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Might we have a Ghost-Maker Vs Nightwing battle on the cards in Batman Inc in the near future? Today's issue sets that up.Created by James Tynion IV and Jorge Jimenez for Batman #100 in 2020,  Minhkhoa "Khoa" Khan of Ghost-Maker was established as an old friend of Bruce Wayne who trained with many of Bruce's mentors. A psychopath, unable to feel any empathy or fear, and who sees vigilantism as an art rather than a duty, they became rivals over opposing views about the use of deadly force. Ghost-Maker agreed to stay out of…

In tomorrow's Batman: One Bad Day from DC, Ra's Al Ghul is out to kill Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. But should Batman stop him?Tomorrow sees the release of the final Batman: One Bad Day one-shots, each modelled on The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland, each focussing on a different villain in Batman's Rogue Gallery. Batman: One Bad Day: Ra's Al Ghul by Tom Taylor, Ivan Reis and Danny Miki looks at the essential dichotomy of the man, and puts Bruce Wayne on the side of the bad guy, Because this…

Batman Incorporated #4 introduces a Batman wannabee from Dublin who may not be entirely everything Ghost-Maker is after. But then, neither is Clownhunter. | In the Batman Inc comic by Ed Brisson and John Timms, Ghost-Maker's past is catching up with him. No wonder he's distracted. I mean, he can't ever get his ward Clownhunter's name right in tomorrow's Batman Inc #4. With Clownhunter also  starting to catch up with who the hell this person is that Batman landed him with – and who Batman put in charge of Batman Inc. He…

| Tomorrow's The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #4 by Matthew Rosenberg, Carmine Di Giandomenico and Francesco Francavilla continues its battle of the maddest of Jokers, as well as how he relates to the rest of the Gotham bad guys, Generally, not so well. And it's the Mad Hatter who gets the worst of it, in tomorrow's issue, with the Joker visiting sick kids in hospital. Jervis Tetch, The Mad Hatter, first appeared in 1948 in Batman #49, and was created by Bill Finger, Lew Sayre Schwartz and Bob Kane. Modelled…

| A couple of months ago, Bleeding Cool ran the observation that the main Batman title was going to kill off its titular lead. That this was the only way out to the conclusion of the current Failsafe storyline. In which Batman is believed to have killed the Penguin, a trick, set up by The Penguin to fake his own death, before getting plastic surgery and changing his life to one away from organised crime. However, the resultant news coverage showing Batman having killed The Penguin triggered something called Failsafe, a…

| It was a gushing PR-puffery interview with Grant DeArmitt and John Ridley, author of I Am Batman, that got the Twitterati abuzz,  said about the character of Renee Montoya, appearing as Gotham and New York police commissioner in I Am Batman, and now in the GCPD: The Blue Wall series, where he states "Renee Montoya is one of the greatest of the modern-era characters of the DC universe. Renee is a police officer, has always been a police officer, and she's now commissioner." Emphasis ours. And that has caused…

| Today's Batman: Urban Legends #21 has a new story by Dennis Culver and Hayden Sherman about a new set of young Gotham ne'er-do-wells who the city intended to "scare straight" by putting them into Arkham Academy. They are all new characters, though may bear the hallmarks of Gotham, as well as Enigma from Teen Titans, the possible daughter of the Riddler. Dennis Culver tweeted "ARKHAM ACADEMY This November, Gotham City's most at risk teens get scared straight! A three part tale that begins in BATMAN: URBAN LEGENDS 21…