If anyone has suggestions or just wants to tell me my taste is shit, I'm all ears
The Early Years
>Batman: Year One >Batman & The Monster Men >Batman & The Mad Monk >Batman: The Man Who Laughs >Batman: Prey >Batman: Gothic >Batman: Night Cries >Blades >Hot House >Detective Comics Annual #8 "Questions Multiply The Mystery" >Batman: The Long Halloween >Batman: Dark Victory >Robin/Batgirl: Year One
Bronze Age
>Detective Comics #400, #402, #407 The Man-Bat Saga >Batman #237 "Night of the Reaper" >Batman #251 "Joker's Five Way Revenge" >Detective Comics #439 "Night of the Stalker" >Detective Comics #457 "There is no hope in Crime Alley" >Detective Comics #500 "To Kill a Legend" >Batman: Strange Apparitions >Batman: Tales of The Demon >DC Special #15 "Death Strikes at Midnight and Three"
A Changing Bat-Family
>Nightwing: Year One >Detective Comics #571 "Fear for Sale" >Detective Comics #574 "My Beginning... and My Probable End" >Batman Annual #11 "Mortal Clay" >Batman: The Cult >Batman: The Killing Joke >Batman #424 "The Diplomat's Son" >A Death in the Family >Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth >Secret Origins #36 "Pavane" >Secret Origins Special #1 "When is a Door: The Secret Origin of The Riddler." >A Lonely Place of Dying >Batman: Dark Knight, Dark City >Detective Comics #583-594, 601-621, 627, Batman #455-466, 470-471, 474-476, Shadow of the Bat #1-5 Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle's run
The Event Era
>Batman: Knightfall Vol 1 >Batman: Knightfall Vol 3 >Batman: Cataclysm, Road to No Man's Land, No Man's Land Vol 1-4 (New Edition)
>Batman/Huntress: A Cry For Blood >Birds of Prey #8 "On Wings" >Batgirl: Vol 1, #1-37 >Batman: Blink >Gotham Knight #32 "24/7" >Catwoman: Selina's Big Score >Catwoman Vol 3: #1-24 >Catwoman Vol 3: #32 "Only Takes a Night" >Arkham Asylum: Living Hell >Batman: Ego >Gotham Central #1-#40 >Batman: Under the Hood >Detective Comics #821-850 Paul Dini's Run
Morrison Era
>Batman and Son >Batman: The Black Glove >Batman R.I.P. >Batman: Time and the Batman >Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? >Batman and Robin Vol 1: #1-16 >Batman: The Black Mirror >Batwoman: Elegy >Gotham City Sirens #1-#11 >Batgirl Vol 3: #1-24 >Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne >Batman Incorporated #1-8, Leviathan Strikes
New 52
>Batman: Court of Owls >Batman and Robin: Born to Kill >Batman Incorporated #0-13 >Batman & Robin #18 "Requiem" >Grayson #1-20 >Batman And Robin: The Hunt For Robin, Robin Rises >Robin: Son of Batman #1-6 >Gotham Academy #1-12 >Catwoman Vol 4: #35-#46
Elseworlds/Non-Canon Stories
>The Dark Knight Returns >Batman: Year 100 >Batman: Lil' Gotham Vol 1
Anthony Cruz
Your taste is shit. Mainly because you would recommend The Cult to people, but also because according to this list there are no worthwhile Bat-stories from the 40s, 50s and 60s.
Landon Ward
>worthwhile Bat-stories from the 40s, 50s and 60s.
I'm listening. I've read some Golden Age and Silver Age stuff, but a lot of it is just good "for its time"
Kayden Miller
Judd Winick is an abysmal writer and I want the "Under the Hood is good" meme to end.
Kevin Reyes
Most of the time I'd agree with you, but I think UtH is the only good thing he's written
Blake Clark
>>Batman: The Long Halloween >>Batman: Dark Victory Overrated.
>>Batman: The Cult Pretty art, shit writing.
>>A Death in the Family Important, but shit.
>Gotham Rebuilt >not reccing the entire Devin Grayson Gotham Knights run She was a shit writer, but she knocked it out of the park with that run.
>>Detective Comics #821-850 Paul Dini's Run This is part of the Morrison era. Also, not including Streets of Gotham? Tsk, tsk.
>Elseworlds/Non-Canon Stories Seriously? Only three?
Jaxson Walker
>Also, not including Streets of Gotham? Tsk, tsk. I included the first arc, Hush Money, which I felt was the best since after that was when Dini started stepping away for a lot of it.
Cameron Martinez
Why did you completely ignore the first half of the character's history?
Andrew Wright
The whole thing should be included, or at least all the Dini-written issues, since House of Hush is when Bruce finally defeats Tommy.
Camden Robinson
>>Batman: The Long Halloween >>Batman: Dark Victory >Overrated. >>>Batman: The Cult >Pretty art, shit writing. >>A Death in the Family >Important, but shit.
Gonna have to just agree to disagree with you there.
>Elseworlds/Non-Canon Stories >Seriously? Only three?
I'll be honest I havent't read a ton. I'm always open to suggestions.
Leo Davis
>If anyone has suggestions or just wants to tell me my taste is shit, I'm all ears
Your taste is shit.
Get rid of those absolutely horrendous reddity category titles and read comics that are good instead ones clickbait lists told you are """important""". You also skipped over the first four decade or so of the character's history for some reason.
Benjamin Perez
too much stuff if you're a newbie. reclists should be short and simple
>Year One >Long Halloween >Dark Victory >Knightfall >Cataclysm + No Man's Land >Hush >The Black Glove + Batman and Son >Batman RIP >Batman and Robin Reborn + Batman Inc
From there you can start reading ongoing/recent Batman stuff and understand most of what's going on
James Robinson
Congrats on creating a list worst than OPs
Noah Williams
How can anyone defend drivel like A Death in the Family with a straight face? Sure, the parts where they're looking for Jason's mom are alright, nothing special but not horrible either, but after that it completely shits the bed.
>I'll be honest I havent't read a ton. I'm always open to suggestions. Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (the first Elseworlds ever btw) Batman & Dracula: Red Rain (overrated imo, but it's decent enough and I like it the best out of the trilogy) Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (Mignola kinda writes Bats as if he were Hellboy but it's pretty good all around) Batman: Holy Terror (first book to carry the Elseworlds logo, Batman is a priest) The Batman of Arkham (fun little story by Alan Grant, who got pretty shafted in your list now that I notice) Batman: Gotham Noir (noir -duh- tale starring Jim Gordon by Brubaker) Superman & Batman: Generations (Byrne goes full retard a couple of times during this but it's still an enjoyable read. Avoid the sequels) Batman/Captain America (tie-in to Generations) Superman and Batman: World's Funnest (has more to do with Bat-Mite and Mxyzptlk than either Batman or Superman, but it's a very funny read)
That's about it, there's other Elseworlds people liked like Thrillkiller but I didn't care for it.
Ethan Flores
>Alan Grant, who got pretty shafted in your list now that I notice
Bullshit, I have his entire run with Breyfogle on there
Nathaniel King
Durr, I can't read. Sorry.
Juan Williams
>You also skipped over the first four decade or so of the character's history for some reason.
See
Ethan Young
Its a good effort, but has too much, and isnt concise enough, also youre categorizing is wonky. Do it chronologically.
Wyatt Bailey
>Its a good effort, but has too much I mean it covers about 40-50 years of comics
>also youre categorizing is wonky I tried to do it "chronologically" by when it happens in Batman's career
Chase Reyes
>I tried to do it "chronologically" by when it happens in Batman's career
Do it by publication era, and its a rec list its meant to give people the 10-20 things that are really good, if they want to read more maybe put the rest of your stuff in a seperate list
^ Download both file-parts to the same location (folder, etc.) on your desktop. (b) Once both downloads complete, use an app/tool like WIN RAR or find some other app/freeware to join (check C-NETs download site for safe options):
Mac/Linux users, just download the file parts, click on .001 once both downloads have completed and the file-parts will auto-join to form complete TPB.
There are a couple of Worlds Finest, volume 2 which is 10 collected trades is interesting, and there's a three issue one that's really good, especially art wise.
Yeah this/
Liam Williams
Man you know there are way easier ways to get comics, right?
