DC's Pennyworth To Get Its Own Comic Spinoff Series DC is set to launch a new comic book series that ties in to the events of Pennyworth, the alternate-universe Batman prequel series from Gotham producers Danny Cannon and Bruno Heller. The series, which centers on the younger years of Batman's butler and father figure Alfred Pennyworth, takes place in England, where Pennyworth meets Thomas Wayne and Martha Kane for the first time, and starts down a path that will lead him to becoming Bruce Wayne's right-hand man in his never-ending war on crime. The comic book series will reportedly take place in the years between the TV show and Alfred's years at Wayne Manor, with flash-forwards to seeing the elder Pennyworth working for the Waynes.