When DC Comics launched the New 52, it gave comic books fans, old and new, to have a chance and get issue #1. This re launch was a fan boys dream. For Batman fans, it introduced a new writer, Scott Snyder, and artist, Greg Capullo. Snyder, who is most known for his creator owned series "American Vampire", has taken Batman and put him through the ringer; physically and mentally. He also treats Gotham City as its own character; something no other writer has done. Greg Capullo, who was the artist on the Spawn series, has also done album artwork for Korn, Disturbed, and most recently Five Finger Death Punch. Scott Snyder had previously said that while he grew up in New York City he loved it, but when he and his wife moved away from the city to start a family, he began to get paranoid with everything around him. He was over protective of his children, and say that living in New York and how crazy it was as a child is the reason for this. So he made Gotham into those fears he has of New York.