DC Comics has just announced a new series from Daredevil writer Chip Zdarsky that will definitively explore Batman’s training, chronicling Bruce Wayne’s journey to becoming the Dark Knight. Included in a post featuring some of DC’s new comics coming next year, Batman: The Knight stands out as a 10-issue series that should prove to be pretty interesting. While the interim period between the deaths of Martha and Thomas Wayne and their surviving son Bruce dressing up as a bat has been looked at before, The Knight promises to offer an in-depth look at young Bruce Wayne’s journey as he worked and trained to become Gotham’s nocturnal protector.

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As it stands, it’s known that Bruce Wayne was trained by a variety of different teachers and mentors, all masters of their various crafts. Through them, the young billionaire learned multiple forms of combat, deduction, survival tactics, battle strategy, criminology, and more skills he would amass as he strove to become an ultimate force that could avenge his parents’ death and save his city from its own darkness. Furthermore, it’s also been recently revealed that he met a young man known as the Ghost-Maker, a kindred spirit who would become his good friend before becoming a bitter rival. However, they’ve recently reconciled and have been working together to protect Gotham in current issues of Batman from James Tynion IV and Jorge Jimenez.

Batman: The Knight promises to be more than the previously seen flashbacks into Bruce Wayne’s past. Coming from Daredevil‘s Chip Zdarsky with art by Carmine Di Giandomenico, this new 10-issue series will detail the path young Bruce Wayne took to become the Caped Crusader he is today:

“The origin of Batman and his never-ending fight against crime in Gotham City is modern mythology, but what about the story in between? How did an angry, damaged young man grow into the most accomplished detective and crime-fighter the world has ever known? How did the Dark Knight…begin? Chip Zdarsky (DAREDEVIL) and Carmine Di Giandomenico (THE FLASH) explore Bruce Wayne’s journey to become Batman in this definitive new series.”

Furthermore, the announcement from DC Comics also offers a first look at Batman: The Knight‘s cover art and variants, as well as two preview pages that see young Bruce sparring with two opponents in a brutal fight (which coincidentally has him looking very much like Daredevil’s Matt Murdock: very bruised and sporting wrapped and bloody fists):

  • BATMAN: THE KNIGHT #1
  • Written by Chip Zdarsky
  • Art and cover by Carmine Di Giandomenico
  • Variant cover by Greg Capullo and Jonathan Glapion
  • 1:25 variant by Gerald Parel
  • 1:50 foil variant by Greg Capullo and Jonathan Glapion
  • $4.99 US | 40 pages | Variant $5.99 US (All covers card stock)
  • ON SALE 1/18/22
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All in all, it does appear as though Bruce Wayne is indeed “angry and damaged,” looking to prove himself and brutally determined to become an instrument of justice. While he wasn’t able to do anything to prevent the scum of Gotham from taking his family, he’s going to learn everything he can to mold himself into someone who can make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else while simultaneously avenging their deaths. Furthermore, The Knight looks as though it will focus on the brutality of Bruce’s evolution into Batman, seeing him being taken to his breaking point and enduring thanks to his unyielding conviction.

In any case, this upcoming Batman series should prove to be an incredibly dynamic look at Bruce Wayne’s journey, showing the young man at a time where he wasn’t as refined and potentially more brutal as a result. His anger may still need to be tempered and turned into a tool he can control. Likewise, it should be pretty entertaining to see Chip Zdarksky’s take on the early days of the man who would be Batman, given his work on Marvel’s Daredevil, a similar hero who’s likewise worked to turn to his anger into a tool for justice.

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Kevin Erdmann is one of Screen Rant’s staff writers. With a major in Cinema Studies and a minor in Comics and Cartoon Studies from the UofO, Kevin is pretty sure he’s writing for the right site. While Kevin is a huge Marvel fan, he also loves Batman because he’s Batman and is a firm believer that Han shot first. Disney also shares a big part of his fan patronage. Kevin lives in Oregon with his wonderful wife and sinister cat who is no doubt currently plotting his demise.

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