Best of New 52 Batman - what are your picks?

[nepenthes]

From the entire line, what do you think have been the highlights of the last three years? The most memorable, original, entertaining, or story lines you would most recommend to anyone new to comics. Top 15 nominations will be put to a poll.

For me it's
Batman: Zero Year everything before was no good
Batman Incorporated love how Morrison took a bow and closed the loop at the end
Batwoman: World Finest entire JH run is a thing of beauty however Wonder Woman arc the standout
Batman & Robin: The Big Burn the most consistent stretch of this series yet
Detective Comics: The Wrath best arc of the Layman run, though most of it was decent

Early Birds of Prey was fun for a while there, what with Starling and Ivy and incredible artists, it was looking really good...until we learned that Duane S didn't actually intend to actually conclude of his storylines ha

[PyroSikTh]

Court/City of Owls
Batman Incorporated
Death of the Family
Zero Year
Born to Kill

In that order.

[Penguin Truth]

- Everything's Snyder's done

- Everything Tomasi's done

- The Wrath arc of 'Tec

And that's pretty much it.

[beetlebum]

Does Li'l Gotham count?

It was my favorite of the Bat related titles launched post-reboot, even if it's not a part of the mainstream DCU.

It was just cute, funny, and well-written, and full of lots of great in-jokes that made me smile.

Case in point:





I miss the title already.

[Maxpower00044]

Court of Owls
Zero Year
Inc
B&R Silent Issue
DoTF
Nobody Arc
Wrath
Emperor Penguin

[DebkoX]

Batman, simply put. Court Of Owls, Night Of Owls and Death Of The Family.

[SwampyCA]

In order:

Court of the Owls (#1-#12)
Zero Year
Batman Inc *(#1-#13)
Batman and Robin: Requiem #18
Batman and ... #19 - #23
Batwoman #0
Batgirl #0
Batwoman: Hydrology
Batwoman: World's Finest
RHatO: Requiem #18
Batman: DotF
Harley Quinn

[stick0]

It's not in order, i'll just include the ones i got and love so far.

Incorporated: Demon Star
Batman Vol.1 Court of Owls
Batman VOl.2 City of Owls
Batman VOl.3 Death of the family

[Batman Begins 2005]

In order:

Batman, Incorporated #0
Batman, Incorporated: Demon Star (The New 52).
Batman, Incorporated: Gotham’s Most Wanted (The New 52).
Batman and Robin #0,
Batman and Robin Annual #1
Batman and Robin #18
Batman and Nightwing #23
Batman and Two-Face #24-28
Clayface.
Batman: Zero Year

[BatfanReborn]

Batman Incorporated: 1-13
Batman/Superman: 1-5
Red Hood & the Outlaws: 1-9
Batwoman: World's Finest
Batman The Dark Knight: Knight Terrors
Batman The Dark Knight: The Mad Hatter
Birds of Prey: 10-12
Batgirl: Wanted
Batwing: 1-8
Detective: Emperor Penguin
Batman and ...: Five Stages of Grief
Harley Quinn: 1-
Talon: 1-14
Nightwing: 1-9

[Cipher]

I want to just list Tomasi's entire Batman and Robin run, and JH Williams III/Blackman's entire Batwoman run, but in particular ...

Batman and Two-Face: The Big Burn - Best solo Batman outing of the New 52, in my opinion. Wonderfully madcap and thematically resonant.
Batwoman: World's Finest - An absolutely stellar and beautiful culmination of the first eighteen months of the title.
Batman Incorporated Vol. 2 - Even without being the biggest fan of Morrison's run, there's no denying this title's pull as its climax, and as a deserving de facto ending to the previous Batman universe.

The five issues of Batgirl starting with the Ventriloquist two-parter and ending with "Wanted" (Collected Book #4) also deserve a nod in my opinion. Really fun stuff.

I haven't read past the first issue of "Zero Year" yet, but it does seem leaps and bounds above Snyder's previous arcs. Looking forward to getting the whole thing at some point.

[Batman Forever]

Batman Incorporated
Detective's Wrath arc
Court of Owls is a cool new villain, lame story though
All of Batwoman, especially Andreyko's stuff
Harley Quinn's series

I think that's all for now. Batman line has probably some of the poorest output of the new 52 considering how many books and how much talent is devoted to it.

The other stuff that had a cleaner start, and the green lantern line which was mostly unchanged are far better off.

[mera]

For me I would have to be:

Batgirl- pretty much the entire series, with Death of the Family taking the cake.
Batman- everything before Zero Year. Death of the Family had to be my favorite though.
Batwoman- Worlds Finest is my favorite story arc so far.
I feel that Nightwing, Batman & Robin, Red Hood & the Outlaws were so much better at the beginning and have been a roller coaster of ups and downs. I will have to say that Death of the Family was the best part of most of the series that were involved (minus Catwoman).

[Orpheus]

The last two issues of Batman: The Dark Knight where he fought the Abraham Langstrom Man-Bat. That is one of my favorite Batman stories.

[son of booyah]

First issue of DotF - a lot of potential in there.
Zero Year so far
umm...