Ram V and Rafael Albuquerque on Detective Comics

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Ram V, Rafael Albuquerque, & Dave Stewart taking over DETECTIVE COMICS in July

DC Comics’s namesake title is getting a new creative team. The publisher has announced that writer Ram V, artist Rafael Albuquerque, and color artist Dave Stewart will take over the reins of Detective Comics starting in July. Kicking off in Detective Comics #1062, the team’s first four-issue story arc finds Batman embroiled in a music-themed mystery. Writer Si Spurrier will provide the ongoing backup stories for the monthly series, with the first story, illustrated by Dani, following Jim Gordon on his return to Gotham as a private investigator.

Here’s how DC describes Detective Comics #1062:

The story starts with “Gotham Nocturne” part 1 of 4: “Overture.” Something is terribly wrong with Batman. No matter the tests Bruce takes, nor the numbers he counts, the greatest detective in the world can’t pin down the source of this creeping dread—of his own inner demons and a looming mortality. He’s not alone in the grips of this terror, as it seems real demons are creeping through the shadows of Gotham City, answering the clarion call of a strange melody that’s haunting Gotham…and seems to be turning its denizens into something else.

The curtains are rising on a new, terrifying mystery as Batman tries to figure out what’s happening to both the city he protects and his own mind in this lush, operatic mystery.

[thwhtGuardian]

Looks interesting but I was hoping for a longer run from Tamaki. Despite not liking her event she wrote a great Bruce Wayne.

[Restingvoice]

Going Gothic

nice

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Batman's Gotham City Transforms into a Gothic Opera in 'Gotham Nocturne'

Ivan Reis will join the title for an upcoming arc as the artist on issues #1066-1099.

I assume that's a typo and Reis isn't doing 33 issues straight.

[JBatmanFan05]

This might be the second serious attempt to do, on Batman comics, what Morrison did in LOTDK "Gothic" (#6–10), one of my favorite Batman stories. Hopefully someone has asked or will ask Ram V if he's familiar with that gothic operatic story. Mozart's opera Don Giovanni is a big part of Morrison's story (maybe the only Batman story featuring untranslated italian!), at least partially functioning to highlight the story's Byronic gothic villain.

(also the hanged man and tarot have been fixtures of like nearly all of Morrison's Batman work...meaning it's hard to ignore all the apparent influence of Morrison on Ram V)

[Chubistian]

I loved Ram V in These Savage Shores and I've always been a fan of Albuquerque and Dave Stewart. Those covers do intrigue me even more. I will keep an eye on this run to see if I jump in in collected editions