Batman Detective Comics Huge Shadow of the Bat Event Explained

Batman: Detective Comics’ Huge Shadow of the Bat Event Explained

DC Comics’ Shadows of the Bat is going to be a game-changer for the Bat-Family with Batman absent. Here’s an explainer about everything we know!

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Batman Detective Comics Huge Shadow of the Bat Event Explained

DC Comics has teased that the upcoming Batman event, titled Shadows of the Bat, will see big shake-ups to the Bat-Family. The new Batman event follows on from Fear State and is the latest in a slew of recent line-wide events. Future State kicked off DC’s year after the conclusion of Dark Nights: Death Metal. This potential future saw the introduction of Tim “Jace” Fox, the Next Batman, among many other changes to the Bat-Family. Batman’s absence from Gotham City in Shadows of the Bat hints that DC is moving closer to the potential future seen in Future State.

Fear State has shown the inception of Simon Saint’s Magistrate program, the tyrannical rulers of Gotham’s future. The Bat-Family has had to grapple with the takeover of this anti-vigilante army, as well as Scarecrow’s machinations. In the aftermath of that event, Shadows of the Bat will see Gotham left without Batman for unknown reasons. It’s possible that with the threat of Saint’s Peacekeepers and Scarecrow out of the way, he deems Gotham safe enough for him to leave for an undisclosed period of time. It’s also been confirmed that Batman’s disappearance has some people thinking that he’s dead, given that he would normally never leave his post as Gotham’s protector.

Everything will begin in the November release of Detective Comics 2021 Annual from Mariko Tamaki, Matthew Rosenberg, David Lapham, and Trish Mulvihill. Detective Comics 2021 Annual will lead into a twelve-week-long storyline in the pages of Detective Comics. Shadows of the Bat will deal with Batman’s unprecedented decision to leave Gotham, and how the Bat-Family steps up to fill in for him. Luckily for Gotham, the Bat-Family hasn’t been this big in years. Even characters like Harley Quinn, who has been showing up recently in James Tynion IV’s Batman run, will be around to take care of Bruce Wayne’s beloved home city. Of course Batgirl and Batwoman will also remain as active protectors of the city. Perhaps one of them will step up to be the definitive go-to hero like Batman used to be?

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Gotham’s visiting hero Nightwing will be present at the start of the event as he and Batman get into an argument over Arkham Tower. This proposed new replacement for the recently blown-up Arkham Asylum will be located in the center of the city. Obviously, a new place to store Gotham’s troubled individuals and villains is needed. But relocating the most dangerous villains Batman has ever faced in the middle of Gotham, surrounded by civilians, is not a bright idea in the least. This will be one of the initial problems that the heroes of the new Batman event will have to tackle, as teased in Detective Comics #1044 by Stephanie Phillips, David Lapham, Trish Mulvihill, and Rob Leigh.

As is expected at the start of any major comic book event, new villains are inbound as Shadows of the Bat begins. Taking care of Arkham Tower, Dr. Wear is a new character who will be seeing to Gotham’s most deranged criminals with the use of experimental drugs, akin to Scarecrow’s dangerous practices. Right now, Dr. Wear seems to be teetering the line of being a curious scientist and slipping into full-on villainy by utilizing his new patients for his own nefarious deeds. Interestingly, it’s been teased by DC that Dr. Wear could be possibly an established villain in disguise. But who could it be and what are his intentions? Another new villain named Maeger Man has been teased as Gotham’s biggest villainous threat. According to the solicitation for Detective Comics 2021 Annual, Maeger Man “wreaks havoc in the streets and becomes the embodiment of Gotham’s broken system!”

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Shadows of the Bat will test the Bat-Family in ways they haven’t before, and prove once and for all if Gotham City can truly survive without Batman.

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