Cover: Mikel Janín

Batman #10

Jan 2017 · DC · 2.99 USD

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“I Am Suicide Part Two”

About this Issue

Batman #10 (vol. 3, 2016) is the second chapter of Tom King's 'I Am Suicide' arc, the story that formally re-established Catwoman as a central figure in Bruce Wayne's life during DC's Rebirth era and planted the narrative seeds that would grow into their marriage proposal in issue #24. The issue is structurally distinctive: the entire story is overlaid with a written letter from Selina Kyle to Batman, an epistolary device that reframed the Batman–Catwoman dynamic as a psychological parallel rather than a simple hero-villain flirtation. By sending Batman into Bane's home fortress of Santa Prisca with a makeshift squad of Arkham inmates — including Arnold Wesker (the Ventriloquist), Bronze Tiger, and Punch and Jewelee — King reinvigorated several deep-bench DC villains who rarely anchor a major arc. The issue also marks an early, pointed callback to the Knightfall legacy, with Batman explicitly invoking the memory of his broken back as both motivation and taunt directed at Bane, setting up the psychological antagonism that would define King's multi-year Bane subplot.

writer Tom King · artist, inker Mikel Janín · colorist June Chung · letterer Clayton Cowles · cover Mikel Janín

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History

The issue was written by Tom King — a former CIA officer whose intelligence-community experience informed his interest in covert-team narratives — and illustrated by Mikel Janín, whose digital-production workflow and cinematic two-page spreads had become a defining visual signature of the Rebirth Batman title. King structured the 'I Am Suicide' arc deliberately as a spiritual inversion of the Suicide Squad concept, with Batman as a cold-eyed handler recruiting convicts for a mission they were not expected to survive; issue #10 is the arc's operational launch point, shifting from the recruitment phase of #9 into active infiltration. The title's twice-monthly shipping schedule under editor Mark Doyle and assistant editor Rebecca Taylor gave King the page count to distribute the arc's epistolary narration — Catwoman's letter in #10, Batman's reply spread across #12 — without compressing the action sequences.

Trivia · 8 facts

Cover-dated January 2017; on-sale date November 2, 2016 (DC Rebirth era, Batman vol. 3).
Written by Tom King; interior art and Cover A by Mikel Janín; Cover B (variant) by Tim Sale, colored by Brennan Wagner.
Story title: 'I Am Suicide, Part Two' — the second chapter of a five-part arc running through Batman #9–13.
The issue is narrated entirely as a written letter from Selina Kyle (Catwoman) to Batman, an epistolary device unique in the arc and central to King's re-establishment of their relationship.
Batman's assembled infiltration team for the Santa Prisca mission includes Catwoman (Selina Kyle), Arnold Wesker (the Ventriloquist, notably without his dummy Scarface), Benjamin Turner (Bronze Tiger), and the couple Punch and Jewelee — all recruited from Arkham Asylum.
The mission objective established in this issue is to extract Psycho-Pirate from Bane's control at Santa Prisca prison in order to restore the shattered mind of Gotham Girl.
The issue contains an explicit thematic callback to Batman: Knightfall — characters reference Bane having previously broken Batman's back, and Batman's own internal resolve inverts that defeat as both motivation and battlecry.
The 'I Am Suicide' arc (Batman #9–13, plus 'Rooftops' #14–15) was collected in Batman Vol. 2: I Am Suicide (ISBN 978-1401268541, 2017; updated edition ISBN 978-1779527899, 2024), and is the second volume of Tom King's Batman run, itself the middle part of his 'I Am' trilogy between 'I Am Gotham' and 'I Am Bane.'