John Ridley working on new Batman mini

[Holt]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...comics-1307413

Yes, there will be more Batman — John Ridley, who won an Oscar for penning 12 Years a Slave, is writing a Batman mini-series (“It will have a huge impact on the rest of the line,” Lee says) —

[Rise]

Is DC still publishing comics?

Absolutely. One hundred percent. It is still the cornerstone of everything that we do. The need for storytelling, updating the mythology, is vital to what we do. The organization leans on us to share and establish the meaningful elements of the content that they need to use and incorporate for all their adaptations. When we think about reaching global audiences, and we see comics as helping drive that awareness and that international brand, it’s very much part of our future.

That said, we will be reducing the size of the slate. But it’s about looking at everything and looking at the bottom 20 percent, 25 percent of the line that wasn’t breaking even or was losing money. It’s about more punch for the pound, so to speak, and increasing the margins of the books that we are doing. It was about aligning the books to the franchise brand content we’ve developed and making sure that every book we put out, we put out for a reason.

That was already expected since before the layoffs news broke out.

I do wonder about Batgirl, tho.

[Myskin]

Probably what remains of 5G, with Luke Fox Batman.

[Hypestyle]

Would have been great to see what C. Priest got allowed to do if he were asked or a pitch accepted.

[Wrestler]

Probably what remains of 5G, with Luke Fox Batman.

I truly hope not.

[sifighter]

I like John Ridley and if the rumors of this being 5G remains are true I’m genuinely interested to check it out.

[lemonpeace]

if this is Luke Fox as Batman then I'm 1000% here for it. it took me a minute to come around to it but Luke as Batman was the number 1 thing I was looking forward to from the whole 5G thing.

[Frontier]

Will it really have much of an impact now? I guess it would just be exploring a black Batman, if nothing else.