The Authority's Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch will team up once more for The Batman's Grave, a 12-issue maxiseries focusing on the Caped Crusader and releasing this fall.

Inked by Kevin Nowlan, the series will follow an iteration of Bruce Wayne/Batman who obsessively identifies with those who have been murdered, and "immerses himself in their lives and obsesses over every detail of their deaths." The story itself sees him looking into the victim of a particularly grisly murder and employing his aforementioned intense methodology.

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“My very first work at DC was two issues of Legends of the Dark Knight,” Ellis said in a statement, “so it’s been twenty-five years since I did a full-length story with the Batman. I’ve decided to revisit the crime scene where my career in American comics began, and I’m so grateful that my old comrade Bryan Hitch is doing this midnight run with me. It’s been too many years since we last did a long campaign together.”

Hitch added, “I’ve drawn some covers and used Batman in Justice League and JLA, but since I read Jim Aparo and Don Newton’s Batman runs in the 80’s I’ve wanted to do a proper, big Batman story. Fellow Authoritarian Warren Ellis had one to tell, so when he mentioned it I said ‘yes’ before even asking what it was about. That’s what you do when Warren says ‘I’ve got a proper, big Batman story.’ It’s been over twenty years since we changed Superhero comics together, and now we get to give Batman the fight of his life.”

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You can read the summary for the issue and see the cover from Hitch and uncolored pages below.

The team that brought us The Authority now turn their talents towards The World’s Greatest Detective, whose current case forces him to inhabit the mind of a murder victim with a half-eaten face—without filling the empty grave next to those of his parents.

But first, Ellis and Hitch get into the mind of a butler. Once a week, rain or shine, Alfred Pennyworth walks to a little cemetery plot in the Wayne Manor grounds. He meticulously tends to Thomas and Martha’s headstones, plinths and slabs: weeding, cleaning, polishing. But how much longer before there’s another Wayne memorial to tend to?

Within this dynamic duo’s new comic lives a Batman with an almost psychotic identification with murder victims. He immerses himself in their lives and obsesses over every detail of their deaths. Even as Batman would process the evidence and approach the perpetrator from one side, he would live inside the life of the victim as they approached their death.

The Batman's Grave #1 releases October 6 and will feature a variant cover from JeeHyung Lee.

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