Batman to Fight Edgar Allen Poe

Kinda. In Ron Marz and Cully Hamner’s upcoming Nevermore arc for Legends of the Dark Knight, the creative duo introduces us to Batman’s latest rogue…Edgar Allen Poe. Or, at least a villain that’s Poe-themed. Here’s Ron Marz on how they settled such an odd character:

"They are both very dark characters with a Gothic sensibility hanging over them. Certainly, Poe is less a character than a historical figure, but his whole personality works. There is this whole dark, tormented writer that literally died drunk in a gutter, but basically left behind the seeds that would become the modern detective story and so many things that became horror tropes. It just seemed that there was a natural kinship between the two characters.I’ve been a Poe fan since literally elementary school. I just thought visually that Poe and some of his characters would just work really well in Batman’s world."

I’m very excited about this, really. I think this is a great addition to Batman’s Rogues Gallery with a lot of potential. The fact that Batman draws from the classic Gothic writers like Poe and Lovecraft makes this a great fit.