The Next Batman: Second Son Announced

[Hypo]

DC Announces More of The Next Batman by John Ridley!

The Next Batman: Second Son is a new miniseries, launching weekly digital chapters beginning February 23. The first three digital chapters will be collected into the debut print issue, available at comic book stores on April 6.

Now that the world knows Tim Fox is behind the mask fighting against The Magistrate in Gotham City, what’s the truth behind his origin and his connection to the current DC Universe? Featuring art by Tony Akins (Jack of Fables), Travel Foreman (Animal Man, Birds of Prey) and Mark Morales (Justice League, Deathstroke, REPRESENT!/”It’s A Bird”) this miniseries answers the questions behind Tim’s estrangement from Lucius Fox and the rest of the Fox family and his evolution from man of mystery to Gotham’s newest guardian.

[Frontier]

We might not see Jace as the present-day Batman, but we will get his origin.

And that's a lot of Foxes...enough to make their own Superhero family. Jace even looks like a Bruce .

[Factor]

I hope it isn't using the terrible DC Digital First format of cropped regular pages that's actually awful to read on tablets.

[DragonPiece]

exciting, though why does Lucius face look so wrinkled?

Hopefully this leads to a ongoing series.

[sifighter]

Wouldn’t be surprised if the trade was called Building the Batman. We know that at least in the Future State timeline Tim is for a fact the new Batman. What we don’t know is how he got there, where he got the suit, how he got the skills and the gadgets. Depending on how far back or far forward we go I suppose Tynion can use some of it in his ongoing events but I intend to look at it just something to inform the Next Batman series.

[Will Evans]

The title “second son.” Is this referencing that Luke is older than Tim?