Scott Snyder Teases Batman Heavy Rock Metal Opera With Greg Capullo

Scott Snyder talks about his upcoming Batman project with Greg Capullo

Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo had a fantastic 5 year run on the main Batman title. But that ended this year with the end of the New 52 and the start of Rebirth. They both moved on to other projects. But if you think either of them are tired of working together or doing stories about the Dark Knight, you’d be very wrong. Snyder is still working on a Bat-book, All-Star Batman, which he recently said was the most fun he’s had working on a superhero comic And Snyder and Capullo are teaming again for a major event title featuring the Caped Crusader coming out next year. Snyder teased the Bat’s “heavy metal rock opera” (which is what Capullo refers to the story as):

"Greg [Capullo] calls it our Batman heavy metal rock opera. It’s going to be a big, epic Batman story with flaming armor, an over-the-top capstone to a lot of the stuff that we’ve done with him. It’s all mapped out. I’ve just been out to Burbank with Geoff Johns going over it, and going over what he’s doing. It was great. It was one of the best story meetings that I’ve ever had. We sat there for a couple of days and really tightened up some of the screws. Geoff was incredibly generous and helpful with it.Above all, what I really want it to be for fans is to not have it feel like the kind of event that we’ve seen before. I love DC events. They’re bonkers and wonderful, but generally, they refer back to continuity, or they are all about where the line is at that moment in time. Geoff’s best ones have been plain-out great stories, but I think “Crisis,” for example, is in conversation with what we need to do with the line, as good as they are. What I want this one to be is different. I want it built out of the stories happening now and creating new material and giving everybody a place to tell stories that fit what they’re doing on their books, and feels really modern and different and above all fun. I don’t want it to be grim. I don’t want it to be superheroes arguing over something. Superheroes won’t be fighting superheroes. I want it to be celebratory, and huge, and crazy. I am going for out of control dinosaurs and lasers. It should be fun."

Next: Scott Snyder Teases Next All-Star Batman Arc

Hopefully we’ll hear more about this project soon, as we don’t really have a release date, title or any plot details as of yet. But I’m definitely looking forward to Snyder & Capullo doing a big Batman event book in 2017.

h/t CBR