A new Batman limited series under DC’s Black Label banner, featuring co-stars Green Arrow and the Question, spotlights one of the most woefully simplistic and overplayed themes of our time: climate change hysteria.

You’ve read countless stories about Batman battling the Joker on the streets of Gotham, but what about Batman taking on billionaires on an ocean-faring utopian city? Alongside other DC vigilantes, that’s exactly what he’ll do when Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia begins, with the first issue releasing on November 26.

This Black Label (DC Comics’ imprint for darker and more mature stories) four-issue miniseries follows the heroes, updated “for a new era of open class warfare and ecological collapse,” in a noir detective thriller, according to a news release. Bruce Wayne investigates the “climate-hardened” city of Arcadia while Green Arrow and the Question uncover the secrets buried beneath the city to try to figure out what’s really going on.

One would think more pressing issues, like fighting crime, would be of more importance to the Caped Crusader and his fellow superheroes. It’s disheartening how DC labels ideas like climate resilience or adaptation as bold or even hard-boiled, while throwing around phrases like global stakes without addressing real-world challenges. Their talk of dark realities is also absurdly comical.

It’s clear the Black Label imprint is turning into a pitiful mockery, using characters like Batman, Green Arrow, and the Question to push the writer’s leftist agenda for cheap effect. The earlier Vertigo imprint likely wasn’t much better, which raises questions about what Vertigo truly stood for in the past—possibly very little.

In the meantime, Batman is in Washington D.C.

2nd PHOTO CREDIT: Daily Wire