BATFAM SPEEDRUN

@batfamspeedrun.bsky.social

A digital free open-call zine for Batfamily that releases a new volume every 4 months under a new theme. 🦇 Volume 1: “Crooked” https://batfamspeedrun.carrd.co/

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* “CROOKED” a Batfamily (Gothic) Horror & Thriller zine 🦇 Releasing in 2 days ✨ 🖤 for free on Halloween! 🎃 preview zine piece by icang0withthefl0w (@/icang0withthefl0w on tumblr)

Bruce’s words from earlier echo in Duke’s mind. “Be careful.” 
He should leave. Something feels deeply wrong. Duke has every horror movie he’s ever seen floating in the back of his mind. 
But Duke is a hero. And heroes are supposed to run into the darkness and bring the light with them, not away from it. 
He steps closer. 
Jason is biting into this man’s neck. Something glints. A fang. Blood is coating both of their bodies—Jason and his victim. The victim, it’s one of the kidnappers Jason was talking about earlier. His eyes are dull. He’s already dead. 
Vampire.
Jason is a vampire. 
Jason is a vampire, and he just killed someone—and now he’s 
drinking their blood. Duke is interrupting Jason’s dinner.

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* “CROOKED” a Batfamily (Gothic) Horror & Thriller zine 🦇 Releasing in 5 days ✨ 🖤 for free on Halloween! 🎃 preview of zine piece by RenaiRin (@/renairinwrites on tumblr)

Steph felt a great weight cascade over her bones. She took a step forward against the screaming voice inside her head telling her to stop, something was wrong. 
Wrongwrongwrongwrong—
 "Jack?" 
She took another step, then another. She noticed she didn't seem any closer to the figure down the hall whatsoever. Then, Robin heard voices along the halls, speaking something she didn't understand. A chant, like a saying or a name. The figure continued in its motions, that cyclical raise of its legs in what seemed like an infinite step. Still, it hadn't actually moved.
Before she knew it, Robin was turning and bolting back down the 
corridor she came from, aiming for the stairs, all instinct giving way to terror, logic stuffed into a forgotten closet.

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* “CROOKED” a Batfamily (Gothic) Horror & Thriller zine 🦇 Releasing in 1 week ✨ 🖤 for free on Halloween! 🎃 preview of zine COVER piece by Ser Hawke (@/asklawyer on tumblr, @/greyward3n on twitter/x)

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ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* “CROOKED” a Batfamily (Gothic) Horror & Thriller zine 🦇 Releasing in 2 weeks ✨ 🖤 for free on Halloween! 🎃 preview zine piece by kay/khaos (@/kaysdenofchaos on tumblr/insta)

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ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* ARTIST'S INTRO 🖤 “I'm Quetzal, an NYC-based illustrator and big American Gothic fan ^_^” 🦇 Quetzal K. Rodriguez is joining our 1st volume to draw Tim for a portrait in the grim and dark Wayne manor ✨

ARTIST’S INTRO
Quetzal K. Rodriguez
“Hi hi! I'm Quetzal, an NYC-based illustrator and big American Gothic fan ^_^ I am so excited to be part of this zine and I hope you're all excited too :-)”
Twitter/X: quetzalk_
Fave Bat or Bird: Nightwiiiingggg <3

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* ARTIST'S INTRO 🖤 “Although I haven't found my style yet, I hope my drawings can bring you joy!” 🦇 zino is part of our 1st volume to draw some of the Batfam trying to find their way out of a dark abandoned house ✨

ARTIST’S INTRO
zino
“Hi! I like playing with colors! Although I haven't found my style yet, I hope my drawings can bring you joy!”
Tumblr: zeenodeeno
Twitter/X: zeenodeeno
Fave Bat or Bird: Jason Todd

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* WRITER'S INTRO 🖤 “Fun fact: I got into DC because of Young Justice and then I just spiralled into the hole further due to comic access.” 🦇 Star is hopping onto our 1st volume to write some breaking news penned by Vicki Vale about the Bats losing control...✨

WRITER’S INTRO
Star
“Hi! My name is Star and I’m super excited to be part of this volume. Fun fact: I got into DC because of Young Justice and then I just spiralled into the hole further due to comic access.”
Tumblr: astralis01
Twitter/X: Astralis_01
Ao3: astralis_16
Story excerpt:
Lan Zhan is almost ready to give up anything so that his love can return, but all he gets are sharp words and caged smiles.
All he wants to do is take away Wei Ying and make sure that he is safe-safe from himself, safe from the cultivation world that breathes down his neck, ready to pounce on him like starved juvenile animals.
Fave Bat or Bird: Dick!

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* ARTIST'S INTRO 🖤 “my favorite kinds of horror are either those strange films you discover at 3 a.m. or B-horror.” 🦇 soular is part of our 1st volume to draw a mysterious and cautious Steph ✨

ARTIST’S INTRO
soular
“yo I'm soular and I love horror so I'm stoked to be a part of this volume! my favorite kinds of horror are either those strange films you discover at 3 a.m. or B-horror.”
Tumblr: souuular
Fave Bat or Bird: can't pick!

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* WRITER'S INTRO 🖤 “I'm Kio, your local angst connoisseur and villain defender.” 🦇 Sootsies is joining our 1st volume to write some delicious Jason angst of the Lazarus Pit still haunting him...✨

WRITER’S INTRO
Sootsies
“Ellos, ellos~! I'm Kio, your local angst connoisseur and villain defender. I can't wait to write some chills and thrills with this amazing group of people!”
Carrd: s00tsies
"Oh, forgive me, your majesty," Buggy snapped, though the bite in his tone lacked any real venom. 
He stood up and paced toward the hearth, driven by a restless energy he could never quite shake when the three of them were confined like this. "Excuse me for getting antsy while the world outside is freezing over and I'm trapped with a human glacier and a living sandbox."
Fave Bat or Bird: Dick Grayson~!

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* ARTIST'S INTRO 🖤 “read red rain and the dracula trilogy plz and thankyu” 🦇 Ser Hawke is hopping onto our first volume to draw our bone-chilling cover of Vampire Batman! ✨

ARTIST’S INTRO
Ser Hawke
“read red rain and the dracula trilogy plz and thankyu”
Twitter/X: greyward3n
Instagram: greyward3nn
Tumblr: asklawyer
Fave Bat or Bird: bruce

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* ARTIST'S INTRO 🖤 “Batman's been my fav since childhood— same with the horror genre!” 🦇 SamSheaDraws is hopping onto our 1st volume to spoil us with an Arkham Asylum (game) piece ✨

ARTIST’S INTRO
SamSheaDraws
“Howdy! I'm Sam Shea, and I'm a Boston-
based cartoonist and illustrator. Batman's been my fav since childhood— same with the horror genre! In my collection, I have copies of the first three Jason-Robin run comics.”
Tumblr: samsheadraws
Instagram: samsheadraws
Website: samsheadraws
Fave Bat or Bird: Batman!!!!!!!!!

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* ARTIST'S INTRO 🖤 “Hello I'm Rugbin, I'm a digital artist who's incredibly excited to be in the first volume of this zine!” 🦇 Rugbin is blessing our 1st volume with Jason facing the Joker ✨

ARTIST’S INTRO
Rugbin
“Hello I'm Rugbin, I'm a digital artist who's incredibly excited to be in the first volume of this zine! I mainly draw DC fanart and whatever fandom I'm currently in (or have been in the past).”
Tumblr: rugbin
Fave Bat or Bird: Jason Todd

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* ARTIST'S INTRO 🖤 “I absolutely love gothic/horror themes and when you throw DC into it ooo I'm there!!” 🦇 Romeo is taking part in our 1st volume to give Jason's resurrection a Frankenstein-esque twist ✨

ARTIST’S INTRO
Romeo
“Hello!!
My name is Romeo (or Val if you're feeling fancy) and I am very excited to work on this with y'all!
I absolutely love gothic/horror themes and when you throw DC into it ooo I'm there!!”
Instagram: starzoneromeo
Twitter: starzoneromeo
Fave Bat or Bird: Jason

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* WRITER'S INTRO 🖤 “Always been a big horror fan, especially Gothic and Eldritch things.” 🦇 RenaiRin is enriching our 1st volume with some good Stephbin & Batman paranormal case taking place in a dilapidated Victorian mansion ✨

WRITER’S INTRO
RenaiRin
“Hi, I'm Ren and I'm excited to be a participant in this zine! Always been a big horror fan, especially Gothic and Eldritch things. If I try and guess the wc, it'll end up twice that size, so I won't!”
Tumblr: renairinwrites
Story excerpt:
Evening came like a quilt being draped over the world cozily, paired with a soothing sigh of wind. Stars peeked through scattered clouds as the moon took its rightful place in the sky, prince of the night. The gaslights overhead had dimmed momentarily as a group of men walked by, their shoes clicking upon the cobblestones sharply. 
Fave Bat or Bird: Nightwing

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* ARTIST'S INTRO 🖤 “I'm Beater, an artist who loves creating character-focused illustrations” 🦇 rejected_beater is joining us on our 1st volume to capture Scarecrow's fear-inducing glory in a found footage style ✨

ARTIST’S INTRO
rejected_beater
“Hi! I'm Beater, an artist who loves creating character-focused illustrations, especially when they lean into horror, dark atmospheres, and emotional storytelling.”
Instagram: rejected_beater
Tumblr: bl-beater
Fave Bat or Bird: Batman or Red Hood

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* ARTIST'S INTRO 🖤 “I'm so exited for contribute in this zine, never done something like this before” 🦇 PechaghtLecha is part of our 1st volume to indie horror bomb us with some urban found footage ✨

ARTIST’S INTRO
PechaghtLecha
“Hayo, I'm so exited for contribute in this zine, never done something like this before, hope u guys like it :3”
Instagram: artbylanceshephard
Tumblr: pechaghtlecha
Twitter/X: lica_hernandez
Fave Bat or Bird: Jason

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* WRITER'S INTRO 🖤 “I’m very excited to be a part of this volume and explore the Batfam through these spooky elements!” 🦇 cryingtulips is joining us on our 1st volume to devastate us with the angsty brotherhood between tim and damian...✨

WRITER’S INTRO
cryingtulips
“Hi everyone! I’m very excited to be a part of this volume and explore the Batfam through these spooky elements!”
Tumblr: cryingtulips
Twitter/X: cryingtulips
Ao3: cryingtulips
Story excerpt:
The blue from the screen highlighted the 
sharpness of his jaw, the shadows carving out the edges, white lens bearing into the empty space where nature meets man-made structures. He always appears untouchable in his turf, confident in his abilities and intelligence; it’s easy to forget how fragile Batman can be.
And Robin makes him the most vulnerable he can possibly be.
Fave Bat or Bird: Damian Wayne!!!

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* ARTIST'S INTRO 🖤 “My favorite moments in Batman comics are the mystery stories of the Bronze age and the Batfamily stories after Final Crisis.” 🦇 Lance Shephard is part of our 1st volume to deliver some good ol’ Bat with a monster creeping behind...✨

ARTIST’S INTRO
Lance Shephard
“Hi! I'm Lance and I'm eager to be involved with this zine! My favorite moments in Batman comics are the mystery stories of the Bronze age and the Batfamily stories after Final Crisis.”
Instagram: artbylanceshephard
Twitter/X: artbylancejs
Tumblr: artbylanceshephard
Fave Bat or Bird: Bruce

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* ARTIST'S INTRO 🖤 “I started reading Batman comics last December and haven't looked back.” 🦇 Kimartings is onboard our 1st volume to wreck our emotions with a young Bruce being haunted by family portraits of past and future✨

ARTIST’S INTRO
Kimartings
“I'm Kim! I started reading Batman comics last December and haven't looked back. My favorite types of horror are gothic and psychological, and my favorite author is Shirley Jackson. I'm super excited to join this!”
Tumblr: kimartings
Instagram: kimartings
Fave Bat or Bird: Cass!

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* ARTIST'S INTRO 🖤 “a comic artist with a love of all things vigilante from turtles to bats :)” 🦇 Kaysdenofchaos is joining our 1st volume to positively devastate us by depicting each of Batfam the way they once died...✨

ARTIST’S INTRO
Kaysdenofchaos
“a comic artist with a love of all things vigilante from turtles to bats :)”
Tumblr: kaysdenofchaos
Instagram: kaysdenofchaos
Fave Bat or Bird: Damien Waymien

ཐི ₍.ˬˬ.₎ ཋྀ .* ARTIST'S INTRO 🖤 “I love identity horror and speculative biology.” 🦇 Impzura takes part in our 1st volume to make sure their love for identity horror serves Damian's insecurity with his place in the Batfamily well✨

ARTIST’S INTRO
Impzura
“I draw and make things for a living. I love identity horror and speculative biology. Currently Reading: all of the Absolute DC runs.”
Instagram: Impzura
Tumblr: Impzura
Fave Bat or Bird: Jason Todd