Radiant Black’s Creators are Giving Batman the Tokusatsu Treatment

There’s ever thing caller to bash with Batman, whether it’s giving him a mech, making him a ninja oregon an implicit unit. DC’s newest rotation connected the character? Make him a tokusatsu leader successful a sci-fi epic.

During his C2E2 panel, Radiant Black co-creator Kyle Higgins revealed he’d beryllium doing conscionable that in Immortal Legend Batman. The six-issue bid sees him reteam with DC blistery changeable Dan Mora and immoderate different acquainted faces—Mat Groom and Erica D’Urso, the writer/artist duo down Radiant’s sister bid Inferno Girl Red, plus Radiant colorist Igor Monti and letterer Becca Carey—for a marque new Elseworlds book. The pitch? It’s centuries into the aboriginal and humanity’s utilized acheronian substance to maestro interstellar abstraction question and make a galactic empire. All that tampering has resulted successful soulless monsters called “Shadows” terrorizing recently colonized worlds, and that’s wherever the Immortal Legends travel in. This three-person squad has figured retired however to manipulate acheronian substance to crook them into superheroes, resulting successful a dynamic trio of Batman, Robin, and Nightwing.

According to Higgins, Immortal Legend Batman has been “years successful the making” since helium and Groom saw Mora’s rad tokusatsu redesigns for the characters backmost successful 2020. Being fans of the toku genre—which is each over Radiant and Inferno, by their ain admission—the duo saw an accidental “to bring that emotion to a precise unsocial mentation of Gotham, with precise unsocial versions of these characters.” And having worked unneurotic on Power Rangers alongside Carey, Monti, D’Urso, and exertion Matt Levine, it was “beyond a cleanable storm” of events.

“We wanted to find a mode to instrumentality everything that’s truthful large astir Batman—his immense determination, resilience and selflessness—and research it successful a wholly caller way,” continued Groom. “So, we’re taking him to the stars, turning him into a wandering hero, exploring humanity’s last frontier… and searching retired deadly threats helium inadvertently released upon the galactic community.”

Look for Bruce and squad to morph into enactment when Immortal Legend Batman begins connected August 27.

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