A quick look inside the upcoming DCU animated feature, Superman/Batman: Apocalypse.

You see what I was talking about?

Check out that vivid description, look at the verbal and artistic detail that went into this crazy bullet-dance.

Neal Adams is like, really letting off steam here and taking it out on poor Batman.  This page reads like it was written by a serial killer.

How in the holy Hell is Batman alive?  This is like, 500 times worse than Darkseid eye-beams.

So based on the first two covers, Batman: Odyssey appears to be a 12-issue exercise in perforating Bats as often and painfully as possible.

The plot would seem to support this theory.  Comic book legend Neal Adams - who did some of his career defining work creating a darker Batman back in the days of the campy television show - would seem to be developing a sadistic streak in his old age.  I mean, look at those painstakingly horrific entrance and exit wounds.

Dude's really, like, working the pain here.

Gotta admit, did not see that one coming.

Blackest Night invades DC's kids' line in Batman: The Brave and the Bold No.19, written by Adam Schlagman, editor of Green Lantern Corps and veteran of the zombie wars.