Today at ComicsPRO, DC closed out its full day of publishing announcements with a first look at Bad Seeds, a Gotham City-centric event arriving in the third quarter of this year. No specific dates or creative teams were named, although it’s entirely possible there is no stand-alone Bad Seeds miniseries and that the participants will be the writers of the Bat-family books.
The initial preview image, seen below, is from Giuseppe Camuncoli, Cliff Rathburn, and Tomeu Morey.
In Bad Seeds, Gotham City Police Commissioner Vandal Savage has declared war on the Bat-Family and flooded the streets with his private, para-militarized police army. Gotham’s new mayor, Pamela Isley, deserted by her allies both political and arcane, is about to make a last-ditch power play that will leave all of Gotham decimated by daylight.
These events converge in the event, spanning a long, dark night in Gotham that threatens to turn the entire city into a primeval world of hostile plant life unlike anything on Earth for millennia, at a time when its greatest heroes are hunted and in hiding.
Obviously, the iconography of heavily-politicized, quasi-military law enforcement raining violence down on a U.S. city is going to be evocative of what’s going on around the country as part of the federal government’s anti-immigration “surge” policy. Bat-family creators have not been scared to court that controversy, most especially in Absolute Batman Annual #1.
DC promised more details on Bad Seeds will be shared in the months ahead.
