Read some superman stand alone and watchmen and dc new frontier years ago but just now starting to get into Batman. I’ve got the collected first volume of absolute Batman which i really like. I recently got Batman year one and the dark knight returns which were amazing. Going forward from year one, what would you guys reccomend to read next. I was gonna pick up the long Halloween and dark victory. What else would you guys reccomend?Pic sort of related
>>150389559Batman: The Man Who Laughs (re-telling of Batman's first encounter with The Joker, takes place immediately after Year One).
>>150389745Thanks. Good to know. I shall read this right after then.
>>150389559Batman: Ego (Darwyn Cooke)
>>150389816Batman: The Shaman and a bunch of the Legends of the Dark Knight stories are also an easy reccomend for post-Year One Batman.More of like an anthology series than an ongoing run, so it's easier to transition into from graphic novels for most newer readers
>>150389894Yeah, you can basically read Legends of the Dark Knight #1-50 and they're all good stories. Some of my favorites from that run are:>Faces (Matt Wagner)>Prey (Doug Moench)>Venom (Denny O'Neil)>Gothic (Grant Morrison)>Mask (Bryan Talbot)>Sanctum (Mike Mignola)
>>150390019>>150389894>>150389890Awesome, I’ll add those down as well. Thanks!
>>150390019Pretty good picks, there's also Batman Confidential, though that's a lot more spotty in consistency. Really, "Rules of Engagement" and "A New Dawn" are probably what I would reccomend from the series
>>150389559Batman Black & White volume 1-3, anthology of black and white Batman stories by a variety of different artists and writers, but some of them managed to be my favorite Batman stories of all-time (Klaus Janson's in volume 1 is particularly good, inspired a particular plot point in The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises).
>>150390092If you want an informal reading order of stuff, there's this pretty good guide if you want to read basically almost all of post-crisis Batman: http://www.comicsbackissues.com/comic-book-reading-order/batman-reading-order/
>>150389559>year one and the dark knight returns which were amazingThat's as good as it gets.
>>150389559>I was gonna pick up the long Halloween and dark victoryYou have the 100% right ideaDon't get caught up in wanting a cohesive reading order, and I'd avoid getting into a full run too for nowI'd recommend for you Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
>>150389559>Going forward from year one, what would you guys reccomend to read next.Batman continuity isn't that strict or necessary to engage with outside of things that happen to run alongside major events. You can kind of go wherever now; pick a Batman run or story that sounds interesting to you and go for it. I agree with >>150389894 that Legends of the Dark Knight is a great place to go next. I'd argue the first chunk of that book--before it was subsumed into the mass of crossovers--is the best Batman book ever published.
I would like to recomend Batman: Noel along with what everyone else has thrown out. Batman not needing a specific reading order is one of the best things about him.
>>150389559Would you read more Batman?
>>150394007Yeah I think I would
>>150389559Legends of the dark knight
