“I love the strangeness of Batman,” Watters said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “A man dressed as a huge, gothic bat, solving crimes in a hostile city of black magicians, mad scientists, and superstitious, cowardly criminals. I’ve always wanted to write a series of mystery stories that would home in on that aspect of the character—a dweller in the shadows of Gotham’s towering, delipidated spires. After watching ithis desire was reaffirmed. Batman: Dark Patterns explores the pulpiest part of the Dark Knight's rich history and gives readers an entirely new perspective on the early years of DC’s Dark Detective.”
Watters recently teamed up with writer Ram V for two interlocked crime series, The Six Fingers and The One Hand,published by Image (see “Ram V and Dan Watters Write Linked Crime Series”). Sherman collaborated with writer Scott Snyder for the IDW series Dark Spaces (see “Preview: ‘Dark Spaces: Wildfire’ #1”).
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