DC Universe, thanks to Kevin Smith and Walter Flanagan, will welcome the addition of a new and mysterious vigilante in "Batman: The Widening Gyre."
"Issue 2, that's where you finally meet our character...the character that me and artist Walter Flanagan came up with. His name is Baphomet. I don't think you learn that until issue 3, but f--- it. I spoiled it," Smith told MTV News.
"Issue 2, Baphomet engages with Batman a bit more, and issue 3 is where I think they have their first conversation," said Smith.
It seems the character could possibly be Batman's replacement..."Gyre is a story about Bruce Wayne hitting that age where he's like, 'Everybody I ever trained in the war on crime is doing it, if they're alive... or if they've come back from the dead. But they also have lives. They also have personal lives and sh--, and I do not have one. Through circumstances, suddenly he's faced with the possibility that he can have the perfect life of love and happiness and still being f---ing Batman—split down the middle," he explained.
But there's no way Bruce Wayne would give up fighting crime forever..."He doesn't want to quit," said Smith. "But he's like, 'Why can't I scale back? F---ing Dick Grayson has a girlfriend, why can't I have a girlfriend? I f--- a lot, but why can't I be involved with somebody?"
The clip below is a video of Smith giving his thoughts about the new character and the direction of "Batman: The Widening Gyre." Issue two hits your local comic book shop on September 30th.