C2E2 2025: DC Announces New Elseworlds Series ‘Immortal Legend Batman’

Just announced on the ‘Kyle Higgins Presents: Radiant Black, The Massive-Verse and More!’ panel is the news that writer, and Massive-Verse co-creator, Kyle Higgins is to pen a new Elseworlds miniseries featuring Batman and a good dose of Japanese “tokusatsu” genre as inspiration entitled Immortal Legend Batman.

Joining Higgins on this thrilling new book will be fellow writer Mat Groom and artists Dan Mora, and Erica D’Urso.

Set in the far future, here’s the lowdown on this six-issue series:

“Many centuries from now, humanity becomes a galactic civilization with capital megacities on multiple planets and smaller outposts on dozens more. To conquer the vast distances between solar systems, humanity tapped into dark matter to bend space-time around spacecraft, from hulking colony vessels to one-man mech suits. In accessing this dark power, humanity broke the barrier between their universe and their universe’s shadow. This resulted in the creation of “Shadows”: mindless, soulless apparitions craving nothing but violence and destruction. Due to the actions of these Shadow creatures, newly colonized worlds were brought to the brink of collapse. But three warriors found a way to access the energy that bound their universe to the shadow universe, becoming “immortal legends”: Immortal Legend Batman, Immortal Legend Robin and Immortal Legend Nightwing.”

Higgins discusses his influences on this new DC series:

“In Immortal Legend Batman, Dan, Mat, Erica, and I are using elements of ‘superhero tokusatsu,’ so readers can expect to see cool and recognizable elements like mech/armor-style transformations, specifically named combat moves, a gradually expanding team, and more.” 

Available for preorder Friday, May 23, Immortal Legend Batman arrives in stores and at digital retailers Wednesday, August 27th from DC Comics.