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DC’s Future State: The Next Batman #3A delivers a pivotal 64-page expansion of Gotham’s underground resistance, featuring intersecting storylines that escalate the conflict against authoritarian rule while advancing individual hero journeys. This installment continues the landmark event’s alternate timeline narrative, mapping how Batman, the Outsiders, and reformed inmates confront the oppressive Magistrate regime. The issue splits focus across three major arcs, each moving the central rebellion forward. In “The Next Batman,” the detective intercepts two condemned fugitives and opts to risk his life fighting through city checkpoints to deliver them to the GCPD, defying extrajudicial enforcement officers. Simultaneously, Katana tracks down Jefferson Pierce in the “Outsiders” storyline, only to find him transformed into a being of literal black lightning carrying urgent intelligence about Duke Thomas’s liberation campaign. Their reunion forces a strategic alliance against overwhelming...