Radiant Black’s Creators are Giving Batman the Tokusatsu Treatment

There’s always something new to do with Batman, whether it’s giving him a mech, making him a ninja or an absolute unit. DC’s newest spin on the character? Make him a tokusatsu hero in a sci-fi epic. During his C2E2 panel, Radiant Black co-creator Kyle Higgins revealed he’d be doing just that in Immortal Legend Batman. The six-issue series sees him reteam with DC hot shot Dan Mora and some other familiar faces—Mat Groom and Erica D’Urso, the writer/artist duo behind Radiant’s sister series Inferno Girl Red, plus Radiant colorist Igor Monti and letterer Becca Carey—for a brand new Elseworlds book. The pitch? It’s centuries into the future and humanity’s used dark matter to master interstellar space travel and create a galactic empire. All that tampering has resulted in soulless monsters called “Shadows” terrorizing newly colonized worlds, and that’s where the Immortal Legends come in. This three-person team has figured out how to manipulate dark matter to turn them into superheroes, res ... Read full article.