If you may have thought The Batman Who Laughs’ Batmobile was great, then you are in for more great stuff. The Red Death’s Flashmobile gives the Dark Multiverse’s Joker/Batman hybrid’s ride a run for its money.
Introduced in Justice League #32, the newest chapter in “Bats Out Of Hell,” DC Comics’ Justice League/Dark Knight: Metal crossover arc, Batman: The Red Death’s Dark Multiverse vehicle is a stylish way for the evil Bruce to ride around Gotham City. He explained to Earth 0’s Barry Allen that the has experience killing Flashes and he knows how to tap into this Speed Force and fuel his Batmobile.
The Red Death has applied extra-dimensional technology to more than one machine. When Barry taunts that he can outrun a Speed Force-fueled Batmobile, Red Death responds and unleashes a fleet similarly equipped vehicles. Whether he is controlling them himself, or are piloted by Earth’s versions of Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, etc. is yet to be seen.
“If there is one thing that I get a little bit freaked out about, it’s drawing cars,” artist Liam Sharp told CBR of how he approached designing the Red Death’s Flashmobile. “It was the one thing that I couldn’t draw as a kid. But when I got the brief about what this car was going to look like, I got excited. I really enjoyed Mad Max: Fury Road and that kind of feel. As a kid, I was also pretty into custom cars, so it wasn’t like just drawing a normal car. It was totally different. I couldn’t wait to start and I had a blast and I think it shows. It was a lot of fun.”
“I love [the Red Death’s] mask, and I tried to echo it in the grill of the car,” Sharp continued. “I was hoping that you could see a DNA thread through the design. The Wonder Woman one, The Merciless, is fun, too, because he is literally a knight. I wanted to actually go more barbarian with him, but [DC Editorial] asked me not to mess around too much with the design!”
