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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 5:17:16 GMT
So starting next month DC is publishing a tie-in series for Batman: The Telltale Series titled Batman: Sins of the Father. It takes place between Season One and Two, and deals with people associated with Arkham Asylum during Thomas Wayne's criminal reign over Gotham mysteriously dying one by one. The description of Issue #1 says Batman runs into a deadly assassin, and looking ahead, we can see that this series will introduce the Telltale Series version of Deadshot. Covers and descriptions for the issues announced so far, 1-3: "Based on the acclaimed videogame series from Telltale Games, this new digital-first comic tells the story of events between the first and second seasons. Someone is killing people associated with Arkham Asylum during the time Thomas Wayne was forcibly committing people there. Suspicion falls on the families suing Bruce Wayne to pay for the harm caused by his father. Batman has other ideas, but his investigation leads to him becoming the target of a deadly assassin." "It’s a deadly game of cat and mouse as Batman tries to stop Deadshot from killing former Arkham Asylum employees, while also trying to determine just who he is and why he’s targeting them. Then Batman goes up against the Black Spider—does he work for Deadshot or one of the new mystery figures making waves in the Gotham underworld?" "Based on the hit video game series from Telltale Games! Having eliminated all the obvious suspects behind the killing of former Arkham employees, Batman breaks into the most secure area of the facility to search their most deeply buried files, only to be ambushed by the villain known as Black Spider. Meanwhile, the search for Deadshot’s true identity points toward a family called the Lawtons—a family with a dark and twisted history. "
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 5:19:42 GMT
Sidenote: I have no idea who Black Spider is
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Post by Niccc on Jan 27, 2018 5:20:15 GMT
Should be interesting. Do we know what day the first issue releases next month?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 5:22:22 GMT
Should be interesting. Do we know what day the first issue releases next month? February 21st. On DC's website it says "DIGITAL FIRST!" under the description for each issue, so idk if 2/21 is the release for digital and print comes later, or if it's the release for print and digital is a bit earlier? But basically, late February.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 5:26:53 GMT
Quick google: Black Spider is a vigilante who targets drug dealers, but has come into conflict with Batman for using lethal force. He's also been a member of the Suicide Squad, which might mean something given that it looks like Season Two is gearing up for Amanda Waller to create the Suicide Squad.
And Deadshot's real name is Floyd Lawton, so, there's the thing with issue 3 being about the Lawtons. I'm pretty sure in the normal canon the Lawtons don't have a "dark and twisted past" but then I'm not really sure, I'm not a huge Deadshot fan.
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Post by Zeruis on Jan 28, 2018 1:34:06 GMT
I don't know how to feel about Telltale tie-in comics after Wolf.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 3:51:39 GMT
I don't know how to feel about Telltale tie-in comics after Wolf. Well, this is an entirely different team, and it's serving a different purpose. The TWAU comics are the canon version of TWAU for the Fables universe(which is for some godforsaken reason still a thing that Vertigo is investing time and energy into). It was always going to be shit because it's entire purpose was to erase Telltale's version of TWAU and force it to fit the horrible aesthetic of the comic universe. This is going to be canon to the Telltale Batman Universe, so presumably, the writer is treating Telltale's version of the universe with respect. It's also not going to run for 30+ issues or however long the TWAU comic went on for, it's a 6 issue miniseries to bridge Season One and Two. So, there's still a chance that it could be shit, but if it is, it will be for entirely different reasons than the TWAU comic was shit. Personally, I'm cautiously optimistic, and it'll give us more of this continuity, which I've actually grown quite fond of. (sidenote: did anyone read the Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy comic? I think I saw it in my local comic shop once but never bothered to pick it up)
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Post by jake frost on Jan 29, 2018 17:16:51 GMT
So this probably means they're going to canon-ize certain choices?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 17:26:31 GMT
Hm, I guess. I just hope eye-patch Alfred isn't canon in that case.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2018 23:11:16 GMT
So this probably means they're going to canon-ize certain choices? Apparently, no. The approach they took is to just not address choices, and for ones that are unavoidable, they just found workarounds. So, Alfred hasn't lost his eye, and Bruce's ear isn't scarred.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2018 23:12:43 GMT
Anyway, the first issue was actually really good. The characterization I thought was good, there's a good balance of Bruce and Batman, the art is pretty good, the story is a continuation of the damaged reputation of the Wayne name and the legacy of Thomas' crimes, which is cool, and the introduction of Deadshot is pretty great. Looking forward to the next issue.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 16:21:45 GMT
Issue 4 has been announced: "With Batman unable to bring Deadshot to justice, Bruce Wayne decides to confront Deadshot’s alter ego, Floyd Lawton. It’s a high-stakes chess game between two men who are adark mirror images of each other: rich, orphans, men who’ve built themselves to the peak of their skills, but in drastically opposite ways. Can Bruce outwit—and if necessary, outfight—Lawton, or has he walked into his enemy’s killing ground?"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 22:26:33 GMT
For anyone who doesn't care to read but wants to know what happens:
-Wayne Industries is being sued by the families of Thomas' victims. Regina wants to declare bankruptcy and rebrand the company, but Bruce instead decides that the families deserve justice, so he offers to work out a settlement deal. -Bruce gathers Wayne Industries employees who worked there when Thomas was CEO to find out more about his crimes, but Deadshot shows up to kill people involved in Thomas' crimes.
That's basically it so far.
A bit of Batman lore: At the start of the issue, Batman stops a gang war between the Zuccos and the Bertinellis before he talks to Gordon and we learn that crime is steadily going down, and the GCPD has just made their alliance with Batman official. The Zuccos are lead by Tony Zucco, the mobster responsible for the death of Dick Grayson's parents, so @rhseemscool there's a chance Nightwing might show up since we know the guy who eventually kills his parents exists in this universe.
Now, a lot of continuity bullshit probably no one cares about:
The Bertinellis are less prominent, and I can only imagine they got name-dropped because Batgirl and the Birds of Prey is kinda popular right now. So, basically, in the current DCU, the Bertinellis were a crime family from Sicily, but they were all murdered with the exception of Helena Bertinelli, who was a child at the time. She grew up to be "Matron", in charge of training spies for the mind-control nazi death cult espionage organization Spyral. During the series Grayson, when Dick Grayson joins Spyral as an undercover operative working for Batman to take it down, he falls in love with Helena, who eventually sides with Dick alongside a couple other agents in taking down the leader of Spyral. Tiger, one of the good agents, sticks around to reform Spyral, Dick goes back to being Nightwing, and Helena becomes The Huntress.
This is... kinda confusing bc Huntress is traditionally Bruce and Selina's daughter from an alternate dimension, but she was erased from canon a long time ago, so they decided that Helena should take the name and costume for.... some... reason. Anyway, as Huntress she goes to Gotham to hunt down the crime families who killed her parents and the rest of her family, but encounters Batgirl and Black Canary who are hunting the same gangsters to find out who the new Oracle is(a new character took the name of Oracle, which was Barabara's superhero name when she was paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair). Babs and Dinah convince Helena not to kill the gangsters, and eventually they convince her to join Babs' new superhero team, the Birds of Prey.
So... long story short, Birds of Prey is a pretty popular book right now, and ever since Grayson was way better than it had any right to be, Helena Bertinelli has been a really popular character, so I guess the Bertinellis exist in Telltale's DCU now. Probably just as a name drop, but who knows, maybe they are leading up to introducing Helena in Season 3 or something(definetly not, this is just a name drop for a popular character and I spent way too long explaining it).
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