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Originally Posted by XL
This seems like as good a place as any to ask this question...So, if I wanted to "get into" Batman comics, where would be a good place to start?
I really liked the style of the stuff they did with the Arkham Asylum game, did they take inspiration from any vein of the comics or did they go in their own direction?
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You're in luck, you can use Wiki to catch up on what's going on in Batman in the ongoing comics.
Arkham Asylum is a comic by Grant Morrison but the game was not based on the book, just maybe some influence. I would check out the ever popular and (considered over rated) but still really damn good (but short) book, it's called Killing Joke. This has Joker shoot Batgirl, cripple her, take her to an abandoned amusement park and take pictures of her naked in a cage...
Year One
Arkham Asylum
Killing Joke
Dark Victory
Long Halloween
Hush vol 1 and 2
Those are some of popular (and good) Bat-books you can pick up to get into it. I would def hit up wikipedia first though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Batman_comics
Look under Modern Batman.
Important arcs
* Daughter of the Demon and major battles with Ra's al-Ghul: #243 - 245.
* Year One: #404 - 407.
* A Death in the Family: #426 - 429
* Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying #440 - 442
* Knightfall #491 - 500
* Batman: Prodigal #512 - 514
* Batman: No Man's Land #563 - 574
* Hush #608 - 619
* Broken City #620 - 625
* Batman and Son #655 - 658
* Batman R.I.P. #676 - 681
Don't start with RIP. Batman isn't 'dead', he's just been transported back in time with no memory.... but he's getting out of this.
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To sorta explain those pics-
Look at this brilliant catch from CBR-
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As we see in the first few pages of Final Crisis #7, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Supergirl and Captain Marvel put items into a rocket, or a "message in a bottle," and is later seen with Anthro.
The items, that we can see, placed into the rocket are Superman's cape (or someone's S cape), a smaller version of the Bat-Symbol and the story of Batman and the Final Crisis.
As we see in the last page of Final Crisis #7, Bruce Wayne is drawing a Bat-Emblem on the stone wall. Although, Grant Morrison stated that Bruce Wayne will have no memory of who he is. My theory is that Bruce Wayne may have read the newspaper, and that is where he learns of Batman.
(I understand that we may find this out once The Return of Bruce Wayne comes out, I would just like to refresh what we know about or may think.)
What does anybody else think?
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