Kodansha’s previously Japanese-exclusive trio of manga using DC Comics characters are getting their first official English-language releases this yr—good news for anybody who’s ever needed to observe the Joker increase a baby Bruce Wayne.
That’s simply one of many premises you’ll have the ability to expertise within the three manga sequence after they first debut on DC’s Universe Infinite app, which is able to launch a manga-friendly reader mode alongside the three drops.
The aforementioned Child-Bats manga, Joker: One Operation Joker, by Satoshi Miyakawa and Keisuke Gotou, follows the Clown Prince of Crime after a scrap with Batman sees the Darkish Knight de-aged right into a child—resulting in Joker deciding that it’s as much as him to boost Bruce Wayne as his personal little one, and remodel him into his nice crimefighting rival alongside the way in which.
It’ll be joined by Batman: Justice Buster—from the artistic workforce behind the Ultraman manga, Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi, following an early-career Batman as he develops an AI named ROBIN to assist his lonely battle in opposition to crime—and Superman vs Meshi by Satoshi Miyakawa and Kai Kitago, which sees Superman fly to Japan for his every day lunch break, sampling varied eating places and delicacies to broaden his Kryptonian culinary tastes (and sometimes bringing a pal from the Justice League alongside for the journey).
Superman vs Meshi, Batman: Justice Buster, and Joker: One Operation Joker can even obtain bodily commerce paperback releases this fall, after every sequence has debuted on the DC Universe Infinite app.
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