Scott Snyder Teases Next All-Star Batman Arc

Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze and more are involved in the next arc of All-Star Batman

Scott Snyder has put Batman on the buddy road trip from hell with his first arc on All-Star Batman. But the story with Two-Face wraps up this Wednesday when issue #5 comes out. So what is next for the Caped Crusader? Well not some relaxing time in Gotham, that’s for sure. Scott Snyder teases his next arc for All-Star Batman. which takes the Dark Knight from the freezing cold of Alaska to the boiling hot temperatures of Death Valley:

With issue #6, the Mr. Freeze story with Jock and Francesco Francavilla, it’s almost written like prose. Jock wanted to do something that felt like a cold, distant transmission from the Arctic. So, there’s no balloons or captions. It’s all exposed and placed right on the art. It gives Mr. Freeze this feeling of an inhuman radio transmission from the apocalypse-sort of feel, taking place in Alaska.

Then with the #7, the Poison Ivy story with Tula Lotay, it takes place in Death Valley, where Batman goes to get a cure for what happens in the Mr. Freeze issue. So, even though they seem like one-shots, they’re actually connected and culminate in issue #9 with Alfua Richardson. The Ivy story is a hot story with very little narration. It’s set out in the desert and really fun.

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Snyder went on to mention that while he loved working on the main Batman title, he’s never had this much fun on a superhero comic before. He attributes it to having a little more creative freedom than he would on something like the main Batman title. Be sure to read the full interview with Scott Snyder over at Comicosity and All-Star Batman #5, which wraps up the current Two-Face arc, is out tomorrow, December 28th.