The latest ad for Detective Comics #1062 contains a QR code linking to a secret trailer revealing the gothic nature of Ram V and Rafael Albuquerque's upcoming epic.
The ad has appeared in a variety of recent DC books released on July 19, ranging from Artemis: Wanted #1 to The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country #4 (which releases July 26). It shows a monstrous bat-like face in the background and Batman pulling his cape around the all-new Detective Comics logo, which was created by designer Darran Robinson and took inspiration from Stephen King paperbacks. The ad's text proclaims, "An eerie melody haunts the Gotham City Streets... Can the Dark Knight discover what sinister force is plucking the strings?"
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In the upper right corner of the ad is a QR code that leads to a trailer that pairs disturbing music alongside various panels of Albuquerque's art. Batman can be seen brooding in both his vigilante and Bruce Wayne persona, and the bat monster seen in the ad is fully revealed, looking like a more nightmarish version of the classic Batman foe Man-Bat.
Several other QR codes are shown in a rotating cube near the end of the trailer. When scanned, these codes lead to articles on the DC Comics blog describing V and Albuquerque's plans for their Detective Comics run. The final QR code opens another trailer which displays sinister narration explaining, "There's a sickly song stuck in my head. It's...thin. Bloodless. Not so much music as the scar of it. Like a ghost without a corpse. I've been trying to remember where I heard it first, but... It's slippery. The harder I concentrate the hazier it gets. Frankly? It's enough to drive a sane man mad."
V and Albuquerque's arc, dubbed "Gotham Nocturne," features Batman facing a horde of demons who have been spurred on by a strange melody. When the saga was first announced, V said "Gotham Nocturne" would dive into the tragedy surrounding Batman and prove to be a story "that is hopefully worthy of the title that puts the DC in DC." V said, "For me, the draw of Batman as a character and that of the world around him had always been this blanket of tragedy that lay above it all. So, with that perspective, 'Gotham Nocturne' is a quintessentially Batman story, told with the aesthetics of a gothic opera."
The Detective Comics ad appears in Artemis: Wanted #1, Black Adam #2, Catwoman #45, Dark Crisis: Young Justice #2, The Flash #784, Batman/Superman: World's Finest #5, Batman: The Knight #7, DC vs. Vampires: All-Out War #1, DUO #3, Justice League vs. The Legion of Super Heroes #4, Nightwing #94, Fables #153 and The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country #4. Detective Comics #1062 goes on sale July 26 from DC Comics.
Source: DC Comics