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Otis Flannegan, AKA the Ratcatcher, appears with dark, cannibalistic desires in Arkham City: The Order of the World #1, by Dan Watters and Dani.
The upcoming six-issue series Arkham City: The Order of the World features dark new interpretations of several Batman rogues, including a cannibalistic turn for Otis Flannegan — also known as Ratcatcher — who most recently cameoed in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad.
A preview for Arkham City: The Order of the World #1 shows one of Arkham Asylum’s last remaining doctors, Jocasta Joy, investigating a household where Ratcatcher is hiding. After calming down a young girl, she runs into Ratcatcher hiding under a bed. The rodent-obsessed villain attacks her, ranting about how he needs to eat the little girl and making frenzied references to Amadeus Arkham, the founder of Gotham’s infamous asylum for the criminally insane.
ARKHAM CITY: THE ORDER OF THE WORLD #1
- Story by DAN WATTERS
- Pencils by DANI
- Inks by DAVE STEWART
- Cover by SAM WOLFE CONNELLY
- $3.99 US | 32 PAGES | 1 of 6
- Variant by FRANCESCO MATTINA
- 1:25 B&W Ratio Variant by STEVE BEACH
- US $4.99 (Both Covers Card Stock)
- ON SALE 10/5/21
- The Joker’s attack on Arkham Asylum left the long-standing Gotham establishment in ruin, most of the patients killed or missing, and only a handful of surviving staff—a few nurses, a gravely injured security guard, and one doctor. In the chaos of the assault, it is believed that several of the asylum’s patients escaped and scurried off into the dark nooks and crannies of Gotham City. Now, these Arkhamites walk among us, and it’s up to the Asylum’s one remaining doctor, Jocasta Joy, to round up her former patients.
- Meet these Arkhamites: a woman with no face, a pyggy in search of perfection, a man who feels nothing and burns everything, a woman who must devour life to save herself, a man unfit for the waking world who looks instead for Wonderland, a body with more than one soul, a being unbound from time who lives in the present and the past, a boy who seeks the comfort of vermin, and the twisted man who sees them all for who they are.
- And witness the avenging angel who stalks them.
- This fall, join writer Dan Watters and artist Dani on an odyssey through the deepest depths and darkest shadows of Gotham City and find all-new reasons to fear the night.
Arkham City: The Order of the World picks up after the events of A-Day in Infinite Frontier #0. A gas attack that rocked Arkham Aslyum to its core and killed multiple inmates, including heavy hitters like Bane, A-Day changed the landscape of the Batman books. A planned replacement for Arkham Aslyum, dubbed Arkham Tower, will be the subject of the upcoming Detective Comics event “Shadows of the Bat,” but in the meantime, many of the asylum’s residents have escaped into Gotham. Joy and her team are searching for them, along with an “avenging angel” who is hinted to be Jean Paul-Valley — also known as the vigilante Azrael, who notably filled in for Bruce Wayne during the “Knightfall” event of the ’90s.
Otis Flannegan was created by Alan Grant, John Wagner and Norm Breyfogle. He first appeared in the story “The Ratcatcher,” published in Detective Comics #585 in 1988. A former vermin exterminator in Gotham’s Sanitation Department, Ratcatcher displayed a unique talent to tame rodents, and eventually turned to a life of crime where he kidnapped city officials, tortured them with rats and controlled his furry friends with a flute in a manner akin to the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
James Gunn presented a more sympathetic version of Flannegan in The Suicide Squad, turning him into a homeless man who had developed technology to control rats while trying to survive on the streets with his daughter. Upon his death, his daughter Cleo Cazo would carry on his legacy as Ratcatcher 2.
Written by Dan Watters with artwork by Dani, Arkham City: The Order of the World goes on sale Oct. 5.
Source: DC
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