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Batman Comes To York … Not New York , But York York ( Detective Comics Annual 2025 Spoilers )
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I ’m a Pontefract lad . Grew up in the West Yorkshire mining Ithiel Town , the big metropolis to me was Wakefield , or even Leeds if I was ambitious . York was another league , with all gilded towers , spiralling structures , and schooling trips to see Viking tombs if we were lucky . These days , I live in London , and York seems like the most provincial of cities . But it did give name to that much big of cities , New York , which urge on the Gotham of Batman comedian , albeit only at nighttime .
But in this week’sDetective Comics Annual 2025,courtesy ofAl EwingandJohn McCrea , Batman makes a trip to York . It ’s an aside of a much big pursuit that could have universe - ending consequences , but that also means bump what ’s go forth of a small self-love publisher from the seventies . And chance that the local superheroes are dependent to the same indignities like leave on the tracks that we all are . And to be bonny , it ’s all a bit , well , provincial … but Al Ewing is a Yorkshire lad as well , smashing reader may rememberquite a heavy dialect given to Mr Horse in theValkyriecomic .
But York Cathedral is squeamish . It burn down every now and again . It ’s the only affair around here to give Batman the kind of levitation he ’s used to in Gotham . There ’s nothing much else to sweep from .
So all the confrontations have to occur at street storey . As Mr Mystic summons the might of the Court astronomer of Queen Elizabeth I for his own , back when there was little remainder between that , astrologer and occultist . Thankfully Batman can outrun him .
And it turns out that Batman has done the same historical research for the city that , well , I remember teach about Layerthorpe on one of those schooltime trips . Here , you may catch up with your homework .
And then it ’s back to the action , where someone is intending to terminate the universe in a rather conversant style …
Tech bros really make the better risky guys these twenty-four hour period , do n’t they ? There ’s a cause people do keep using them …
DETECTIVE COMICS 2025 ANNUAL # 1 ( ONE SHOT)(W ) Al Ewing , Joshua Hale Fialkov ( A ) Stefano Raffaele , John McCrea , Fico Ossio , Mike Norton ( CA ) Mikel JaninA MYSTERY EVEN BATMAN CAN’T SOLVE ! Batman has found himself mired in a haunting case that he ca n’t seem to solve . Now , the Dark Knight must work his manner through some of his most maniacal opposition to gather enough grounds to assay to break up this font . His very life – or the life history of someone dear to him – may depend on it ! Tom Taylor , join by an all - star roster of partner , crafts a mystery that will bowl over the judgement of even the World ’s Greatest Detective . Retail : $ 5.99 In - Store Date : 04/30/2025
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