Via BLASTR, DC Comics have unveiled their latest ongoing series, and boy does this one sound promising.

Check out the premise;

Gotham is already a weird city full of maniacs and mobsters. Normally, Batman and company have it covered, but add monsters or ghosts to the mix, and even they need some outside help.

Enter the Midnight Shift, Gotham City Police Department’s answer to The X-Files — and the team called in to handle cases outside the depth of the Caped Crusader. Led by Detective Jim Corrigan, they debut in DC Comics’ all-new supernatural/horror adventure book, Gotham by Midnight, on sale Nov. 26.

Spearheaded by a horror comic superteam of writer Ray Fawkes (Constantine, Batman Eternal) and artist Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night, Ten Grand), Gotham by Midnight spins off from the pages of Batman Eternal but operates independently of that title. And while Bats will be around, because this is set in Gotham after all, his main function in the book is to liaise with Corrigan.

In the interview to discuss the series, writer Fawkes talked a little about the unique appeal of a city like Gotham, saying “[it’s] a pretty sick place, and also a wonderful place, one of the greatest cities in the DC Universe. The tack that some of the characters in this book take is that people like the Joker, Two-Face and Batman may be symptoms of something wrong with Gotham, and that may have a supernatural root. For me, the city is very Gothic, dark and shadowy, and it’s sort of the perfect setting for things that creep in the night.”

He also echoed our own excitement at having the ridiculously talented Templesmith on board for the series, adding “I absolutely cannot believe we managed to get Ben Templesmith to draw this book. The stuff I’m seeing is mind-blowingly weird and horrifying and amazing. When readers see this book, their minds are going to be blown. There is no other book about Gotham that looks like Gotham by Midnight. I think there is really no other book in superhero books that looks like this.”

So what do you guys think?  Yay or nay?  Sound off in the comments, folks.

The writer of this piece was: Craig Neilson (aka Ceej)
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