Detective Comics #1084 Preview: The city glitters on the horizon. His city. His responsibility to defend and protect. But home has changed. Corrupted by the power of the Orghams’ hypnotic suggestions. Mutated into something he does not recognize. This isn’t the city Batman remembers. But the city doesn’t remember Batman, either. Gotham Nocturne: Act III is upon us and the countdown to the finale of Ram V’s epic Gothic Opera has begun. You are not ready. Continue reading Detective Comics #1084 Preview

Detective Comics #1082 Preview: “Elegy of Sand” continues, and Batman’s hallucinatory trek across a desert between worlds becomes ever more dangerous as he finds himself face-to-face against…well, you’ll just have to wait and find out. Meanwhile, in Gotham, a strange Utopia is blooming as the Orghams continue to hypnotize the public into believing that Batman never existed. And as this knight-less city thrives, one must ask…did Gotham ever need Batman in the first place? Continue reading Detective Comics #1083 Preview

Detective Comics #1082 Preview: “Elegy of Sand” continues, and Batman’s hallucinatory trek across a desert between worlds becomes ever more dangerous as he finds himself face-to-face against…well, you’ll just have to wait and find out. Meanwhile, in Gotham, a strange Utopia is blooming as the Orghams continue to hypnotize the public into believing that Batman never existed. And as this knight-less city thrives, one must ask…did Gotham ever need Batman in the first place? Continue reading Detective Comics #1082 Preview

Detective Comics #1081 Preview: Spirited away from a city that believes him dead, Batman has been brought far from Gotham and deposited in a desert of legend. Possessed by an Azmer demon and rapidly losing his own identity, he must now cross this mythic landscape on a vision quest. With no water, no supplies, and no one to save him, Batman is left with two choices: burn out the demon or be left as bones in the sand. Meanwhile, the Orghams’ master plan is finally fully enacted as they use the Reality Engine to make all of Gotham forget there ever was a Batman. Bear witness to Batman’s worst fears made manifest in “Elegy of Sand,” part one! Continue reading Detective Comics #1081 Preview

Detective Comics #1080 Preview: “Batman: Outlaw” concludes in part five of five of the biweekly Detective Comics event! The Batman is dead. The Reality Engine, a device capable of amplifying the Orghams’ hypnotic powers, has roared to life. The people of Gotham, having watched the Dark Knight die on the gallows, begin to forget there ever was a Batman, and the Gotham that the Orghams have been working toward since their arrival in the city emerges: a city without a Batman. A city that never had a Batman. Check out the reality-bending, city-altering finale to “Batman: Outlaw,” and ask yourself: will Gotham ever be the same again? Continue reading Detective Comics #1080 Preview

Detective Comics #1079 Preview: “Batman: Outlaw” continues in part four of five in the biweekly Detective Comics event! The Dark Knight has been executed and the Orghams’ plan to take control of Gotham has been enacted! But with Catwoman arranging Batman’s rescue mission from the shadows, not all is as it seems! Has Gotham’s Feline Fatale figured out a way to cheat death or has Gotham City truly lost its caped crusader? Continue reading Detective Comics #1079 Preview

Detective Comics #1078 Preview: Part three of five in “Batman: Outlaw”—the biweekly Detective Comics event! Under the scorching Gotham sun, a showdown at high noon will determine who walks away…and who’s carried away. Catwoman finds out that someone within her heist crew has been a mole this whole time, feeding information to the Orghams! Who among the team could be the traitor? Continue reading Detective Comics #1078 Preview

Detective Comics #1077 Preview: Part two of five in “Batman: Outlaw”—the biweekly Detective Comics event! Hang the Bat! The sun sets on the horizon, casting long shadows of justice as the Batman, under the possession of an Azmer, takes his long walk down to the gallows in front of a hypnotized Gotham, and it’s up to the best cat burglar around to save him! But this town may not be big enough for the both of them, especially with Selina on bad terms with Batman. “Batman: Outlaw” part two of five in the biweekly Detective Comics event continues here! Continue reading Detective Comics #1077 Preview

Detective Comics #1076 Preview: “Batman: Outlaw,” the five-part biweekly Detective Comics event, starts here! Batman, now under the control of an Azmer demon, is to be publicly hanged to atone for his crimes! With both the city and the Dark Knight under the Orghams’ spell, it’s a lawless land, and with the Bat-Family out of the picture after the events of “The Gotham War,” who will help him? It’s up to the ragtag group of Batman’s greatest allies, and enemies, to steal him from the gallows before it’s too late! Continue reading Detective Comics #1076 Preview

Detective Comics #1075 Preview: As Batman races through the streets of Gotham and out of the Orgham’s grasp, Bruce races through the memories in his mind as the Azmer demon tries to take hold of him…except the only thing in the demon’s way is Bruce’s own inner demons…and Barbatos. Then, in the backups, can Bruce’s memory of Alfred consoling him as a boy be preserved from the Azmer if he takes Barbatos’s offer? Continue reading Detective Comics #1075 Preview

Detective Comics #1074 Preview: An Azmer demon is tethered to Batman! Now it’s up to Bruce’s inner demons to save him from this very real one…but what about the Barbatos entity that’s been lurking beside them? Is it the real Barbatos or simply a figment of Batman’s internal struggles, and more importantly…whose side is it on? Continue reading Detective Comics #1074 Preview