It looks like Batman may be an important character in writer Tom King and artist Jor🌳ge Fornés' 12-issue Rorschach series debuting in October.
In a new interview with the creative team appearing Friday in the publisher's DC Connect #3, its new self-published catalog featuring 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:its October 2020 solicitations, King seems to imply but stops outright from directly confirming Gotham City's Da🌜rk Knight plays a key role.
Set 35 years after the end of the original limited series (and Rorschach's death at the hands of Dr. Manhattan), the new Black Label series opens in a world that doesn't trust superheroes but celebrates Rorschach as "a cultural icon" due to his actions in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' originalꦏ story.
That leaves two distinct possibilities, with🅰 Batman being the most significant and likely of them.
In addition to Batman significantly upping the profile of the year-long series and being DC's preeminent detective, King of course recently completed a long run writing Batman, which included time spent collaborating with Jorge Fornés. After the surprise end to his run last year, King was also supposed to continue writing Batman in the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Batman/Catwo♕man series with artist Clay Mann announced for a January 2020 debut, but that series has yet to appear on DC's schedule.
Batman also now has a ꦡhis💝tory with the Watchman characters as a major player in Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's series, as well as 'The Button' crossover arc in Tom King's Batman run.
The other less likely possibility but worth mentioning until DC officially confirms the detective's identity is the Question - the enigmatic Steve Ditko-created character who ꦛalong with other superheroes that originated at👍 Charlton Comics served as analogs-Moore's inspirations for the original Watchmen cast.
Somewhat strangely, a "young woman partnering with Rorschach" actually isn't mentioned in the solicit copy, either in DC Connect #3 or the version 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:released to the comic book press ﷽🗹last week. But King addresses her anyway.
"This is the young woman's first appearance," he replies. "She's going to be very important to a lot ofꦦ things moving forward."
Check ou🌼t a gallery of the preview pages from Rorschach #1 DC released last week.
