Newsarama.com talks with legendary writer Mark Waid on his upcoming one-shot - Batman in Barcelona: Dragon's Knight, as detailed in May's DC solicitations.

Here Mark talks about Batman's pursuit of a brainwashed Killer Croc to Barcelona and how Bruce Wayne/Batman copes with being out of his element...

Newsarama: Mark, before we get into the details and behind the scenes stuff, what's the story in this issue, and how does Batman end up in Barcelona?

Mark Waid: Essentially, what has happened is Killer Croc has been brainwashed by Scarecrow and the Mad Hatter into believing he is the reincarnation of the dragon that slew St. George in the original myths.

The myth of St. George and the dragon is one of the great stories of all time in Spanish culture. It's about the gallant knight who slew the dragon that was preying upon women of the countryside and killing a woman a day until the great knight showed up to save the country.

So Mad Hatter and Scarecrow convinced brainwashed Croc into believing he's the reincarnation of that dragon, and it's his destiny to kill the great knight, which in his eyes is Batman.

The story takes place in Barcelona because that's where the Festival of St. George is going on. It's a real holiday like our St. Valentine's Day times 10. It's one of the great holidays in Spain and it is a day of lovers, a day of romance, and like I said, it's also a day of honoring the great mythical victory of the knight over the dragon. So Killer Croc is making it all play out in modern times.

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(Source - Newsarama.com)