To me it seems they don’t care about the fans only shock value and variant covers all for profit but can’t respect the lore the way things are. They kill people off in stupid decisions and thing the fans are stupid for questioning their decision. I don’t want comics that are total fan service but you have to care about the fans and respect them and the lore. I don’t want comics that are solely about profit above all else.

They keep messing with Batman. He needs Alfred & he is supposed to be a brooding and emotionally distant person (and yet you can still have silent of stories made with that person yes non-BATDAD Bruce can still be someone you can write a ton of stories for and he can grow as a person to an extent but he is mission first and while he does CARE and can show he cares he is far from emotionally loving and affectionate. He is too scarred for that and that scarring from seeing his parents death at the hands of a criminal is what fuels him. I dont want him to loose that. I don’t want good dad Bruce who relates to his kids jokes and has fun with them and is the every dad people want to have for their own dad. he needs to be someone who has trouble expressing his feelings he need to not be the affectionate warm BATDAD. You want BATDAD go to WFA. Comics batman needs to be more focused more mission oriented and while he cares Alfred is the better dad and so is Dick.)

A hopeful upbeat guy misses the point of everything. Yes with Dick he was more fun and hopeful but also was younger and his misson had just begun. As time has gone on his mission weighs on him is has zapped any joy any possibility of completing his mission and retiring. He knows he is in this to the end. Yet the biggest development stories AREN‘T about BRUCE they are about DICK, and JASON, and TIM, and DAMIAN, and Barbara and everyone else. That they can become better and not become like him is the greatness. {I love Damian the abused he whole life boy raised as an assassin come to live with his father who dick was the first to so real love to. THAT relationship should be explored more Dick as a father to him. But I would LOVE to see real growth in Damian and not see him always regress back to demon brat when new authors come in. I want to see Dick help him become the hopeful boy he can be. The most wonderful Robin and maybe one day the best of all of them. I think I would prefer Dick as Batman and Damian become the new nightwing. But Damian can grow so much. Tim can grow too if someone would actually let him. I think Jason could grow too. (I prefer the helmeted Jason). And stop raping Dick no one deserves to be raped no matter who they are!!}

The juxtaposing of his brooding and emotionally distant character against the happier and more loving and emotionally available other members of the family, which is getting a bit too big I mean they can’t even fit them all in the same story or story are often and they dont have there own books took shine in, make the Batman comics compelling. He doesn’t have to get over his parents death or change into super dad he can be mediocre but well meaning and care and give purpose and direction to them but still be a broken man while they have healed.

I think back to BTAS, yes a cartoon but here me out, and they had censors that prevent some of what they wanted but it force them to get creative and in the end made for better stories. I argue even the comics codes, while they could have been less strict, did force writers to be more creative. Having guardrails does that it forces you to zero in on things and really get good stories. With no guardrails for decades they stories have suffered. With no limits to what can be done editors push for more and more and ever writer try to push to see haw far they can take things. Perhaps rules are a good thing.

I’m currently reading Matt fractions new Batman and wondering where Jason Tim and Dick during all this? Ik we saw flashbacks with Tim learning to drive the Batmobile and drive in general but you’d think they would see everything happening in Gotham and come help out no? I also understand we’re only ten issues in and there’s plenty of time for them to show up I just thought they would’ve shown up to be apart of the whole plan with blowing up the manor, no?
EDIT: I REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED WITH TIM EARLIER IN THE SERIES I POSTED THIS AT WORK JUST ADTER READING ISSUE 10

Hello everyone

I decided to read every canon Batman comic (Post-Crisis). For the reading order, I watched the "Reading Order" series by Uncanny Omar from Near Mint Condition and noted down every comic he mentioned

Plzzz help me with this list if any book is missing or if the order is incorrect. Also, tell me at what point to read the Legends of the Dark Knight comics (I heard they are great)

Plzzz suggest TPB versions of those omnibuses because I read digitally, and my old tablet is almost dying when loading large files🥲 With TPB versions, I can show more books read this year on Goodreads😁😄😅

Pardon my English🥲

Thanks😊

Have a nice day

BATMAN READING ORDER

VID. 1

1. Batman: Year One

2. Batman: Tales of the demon

3. Batman: Second Chances

4. Batman: The Dark Knight Detective VOLUME 1

5. SHAMAN

6. PRAY

7. GOTHIC

8. VENOM

9. Batman: YEAR Two (Retconed)

10. Batman: Haunted Knight

11. Batman: The Long Halloween

12. Batman: Dark Victory

13. Batman: Dark Knight Returns

14. Batman: Dark Knight Strikes Again

15. Batman: Killing Joke

16. Batman: The Caped Crusader VOLUME 1

17. Cult (correction in VID. 2)

18. Batman: A Death In The Family

19. Batman: The Caped Crusader VOLUME 2

20. Batman: The Dark Knight Detective VOLUME 2

21. Batman: A Lonely Place Of Dying

22. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

23. Batman: The Caped Crusader VOLUME 3

24. Batman: The Dark Knight Detective VOLUME 3

25. Batman: The Caped Crusader VOLUME 4

26. Robin: VOL. 1 Reborn (for DETECTIVE COMICS #618-621)

27. Robin: VOL. 2 TRIUMPHANT (for BATMAN #465, 467-469)

28. AZRAEL: VOLUME 1 FALLEN ANGEL

29. BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL OMNIBUS VOL 1

30. BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL OMNIBUS VOL 2

31. BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL OMNIBUS VOL 3

32. BATMAN: ZERO HOUR (READ ZERO HOUR before this)

33. BATMAN: by Doug Moench & Kelley Jones VOL. 1

34. Tales of the Batman: J. H. Williams III

35. Batman: Contagion

36. Batman: LEGACY VOL. 1

37. Batman: LEGACY VOL. 2

38. BATMAN: by Doug Moench & Kelley Jones VOL. 2

39. Batman: CATACLYSM

40. Batman: ROAD TO NO MAN'S LAND VOL. 1

41. Batman: ROAD TO NO MAN'S LAND VOL. 2

VID. 2

1. Batman: Going Sane

2. DC one million OMNIBUS

3. Batman: Harley Quinn

4. Batman: NO MAN'S LAND VOL. 1

5. Batman: NO MAN'S LAND VOL. 2

6. Batman: NO MAN'S LAND VOL. 3

7. Batman: NO MAN'S LAND VOL. 4

8. Batman by Ed Brubaker Vol. 1

9. Superman: Our worlds at war (connected to previous story)

10. Batman: New Gotham Volume 1

11. Batman: Officer Down

12. Batman: False Faces

13. Batman: New Gotham Volume 2

14. Batman: Joker's Last Laugh 😃

15. Batman by Ed Brubaker Vol. 2

16. Batman: Bruce Wayne - Murderer?

17. Batman: Bruce Wayne - Fugitive

18. Batman: Death and the Maidens

19. Batman: HUSH

20. Batman: Broken City

21. Batman: The Man Who Laughs!

22. Batman: As the Crows Flies

23. Batman: War Games Book One

24. Batman: War Games Book Two

25. Batman: Hush Returns

26. Under the Hood

27. Under the Red Hood VOLUME 1

28. Under the Red Hood VOLUME 2

29. Batman: City of Crime

30. Infinite Crisis Omnibus

31. 52 OMNIBUS

VID. 3

1. Batman: Face the Face

2. Batman: Detective by PAUL DINI

3. Batman: Death and the city

4. Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Vol.1 (read till Batman #658)

5. Batman: Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul

6. Batman: Private Casebook by Paul Dini

7. Batman: Heart of Hush (cont' Morrison's omni after this)

8. Final Crisis Omnibus

9. Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

10. Batman: Battle for the Cowl

11. Batman: Battle for the Cowl Companion

12. Batman: Long shadows

13. Batman: Streets of Gotham-Hush Money

14. Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Vol.2 (read till Batman #702)

15. Batman: Streets of Gotham-Leviathan

16. Batman: Life After Death

17. Blackest Night OMNIBUS

18. Batman: Streets of Gotham-House of Hush

19. Batman: Time and the Batman

20. Batman: The Black Mirror

21. Batman: Eye of the Beholder (cont' Morrison's 2nd omni after this, RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE mini series)

22. Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Vol.3 (read till Batman Incorporated #8)

23. Flashpoint

VID. 4 (new 52 era)

1. Batman: Detective Comics Volume 1: Faces of Death

2. Batman by Scott Snyder Omnibus vol. 1 (read till Batman #17)

3. Batman: Detective Comic Volume 2: Scare Tactics

4. Batman: Detective Comics Volume 3: Emperor Penguin

5. Batman and Robin by Peter Tomasi OMNIBUS (read 1-17)

6. Batman: grant morrison omnibus vol 3 (continue reading it )

7. Batman: Detective Comics Volume 4: The Wrath

8. The New 52 Villains Omnibus (Read Batman Related stuff) (con't Snyder Omnibus after this)

9. Batman: Detective Comics Volume 5: Gothtopia

10. Batman: Detective Comics Volume 6: Icarus

11. Batman: Volume 6: Graveyard Shift (because of issue 34)

12. Batman: Eternal Omnibus (happens after Batman#28)

13. Batman: Volume 7: ENDGAME

14. Batman: Volume 8: SUPERHEAVY

15. Batman: Volume 9: BLOOM

16. Batman: Volume 10: EPILOGUE (finish Batman and Robin omni after this )

17. Damian: Son of Batman (optional)

18. Batman: Detective Comics Volume 7: ANARKY

19. Batman Detective Comics Volume 8: BLOOD OF HEROES

20. Batman Detective Comics Volume 9: GORDON AT WAR

21. Batman and Robin Eternal Volume 1

22. Batman and Robin Eternal Volume 2

23. DC Universe Rebirth

24. Batman: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Vol. 1

25. Nightwing: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Vol. 1

26. Batman: Detective Comics: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 1

27. Batman: Detective Comics: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 2

28. DC Metal

29. Batman: Detective Comics: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 3

30. Batman: Detective Comics: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 4

31. Batman: Detective Comics: Mythology

32. Batman: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Vol. 2

33. Batman: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Vol. 3

34. Batman: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Vol. 4

35. Batman: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Vol. 5

Read first 4 issues and was thought its was ok. Did it improve and is the future of the run looking good?

Use to read comics as a kid, but got back into reading with the absolute series. Looking for comic recommendations for Azrael, Professor Pyg, Victor Zsasz & Scarecrow! Thanks in advance

Como es que batman simplemente por inhalar el gas de la risa va a tener compartamientos psicóticos diferentes al al resto que lo inhalaron? No solo eso, es absurdo qué nos quieran mostrar a un batman qué rosa lo divino solo por estar loco, el joker también era un maniático con dinero y mucha inteligencia y no terminó haciendo un cuarto de cosas de las que hizo ese batman pitero. Veo ese universo a la par de injusticie en sin sentido.

I have the first two Batman Knight fall 25th Anniversary trade paperbacks and I cannot find the other books (25th anniversary) anywhere to finish the series. Is there any other trades that are not the 25th anniversary line that continues from the second volume? Thank you.