Newer Graphic Novels Recommendations?

[da3dl3us]

Hey guys,

I've read most of the older good graphic novels I think:

TDKR
Year one
TLH/DV
Venom
Killing joke
Man who laughed
Arkham Asylum
Nightfall
Kingdom Come (not really a true batman)
Strange Apparitions
Batman vs Monster men / Mad Monk

Haven't really read anything recent in the last few years. Anything good that came out I've missed out on? Not really looking for the major event series that are like 50+ issues long. Good one shots like TLH, etc.

 

[Caped Crusader]

Joker
Hush
Batman: Private Casebook
Batman: No Man's Land (novel)

 

[Cain]

^ Out of those I'd only second the recomendation when it comes to No Man's Land and Private Casebook. The thing is there haven't been many one shots during the past decade of Batman comics that are really notable. I mean Joker falls into the one shot category but to me was just ho-hum. Then you have Turning Points & Robin: Year One which were pretty cool and the others that you read like the Dark Moon Rising pair of minis and The Man Who Laughs. Everything else has been a bit more epic in scale but all contained within various TPB's so not hard to find. I'd say

Try the following:

Bruce Wayne: Murderer
Bruce Wayne: Fugitive Vol. 1 - 3
Under The Hood Vol. 1 & 2
Batman & Son
The Black Glove
Heart of Hush
Batman R.I.P.
Batman & Robin Vol. 1: Batman Reborn
Streets of Gotham Vol. 1: Hush Money
Time & The Batman
The Return of Bruce Wayne
Batman & Robin Vol. 2: Batman Vs. Robin
Batman & Robin Vol. 3: Batman & Robin Must Die!


Then wait for any trade of Scott Snyder's excellent Detective Comics work. Or just pick up his Gates of Gotham miniseries which had it's first issue released this week so it won't be hard to jump on to that at all.

 

[Auditore]

Personally, the new Batman & Robin collections have been great:
Batman Reborn
Batman Vs. Robin
Batman and Robin Must Die

 

[da3dl3us]

Excellent recs guys!

I forgot to mention I've read Hush and Under the Red Hood.

I'll check out Joker and casebook.

Is Batman Reborn, Batman vs Robin and Batman and robin must die collections of the main books?

I guess I'm trying to differentiate the one shot / self encompasing stories (like TLH, Year One) from the collected comics.

 

[KneelBeforeZod]

I just read Batman: Nine Lives. Its an elseworld Batman thing ... set in the 1940s. Main character is Dick Grayson, "the boy wonder", a noir private eye and ex-cop. Investigating the murder of Selina Kyle, who ran a cathouse (and is thus called the cat-woman).

Suspects are Bruce Wayne (the playboy), Jack (a two-bit card shark, the Poker Joker), Ozzy Cobblepot (a gangster who's always dressed to the nines), Mr. Freeze (a cold-blooded hitman), Harvey Dent (a two-faced lawyer to Bruce Wayne), a scarred mob kingpin (Clayface), Eddie Nygma (an embezzling banker), and a mysterious circus freak (the Croc).

I was actually surprised at how cool this reimagining of the Batman mythos was. Hell of a good story ... kinda reminded me of Batman Year One and Gotham Central. Very realistic version, and it fits well with the noir thing.

JB

 

[da3dl3us]

I just read Batman: Nine Lives. Its an elseworld Batman thing ... set in the 1940s. Main character is Dick Grayson, "the boy wonder", a noir private eye and ex-cop. Investigating the murder of Selina Kyle, who ran a cathouse (and is thus called the cat-woman).

Suspects are Bruce Wayne (the playboy), Jack (a two-bit card shark, the Poker Joker), Ozzy Cobblepot (a gangster who's always dressed to the nines), Mr. Freeze (a cold-blooded hitman), Harvey Dent (a two-faced lawyer to Bruce Wayne), a scarred mob kingpin (Clayface), Eddie Nygma (an embezzling banker), and a mysterious circus freak (the Croc).

I was actually surprised at how cool this reimagining of the Batman mythos was. Hell of a good story ... kinda reminded me of Batman Year One and Gotham Central. Very realistic version, and it fits well with the noir thing.

JB

I remember reading this back in the day. Excellent read. Love the setting, like you said.

 

[Two-Face]

Yeah pick up Batman: Nine Lives, very good read.

 

[ultimatefan]

I wanted to know what the hell happened to that Batman Earth One graphic novel Geoff Johns an Gary Frank were making that was supposed for "sometime" in 2010, now "sometime" in 2011, I wonder if DC didn´t cancel it duo to the mixed reactions to the Superman one.

 

[Ponyboy]

Excellent recs guys!

Check out The Long Halloween and Mad Love...

 

[Mee]

-Pretty much all of Dini's Detective run. Private Casebook, Heart of Hush, Death and the City, etc.

-Morrison's Batman & Robin

-JSA: the Liberty Files (not strictly Batman, but a great Elseworlds story that Batman is pretty much the main character in, with awesome Tony Harris art)

-Joker (though as you might guess, it's mostly about Joker, very little Batman)

-Broken City