Choose Dark Sorcery. Choose a familiar. Choose a symbology. Choose a pact with the underworld. Choose a fucking big summoning circle, choose darkened groves, razor-sharp knives, staves and fire. Choose poor health, magical and surgical addiction, and possible heroes coming to slay you. Choose an appropriately evil lair. Choose an urban sprawl to haunt. Choose your minions. Choose dramatic clothing and luggage made form the skins of your enemies. Choose what shadows will cloak your presence. Choose DIY and sacrifice those victims yourself. Choose your sacrificial victims carefully, knowing there’s no greater power that that which resides in your own veins. Choose spending hours on end studying through ancient, pungent tomes. Choose ruling over the world, throwing down the institutions of corrupted power and raising your own monument to your terrible might. Choose your future. Choose Dark Sorcery.
BATMAN ADVENTURES HOLIDAY SPECIAL #1 (Jan. 1995) “…What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” Art by Kevin Altieri, Butch Lukic & Glenn Murakami Words by Paul Dini & Bruce Timm