Batman’s new werewolf fighting book is dripping with atmosphere

By James On Jul 3, 2024

Batman: Full Moon is the latest Black Label miniseries from DC Comics, and artist Stevan Subic (The Riddle: Year One) has really paid off Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark I’m excited.

DC’s press release promises “an ancient and supernatural force” stalking the streets of Gotham, “a werewolf so powerful he will defy Batman’s most trusted resources: his brilliant mind and elaborate gadgets.” But the four pages of Subic’s work revealed inside promise sickly colors, a truly monstrous monster, and a dark, ghostly Batman.

Image: Rodney Barnes, Stevan Subic/DC Comics

Batman throws down a smoke grenade and a flash grenade while fighting some armed people.

Several men shoot guns at an unharmed werewolf and then flee in a page from Batman: Blood Moon

Batman tracks a werewolf through a wooded area and a large, dark sewer.

Subic teams up with Rodney Barnes (writer behind the Eisner-nominated urban vampire series Killadelphia) for the 4-issue miniseries, which will be printed with glow-in-the-dark main covers. And if that screams “Halloween” to you, well, Batman: Full Moon #1 will hit stores on October 9th, just in time for the holidays. (That’s not a full moon, so you’ll be safe from werewolves if you go out to buy a copy.)

Check out Subic’s main cover and variants by Francesco Francavilla and Mike Perkins below!

A werewolf growls as Batman lunges at him on the cover of Batman: Full Moon.

A werewolf lunges at an unwitting Batman, whose shadows are cast on a brick wall behind them, in a variant cover of Batman: Full Moon.

Batman battles a werewolf in the rain in a variant cover of Batman: Full Moon.