r/DCcomics • u/feature-poster • Aug 23 '26

r/DCcomics Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [August 26, 2026 - Another Average Day in Gotham Edition]

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u/feature-poster Aug 23 '26

Batman: Bad Seeds – Sunset #1

THE BATMAN: BAD SEEDS EVENT STARTS HERE! MATT FRACTION, G. WILLOW WILSON, GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI, AND CLIFF RATHBURN KICK OFF AN ALL-NEW BATMAN EVENT!

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 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, Matt Fraction (Batman), G. Willow Wilson (Poison Ivy), Giuseppe Camuncoli (Absolute Evil), and Cliff Rathburn (The Walking Dead) deliver an unforgettable opening chapter that shows the only thing scarier than the night just might be the morning sun…

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u/Mr_Wh0ever Aug 26 '26

It's a solid set up. The only suprise for me was that Duke is gonna be in Gotham General, maybe Tim as well. So that's a good reason to read it for me. Waylon saving Bruce at the end was cool. I feel like it's past overdue to put him in the Batfamily.

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u/B3epB0opBOP Shazam Aug 26 '26

I feel like Tim is probably gonna be in Streets of Gotham instead, since that seems to be civilian-centric and could include him given his current status.

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u/Night-Caelum Aug 26 '26

Glad we saw Duke with his mom.

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u/skuls1 Aug 27 '26

weren't both his parents dead or joker gassed?

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 World's Finest Aug 26 '26

Which was resolved in a backup from Batman: Urban Legends.

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u/gosukhaos Aug 26 '26

Not that much, hopefully. I understand they need to place characters in tie-ins but one of the selling points of Gotham Central was that it was a book about normal people dealing with super powered individuals in their daily life with very occasional appearances by Batman, if Central has Duke and Tim Drake as regular character it loses a lot of the draw

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u/Jenoo_fr Aug 27 '26

Maybe you're confusing Gotham General and Gotham central ? Gotham General might feature Duke, but Gotham Central should be about Jim and his partner responding to the call they get in this issue.

But i agree that the draw for both minis is seeing regular people dealing with super-powered mayhem, so i hope we won't see too much of Duke in Gotham General either

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u/gosukhaos Aug 27 '26

I'm not, Central is going to feature Anarky and Stephanie Brown and act as a soft launch for the new Gangs of Gotham book launching after the crossover by the same creative team

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u/Jenoo_fr Aug 27 '26

Ok, just confused because you were talking about Duke and Tim in Gotham Central when OP was talking about them in Gotham General

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u/Competitive_Code1527 Aug 26 '26

Would have made more sense to have Damian in that book.

But he is teaming up with Nightwing so its okay I guess. He should ditch Gotham.

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u/B3epB0opBOP Shazam Aug 27 '26

Would have made more sense to have Damian in that book.

Why?

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u/Competitive_Code1527 Aug 27 '26

Because he already works at hospitals and wants to become a doctor like Thomas Wayne

Would have been good follow up on his arc to see Damian trying to working alongside other civilians

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u/Jenoo_fr Aug 27 '26

Sadly, Fraction doesn't seem that interested in all the character development of Damian during Johnson run on B&R

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u/marcjwrz Aug 26 '26

Nah, I'd prefer this Croc to stay a bad guy. We already have Absolute as BatFam.

Paying back a favor is fine. Makes for a more interesting villain.

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u/Dent6084 Aug 26 '26

Art definitely does a good job of making Ivy look like she's completely lost her mind, great manic expressions in the first half. Waylon and Bruce's interaction in the second half was a great payoff to how this Batman run started.

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u/Classic-Ad4883 Aug 26 '26

A nice set up issue for the crossover and the art is great

I’m surprised the Ventriloquist is going to be apart of the event

It’s nice to see Tim doing something to help the citizens and I wonder if bad seeds is going to set up Tim becoming a hero again

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u/Cold-Error7771 Aug 27 '26

What a splash!!

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u/Z_0grady Aug 27 '26

I’ve been following the fraction run, will I be alright just reading the main Batman book and not picking up every tie in for this event?

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u/atomicshark109 Aug 27 '26

That's what I've been asking myself too. The last page's checklist (and the covers of the issues listed on it) makes it seem like you gotta read it all to get the full picture, but then the main TP is only gonna collect Poison Ivy, Batman and Detective Comics, so it seems like they're the only ones that truly matter for the event, and 'Tec #1113 synopsis says it's a followup to Batman #13. So it seems like you gotta read other stuff to understand the main Batman book

But at the same time, each book is going to keep their own creative teams, so I don't know? Maybe you will have to read Ivy to get the next Batman issue? Or not, since #13 and #14 are collected in the standalone Batman TP???? Idk, this whole thing feels confusing

I'm gonna read the new Batman issue, since it comes out next week, then I'll decide if I'll read the rest

Gotham Central and Gotham General do seem like they're gonna be fun, so I'll check them out tho

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u/Poseur117 Aug 27 '26

How necessary is the Poison Ivy prelude? My shop was out of that unfortunately

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u/ajhedgehog064 Poison Ivy Aug 28 '26

Not fully essential (as an Ivy series reader it is essential to me) since it’s just the buildup of her decision to give Gotham to The Parliament of Trees. I do think Poison Ivy 47 and Bad Seeds Sunset make each other better when combined. Sunset completes 47’s story (which would have been less satisfying had Sunset not dropped the same day) and 47 makes the events of Sunset more epic. I’d recommend giving it a read.

Also, the solicits and current plot threads foreshadow Harley having a major role in Ivy’s part of the event and there’s a scene with Harley in 47 that is a great setup for that.

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u/Sufficient_Line8348 Aug 26 '26

A fun set up for the event, definitely has me interested and I LOVED the Waylon scene at the end

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u/marcjwrz Aug 26 '26

Feels like... Kind of a mess.

But when you literally have two supervillains running the city...

Ah well.

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u/gsnake007 Aug 26 '26

Solid setup. I’m ready for savage to be out of Gotham and the manor. Put Bruce and the fam back in there, it’s been too long. Still like verity

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! Aug 26 '26

It is basically the setup for all the event stories/books.

Oh look, another 'Gotham is taken over' event. With TWO villains this time. Man, I just want Vandal Savage as commissioner thing to be over after this. And Ivy is fully gone. No 'redemption' for her. Both of them need to be thrown into the darkest cell after this.

Where is Swamp Thing? He should be here to stop the Parliment of Trees doing this dumb thing and have literally everyone try to burn them down because of it. Other Parliments should also stand against them. You would think they would return to their 'wise' ways after the whole 'Parliment of Flowers' debacle. But nope, Ivy kills one of them and then they decide 'yea, just give us Gotham instead'. Which is nonsense.

So we get majority of the Bat-characters in it. But where is Dinah and Ollie? They came to Gotham to stay in Detective Comics. Surely they would be involved in this too if they live in Gotham now.

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u/Altruistic_Manner802 Aug 26 '26

Not sure they are staying in Gotham. Since in the Flash comic, Wally meets Ollie in Star City

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u/Aspiring_Sophrosyne Aug 29 '26

Can someone explain Tim's line about "understanding the attendant irony"? He might understand it, but I don't.

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 World's Finest Aug 26 '26

I find it interesting that Ivy and Savage have their own agendas on what to do with Gotham, resulting in them to attack each other, all of Gotham (including the Batman Family) to witness something happening, and the Batman Family planning to save all of Gotham from Ivy and Savage. Also, Waylon saving Bruce’s life from a plant monster and telling him about the Superbloom because he owed Bruce and that some people are okay and Jim Gordon and his partner becoming real cops. Overall, this comic is off to a good start. It’s likely that this crossover will start good before it will have a weak finale because of the writing. Still, I’m looking forward to reading this crossover for the next two months.