And despite this article's headline, there is indeed a "bang".
Batman Inc #12
The current Batman Incorporated has been run by the Ghost-Maker, Batman's global rival, who considered himself to be much better than Batman in every way But who acquiesced to Batman to run Batman Incorporated, with a bevy of international Batman types of his choice,[...]
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Created by James Tynion IV and Jorge Jimenez for Batman #100 in 2020, Minhkhoa "Khoa" Khan of Ghost-Maker was established as an old friend of Bruce Wayne who trained with many of Bruce's mentors A psychopath, unable to feel any empathy or fear, and who sees vigilantism as an art rather than a duty, they[...]
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In the Batman Inc comic by Ed Brisson and John Timms, Ghost-Maker's past is catching up with him No wonder he's distracted I mean, he can't ever get his ward Clownhunter's name right in tomorrow's Batman Inc #4.
With Clownhunter also starting to catch up with who the hell this person is that Batman landed him with[...]
In the second issue of Batman Incorporated, we got to meet Phantom-One, purporting to be Ghost-Maker's sidekick, who kidnapped his current Batman-imposed sidekick Clownhunter…
Batman Incorporated, #2 from DC Comics
And interpreted as being a Robin for Ghost-Maker – or at least, his original one.
Batman Incorporated, #2 from DC Comics
Batman Incorporated #3fleshes out this relationship a little[...]
Last week's Batman Annual 2022 gave us a new line-up for Ghost-Maker's Batman Inc With certain members sent back to the reserves, other members pushed up to prime time and a new member recruited in So the main team is Raven Red, Dark Ranger, El Gaucho, Wingman, Clown-Hunter and now Gray Wolf.
Yes El Gaucho, yes[...]
Writing on his Substack, James Tynion IV shared with his subscribers some of his initial notes to DC Comics, his editors, and collaborators on the Batman line, which he has just finished writing.
When I picture Ghost-Maker, I picture three characters – Storm Shadow Fantomex Nemesis Obviously, I don't want to retread anything that's been[...]
And it's all the fault of Cyborg.
Batman #113
Who needs a moral centre, anyway? Could this be a way for Bruce to really find out what his son is thinking? The solicitation reads "Ghost-Maker reveals a dark revelation about his past connection to Jonathan Crane" and it appears that this new telepathic get-up is what makes[...]
With a gigantic showing of characterization by tyro troublemaker Ghost-Maker, both for ill and for naught, Batman #109 is the grim Ahch-To adjacent Future State fate of Bruce Wayne closes in with every panel.
Batman #109 Cover Credit: DC Comics
After tripping the light fantastic with the Unsanity Collective, Batman grapples with his legacy and how much[...]
There's a lot of interesting elements to Batman #108 with the Ghost-Maker first month of those events On one hand, Batman comes face to face with his failures in protecting the citizens of the city he loves while establishing the groundwork for Future State and his eventual downfall On the other hand, Ghost-Maker is a[...]
None of that matters now that we finally, finally, see Ghost-Maker show up and be somebody In ten pages, this James Tynion the 4th script is more inventive, more adventurous, bolder, and most importantly, more fun than anything that's even brushed past Gotham City in years With queer-friendly James Bond vibes (he opens having left a[...]
Last month, Bleeding Cool got the word that his Batman's new ally Ghost-Maker would be a bisexual character Relatively common in Batman's world amongst women characters, it's not such a common trait amongst male characters Today, that aspect got confirmed in Batman #107.
Ghost-Maker is a new character recently introduced into the DC Comics Batman titles[...]
Ghost-Maker is a new character recently introduced into the Batman comics by writer James Tynion IV, and retconned into Bruce Wayne's past A rival figure, who took similar – often the same – training as Bruce Wayne, with an agreement not to enter Gotham if Batman doesn't interfere with his own actions And now, after[...]
The last issue of this series had a lot of problems as it introduced Ghost-Maker, a mysterious "twisted reflection" of Batman that's been battling back and forth with the Dark Knight Detective since they were children Logistics of that aside, there are still huge questions that don't have plausible answers Batman #103, however, at least has[...]
At some unknown point, Batman made a deal with this mystery man, called Ghost-Maker, that "This is my city." Ghost-Maker has come to town after the embarrassing pantsing of Bruce Wayne called "Joker War" to show Batman how to do it.
Let's say you're new to Batman, you don't know about Tower of Babel or know about[...]
Here's a few and how they played out:
Batman #102 Reveals Yet Another History Of Batman
"Batman and Ghost-Maker have known each other since they were teenagers, both rivals and friends, from Morocco to Dublin to the Gobi Desert to Gotham."
Batman #102 Reveals Yet Another History Of Batman
"Ghost-Maker and Batman had an agreement that he would leave[...]
Just know what you are getting into.
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Batman and Ghost-Maker have known each other since they were teenagers, both rivals and friends, from Morocco to Dublin to the Gobi Desert to Gotham Less of the friends part, now of course.
2 If Ghost-Maker had Batman's billions, he would have moved the[...]
If The Joker leaves Batman with a Gotham that no longer trusts him, who will be there to pick up the pieces? We've already talked about the Defund Batman movement that seeks to address some of the issues raised by The Joker, but are there other issues of note?
Batman #102 artwork.
Well we've already had teases[...]
And he revealed the origins of the new character Ghost-Maker.
I remember, a few years back, right when I had first gotten wind of the creation of the Middle Grade and YA lines that DC Comics was developing… I approached the editor in charge of the program with an idea I wanted to do a book[...]
I just outlined an oversized issue I'll be co-writing at the end of the year spinning out of the Batman run, and we've just got more fun coming your way.
And what about that Ghost-Maker fellow mentioned in the headline?
In interviews, I keep talking about Punchline and Clownhunter as the first two children of a new[...]