Batman: Bad Seeds - Streets of Gotham

Batman: Bad Seeds

by Matt Fraction, Christopher Cantwell, Greg Rucka

When disaster strikes, not all of Gotham’s heroes wear capes! As the chaos of Bad Seeds erupts across the city, everyday people must rise to the occasion to protect their fellow citizens.

Gotham City’s new mayor, Pamela Isley, makes a last-ditch power play that will leave Gotham decimated by daylight! In this companion volume to Batman: Bad Seeds, witness how the staff of Gotham General, the GCPD, and beyond react to the widespread terror caused by Poison Ivy’s superbloom.

Writer Greg Rucka (Batwoman) and artist Rosa Ekedal take you inside Gotham City’s tier-one trauma center, Gotham General. Power is out, fires are burning, transpo is shot, and the calls just keep coming. There are more patients than beds, half presenting with respiratory complications, the other half suffering hallucinogenic psychotic episodes. No capes, no costumes, and don’t call them heroes—this is their job.

Over at the GCPD, writer Christopher Cantwell (co-creator of the TV series Halt and Catch Fire) and artist Jacob Phillips (The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery) tell the story of a decimated police force amid unprecedented turmoil as the only good cops left in Gotham City face what might be their last stand.

Plus, Eisner Award-winning writers Matt Fraction (Batman, Hawkeye) and Mariko Tamaki (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, Zatanna: Bring Down the House) are joined by a host of superstar artists to tell six street-level tales of fear, courage, and perseverance, starring everyday people who must learn what it means to be a hero.

Collects Batman: Bad Seeds – Gotham Central #1-2, Batman: Bad Seeds – Gotham General #1-2, and Batman: Bad Seeds – Streets of Gotham #1. Don’t miss more of the Bad Seeds action in Batman: Bad Seeds and Batman: Bad Seeds – Sowing & Reaping.

Genres: Dc Comics

168 pages, Paperback

Expected publication February 23, 2027

About the author

"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.