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Batman: White Knight Creator's Rules for 'Murphyverse' Line of Comics
Revered comic book creator Sean Gordon Murphy is totally prepared to keep creating new worlds for DC Comics after Batman: White Knight is over. Murphy revealed on Twitter that the team at DC unofficially calls his new world -- adjacent to, but not really part of the DC Universe proper -- the "Murphyverse."
He also laid out the "rules" that he will follow if he does indeed make a sequel to the White Knight story.
The rules include the following:
1. When someone dies, they stay dead. Period.
2. Every book comes out on time.
3. No narration ballons, unless it's a voice over in a flashback.
4. No excessive amounts of variants to burden comic ships. At most there will be 2: the main cover, and the variant for the super passionate collector.
5. There will be at least 1 awesome vehicle in each book.
6. No complicated tie ins to other series or events. White Knight will be easy to get into, whether you read comics or not.
Murphy's series, Batman: White Knight, follows the story of a Batman and Joker very different from those we've seen before. The Joker has started to take medication that makes him sane, and he becomes a public official set on fighting corruption in the city. Batman is, obviously, conflicted by this. The series includes two different Harley Quinns, villain team-ups, a Neo-Joker, and an official police force that includes Batgirl and Nightwing.
Sean Gordon Murphy is responsible for both the writing and the art in the book, so this is very much his creation.
Exclusive: Sean Gordon Murphy Returns to Gotham in Batman: Curse of the White Knight
Sean Gordon Murphy has a damn-impressive artistic resume, lending his unmistakable line-work to collaborations with Grant Morrison, Scott Snyder, Rick Remender and Mark Millar. He’s perhaps the only person in the business known for executing compelling car chases, and for actually enjoying the art of drawing cars. Last year, he catapulted himself to the top echelon of Batman creators with the wildly popular Batman: White Knight. The eight-issue series, retroactively enveloped by DC Comics’ mature-readers Black Label imprint, imagined an alternate Gotham in which the Joker went sane—and helped expose to Gotham just how insane it is to let a grown man in a bat costume operate outside of the law. Featuring expert redesigns of Batman’s rogues gallery, intriguing new twists to familiar faces and the most sympathetic portrayal of the Joker…ever…White Knight flew off the shelves to become one of the past year’s best-selling and most popular series.
Today, Paste has the distinct pleasure of confirming what we all knew was coming: the next installment in the burgeoning “Murphyverse.” Arriving in 2019, Batman: Curse of the White Knight picks up where Batman: White Knight left off—and re-imagines a ‘90s Bat-favorite in the process. That’s right folks: Azrael is back, like you’ve never seen him before. To celebrate this announcement, and the collected edition of Batman: White Knight hitting shelves in early October, Paste exchanged a few questions with Murphy via email, covering everything from hot-button politics to a Harley identity crisis.
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