Lee Bermejo, the incredibly talented artist who you might know from collaborations like Lex Luthor: Man Of Steel and Joker, is now doing a solo Batman book for DC. The book, Noel, will be his debut as a writer and the story will be holiday themed with an as yet to be revealed twist (assumedly something related to a villain, perhaps Mr. Freeze).
For more on the project, here’s some words from DC’s VP of Art Direction & Design, Mark Chiarello:
“I’m TOTALLY excited by this project, and not only because Lee Bermejo is such an astounding artist. Sure, the work he’s done in the past (“JOKER” ogn, “WEDNESDAY COMICS”) has been pretty brilliant and I’d expect nothing less from Lee, but the added bonus of BATMAN: NOEL being drawn AND written by Lee is extra cool. In other words, I knew Lee could deliver the goods artistically, but I never knew he was also this great of a writer!”
Look for this title later this year, perhaps around the winter-y holidays.
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