Batman – New 52 | Comics

Bruce Wayne of Gotham City is the alter ego of the creature of night recognized as crime-fighting superhero Batman, who also goes by as The Dark Knight, a legendary protector of the crime-ridden city to many. His parents Thomas and Martha Wayne were both among the prestigious citizens of Gotham who tried their best to help people in any situation and was aided by trusty Wayne Family butler, Jarvis Pennyworth. His son Alfred Pennyworth was meant to stay out of all Wayne family internal affairs but he eventually gets involved.

Bruce’s parents were shot dead by a mugger named Joe Chill one night on their way home from Monarch Theater as they were all returning home after watching The Mark of Zorro movie. Greatly shocked at this grave personal loss, Bruce even starts taking electroshock therapy trying to erase the memory of this tragedy but later decided to use it as a fuel. Using his connection with Erin McKillen, he tracked down Joe Chill only to learn that he was actually after the money and did not kill his parents for any other reason.

He then went into a long departure to efficiently learn the art of waging war from across the globe for most of his adolescent years, which includes performances like stunt-driving and pi-fighting. He even took extensive training on martial arts and sword-fighting, wandering around the globe looking for anyone who could teach him a new form of combating. In Himalayas, he trained for three years to fight with a katana under the tutelage of Shihan Matsuda, who advises him to letting go of emotions and embracing his darkness.

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Zero Year
Upon returning to Gotham, he came to learn of a notorious Red Hood Gang and engages them with a very little success firsthand before finally donning his cape and cowl. Though he managed to foil several of their plans, Bruce remained under the grid for a long time while secretly operating his vigilante activities. Meanwhile, his uncle Philip Kane handled all business affairs of Wayne Enterprises and eventually fell pawn to the Red Hood Gang. When they were sent to kill him after being tipped by the yet to be Riddler, Edward Nygma, Bruce realizes that he should embrace his fear instead of running from it.

Secret City
Taking inspiration from his father's bust statue and a bat that broke into Wayne Manor after he was savagely beaten and reduced to a bloody pulp, Bruce turned around to fight back again with help from his trusty butler Alfred Pennyworth, who nursed him back to health. Upon debuting in Gotham as Batman for the first time, he successfully stopped a plot in motion by Red Hood Gang. As their leader Red Hood One was given a chase during his escape attempt, he ended up jumping into a vat of chemicals at ACE Chemical.

Though he was initially announced vigilante by then Commissioner Loeb when he made his public debut as crime-fighter Batman, Jim Gordon and Lucius Fox supported him in his holy crusade by totally confiding in him from start, along with his Bat-Family consisting of Batgirl, Nightwing, Robin, Red Hood and Red Robin, whom he recruited throughout the years. In the mean time, criminal mastermind extraordinaire Edward Nygma have been planning towards and then plunged the entire city into darkness with an EMP charge.

Dark City
This criminal mastermind became a real challenge for citizens to handle as the caped crusader also went missing all of a sudden and for months, Nygma kept challenging folks of the city to defeat him with a riddle, resulting all of them to fail and die. Bruce eventually made his comeback after a while and with no tech and gear around, he managed to contact his closest ally Jim Gordon and Lucius Fox to fight this crisis upon their city. Together, they all worked as a team till he finally encountered Nygma face to face, who now calls himself The Riddler for one final battle of wits that the latter never thought of losing.

Justice League: Origin
Following an alien invasion on Earth by Parademon armies of planet Apokolips, Batman teamed up with a newly found group of super-powered individuals like Aquaman, Cyborg, Green Lantern, Superman, The Flash and Wonder Woman to form Justice League to save the world from impending threats of invading Parademons, who were abducting people of Earth to a portal they came through. The seven valiant heroes then formed a resistance of their own and Bruce went after a captured Man of Steel too bring him back and for him to finally face the evil god Darkseid in one final encounter to save Earth.

The War of Jokes and Riddles
His arch-rival Red Hood One would resurface shortly after the events of Zero Year and take an alias of The Joker. He made a comeback by trying to poison the Gotham water supply and then focused on homicide. Riddler also breaks out of prison after a year and engaged in a war against the clown where both parties were recruiting bad-guys to their fold. Gotham became a war-zone and Batman chose to side with Nygma to stop Joker's forces. Edward coordinated the whole mess to find out how to make Joker laugh again and a furious Dark Knight attempts the unthinkable only to be stopped by the most unexpected person.

The Court of Owls
Bruce Wayne was planning to re-invent Gotham City and then suddenly, GCPD started to find corpse with warning for his life and a hint to the legend of the Court of Owls. Thinking of it as a myth, Bruce ignores the warnings and during a meeting with his business partner Lincoln March, he was attacked by one of the Talon assassin sent by the Court. His investigation took him to a darker part of Gotham and he got trapped in an underground labyrinth with a Talon assassin, who tortured him to his limits where he begged for death. Using his indomitable will, he barely fends them off till he managed to escape.

Night of the Owls
The Court of Owls decided to raise all of their undead Talon army from sleep to kill the Bat and then take control over Gotham. A still-recovering Bruce is attacked at his home by dozens of Talon assassins, whom he eventually took down in a giant Robot-Suit with help from Alfred. Batman discovers an ancient history of The Court on Gotham before the time of his ancestors. Tracking back to their hideout, he discovers all of their members dead, thanks to Lincoln March. March was taken in by The Court at a very young age and he believes that he is Bruce's younger brother Thomas Wayne, Jr. (City of the Owls).

Death of the Family
After going into hiding for a whole year, The Joker suddenly showed up one night on GCPD HQ to collect his peeled face which he had previously extracted by the maniacal serial killer Dollmaker and pinned to his cell (Faces of Death). Learning of his greatest enemy has returned to terrorize Gotham once again, Batman quickly alerts his entire Bat-Family about the clown coming back. The lunatic starts re-creating his past endeavors formerly doomed by The Dark Knight and even kidnaps an unwilling Harley Quinn from Belle Reve to assist him distract The Bat while he kidnaps Alfred from Wayne Manor.

One by one, The Joker abducts Batgirl, Nightwing, Robin, Red Hood and Red Robin to deliver a final punch line to his arch nemesis, while suggesting of having knowledge of their secret identity as well. The madness took Batman to face many horrors at Arkham Asylum where he was forced to go through many twisted obstacles and make toughest decisions before finally being confronted by his enemy Penguin, The Riddler and Two-Face to stand a mock-trial. Then the madman invaded into the depths of Batcave, where he delivered the final joke during their confrontation before jumping from a cliff to an unknown fate.

Requiem
In a conflict with his former love and Daughter of the Demon; Talia al Ghul when she attempted to take over Gotham with the League of Assassins, The Dark Knight is stuck in a death trap as he was in the guise of Matches Malone and needed Damian to help him. Against his wishes, Alfred let a grounded Damian go to aid his father and join the fight but even though he fought well, he is impaled by Leviathan's henchman the Heretic as the latter was a better opponent. Talia finished the Heretic off for insubordination and failing to comply, while Batman goes through the five stages of grief for losing his son.

Forever Evil
During the Crime Syndicate's emergence on Prime Earth, only Batman and Catwoman managed to escape imprisonment along with a critically injured Cyborg. Nightwing is being held captive by the Syndicate and his secret identity is revealed to the entire world. With Black Adam, Black Manta, Captain Cold, Deathstroke, Subject B-Zero and Sinestro at his side, criminal mastermind Lex Luthor forms an Injustice League that came in terms to work with Bat and Cat to save the day by freeing the Justice League from their imprisonment inside Firestorm Matrix and defeating the Syndicate afterwards.

Robin Rises
Batman embarks upon a journey to find out Ra's al Ghul in order to retrieve the stolen body of his son Damian Wayne and his ex lover Talia. As soon as he defeated Ra's, the coffin is taken back to Apokolips by Glorious Godfrey. Hell-bent on getting his son back, Batman travels to Apokolips wearing the Hellbat armor against the wishes of his Justice League teammates. The Bat-Family also decided to follow him and they made Cyborg open a Boom Tube to pursue their mentor. After facing both Darkseid and his brutish son Kalibak, they all return home safely as Damian is resurrected using a shard of Chaos Crystal.

Endgame
The Dark Knight was trying to recover from a recent tussle with Scarecrow, when a Jokerized version of the Justice League attacks Bruce and with his contingency plans in order, he managed to take down each of them using his Justice Buster suit at the cost of great damage to his health and the city. As Man of Steel came crushing down on him, the suit got wrecked beyond repair, a building collapsed on him and after repeatedly punching him over, a piece of Kryptonite gum helped him end the feud of Batman v Superman.

Looking for clues, he finds Eric Border in the ruins of Arkham Asylum, who reveals his true nature to him as The Joker who is back in town again. He turned the population of Gotham City into crazy maniacs like him and the antibody was found in Joe Chill, patient zero of this outbreak. Bruce almost came to believe the clown to be an immortal being due to his constant use of an element called Dionesium, which helped him keep coming back from any peril. Bruce eventually finds the source of this mysterious element, which he seeks to destroy and has a savage battle with the lunatic one last time.

Superheavy
After his last battle with the Clown Prince of Crime, Bruce was thought dead but he was actually rendered amnesiac of his past due to the severe injuries of the fight and was luckily revived with Dionesium. A new super-villain with plant-based powers named Mister Bloom starts terrorizing Gotham in his absence and his old-friend Jim Gordon took the mantle of Batman wearing tech Bat-Suits. Ultimately, the one true Caped Crusader had to return to defeat the menacing enemy and Bruce did so by restoring his memories again.

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Batman and Robin – Requiem for Damian (Softcover)

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Forever Evil (Softcover)

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In the aftermath of the "Flashpoint" event in 2011, DC Comics relaunched all of their tiles from issue #1 and entire continuity was rebooted. Batman started with a new monthly ongoing volume, which is conceived by comic-book writer Scott Snyder (American Vampire, Superman Unchained) and mostly drawn by Greg Capullo (Haunt, Spawn), which was one of the longest and most successful collaboration ever. As with all of the books associated with relaunch, Bruce Wayne appears to be about five years younger than regular portrayal of the character from previous volume of publication.

Adventures With Justice League

The Batman of New 52 continuity has some certain twists in his story arc as his classic allies from Bat-Family and enemies of the Rogue's Gallery also received a re-invention of their characters to suit into this new reality. The artwork by Greg Capullo was real good and widely praised, which meshed perfectly with Snyder's masterful story-telling! Snyder and Capullo continued their epic run until the dawn of "DC Rebirth" major crossover event, which marks a new starting point for Batman of Prime Earth and a soft-reboot for status-quo of the character without changing much of the newly established continuity.
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Haunt Vol 01 | Comics

Catholic priest Daniel Kilgore is forced to get along with his brother Kurt Kilgore, a government agent following an accident and becomes The Haunt.

Daniel Kilgore visits prostitutes on a regular basis, has an anger-management issue, leads a sleazy life and happens to be an associate priest. When he returns to church after his usual "appointment" with a hooker, he sees his brother Kurt is here to meet him. It seems that Daniel has a sort of abhorrence for Kurt who regularly visits him for confession.

Because of the distaste he has for his brother, Daniel asks Kurt to get it done with but the latter points out that it doesn't feel like a confession this way. So, the priest agrees to bear with him and they gets inside a confessional box for the sacrament. When he is asked how many people he has killed this time the penitent, Kurt begins his narration.

He states that, unlike always he went on a covert mission for The Agency as a government agent and was sent to retrieve a genetic researcher named Dr. Shillinger from a secret research compound in Bolivia. Pretending to be a dead body, he reached there in a body-bag and found himself on the middle of a dumping ground of rotten corpse.

He sneaks on a guard before the others see him and caught into a firefight while he made it inside. He found the man he came to extract here from but the doctor insisted that they have to retrieve his test subject as well. Upon finding him running horrible genetic experiments on living test subjects, Kurt ends up killing Shillinger on spot in disgust.

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He prompts to rescue the heavily gross hostages and a young mutated boy from the guards of the compound and lead them out while a mysterious female figure and steals the knapsack from the dead Doctor, which has gone unnoticed by everyone. He walks out of the church at the end of his confession upon failing again to bond with his brother.

Kurt is kidnapped by an unknown party who ambushed on him and then is tortured to death during the interrogation regarding the notes of Dr. Shillinger. Daniel didn't know any of it and after attending the funeral, Kurt's ghost talks to him about go to see his widow Amanda. They argue over the matter and he thinks all of this is just in his head.

Even though he goes to visit Amanda, with whom he had a long-history before she married his brother, there is an awkward silence and they don't talk to each other much. She asks Daniel to spend the night here and so he stays anyway. Later, he wakes up on the couch at the middle of the night when Kurt's ghost came to warn him of intruders.

Daniel brushes it off considering somewhere deep inside he still misses his dead brother but he then sees two assassins came looking for him and Amanda. When they starts firing at him, Kurt quickly jumps at his confused brother and transforms him into a white, ghostly apparition who lunges at the attackers and slashed their head clean off.

They go out taking down two more waiting in the van and then Kurt instructs Daniel to call for cleanup. Amanda goes to work next morning and Kilgore heads to church despite his ghost constantly urging to go after her to assure she is safe. He ran into a hired mercenary Cobra at church, working for some unknown party and had an intense fight.

The killer makes a quick escape knowing he cannot win and Kurt leads Daniel to The Agency to get help. They take him for interrogation to know more about the death of his brother and he turns into The Haunt when he is ambushed. With so many things coming at him, he still has to discover about rogue agent Mirage and a ruthless crime-boss Mr. Hurg.

Secret Agent Kurt Kilgore

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Haunt Vol 01

"Haunt Vol 01" is the collectible of the first five issues from a brand-new monthly ongoing Image Comics title Haunt by comic-book creator Robert Kirkman (Battle Pope, The Walking Dead) in 2010. Artists Greg Capullo (The Creech, Violator), Ryan Ottley (Grizzlyshark, Invincible) and Todd McFarlane (Image United, Spawn) also helped along.

Artist Ottley does a fine job on the pages of this gory supernatural action series which tells the origin of an ectoplasmic entity of two brothers co-existing in a body. Capullo also delivered the exquisite covers for the series with series co-creator McFarlane himself.

The First Transformation

The chronicles of Daniel Kilgore goes in a fast paced series of events following the death of his estranged brother and how he is forced to take a heroic path to save the lives of the ones he love. Though an action focused series, Haunt depicts the life of the involved characters riddled with love, betrayal and ruthlessness over and towards one another.

Because of his McFarlane's work on Spider-Man for many years in past, the titular hero bears a lot of resemblance and some of the characteristics of Venom as well. The storyline serves as a "Year One" type of story for the character that will meet new challenges and unravel more mysteries from the past life of Kurt Kilgore in "Haunt Vol 02".
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Haunt | Comics

Kurt Kilgore was an skillful special agent for The Agency where he worked as a covert operative, until he was deployed in a special operation to extract Doctor Shillinger, a scientist working on a top secret assignment. But Kurt killed him and he was killed in a plot by a crime lord named Mr. Hurg, with help from a secret betrayer in the Agency.

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Kurt also had a brother named Daniel Kilgore, who is a priest but also regularly visits prostitutes and they both have a strained relationship between them. Daniel hated Kurt because he thinks his former love Amanda cheated on him by marrying Kurt. After Kurt's death, Daniel starts sensing his brothers presence as a ghost who kept him warned about possible killing attempts on his widow Amanda which he brushed off completely.

Soon, by a series of incidental events, Kurt's spirit is merged with Daniel and they became the uncanny ectoplasmic entity called as The Haunt. With his newly discovered amazing abilities, Haunt successfully defends Amanda from the attackers.

Daniel is soon summoned by the Agency where he met Director Beth Tosh and a former Agency operative Mirage, whom had a romantic relation with Kurt. Daniel is then recruited as an agent for the Agency and Kurt's unknown enemy Mr. Hurg hires an assassin called Cobra to destroy the Haunt. Daniel faces all the challenges of his all-new life filled with adventures and beyond while Kurt's ghost tries to make amends with his brother.

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Published by Image Comics, The Haunt is a monthly ongoing comic series featuring the fictional character of the same name created by comic legend Todd McFarlane (Image United, Spawn) and Robert Kirkman (Battle Pope, The Walking Dead). Artist duo Ryan Ottley (Grizzlyshark, Invincible) and Greg Capullo (Batman – New 52, The Creech) provided artwork for the series.

A Ghost in Hurg's Way

Initially, it was launched in 2009 and the series only ran for 28 issues. The concept of the series was conceived by McFarlane and Kirkman back in 2006 during San Diego Comic-Con.
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Spawn – Escalation | Comics

Spawn – Escalation | Comics

As a part of a secret atomic bomb testing in the Nevada desert opened a door to another dimension and it turn out to be the doorway to Hell. Troops were sent to investigate but they never came back to report. A substance that composed the Hell dimension was discovered, which is dubbed Psychoplasm because of its nature of reacting to manifest construct out of one’s greatest fear. When CIA director Jason Wynn has Al Simmons killed in action, he made a deal with Malebolgia for Psychoplasm. At the time of his death, a virtual town is created from Simmons’ memory, which Wynn has named Simmonsville and now he demonstrates Major Vale the destructive capability of his little private Hell by sending three volunteer soldiers there to get slaughtered.

Al Simmons’s last encounter with his fellow CIA agent and former partner Chapel has unveiled a new chapter of mystery in front of him. He desperately searches for the man who condemned him to this fate and decides to dig up his own grave to check out his corpse. Also, his recent battle with Angela has worried the Heaven of his power. So, looking for a human agent to destroy the Hellspawn, the Orbital Angel Station picks up Jason Wynn and transformed him into an Anti-Spawn AKA The Redeemer with Elemental Fire of Heaven. Redeemer’s near-limitless divine power seemingly overwhelms the knight of Hell as he starts dodging him to recover and fight back. If Spawn somehow survives this, he has yet to team-up with Harry Houdini to save the day. Again.

Reborn From Ashes

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The previous storyline of Spawn monthly series has led everyone to a brand-new direction and a brilliant twist in the plot. Escalation is the five part story that is the continuation of Revelation and it is consists of issues #16-20 of the ongoing Image Comics series. Acclaimed writer Grant Morrison (Joe the Barbarian, Wonder Woman – Earth One) took the plotting duty and artist Greg Capullo (The Creech, Haunt) gave the series protagonist a new edge. Writer Andrew Grossberg and Tom Orzechowski also penned two of the final issues of the story and despite being holding back as the penciller, creator Todd McFarlane (Amazing Spider-Man, Image United) did served as an inker for issue #20. Death and Rebirth is the next story in the line of Spawn stories chronicling Al Simmons’ hellish journey to find redemption.
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