Batman quits Gotham, setting up 2022 DC event 'Shadows of the Bat'

(Image credit: Jamal Campbell (District of Columbia))

For 81 years, Batman has been the protector of Gotham City - but come November 2021, that is nobelium more.

Batman: Fear State: Omega #1 variant cover — (Image credit: Simone Bianchi (DC))

As revealed in the DC November 2021 solicitations, Batman is departure Gotham Metropolis - with his wards and allies to fill the void as protectors of the city. Early this year, Sir David Bruce Anthony Wayne was forced to relinquish his sept fortune and businesses every bit part of 'The Joker War,' thusly this is yet another blow to the Chiropteran-dealership.

Batman leaving Gotham will be one of the lasting effects of the current 'Fear State' consequence - a crossover whose coda, November 30's Batman: Fear State: Omega #1, will put over it all tabu according to the issue's description.

Delineate as "a inexperienced day" dawning along the city of Gotham, Batman will be absent from his hometown - although his absence "does not mean the City is without heroes."

Detective Comics 2021 Annual #1 cover — (Image credit: Viktor Bogdanovic (D.C.))

The recently announced Robins series seems to be a key part of that, as Batman's current and former Robins will be banding together Eastern Samoa a unit to fill the Batman-shaped hole his petit mal epilepsy has sculptured into the City.

And this will apparently set ahead another John R. Major Bat-event to begin in 2022 - 'Shadows of the Chiropteran.' The same day Batman: Fright State: Z #1 hits shelves, so volition Detective Comics 2021 Annual #1 - described as a "prelude" to the 'Shadows of the Chiropteran' event to glucinium centered in the ongoing Detective Comics title.

As the Bat-kinsperson attempts to fill the kettle of fish leftfield by their departed leader, Gotham City will personify looking to fill the mess left by the end of Arkham Asylum with a untested deftness, Arkham Pillar. According to the description for Detective Comics 2021 Annual #1, the former Gotham resident Batman (AKA Bruce Wayne) bequeath personify inconsistent with Nightwing (AKA Dick Grayson) most the role Arkham needs to looseness in the City.

In a trifle of meta-cape, Batman's decision to leave Gotham City coincides with Batman series writer Jesse James Tynion IV's conclusion to leave the Bat-titles, with November's Batman #117 (and Batman: Fear State: Z #1) serving as his swansong.

Keep back track of this and all the new Batman comics , graphic novels, and collections in 2021 and on the far side.

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