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Deniz Camp & Javier Rodriguez On DC Next Level's Shadow Of The Bat

Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez reunite on DC Comics' Next Level title Shadow Of The Bat

Bleeding Cool certainly suggested it as a strong possibility. And now it's definitive. Announced at the Gotham panel at San Diego Comic-Con minutes ago, Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez, fresh from the award-winning Absolute Martian Manhunter, are reuniting on the new DC Next Level title announced last year, but without movement until now, Shadow Of The Bat,

Part of the canon, it sees Bruce Wayne, Batman, dealing with a large factory explosion in an abandoned Ace Chemicals factory, the same one that created the Joker, and releasing psychogenic chemicals. Batman has to go in and "deal with the new threats" that come out of it… with a lot of new characters who are all, basically, living in the shadow of the bat… but intended to complement what Matt Fraction and Tom Taylor are doing in the regular Batman and Detective Comics series.

DC's Gotham City Friday July 24, 2026 11:15am – 12:15pmPDT Room 6DE
Top DC creators examine the heroes, villains, and the bad seeds shaping Gotham City's future. The panel includes an early look at what is coming this fall, including a major reveal. Featuring G. Willow Wilson (Poison Ivy), Matt Fraction (Batman), Tom Taylor (Detective Comics), Tate Brombal (Batgirl), Christopher Cantwell (Batman: Bad Seeds – Gotham Central), Scott Snyder (Absolute Batman), and others. Moderated by Rob Levin (group editor, DC).

Absolute Martian Manhunter was a 12-issue maxiseries launched in March last year by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodríguez as part of DC Comics' Absolute line, which saw John Jones, a human FBI agent nicknamed "The Martian" for his detached personality, become psychically bonded with a genuine disembodied alien entity beyond our understanding, and radically recreating the Martian Manhunter for the Absolute Universe. It did rather well. And this is what they're doing next.

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