Voting Results - Batman Trades Poll: Reboot Edition

[Batarang]

1-The Dark Knight Returns
2-Batman:Killing Joke
3-Batman: The Long Halloween
4-Year one
5-Year 100
6-Batman: Black and white vol.1 (i haven't read the rest yet)
7-Batman: Ego and other tails
8-Batman: Black Mirror
9-Batman: The Black Glove
10-Arkham Asylum
11-Arkham Asylum: Living Hell
12-Batman: No Man's Land
13-Batman: Venom
14-Batman: The Knight Fall
15-Batman: The Court of Owls&City of Owls
16-Batman: Heart of Hush
17-Batman: Incorporated
18-Robin: Year One
19-Batgirl: Year One
20-Batman: Hush

[Batmil]

1. The Killing Joke
2. The Dark Knight Returns
3. Year One
4. Arkham Asylum
5. Hush
6. A Death in the Family
7. Batman & Robin: Batman Reborn (Morrison Run vol 1)
8. The Man Who Laughs
9. Long Halloween
10. Gotham Central vol 1
11. Batman 66' vol 1
12. Zero Year vol 1
13. Court of Owls
14. The Black Mirror
15. Batman Eternal
16. Batman and Son
17. Batman: The Black Glove
18. Batman Earth One vol 1
19. Dark Victory
20. Death of the Family

[brainticket]

That's a real cool unconventional list brainticket. Gonna' have me looking up and hunting five or six books that've slipped by me (#3, 5, 11, 13, and those two Catwomans). Compelling stuff; thanks!

Heh thanks, guess I have a thing for darker stories with limited Batfamily. I think the books you mentioned are often overlooked/forgotten when people list their favorites. Or maybe they just don't like them.

[nepenthes]

Re-opening this for contributions as I've begun counting up our scores from 19 votes so far and just doesn't feel substantive enough - will need at least 25 votes before I go ahead and create a leaderboard as before - ideally 30 would be great (the result will live in the FAQ thread with a link to the counting in a Google doc).

Early result so far is below, I'll hold off showing the exact scores until we're done but let me tell you it's very tight competition from top to bottom. Each new vote has potential to shake it up quite a bit...


The Dark Knight Returns
Year One
Long Halloween
The Killing Joke
Grant Morrison Batman run

Grant Morrison Batman & Robin run
The Black Mirror
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House
Hush
The Court of Owls

Gotham Central
No Mans Land
Batman Incorporated
Zero Year
Prey

Year 100
Batman & the Monster Men
Knightfall
Strange Apparitions
The Man Who Laughs

Mad Love
Batwoman: Elegy
Paul Dini Detective run
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader
The Cult

Heart of Hush
Joker
Dark Knight, Dark City
Gothic
Gotham by Gaslight

Batgirl/Robin: Year One
Dark Knight Strikes again
Going Sane
Tomasi Batman & Robin run
Venom

A Death in the Family
Norm Breyfogle Vol.1
Death of the Family
Ego & Other Tails
Brubaker Catwoman run

Not a great showing from the more recent entrants i.e Grayson, Batgirl, Endgame etc (two of those are in the 41-60 range)

Go ahead - help us out and post a list

Voting guidelines in the OP

[joybeans]

Have you tried reddit? Not r/batman (they don't read comics), but rather r/dccomics and r/Comicbooks. You could PM the mods.

[Cipher]

Speaking personally, as a more recent reader, the minimum of twenty is a little daunting. I've read more than twenty Batman trades, but I don't think I've read twenty I loved, and I don't want to start awarding points for middling books just because I've read them. If it were like, a top ten, I think I could do it with some confidence.

On other hand, if you only want voters with a huge range of material under their belts, I can understand.

[nepenthes]

Have you tried reddit? Not r/batman (they don't read comics), but rather r/dccomics and r/Comicbooks. You could PM the mods.

Good idea

Speaking personally, as a more recent reader, the minimum of twenty is a little daunting. I've read more than twenty Batman trades, but I don't think I've read twenty I loved, and I don't want to start awarding points for middling books just because I've read them. If it were like, a top ten, I think I could do it with some confidence.

On other hand, if you only want voters with a huge range of material under their belts, I can understand.

Completely get you however the problem with only 10 is that it doesn't allow that long tail of more obscure books that actually make up the bulk of the ranking, that more interesting 20-40 area. If we limit to only 10 it's just not as worthwhile. Once you start on a list you might be surprised how many stories you've actually read and how hard is to squeeze to only 20!

[Cipher]

Completely get you however the problem with only 10 is that it doesn't allow that long tail of more obscure books that actually make up the bulk of the ranking, that more interesting 20-40 area. If we limit to only 10 it's just not as worthwhile. Once you start on a list you might be surprised how many stories you've actually read and how hard is to squeeze to only 20!

Yeah, I can understand the motivation, especially if the goal is to give lesser-read books a showing.

Maybe I'll try drafting something later.

[Rcn]

1. Year One
2. The Dark Knight Returns
3. Prey
4. Batman & Robin vol. 1: Batman Reborn (Morrison's Batman and Robin / Return of Bruce Wayne)
5. Batman Incorporated vol. 1 (Morrison's Batman Incorporated)
6. Batman and Son (Morrison's Batman)
7. Birth of The Demon
8. The Killing Joke
9. Dark Knight, Dark City
10. Mad Love
11. Norm Breyfogle Vol. 1
12. Going Sane
13. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
14. Batman featuring Two-Face and the Riddler (If only for Eye of the Beholder, easily the BEST two-face story ever printed, which deserves a more recent reprint)
15. Strange Apparitions (Another out-of-print gem)
16. Batman by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones vol. 1
17. All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder
18. Snow
19. Batman: Detective (Dini's Detective Comics)
20. Tales of the Demon

[Crazy Quilt]

Signed up to vote...I remember the old version

Batman RIP (all of the Morrison run)
Zero Year (both parts)
End Game
Grayson
Batgirl Vol.1 (new series)
Batwoman (Greg Rucka series)
Robin: Son of Batman (new series)
Robin: Jokers Wild (Chuck Dixon)
Under the Hood
Hush
All Star Batman & Robin
Dark Knight Returns
Strange Apparitions
Norm Breyfogle Vol.1
Jim Aparo Vol.1
Planetary/Batman
Batman/Judge Dredd
Widening Gyre
Sword of Azreal
Tales of the Demon
Red Rain
Contagion/No Mans Land
Knightfall
Dark Knight Returns
Killing Joke
Year One (of course )

[brainticket]

Signed up to vote...I remember the old version

Batman RIP (all of the Morrison run)
Zero Year (both parts)
End Game
Grayson
Batgirl Vol.1 (new series)
Batwoman (Greg Rucka series)
Robin: Son of Batman (new series)
Robin: Jokers Wild (Chuck Dixon)
Under the Hood
Hush
All Star Batman & Robin
Dark Knight Returns
Strange Apparitions
Norm Breyfogle Vol.1
Jim Aparo Vol.1
Planetary/Batman
Batman/Judge Dredd
Widening Gyre
Sword of Azreal
Tales of the Demon
Red Rain
Contagion/No Mans Land
Knightfall
Dark Knight Returns
Killing Joke
Year One (of course )

This list is from bottom to top, right? There's Dark Knight Returns twice also.

[Nick Miller]

This list is from bottom to top, right? There's Dark Knight Returns twice also.

theres also 25 books

[nepenthes]

Just occurred to me that people may not have realised that this poll is rebooting. If you ever voted in the 2009-2014 threads then those lists are out the window as we're starting again from scratch! If you'd like me to send a screengrab of your vote from the previous board send me a PM.

theres also 25 books

25 is fine however yeah it would help if you could please confirm which end is the highest ranking in that list, Crazy Quilt.

[Maxpower00044]

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This is my older list. In will just resubmit it.

Edit: just one change. If I can put Endgame in the same spot as DotF since it's a sequel, that would be great. If not, no worries.

[SpideyZERO]

To update my new list:

1. Year One
2. The Long Halloween
3. The Black Mirror
4. Zero Year
5. Grant Morrison Batman & Robin run
6. Court of Owls.
7. Endgame
8. Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader?
9. Batman Earth One
10. The Dark Knight Returns
11. The Killing Joke
12. Heart of Hush
13. Death of The Family
14. Grant Morrison BATMAN run
15. Batman Incorporated
16. Haunted Knight
17. Gotham in Gaslight
18. Batman Gothic
19. Lil Gotham
20. Mad Love

Still a tough list to make