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the-batacombs · 9 months ago

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Ooh okay. I haven't read a ton (work in progress!) so here's just a handful that I thought were fun/good intros/made me want to hand them out to my friends:

Batman: Night of the Monster Men

Batman: The Knight

Batman Universe

Future State: Dark Detective

Actually there’s a challenge: a list of Batman trades people should consider recommending instead of The Usual. Here’s my start (using titles I can find in print):-

Detective Comics: Gotham Nocturne

Batman: Failsafe

Batman Ego

Batman: The Black Mirror

Gotham Knights: Transference

Batman: Gotham by Gaslamp

Batman: A Death in the Family (basically always packaged with ALPOD)

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest

Batman by Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato

Go!

#okay that's it for now I'm going to have to go and think on this a little more #if they were a tumblr fandom person I would just give them Batman: Ghost Stories because it's an easy shipping entry point but it's actuall #quite a weird trade and I don't think it'd be a good Batman introduction at all #skipping other Batman-adjacent otherwise I'd put down Gotham Academy and Gotham Central #hmm #goodness this is fun I love lists #don't know why I like monster men so much but it was such a fun self-contained story. btk was SO reader-friendly but also so textually dens #that it ate my brain (complimentary) for days #batman universe was DC doing an actually excellent job at what an intro comic could look like #dark detective well. fun. colours. stuck in that gloriously messy comics continuity but so easy to jump in because it follows the standard #sci-fi beats. Dan Mora on art. just a really good Bruce Wayne.#I'd have put League of Shadows from Tynion's Tec run on here but I don't think I can recommend it without first giving someone Batgirl 2000 #and to be fair that's basically a Cass and not a Bruce story (in this essay I argue that all Cass stories ARE Bruce stories and vice versa—#oh. the 12 Angry Men Freeze jury deliberation mini from inside Tom King's run.#and the story where he and Diana get stuck in that monster dimension. Both have their low points but also have very high points.#those would both require me earmarking pages and are not general recommendations but they ARE stories I have desperately wanted to hand #to people at some point or another #sorry for the rambling tags #I have been keyed up and this little puzzle has calmed me down considerably. So thanks!

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