi and Jurgens.
Jack Lewis
He's working on a second volume I think
Caleb Murphy
Sup Forumsmblr actually hates Miller for speaking the truth.
Jeremiah Anderson
Because nobody wants to write Superman. Why do you think they keep putting mediocre writers on the title?
Benjamin Wright
>Spiderium
Jaxson Kelly
The premise sounds great, but sadly the execution will be just as formulaic as rest of Snyder's Batman. Snyder should realistic that he's not Morrison.