Future specify Week One Gotham stories feature a few of the very best of the Event’s opening
For the next two months, every DC Comic series (in their central universe) is on hiatus as the company dives into their post-Dark Nights: death metal event DC Future State. and the introduce is massive. aside from the comics leading as much as DC Future State, there were six installments. and two of those installments were mega-sized, featuring three stories each. So, in total, we have ten DC Future specify stories in Week One alone, but for now, we’re going to focus on Gotham. So, let’s dive in.
The next Batman. Where Else would We begin for the Gotham Future specify Week One Stories?
In the future, all Gotham landscapes look like PlayStation2 buttons. (Image: Future State: The next Batman #1, DC Comics)
There are a lot of DC Future specify Gotham stories, not just in Week One but with the next eight weeks or so. but the one DC has featured the most is The next Batman #1. The main story features the first-ever Black Batman. but the other stories here stand out, too, from the new Outsiders concept to the brilliant new team, Arkham Knights. So, strap on a mask and get out of the street because we’re about to handle the Magistrate.
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Writer: John Ridley
Artist: Nick Derington
Colors: Tamra Bonvillain
(First, if that’s your genuine name, Tamra Bonvillain, it is the very best artist name ever. It’s like that senator whose last name is Whitehouse—I don’t know anything about him, but that’s just type of an incredible name to have in politics. Bonvillain? In comics? more awesome. and unlike old white male politician #8943-Whitehouse, I at least know you’re a great color artist,)
Okay, back to Batman
would the genuine Bat Shady please stand up? (Image: Future State: The next Batman #1, DC Comics)
This is the very best location to start, not just because it’s the book DC advertised the most, but because it’s one of the better comics in DC Future specify Week One, Gotham or otherwise. John Ridley succeeds extremely well in two ways. One, he makes the next Batman a deserving successor to Bruce Wayne, and two—more importantly—the title sets the tone of Gotham in Future specify perfectly. In fact, it type of sets the tone for this entire event. That tone is that something is off, but it feels natural to the arch of DC Comics. This doesn’t feel like an Elseworlds story, but one that could happen in our Gotham. That’s because the Magistrate doesn’t feel like a dystopian plot twist, but something the city would actually go through. Hell, at one point, the us government cut them off from the rest of the country (No Man’s Land).
There is one aspect that didn’t work has nothing to finish with Ridley, Derington, or Bonvillain. Ridley sets up the connection between the Fox family members extremely carefully, with Luke (formerly Batwing) trying to keep the family together after Bruce Wayne’s fall. His sibling is in the hospital, his mother is consumed with stopping the capes, and his brother, Tim, is a bit useless. We’re led to believe that Luke is the next Batman—but he’s not. DC already revealed that it is Tim. So whatever twist Ridley had in mind, it’s already spoiled. Still, though, it was a great story.
The Outsiders
Katana went beast-mode. That’s still a thing, right? (Image: Future State: The next Batman #1, DC Comics)
Writer: Brandon Thomas
Penciler: Sumit Kumar
Inkers: Sumit Kumar and Raul Fernandez
Colorist: Jordie Bellaire
While the Magistrate controls everything inside Gotham, there’s still a world outside of the city limits—and it’s here that we get the newest interpretation of the “Outsider” team name. They are literally on the outside. This is a story of the team coming together. We have Signal Truing smuggle people out, Katana—decked out in a samurai mech suit—fighting the Magistrate, and Black Lightning, who is now a completely elemental character.
Thomas takes what Ridley started and develops on it. We see how the risk of the Magistrate extends beyond Gotham—and how far they’re prepared to go, which is “let Katana kick our asses.” They have a jurisdiction that some Magistrate agents take seriously, unless a big target—like the Signal—is on the other side of the border. It’s also our first peek of the new Gotham from a point of view other than the next Batman’s. However, while we’re entrusted to a major mystery about what occurred to Black Lightning, the next story gets into the Magistrate’s regime in a method none of the other Future specify Week One Gotham stories do.
Arkham Knights
Okay, but where’s Condiment Man? (Image: Future State: The next Batman #1, DC Comics)
Writer: Paul Jenkins
Artist: Jack Herbert
Colorist: Gabe Eltaeb
The last section of The next Batman is my personal favorite of the Future specify Week One Gotham stories, even if, admittedly, it isn’t the very best writtenFuture specify Week One Gotham stories feature a few of the very best of the Event’s opening (###) For the next two months, every DC Comic series (in their central universe) is on hiatus as the company dives into their post-Dark Nights: death metal event DC Future State. and the introduce is massive. aside from the comics leading as much as DC Future State, there were six installments. and two of those installments were mega-sized, featuring three stories each. So, in total, we have ten DC Future specify stories in Week One alone, but for now, we’re going to focus on Gotham. So, let’s dive in.
The next Batman. Where Else would We begin for the Gotham Future specify Week One Stories?
In the future, all Gotham landscapes look like PlayStation2 buttons. (Image: Future State: The next Batman #1, DC Comics)
There are a lot of DC Future specify Gotham stories, not just in Week One but with the next eight weeks or so. but the one DC has featured the most is The next Batman #1. The main story features the first-ever Black Batman. but the other stories here stand out, too, from the new Outsiders concept to the brilliant new team, Arkham Knights. So, strap on a mask and get out of the street because we’re about to handle the Magistrate.
x
Mario Kart DLC Gold Rush.mp4
0 seconds of 12 minutes, 40 seconds
Live
00:00
12:40
12:40
The next Batman
Writer: John Ridley
Artist: Nick Derington
Colors: Tamra Bonvillain
(First, if that’s your genuine name, Tamra Bonvillain, it is the very best artist name ever. It’s like that senator whose last name is Whitehouse—I don’t know anything about him, but that’s just type of an incredible name to have in politics. Bonvillain? In comics? more awesome. and unlike old white male politician #8943-Whitehouse, I at least know you’re a great color artist,)
Okay, back to Batman
would the genuine Bat Shady please stand up? (Image: Future State: The next Batman #1, DC Comics)
This is the very best location to start, not just because it’s the book DC advertised the most, but because it’s one of the better comics in DC Future specify Week One, Gotham or otherwise. John Ridley succeeds extremely well in two ways. One, he makes the next Batman a deserving successor to Bruce Wayne, and two—more importantly—the title sets the tone of Gotham in Future specify perfectly. In fact, it type of sets the tone for this entire event. That tone is that something is off, but it feels natural to the arch of DC Comics. This doesn’t feel like an Elseworlds story, but one that could happen in our Gotham. That’s because the Magistrate doesn’t feel like a dystopian plot twist, but something the city would actually go through. Hell, at one point, the us government cut them off from the rest of the country (No Man’s Land).
There is one aspect that didn’t work has nothing to finish with Ridley, Derington, or Bonvillain. Ridley sets up the connection between the Fox family members extremely carefully, with Luke (formerly Batwing) trying to keep the family together after Bruce Wayne’s fall. His sibling is in the hospital, his mother is consumed with stopping the capes, and his brother, Tim, is a bit useless. We’re led to believe that Luke is the next Batman—but he’s not. DC already revealed that it is Tim. So whatever twist Ridley had in mind, it’s already spoiled. Still, though, it was a great story.
The Outsiders
Katana went beast-mode. That’s still a thing, right? (Image: Future State: The next Batman #1, DC Comics)
Writer: Brandon Thomas
Penciler: Sumit Kumar
Inkers: Sumit Kumar and Raul Fernandez
Colorist: Jordie Bellaire
While the Magistrate controls everything inside Gotham, there’s still a world outside of the city limits—and it’s here that we get the newest interpretation of the “Outsider” team name. They are literally on the outside. This is a story of the team coming together. We have Signal Truing smuggle people out, Katana—decked out in a samurai mech suit—fighting the Magistrate, and Black Lightning, who is now a completely elemental character.
Thomas takes what Ridley started and develops on it. We see how the risk of the Magistrate extends beyond Gotham—and how far they’re prepared to go, which is “let Katana kick our asses.” They have a jurisdiction that some Magistrate agents take seriously, unless a big target—like the Signal—is on the other side of the border. It’s also our first peek of the new Gotham from a point of view other than the next Batman’s. However, while we’re entrusted to a major mystery about what occurred to Black Lightning, the next story gets into the Magistrate’s regime in a method none of the other Future specify Week One Gotham stories do.
Arkham Knights
Okay, but where’s Condiment Man? (Image: Future State: The next Batman #1, DC Comics)
Writer: Paul Jenkins
Artist: Jack Herbert
Colorist: Gabe Eltaeb
The last section of The next Batman is my personal favorite of the Future specify Week One Gotham stories, even if, admittedly, it isn’t the very best written