As if there weren’t enough Batman related titles to drive you to bankruptcy, DC announced yet another series today via Blastr. Gotham by Midnight focuses on the supernatural aspects of Batman’s world and features Jim Corrigan/ The Spectre. Corrigan is one of several characters that the Dark Knight seems to outsource responsibility to when it comes to dealing with things that go bump in the night. If you assumed that this will spin out of the pages of Batman Eternal, then you would be correct. However, you needn’t be a reader of that title to enjoy this new series.
Writer Ray Fawkes (Constantine, Batman Eternal) had this to say about The Spectre’s involvement:
Jim Corrigan’s terrible secret is he carries the divine judgment of God around in his body, not of his own free will. So he’s better motivated than anybody to get involved whenever a big, supernatural monster shows up on the scene. If he doesn’t do something, sooner or later the Spectre is going to handle it, and he has an Old Testament way of handling things. We will be seeing the Spectre here and there, but that’s usually what happens when Corrigan messes up and doesn’t get it handled in time.
As for why Gotham is a good fit for the supernatural:
Gotham City is a pretty sick place, and also a wonderful place, one of the greatest cities in the DC Universe. The tack that some of the characters in this book take is that people like the Joker, Two-Face and Batman may be symptoms of something wrong with Gotham, and that may have a supernatural root. For me, the city is very Gothic, dark and shadowy, and it’s sort of the perfect setting for things that creep in the night.
Fawkes will be joined by artist Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night, Ten Grand). You can pick up the first issue of Gotham by Midnight November 26. Enjoy a look at the debut issue’s cover and some sketch art below, as well as a certain Judas Priest song that got stuck in my head due to writing this article.
Source: Blastr