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And I think Batman is thinking, ‘Hmm, Jefferson can be very effective.’ Jefferson has elemental-style abilities and he hasn’t really explored the water’s edge of what he could do. And Bruce, when he looks at Jefferson, sees a character that has a lot of potentiality. “I think part of Bruce looks at and respects and admires him, but also finds him a little hampered by an ethics that he wouldn’t necessarily subscribe to. “I think Bruce sees in him a lot of potential, and part of it might be Bruce thinking, ‘Hmm, if I had just gotten to Clark before. The other half of that emotional equation is the team’s field leader, Black Lightning, who, Hill says, was chosen because of Batman’s interest in molding the powerful but isolated hero, and Lightning’s ability to mold young minds. And that’s where it started for me, was thinking about what would Bruce want out of this.” “And because Tom does a good job of destabilizing Bruce Wayne and exposing his vulnerabilities, his frailties, I was like, ‘Well, you know what, if we’re going to an Outsiders thing, I think first and foremost for Bruce, it would be a place to exert himself.’ To prove that he still has that kind of classic Batman mojo. “And I thought, ‘OK, well it would be silly to think about this book not existing in the same dimension with what Tom is doing emotionally,’” he continued. It was really the book that made me want to come back to comics. Especially, which was such a watershed moment for me.

“And I remember talking to Tom - his writing has always been a big inspiration for me. “I try to always find the emotional way in on these stories,” Hill told Polygon. In their original incarnation, Batman formed the Outsiders out of frustration with the Justice League’s rules and reticence, but in Hill’s new revival of the team - with artist Dexter Soy - things are much more personal for the Dark Knight.

He’s also a staple of the Outsiders, a long-lived DC Comics superhero team that can be summed up in a brief, but tantalizing hook: Batman’s hand-picked black ops team. Jefferson is better known as Black Lightning, the electro-kinetic superhero from Metropolis’ underserved “Suicide Slum” neighborhood, who recently got a big boost in his profile when his eponymous television series was renewed for a third season. Jefferson Pierce, according to writer Bryan Hill ( Killmonger, American Carnage), “is a bit of an undiscovered country in the DCU.