Batman #28 Moves Back to #29 – Harper Row’s Future Revealed?

Batman writer Scott Snyder announced today via Twitter that the final chapter of Batman: Zero Year – Dark City will be delayed a month, no longer appearing in Batman #28.Pushing that story–originally solicited for release on February 12–back a month to allow for an expanded issue, #28 will instead be a story set six months in the future of the current continuity, teasing the major Batman Eternal and bat-family events of 2014.”As I was finishing Batman #28 last month, I started to feel that the issue seemed very cramped. There are a lot of big moments in it – super storms raging, bat-vehicles whirling – and I was compressing every one into a multi-panel page,” Snyder wrote. “Still, to extend the issue would put pressure on Greg, and with an issue that has key crime alley scenes and core moments… I didn’t want him to have ANY pressure. No one is as maniacal about staying way ahead of his deadlines than brother Greg is and I just thought it’d be cruel to saddle him with extra pages, esp. now, with the holidays. Believe me, if I gave Greg extra pages, he’d finish them ahead of time, no problem, but why put extra work on my partner – and my friend – for being ahead?”