Batman: Eternal is an upcoming year-long weekly limited series published by DC Comics, scheduled to begin in April 2014. The series will feature Batman, his allies, and Gotham City, and will be written by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Ray Fawkes, and Tim Seeley. John Layman was originally scheduled to be writing for the series as well, before leaving the project in January 2014.

In October 2013, DC Comics announced the series would launch in early 2014, with Scott Snyder heading the story. He will work with James Tynion IV, John Layman, Ray Fawkes, and Tim Seeley, with art at the beginning to be handled by Jason Fabok. Snyder and Tynion will be co-writing the first story arc that will lay the groundwork for the series. The story lines will move to an bigger story that will include Snyder's Batman title, once it has finished its "Zero Year" story line.^[2]

In December 2013, Seeley stated that Snyder and Tynion created the overarching plot threads of the series to keep each writer progressing, but then further broke the whole story down to different genres for each writer to work in.^[3] Fawkes also added that each writer take turns being the "lead" on the issue, while the others continue to contribute their parts to the issue.^[4] Also in December, Snyder announced that Batman #28, originally schedule to be part of the "Zero Year" story, would now act as a preview issue to the future story line in Batman and Batman: Eternal. The issue will be written by Snyder and Tynion, with Dustin Nguyen providing the artwork.^[5]

In January 2014, Snyder revealed that each writer is writing arcs to the series, opposed to each writer working together on a single issue. Snyder said, "it might be more difficult or tricky to do a series where each one of us is doing an arc that leads to the next arc, but we liked that idea. We liked that challenge." To aid in this, a large document containing the whole story was created to help map out where large moments needed to occur, and how to aid in connecting each writer's arcs.^[6] It was also announced in January that the series would launch in April 2014, and that Layman had left the project. His work on the first four issues will still be released as planned.^[1]

In a series of interviews with Newsarama from October 2013 to December 2013, each of the writers spoke about what aspects of Batman and Gotham City they would be exploring. With the main plot occurring in Synder's and Tynion's arcs, each writer was able to incorporate different aspects of the Batman universe and genres into their stories:

• Tynion stated he would be focusing on some of the younger members of the Bat Family, including former Robins Tim Drake and Stephanie Brown, who will appear as Spoiler and make her New 52 debut. Additionally, he will be introducing a larger role for the Gotham Gazette and Vicki Vale, and how their roles as reporters effects Gotham.^[7][8]
• Seeley stated he would be working within the action, espionage, and adventure genres, with his arc focused on Batgirl.^[3]
• Fawkes will be covering the horror genre and aspect of Gotham, while focusing on Batwing.^[4]
• Layman, before leaving the project, was to focus on "the colorful aspects of Gotham" and the villains.^[6]