IGN had the exclusive reveal that Jason Aaron is coming to DC Comics with a six-part series titled Batman: Off-World. Joining him on art is Doug Mahnke and inker Jamie Mendoza. The story has Batman traveling off Earth on a solo mission on an alien world. Expect to find the first issue in comic shops on November 21. This will be Aaron’s first work with DC Comics after wrapping up his Avengers epic.
“I fell in love with comics because of DC,” Aaron tells IGN. “The first books my young, beardless self ever plucked from a grocery store spinner rack were the New Teen Titans and World’s Finest and Batman. Books that opened the door to a universe of stories that would quite literally change the course of my life. So it is with great honor and excitement that at long last I get to make my proper debut as a DC writer, with a Batman story that takes a young Dark Knight on his own first journey into the far, wondrous reaches of the DC cosmos.”
So what’s Batman: Off World about?
A routine night in Gotham City for a young Batman proves to be anything but routine when the crime-fighter is confronted with a sort of foe he’s never faced before—one from beyond the stars! A universe of possible alien threats leads Batman to make a daring decision—to venture alone into the far reaches of the cosmos for the very first time, where the Dark Knight will face the fight of his life!
Covers feature art by Mahnke, David Finch, Pete Woods, Ben Oliver, and Leirix.
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