Die Artwork ist absolut auf der Höhe ihrer Zeit und auch nach heutigen Maßstäben immer noch großartig und innovativ. The popular conception of Batman as The Dark Knight started in the 1970s and was continued by Tim Burton’s 1989 film. It starts with Bruce having to refresh his Bruce Wayne identity because he's been neglecting it, and Alfred remarks that the voice he used to have to practice he speaks in all the time now. Nicknamed Man of Bats by these primitives, Bruce finds himself in conflict with future immortal villain Vandal Savage in his early days.

It also features gorgeous oversized art from DC's top talent like JH Williams III, Tony Daniel and Andy Kubert (SO much better than Adam). Spoiler: Did he really die in a fight that was far above his typical weight class by facing down Darkseid in Final Crisis? This is another story where Morrison retroactively reveals something “kept from us” during the Final Crisis storyline.

These issues happen deep within Final Crisis, but Morrison uses that premise to tell a series of warped alternate-history versions of Batman's history.

As we said, he started before entering the New 52 era, but that didn’t stop him from continuing his Leviathan story. This title also includes two new story pages written and drawn by Chris Burnham that recap events from ‘The Resurrection of Ra’s al Ghul. But I came back, a few years later and with more comics under my belt and a partial to working knowledge of the DC universe and an even larger reference point for Batman's long and twisting continuity, and I was hooked.This story becomes a great murder mystery and also a great study on what makes someone a superhero and how Batman influences different people. This is why the first three comics reprinted here focus so much on trying to take the death of Batman we see in “Batman RIP” and the death of Batman we see in “Final Crisis” and have them make a single cohesive narrative. The series continued with the optional Batman and Robin: Dark Knight vs White Night, written by Paul Cornell, Pete Tomasi and Judd Winick. In the wake of Infinite Crisis, Bruce Wayne traveled the world to rediscover himself and renew his crusade against crime. Another new villain who doesn’t get to do much but is an intriguing figure is introduced, The Flamingo.

Because even though I own Grant Morrison's entire run on Batman and other Batman stories he has written, it's just so damn pretty. It's a gender-bending Mother of All Balls, as the queens are faced with a design challenge to turn a room full of menswear into runway-ready eleganza. Y sobre esta premisa montó Morrison su Batman, comenzando por una historia en la que se presentaba ni más ni menos que a Damian Wayne, el hijo de Batman y Talía al-Gul, entrenado por la Liga de Asesinos y dispuesto a ocupar un lugar junto a su padre.

It's a nice capstone for the Batman comic, though not as good as Neil Gaiman's "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader", which followed a few months later [4+/5].

Then a mask is affixed to their face, unable to be removed without ripping away the flesh, leaving them all identical frazzled red hair. Obviously Morrison wants to spin his own crazy yarn and doesn't bother with Bat's famous rogues, but rather creates a few new ones himself. Meanwhile, Batman is working with Oberon Sexton on the deaths of many prominent millionaires across the globe. Instead, the wonderful Scott Kolins fills in, but in a weird style that looks quite at odds with what came before. Batman is entirely mortal, and he’s simply not accustomed to the sorts of situations that Morrison delights putting him in.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Interestingly enough, that’s probably why Morrison has taken such joy throwing Batman in at the deep end during his run.