We’re only four issues in, and it looks like Batman Incorporated is back to its permanently-delayed tricks: A new shipping update from Diamond puts #4 of the series delayed by two months, going from an August 22 release date to an October 24 one. One month is already accounted for – #3 was pushed from its original date last week to a late August release because of a scene that would, it was said, have appeared tasteless in the light of the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, but what’s with the second month of delay?

The first series of Incorporated was repeatedly hit with delays, with the final two solicited issues being canceled because they were so late they overlapped with the New 52 launch, so it’s possible that this is just another case of the team of Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham taking longer than expected to complete an issue. Equally likely – if not moreso…? – is that DC really didn’t want a regularly-numbered issue of a New 52 title to be issued in September, the line’s “Zero Month,” necessitating the two month bump, but meaning that the books are now being released out of order. That said, #0 was always supposed to be a standalone, out of sequence, release, so it’s not as bad as Wolverine #309 being released after #310…

Nonetheless, this is the first majorly “late” book as part of the New 52 to date, isn’t it? Before this, we’d only really had Justice League slipping a couple of weeks…

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