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“The Battle Within: A History of the Injustice Universe” - Good vs Evil: Before NetherRealm Studios’ video game #InjusticeGodsAmongUs was released in April 2013, January 2013 the prequel tie-in #DCComics books were released first on digital then in physical copies. Written by #TomTaylor and illustrated by various artists, “#Injustice: Gods Among Us Year One” is a 36 chapter storyline (broken up into 12 physical comic issues, Jheremy Raapack cover to issue 2 presented) giving readers and future gamers a context as to how the current alternate timeline of Superman’s dictatorship happened. Five years ago, #Joker has rigged missiles to destroy Metropolis while kidnapping a pregnant #LoisLane and #Superman, #Batman and the #JusticeLeague attempt to stop the madman. When Superman finds Lois on an operating table thanks to Joker and #HarleyQuinn, he is confronted by Doomsday. The Man of Steel flies Doomsday out into space and pummels him so he doesn’t hurt anyone, but the tragic realization is, using Scarecrow’s fear toxin mixed with Kryptonite, Doomsday was an illusion and in reality, Superman brought Lois into space instead, instantly killing her. What’s worse is that Joker fixed Lois’ heart so when it stops beating, the missiles will be activated; Metropolis is blown up, sending the city and its people into automatic devastation (panel 2-3 by Mike Miller). As Batman is interrogating Joker in prison, an inconsolable Superman flies in and launches his entire arm through Joker’s chest, killing him. After taking a moment to examine his rage at the Fortress of Solitude, he ends up at the United Nations and announces to the world not only his true identity but his goal to irradiate crime and war once and for all. We will continue with Taylor’s Year One soon in our Injustice retrospect. ✌🏼💙🦇 #TheBatman #HistoryoftheBatman #CapedCrusader #TheDarkKnight #DarkKnight #BruceWayne #ComicBooks #Comics #InstaBatman

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“The Battle Within: A History of the Injustice Universe” - Year of the Gods: #BrianBuccellato comes in to continue writing the tie-in comic book series for the video game #InjusticeGodsAmongUs with “#Injustice: Year Four” from 2015, illustrated by #MikeSMiller, #BrunoRedondo and #Xermanico (cover to issue 12 by Redondo, #JuanAlbarran and #RexLokus). The end of “Year Three” saw Constantine leaving #Batman and the insurgence to a safer universe for him and his daughter, resulting in the #CapedCrusader going to find help elsewhere. Batman reaches out to #Ares, the God of War to go up against #Superman, #WonderWoman and the rest of their #JusticeLeague. However, this spawns into a war with Ares against the Olympian gods including Wonder Woman, who in this timeline is the daughter of Zeus, with the powerful beings of Olympus asking the Dark Knight to step away from this fight of the gods. Batman and everyone else in the end learns that Ares has been working with #Darkseid who wants to seek revenge against Superman who killed his son during his tirade on Earth back in Tom Taylor’s “Injustice: Year One” series. We will conclude the first comic series for Injustice: Gods Among Us in our next post in this retrospect. ✌🏼💙🦇 #TheBatman #HistoryoftheBatman #TheDarkKnight #DarkKnight #BruceWayne #DCComics #BatmanArt #ComicArt #ComicBooks #Comics #BatmanFans #BatFans #InstaBatman

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“The Battle Within: A History of the #Injustice Universe” - Clash of the Titans: #TomTaylor concludes “Year One” of his tie-in comic series for the #videogame #InjusticeGodsAmongUs with issues 11 and 12 (Chapters 30 - 36), cover illustrated by #SantiCasas, #DavidLopez and #MicoSuayan and interior panels by #MikeMiller presented. #Batman goes to the U.S. President and asks him to create a distraction for #Superman so him and the Insurgency can have time to find the Super-pills Superman and his #JusticeLeague want to use for their reign. As Batman, #Catwoman, #CaptainAtom, #GreenArrow and #BlackCanary find the super-pills are in the Fortress of Solitude, they sneak in to find Clark’s parents Jonathan and Martha Kent. Superman, hearing his mother, steps away from the President’s distraction involving U.S. Naval ships going to Korea and heads to the Fortress, immediately combating Captain Atom. In the struggle, #WonderWoman helps an almost defeated Superman by cutting Atom’s throat. In the process, Diana is severely wounded and is aided by #Cyborg while Superman returns and confronts Ollie. As Green Arrow shoots his arrows in defense, one accidentally hits Jonathan’s shoulder, sending Superman into a violent rage. Before the Man of Steel pummels Green Arrow to death, he is able to grab a super-pill, tie one and a tracker courtesy of the #DarkKnight to his arrow and shoots it for the Insurgency to find. Returning to the Insurgency base, the #CapedCrusader forces everyone, to hide in a safe place while he goes to the Batcave to try and synthesize the super-pill. While working in the cave, Superman finds him and Batman begins to guilt him on killing Ollie and how he isn’t honoring Lois Lane’s death. Superman lifts Batman over his knee and breaks his back but the pill has already been analyzed. As the Man of Steel continues to beat up Batman, #AlfredPennyworth enters the cave having ingested a super-pill and begins to pummel Superman until he is knocked out. Year One ends with Superman taking his league Batman is officially a terrorist and he intends to keep the world safe however he sees fit. ✌🏼💙🦇#HistoryoftheBatman #DCComics #ComicBooks #InstaBatman

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“The Battle Within: A History of the Injustice Universe” - The Ultimate Betrayal: The final prequel series to 2013’s video game #InjusticeGodsAmongUs comes in 2016’s 20 issue saga #Injustice Year Five written by #BrianBuccellato illustrated by #TomDerenick and #MikeSMiller (panels from issue 13 presented). After #PlasticMan destroys the prison housing all of the villains, the bad guys of this DC Universe disperse onto different sides, from #Bane joining #Superman and his #JusticeLeague regime to many villains aiding #Batman against the Man of Steel. But everything changes when #AlfredPennyworth is killed by #VictorZsasz, leading the Dark Knight to blame and directly confront Superman to battle him. However, Batman is dominated by #WonderWoman and other members of Superman’s regime but #TheFlash comes to help him escape their clutches, sympathizing for him due to the loss of Alfred. Year Five rounds out with Batman making a plan with #LexLuthor to bring to this timeline a Justice League that are all still good and have them help defeat dictator Superman and his regime in this reality, leading into the storyline of the video game “Injustice: Gods Among Us”. The popular video game released a sequel game and tie in series, which we will briefly discuss in our closing posts of this retrospect. ✌🏼💙🦇#TheBatman #HistoryoftheBatman #CapedCrusader #TheDarkKnight #DarkKnight #BruceWayne #DCComics #BatmanArt #ComicArt #ComicBooks #Comics #InstaBatman

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Afternoon Gothamites! Today we’ll begin Year Two of Tom Taylor’s tie-in series to the video game “Injustice Gods Among Us”! In January 2014, Taylor wrote the first Annual issue to “Injustice: Gods Among Us” (cover art by Juan Jose Ryp presented) where Superman enlists the help of Lobo to track down Harley Quinn to bring her in for her crimes committed with The Joker. But when Harley takes one of Lex Luthor’s super-pills, the bounty hunter gets more than he bargained for in this fun action packed one shot. Stay tuned for more “The Battle Within: A History of the Injustice Universe” soon on History of the Batman! ✌🏼💙🦇 #TheBatman #Batman #HistoryoftheBatman #CapedCrusader #TheDarkKnight #DarkKnight #BruceWayne #Superman #Lobo #HarleyQuinn #TheFlash #WonderWoman #GreenLantern #InjusticeGodsAmongUs #Injustice #DCComics #BatmanArt #ComicArt #ComicBooks #Comics #BatFans #InstaBatman

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“The Battle Within: A History of the Injustice Universe” - The Magical War: #TomTaylor’s tie-in comic to the 2014 video game “#InjusticeGodsAmongUs is truly a magical ride in 2015’s “#Injustice: Year Three” illustrated by #BrunoRedondo and #Xermanico (cover art to issue 6 by #MikeSMiller and #RexLokus). After #Constantine’s wife and mother of his child are killed due to #Superman and the Green Lanterns fight in Injustice: Year Two, Constantine turns to #Batman and his insurgence to aid him in seeking revenge on the Man of Steel for tearing apart his family. After Constantine reveals to Batman and the rest of the Insurgency that a powerful force is both protecting Superman and irradiating magical beings, they learn #Spectre is the Man of Steel’s right hand man. Batman and Constantine seek the help of #MadameXanadu to triumph over this regime. Xanadu reveals a prophecy (that includes the return of #Joker) and claims the Insurgency isn’t ready for the chaos that is about to happen. This leads to a powerful battle with Constantine, Batman and the Insurgency and Superman and his #JusticeLeague; without the #DarkKnight knowing, Constantine kidnapped #Raven in order to have her father, #Trigon, ready to fight the Man of Steel believing he was the one to took her. After it is discovered that Spectre is actually #MisterMxyzptlk in disguise, both Trigon and Mxyzptlk fight to the point where they begin altering reality, resulting in Doctor Fate sending both into a place called The Void. While Constantine leaves the current reality with his daughter, Batman is back to the drawing board as to how to stop Superman. We will continue with Injustice: Year Four in the next part of this retrospect. ✌🏼💙🦇 #TheBatman #HistoryoftheBatman #CapedCrusader #BruceWayne #DCComics #BatmanArt #ComicArt #ComicBooks #Comics #InstaBatman

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“The Battle Within: A History of the #Injustice Universe” - The Battle Never Ends; Conclusion: Before the sequel video game to #InjusticeGodsAmongUs, #Injustice2 was released in May 2017, a month prior writer #TomTaylor returned to write a prequel tie-in arc for the new game. As #Superman is still contained in a prison cell, #Batman and a new ally in #HarleyQuinn try to figure how to fix the damage the Man of Steel and his regime has done. Before Harley can be of service to the #DarkKnight, she is involuntarily tied to be part of the #SuicideSquad. As #GreenArrow from a different timeline and #BlackCanary who joined him return to this current universe to help, not only does Batman go up against another more lethal Batman (cover to issue 2 by #BrunoRedondo and #AlejandroSanchez presented) but also the prison becomes weakened, giving Superman a chance to escape. A squabble between Bruce and Damian aka #Robin and a struggle to make this reality whole again all lead into the current Injustice 2 comics out today. #TheBatman has been part of dozens upon dozens of different timelines and universes within DC Comics history and the Injustice Universe is perhaps one of the most exciting, bringing together both long time comic book readers and gamers alike. Thanks for following and we’ll have more #HistoryoftheBatman soon, so stay tuned! ✌🏼💙🦇 #CapedCrusader #BruceWayne #DCComics #BatmanArt #ComicArt #ComicBooks #Comics #BatmanFans #BatFans #InstaBatman

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“The Battle Within: A History of the Injustice Universe” - War is Coming: #TomTaylor’s #Injustice Year Two continues with 2014’s issues 7-8 (Chapters 13-16) (cover art to issue 7 by #StephaneRoux and #JheremyRaapack presented). Before heading back to Gotham City to join #CommissionerGordon’s resistance, #BlackCanary drives to #GreenArrow’s hideout to tie loose ends after his death by #Superman. Sitting in his cave is #HarleyQuinn and the two begin to fight until she stops to throw up, signaling to Harley that Black Canary is having pregnancy morning sickness. Seeing Harley Quinn won’t fight her anymore, Canary asks if she has a child, which Harley reveals she has a 4 year old daughter named Lucy who lives with her sister; #Joker never know (or would care) he had a child. When Harley finds out Superman killed Ollie, leaving Canary alone to raise their baby, she decides to join the resistance. The story moves forward seven months with Superman and #Sinestro heading their regime. Canary gives birth to her son Connor and the Green Lantern Corps are ready to join forces with the insurgency. Superman makes an address to the world that the Green Lantern Corps are trying to undo all of the progress him, the Sinestro Corps and the #JusticeLeague have done, so they should join them in rebellion. After hearing this, Black Canary go to the tower of Doctor Fate where #Batman is having a device placed on his spine to straighten it. While #AlfredPennyworth says he still needs to heal, Bruce says there’s no time and asks #Zatanna to fully heal him with her magic. When she refuses, Batman gives a speech to the Insurgency, apologizing for the state of Superman’s world and that some may not come back alive. As everyone teleports to the Batcave, Batman wants to be teleported to Oracle and tells Zatanna to stay behind since she will be ‘plan B’ if the Insurgency fails. The war truly begins in the next part of this retrospect. ✌🏼💙🦇📖 #TheBatman #HistoryoftheBatman #BruceWayne #InjusticeGodsAmongUs #DCComics #BatmanArt #ComicArt #ComicBooks #Comics #InstaBatman