Gerard Approach & Grant Morrison’s Batman Punk Track & Arkham Asylum 2

Bleeding Cool has been having quite a lot of enjoyable diving into Grant Morrison‘s intensive and complete Xanaduum Substack, and have been sharing a only a few extracts. There’s, in fact, a lot extra on the Substack. However we could not resist a have a look at particulars on an unpublished and deliberate Batman Black And White mini-series/graphic novel meant to be created with a number of associates within the LA artist group. It was introduced at San Diego Comedian-Con in 2015 alongside Multiversity Too, a collection of graphic novels starting with Multiversity Too: The Flash deliberate for 2016, that have been additionally not revealed.

Morrison additionally offered early particulars on one other collection of graphic novels that includes everybody’s favourite Darkish Knight in BATMAN: BLACK & WHITE. This persevering with anthology collection pairs Morrison’s authentic Batman tales with a rotating solid of a number of the greatest artwork abilities in comics, that can solely serve to spotlight Grant’s one in all a form perspective with regards to comics normally and Batman specifically.

Now, Grant Morrison has revealed a couple of particulars, on deliberate tales and simply who would have drawn them. Or, certainly, co-written them.

I had a narrative for Matt Bone the place all of Bruce Wayne’s former girlfriends are kidnapped by a disgruntled ex-employee and begin swapping tales. Stephanie Inagaki was doing a brilliant formal Bat-haiku one set at a Yakuza wedding ceremony on a decorative roof backyard in Gotham. There was the Amato picture strip that includes the fierce daughter of Tlano, the unique Batman of Zur-En-Arrh. There was a mad, meta Bat-Mite factor for Sienkewicz the place fixing a easy crime in Batman’s 3-D world is expressed within the 5-D world as an enormous epoch-changing occasion. I had one for Ivan Reis who requested to be concerned, which was World’s Most interesting meets Blue Remembered Hills the place Superman Batman and Luthor, drawn as grownup superheroes of their costumes play out a violent child recreation of chase and struggle via unusual streets that ends with Luthor up a tree within the park throwing branches down at a jeering Superman and Batman because the solar goes down. Gerard Approach and I have been collaborating on a bizarre expressionistic Batman/Joker story which got here with its personal punk music…

Wakened in a trash can!
Higher name Batman!
Considered one thing humorous and it confirmed up on the CAT scan!
Smile please!
Get down in your knees!
Joker bought a gun and we’re gonna have some enjoyable
With the Batman! Batman! ….and many others

Okay, okay, anybody need to have a go at recording this? Added factors for cosplay. Much more factors if Gerard Approach really sings it. So the place did it go, Grant?

I wrote greater than half of the ebook, but it surely bought snarled with the entire New 52 scenario and the conclusion of my Batman run. After seven years I felt able to take a break from Gotham Metropolis, which meant that this ebook and the proposed Arkham Asylum 2, of which 25 pages have been written, fell by the wayside. I nonetheless have a nagging need to complete each but it surely’s not the place my head’s at proper now and should by no means occur.

Ah sure, Arkham Asylum 2, additionally introduced at San Diego Comedian-Con in 2017 by Chris Burnham, which we reported “at 120 pages. Morrison compares it to Luc Besson, and says it is going to be all-encompassing, and set on the planet of Batman 666.” Final week’s Future State Gotham went there…