{"id":29398,"date":"2024-09-22T08:56:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T12:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/?p=29398"},"modified":"2024-09-22T08:56:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T12:56:43","slug":"dc-announces-batman-dark-patterns-new-limited-edition-12-part-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/dc-announces-batman-dark-patterns-new-limited-edition-12-part-series\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Announces \u2018Batman: Dark Patterns\u2019: New limited edition 12-part series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">We are excited to share that this week, DC announced a new twelve-issue comic book series by creators Dan Watters and Hayden Sherman,&nbsp;<em>Batman: Dark Patterns,&nbsp;<\/em>focused on a new cycle of crimes for the World\u2019s Greatest Detective to crack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-001-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-main-cover-by-Hayden-Sherman.jpg\" alt=\"Ace News Today - DC Announces \u2018Batman: Dark Patterns\u2019: New limited edition 12-part series - IMage credit: DC\" class=\"wp-image-29399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-001-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-main-cover-by-Hayden-Sherman.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-001-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-main-cover-by-Hayden-Sherman-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-001-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-main-cover-by-Hayden-Sherman-435x660.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Batman: Dark Patterns\u00a0<\/em>#1 main cover by Hayden Sherman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Set during the early years of Batman\u2019s career,&nbsp;<em>Batman: Dark Patterns<\/em>&nbsp;delves into four mysterious cases as he attempts to cement his place as Gotham City\u2019s protector, all while the city itself fights back against him. According to DC, \u201cthis is the Dark Knight Detective at his most stripped-down core, a man relying on his wits, his skills, and little else as he tackles some of the most twisted mysteries Gotham City and its protector have ever encountered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-002-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-interior-art-by-Hayden-Sherman-and-Triona-Farrell.jpg\" alt=\"Ace News Today - DC Announces \u2018Batman: Dark Patterns\u2019: New limited edition 12-part series - IMage credit: DC\" class=\"wp-image-29400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-002-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-interior-art-by-Hayden-Sherman-and-Triona-Farrell.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-002-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-interior-art-by-Hayden-Sherman-and-Triona-Farrell-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-002-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-interior-art-by-Hayden-Sherman-and-Triona-Farrell-435x660.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Batman: Dark Patterns\u00a0<\/em>#1 interior art by Hayden Sherman and\u00a0Tr\u00edona Farrell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI love the strangeness of Batman. A man dressed as a huge, gothic bat, solving crimes in a hostile city of black magicians, mad scientists, and superstitious, cowardly criminals. I\u2019ve 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\u2019s towering, delipidated spires,\u201d said Watters. \u201cAfter watching\u00a0<em>The Batman,<\/em>\u00a0this desire was reaffirmed.\u00a0<em>Batman: Dark Patterns<\/em>\u00a0explores the pulpiest part of the Dark Knight&#8217;s rich history and gives readers an entirely new perspective on the early years of DC\u2019s Dark Detective.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-003-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-interior-art-by-Hayden-Sherman-and-Triona-Farrell.jpg\" alt=\"Ace News Today - DC Announces \u2018Batman: Dark Patterns\u2019: New limited edition 12-part series - IMage credit: DC\" class=\"wp-image-29401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-003-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-interior-art-by-Hayden-Sherman-and-Triona-Farrell.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-003-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-interior-art-by-Hayden-Sherman-and-Triona-Farrell-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-003-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-interior-art-by-Hayden-Sherman-and-Triona-Farrell-435x660.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Batman: Dark Patterns\u00a0<\/em>#1 interior art by Hayden Sherman and\u00a0Tr\u00edona Farrell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-04-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-interior-art-by-Hayden-Sherman-and-Triona-Farrell.jpg\" alt=\"Ace News Today - DC Announces \u2018Batman: Dark Patterns\u2019: New limited edition 12-part series - IMage credit: DC\" class=\"wp-image-29402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-04-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-interior-art-by-Hayden-Sherman-and-Triona-Farrell.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-04-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-interior-art-by-Hayden-Sherman-and-Triona-Farrell-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/inline-04-Batman-Dark-Patterns-1-interior-art-by-Hayden-Sherman-and-Triona-Farrell-435x660.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Batman: Dark Patterns\u00a0<\/em>#1 interior art by Hayden Sherman and\u00a0Tr\u00edona Farrell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><br><em>Batman: Dark Patterns<\/em>&nbsp;will be told as a series of four self-contained, street level, evergreen Batman mysteries exploring the early days of Batman&#8217;s place within Gotham City and his healing presence within its streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The first case and story arc, \u201cWe Are Wounded,\u201d involves a series of sickeningly gruesome murders sending shock waves through Gotham City. Are these the random works of a serial killer, or is there something more sinister at play? Across these first three issues of&nbsp;<em>Batman: Dark Patterns,&nbsp;<\/em>Batman attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery before any more victims are claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Batman: Dark Patterns\u2019 Teams Up Dan Watters And Hayden Sherman For Four Evergreen Mysteries <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DUd4QNPKoC\">https:\/\/t.co\/DUd4QNPKoC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jbKYb0sDSn\">pic.twitter.com\/jbKYb0sDSn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Comic Book Club (@comicbooklive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/comicbooklive\/status\/1837145494981943792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">(Source and all images: DC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Posted by Richard Webster, Ace News Today<\/em><em><br>Follow Richard on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/richard.webster.31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>,&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rdwebster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;<em>&amp;&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rdwebster54\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Instagram<\/em><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four deadly mysteries from Batman\u2019s early years launching in December<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[503,547,595,40,1056,11],"tags":[2130,18865,10841,18864,2202,2107,3850,18866],"class_list":["post-29398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","category-events","category-feel-good-news","category-lifestyle","category-superheroes","category-top-news","tag-batman","tag-batman-comics","tag-batman-origin","tag-batmandark-patterns","tag-dc","tag-dc-comics","tag-superheroes","tag-the-artist-of-absolute-wonder-woman-and-the-writer-of-nightwing-present-four-deadly-mysteries-from-batmans-early-years","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29405,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29398\/revisions\/29405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}