Batman vs. the new DC villain Abyss begins in Batman #118 preview - butlerhateres

Batman vs. the new DC villain Abysm begins in Batman #118 preview

Batman #118 variant plow (Image credit: Bjorn Barends (District of Columbia))

A new geological era for the Dark Knight begins in December 7's Batman #118 - he's going his hometown of Gotham City, and doing it with an all-new creative squad for his titular book.

Writer Josue Williamson and artist Jorge Molina will be taking over from the Batman title's current fictive team just after the close of the current 'Concern DoS' event, which wish spell out how and why Robert the Bruce Wayne has definite to leave Gotham City.

"Yeah, he's leaving Gotham. After Fear State, he has a plan to parting sure reasons. And then atomic number 2's hesitant, he has a moment where he's hesitant to leave. And and then something happens and it's a mission he has to go connected, information technology's a case, and he's like 'I have to leave,'" Williamson told The Comics Beat.

Check out this preview of Batman #118, showing what appears to be Batman's final adventure in Gotham (for the moment, course):

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Batman #118 preview

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"And so he leaves to take care of that case. And he leaves Gotham in the hands of other people, and at that place's a big story next year well-nig that, about what's going connected in Gotham while he's at peace. Merely and so I get to do a bunch of stories with him outside of Gotham for a bite."

A key divide of that case will be a stellar new DC villain named the Abyss. Williamson says that this antagonist knows "how to use the darkness to manipulate and scare people" just as Batman is unerect to do, only more.

"I call back hoi polloi bequeath be openmouthed the direction the gormandise with the Abyss goes," Williamson says. "He's only in #118 [a] little bit and then he'll be in 119, 120, 121, but I think people will follow surprised with the way he's introduced. It wish be kindly of a surprising thing. But yeah, atomic number 2 uses darkness as a tool. Not similar a Phantasm Thief kind of way, you'll see when we're getting in there. IT's a diverse way."

Molina has drawn the briny masking to Batman #118, and will constitute joined with variant covers away Viktor Bogdanovic (four versions), Francesco Mattina, Jock, Kael Ngu (trinity versions), a Jorge Molina invention variant, Bjorn Barends (two versions), Skan Srisuwan (2 versions), Mico Suayan (two versions), and Sun Khamunaki (two versions). Ensure them out here:

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Batman #118 covers

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Your eyes aren't fooling you - that Batman #118 variant cover past Bogdanovic pays homage to a classic Wanderer-Man cut through by Todd McFarlane.

Batman #118 goes on sale on December 7.

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Newsarama Superior Editor Chris Thoroughgoing has covered comic book news for Newsarama since 2003, and has also inscribed for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Wonder Entertainment, TOKYOPOP, AdHouse Books, Cartoon Brew, Bleeding Cool, Comic Patronize News, and CMB. He is the writer of the book Nonclassical: Masters Cliff Chiang, cobalt-authored Prowess of Spider-Human beings Classic, and contributed to Dark Horse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Comic) Cons. He has acted as a magistrate for the Will Eisner Comic Industriousness Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. Chris is a member of the Earth Program library Association's Graphic Novel & Comics Roundtable. (He/him)