Upon investigation, Batman finds that Poison Ivy is currently in a dispute with Etrigan the Demon, and she has been turning Arkham Asylum into a fortress to protect herself. Plot įollowing a tip from Nightwing, Batman discovers Arkham Asylum is completely overgrown with plant life. Ultimately, after further delays on Book 2, Smith decided to turn the second half of Batman: The Widening Gyre into a separately titled miniseries called Batman: Bellicosity. Book 1 was plagued by several hiatuses and ran to July 2010 and Book 2 was pushed to late 2013. Book 1 was supposed to run from August 2009 to January 2010 and, after a six-month hiatus, Book 2 from July through December 2010. As Smith explained it, the series was to have 12 issues split into two six-issue books. They both had completed Batman: Cacophony.

Publication history īatman: The Widening Gyre was written by Kevin Smith and illustrated by Walt Flanagan. It was decided in the interim to release the remaining issues as a separate series to be called Batman: Bellicosity, that was due in 2014, but to date, remains unreleased. After issue #6 was published, Smith and Flanagan's work on their reality show, Comic Book Men, extended this planned break further than expected. The series was initially planned as 12 issues, with a long break planned between issues #6 and 7. The title is a reference to the William Butler Yeats poem ' The Second Coming'.

The series is written by Kevin Smith and illustrated by Walt Flanagan. The first volume of Smith and artist Walt Flanagan's Batman: The Widening Gyre is available in hardback now.Batman: The Widening Gyre is the title of a six-issue comic book limited series starring Batman, released August 2009 through July 2010. 'Not because it's any good - it's just because it was the Batman they grew up reading, and nobody writes it like that anymore.' 'But meanwhile, most cats on my Twitter feed, who were my age and reading comics back then, were going, 'This is the best Batman I've read in a while,'' said Smith. Smith explained that he had spoken to a fireman who confirmed that such incidents can happen when a person is dealing with high temperatures and explosions. and wait until you see when we bring Batman back from the caveman days!' That was the big news.' 'They were all like, 'Yeah, this is fine.

'By the time the Batman bladder thing made it to the page, it had been vetted by a bunch of people who had been doing this for years, and not one of them was like, 'Oh my God! We're going to shake things up with this!'' Smith told CBR. The Dogma director drew the ire of some critics for rewriting a legendary scene from Frank Miller's Batman: Year One, revealing that the Dark Knight suffered a 'bladder spasm' when he confronted Gotham's corrupt elite. Kevin Smith has discussed the controversy surrounding his Batman: The Widening Gyre title.

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