Azrael’s History

This week a new series launches, focusing on a new Batman-related character (there’s a lot of them running around Gotham these days). Azrael is written by Fabian Nicieza and is pencilled by Ramon Bachs and focuses on the character of the same name. However, this isn’t the Jean Paul Valley creation, that replaced Bruce Wayne way before Dick Grayson did, in those heady days of the 1990s. This is a new Azrael, with a new costume, and secret Order. Up at Broken Frontier now is my best attempt to explain the past of this interesting DC character, just in time for the new guy under the mask.

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Fabian Nicieza Interview

I interviewed Mr. Nicieza at Broken Frontier, which was great. I’ve followed his career since his  X-Men days in the mid 1990s and until his more recent titles at DC, finishing off Nightwing and Robin just before the new Batman changes everything. Nicieza has a new Azrael mini-series launching next week, focusing on a new man under the hood. Here’s a tease…

F: What similarities will this series have with the Jean-Paul Valley incarnation, and how will it differ?

FN: Similarities include: clandestine organizations looking to use an experienced soldier as their “weapon of God.” A main character who is conflicted by the lives he can save and the sins he must commit while doing so. A cool flaming sword. Differences include: a very different lead character in terms of personality, family and history. A tone that is less world-spanning and an Order of Purity that is less messianic and inscrutable and a little more “normal people thrown into an abnormal responsibility.”

Read the full interview here.

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