Mute

A creature of the Modern Age, Mute emerged in 2017 from the pages of a German Panini Comics special — a striking debut shaped by the talents of James Tynion IV, Ralph Kruhm, and Álvaro Martínez Bueno. This is a character who inhabits the dark corners of Batman's world, sharing those pages with the likes of Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Luke Fox, and Basil Karlo — formidable company by any measure. Concentrated across Batman - Detective Comics and its collected paperback editions, Mute may have a compact catalog footprint, but any character forged in Gotham's shadows and introduced alongside that caliber of cast is absolutely worth a closer look.