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Batman: Bad Seeds
Batman: Bad Seeds
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Expected 16 Feb 27It’s the biggest event to hit the Batman family of comics in years, told over the course of one long, dark night in Gotham that threatens to transform the entire city!
Gotham City’s new mayor, Pamela Isley, deserted by her allies both political and arcane, is about to make a last-ditch power play that will leave Gotham decimated by daylight. Having already declared war on the Bat-Family and flooded the streets with his private, paramilitarized police army, Police Commissioner Vandal Savage sees an opportunity to solve two problems at once.
Storylines converge in Batman: Bad Seeds, a Gotham City event spanning one long, dark night in Gotham—sunset to sunrise—that threatens to turn the entire city into a hostile world of prehistoric plant life unlike anything on Earth for millennia, at a time when its greatest heroes are hunted and in hiding.
As the sun goes down and Gotham loses power, writers Matt Fraction (Batman), G. Willow Wilson (Poison Ivy), and Tom Taylor (Detective Comics) are joined by artists including Giuseppe Camuncoli, Cliff Rathburn, Matteo Scalera, Marcio Takara, Jeff Spokes, and Alex Lins to deliver a Gotham epic that shows the only thing scarier than the night just might be the morning sun…
Collects Batman: Bad Seeds – Sunset #1, Batman #13-14, Poison Ivy #48-49, Detective Comics #1113-1114, and Batman: Bad Seeds – Sunrise #1, the pivotal chapters of the Bad Seeds story.
Gotham City’s new mayor, Pamela Isley, deserted by her allies both political and arcane, is about to make a last-ditch power play that will leave Gotham decimated by daylight. Having already declared war on the Bat-Family and flooded the streets with his private, paramilitarized police army, Police Commissioner Vandal Savage sees an opportunity to solve two problems at once.
Storylines converge in Batman: Bad Seeds, a Gotham City event spanning one long, dark night in Gotham—sunset to sunrise—that threatens to turn the entire city into a hostile world of prehistoric plant life unlike anything on Earth for millennia, at a time when its greatest heroes are hunted and in hiding.
As the sun goes down and Gotham loses power, writers Matt Fraction (Batman), G. Willow Wilson (Poison Ivy), and Tom Taylor (Detective Comics) are joined by artists including Giuseppe Camuncoli, Cliff Rathburn, Matteo Scalera, Marcio Takara, Jeff Spokes, and Alex Lins to deliver a Gotham epic that shows the only thing scarier than the night just might be the morning sun…
Collects Batman: Bad Seeds – Sunset #1, Batman #13-14, Poison Ivy #48-49, Detective Comics #1113-1114, and Batman: Bad Seeds – Sunrise #1, the pivotal chapters of the Bad Seeds story.
264 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication February 16, 2027
About the author
Matt Fraction
1,195 books1,910 followers"How he got started in comics: In 1983, when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City, Mo., he became fascinated by the U.S. invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event. "I've always been story-driven, telling stories with pictures and words," he said.
Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture.
"My mother was not happy about that," he said.
But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."
Big break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.
Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.
Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."
Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.
- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.
Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture.
"My mother was not happy about that," he said.
But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."
Big break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.
Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.
Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."
Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.
- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
September 7, 2026
Oh boy. Another garbage event that no one asked for. No one needs. And will do nothing. Money grab of trash
October 31, 2026
I think it’s important to go into this book with the right expectations. This isn’t some huge event, it’s more so a way to cap off a major overarching story currently in Matt fraction’s current Batman run. It is good and pretty entertaining but at times kinda safe and going through the motions. In a way it would have read better if it wasn’t marketed as an event but as a regular 6 comic run in the Batman series
Review of advance copy
Read as single issues. There's some hits and some misses throughout, so overall it feels kind of lack luster because it's such a long event yet there weren't too many significant things that happened in my opinion.
Review of advance copy
me ha falta la reunión de Pamela y Harley pero está bien
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews