Your Favorite Batman Comic/Graphic Novel?

[Gamma Ray]

What is your favorite Batman comic or graphic novel?

 

[Bnightwing]

I like Knightfall myself not my favorite but its one of the top for me.

 

[Twofaceguy]

kthx robin bnightwing

 

[Bnightwing]

Huh? What did you just say?

 

[Mee]

I think he said, "kthx robin bnightwing."


My favorite's Year One.

 

[Bnightwing]

I don't get it? But I am not good with titles but is Year One the one Frank Miller wrote?

 

[Cain]

'tec # 613 is my favorite Batman comic. That ending even after all these years is still powerful and the pencils are perfect. Shows how ahead of their time Grant & Breyfogle were cause those comics from their 'tec run still read fresh today.

"The Batman doesn't need other people--doesn't need company or laughter, or words. The Batman needs no kiss on the cheek!

For him, the night is enough. The wind in the neon city--The sting of chill air--The purity of one man's lonely mission.

Vicki?

Vicki who?" - Detective Comics #613 pg 11 & 12

That's still the one narration that says to me "damn this writer really gets Batman".

 

[Two-Face=Badass]

Nightwing, Batgirl and Robin Year Ones are all fantastic. Definitely top-tier for me. Black and White volumes 1 and 2 are also great. Gotham Central is my favourite Batman-without-a-Batman collection.

 

[Rasputin911]

The Dark Knight Returns...nothing else even comes close, except maybe Year One

 

[saska83]

The Dark Knight Returns...nothing else even comes close, except maybe Year One

Same for me... excellent novels.

 

[Two-Face=Badass]

I never got the fascination with Year One. DKR I can understand as it has many themes, satire and metaphors within. But Year One? A great book to be sure but I still can never understand exactly how it is so amazing.

 

[Rasputin911]

^Well, i think it's just the damn good storytelling and the fact that its Batman's beginnings

For me, TDKR is the undisputed king, with Year One, Killing Joke, and Arkham Asylum in a three-way for second

 

[Mee]

But Year One? A great book to be sure but I still can never understand exactly how it is so amazing.

I love the realism, and since I know it's gonna come up, I felt the same way before Nolan's realism take came along.


And Mazzuchelli. :heart::heart:

 

[Ziggyman]

I've only read The Killing Joke and Year One...So among those...Year One by far!

But I'm near the middle of DKR and loving it!

 

[margon]

Dark Knight Returns
Year One
Killing Joke
Dark Knight Strikes Again
Batman&Son Black Glove RIP which I count as one arc

..is the top 5.

Blind Justice
Ego
Gothic
Son of the Demon
Strange Apparitions

makes 10

can't touch this

 

[Caped Crusader]

Arkham Asylum

 

[Cobblepot]

My absolute fav. would be the Norm Breyfogle and Alan Grant run in Detective comics. Man that was gold!

 

[The Joker]

My absolute fav. would be the Norm Breyfogle and Alan Grant run in Detective comics. Man that was gold!

I looooove that run. I particularly loved the Clayfaces arc, Penguin's arc, and Anarky's introduction.

Sheer gold.

 

[Johann Krauss]

All Star B&R Vol.1
Joker
Batman Hush
TDKR
Batman: Bloodstorm
Batman snow
batman: child of dreams

I can't choose just one...

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

TMWL and Year One...with TLH trailing by a lil

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Year One

The Long Halloween

Dark Justice

If you only have to read three Bat books in your life, i reckon these are the ones...

 

[ronny]

Soft Targets.
An unforgettable Joker story and a (rare) brilliant Mad Hatter tale all in one bundle.
Read it! The Joker goes on a sniping spree!

 

[Zacky]

Tkj, tlh and dkr

 

[Cain]

My absolute fav. would be the Norm Breyfogle and Alan Grant run in Detective comics. Man that was gold!

Yes so many memorable moments there

*remembers Batman getting a kiss on a cheek from Etrigan*

*remembers Batman Vs. Catman's white tiger*

*remembers when Batman took on mentoring a bunch of street punks as Bruce Wayne*

Some of this sounds outright silly when I type it but if you read those comics as a kid then you get where I'm coming from. I'm so glad these are some of the few comics I still have left over from my childhood to this day. That run was just too kick ass and as I already said my favorite Batman comic (tec 613) came from that era.

 

[Cain]

I never got the fascination with Year One. DKR I can understand as it has many themes, satire and metaphors within. But Year One? A great book to be sure but I still can never understand exactly how it is so amazing.

Well it was the first time we had the narrative focus on a member of the supporting cast who isn't in the Batfamily, and it was a great amalgation of pulp noir and then modern 80's sensibility. That's why it's so fondly remembered and still holds up today. They did the right thing by making this Batman's "origin" but still keeping his mystique by not telling us everything at all. Jim Gordon was finally properly fleshed out we never really got to see things from his POV before and the way it was handled was awesome.

It was a comic book that reminded me of the world we live in but did not compromise the more fantastical elements that makes comic books appealing to me, the perfect balance was found. To me it's my favorite piece of Batman fiction by Miller. I like DKR but it never amazed me on the level that Y1 did at all when I finally read both about 15 years back.