If you’ve been following Scott Snyder’s “New 52″ run on Batman so far, then you may have seen a side of Bruce Wayne that is unfamiliar to you – broken, beaten and tortured.  Snyder has certainly been putting the Dark Knight through the wringer, as Bruce is slowly realizing that the Gotham City he’s vowed to protect for so many years has secrets that even he is oblivious to.

A secret society known as the Court of Owls has long been rumored to exist in Gotham, but Bruce has never found any evidence to prove it.  And being the master detective he is, if Mr. Wayne can’t find it, it probably doesn’t exist.  Except now it seems the Owls are real, dangerous and outsmarting Batman at every turn.

However, Snyder recently posted on Twitter that even more difficult times lay ahead for Batman:

“Started tinkering with the next big storyline in BATMAN while away – super twisted.”

What could be even more twisted than locking Batman in an isolated cell, bloodied and tortured, while everything he knew about his beloved city was a lie?  I jokingly asked Mr. Snyder about his definition of “twisted” and how it compared to something like, say, the film Oldboy.  Which, if you’ve seen, you know that it’s pretty damn twisted.  This was his response:

“I’d say pretty Oldboy – def. most twisted moment I’ve written in BATMAN.”

Yikes.  What could possibly be next for Batman?  I don’t know, but my morbidly curious personality is absolutely excited to find out.