Is Snyder's Batman the best Batman you've ever read ?

[Jack00]

It's only been 9 issues and those 9 issues have been better then any previous batman I have read so far. Whenever I was reading a batman title before, no matter what was happening in them I was like "he's gonna get out of it and win the day". And while this might still be true with Snyder's Batman, I'm actually not sure if he's going to pull it off this time, it's a feeling of excitement of not knowing that batman is gonna "win" everytime around. It's a feeling I never had when reading other writers batman titles. And the whole Court of Owl thing going on right now is freaking amazing. Add Capulo's gosuftw BBQ sauve pencils in there and for me you have the best Batman title ever made.
With that said, I hope Snyder will be writing Batman for a long, long, long time.

What do you guys think ?

[coveredinbees]

It's pretty good.

[George Taylor]

I'm really enjoying it, but I can't say his Batman is one of the best I've ever read because it's been only 9 issues of his run though. Time will tell if his Batman becomes in one of the best there is,

[Joseph_Kerr]

it really is an impossible question cuz in order to establish something like that, snyders run would need to finish first. if i remember correctly, he said he planned a 3 arc trilogy. were still on arc 1. (or 2?). either way, its like asking me if a movie is the best movie ever half way through. let it finish.


but chances are it wont be anyway. there are a lot of epic character defining moments in his history. not to sell snyder short but theres just too much to be up against on a question like that.

[Cowtools]

Look, I love Snyder's run. I think it's a terrific balance of action, smarts and mood, and a perfect way to reintroduce Batman after the reboot. Is it better than past runs? There's no way to answer that and we shouldn't try.

Basically, there's no way anyone can answer the OP's question without sparking a flame war. Either they answer 'no' which will lead to lots of Snyder-bashing, or they answer 'yes, it's the best', in which case its likely they haven't read many other Batman writers at all, and even if they have the discussion will decend into Snyder vs Morrison vs Miller vs O'Neill vs whoever.

Can we rename the thread "How does Snyder's run compare to past Batman runs" or something? Otherwise this will end up a troll thread, I guarantee it.

[Xarcon]

Snyder's Batman run is good so far. However, the best Batman story I've read is Snyder's Detective Comics.

[ngroove]

No, Snyder's Batman is not my Batman.

I may not 100% agree with Tony Daniel's either (What he did to Riddler, Joker for instance), but atleast his stories are not padded to agonizing lengths, and he uses classic members of Batman's rogues gallery, while also recycling old ones long forgotten, and creating interesting new ones who might actually stand time (trust me, Hynotic and Mr. Combustible is FARRR more interesting than those cookie-cutterly forcibly dangerously boring Owls).

Ehh, yet, the last time I've truly enjoyed picking up new Batman off the racks, consistently month-by-month, that warm feeling of reading them, was when Paul Dini was doing DETECTIVE COMICS anyways.

[GamiSB]

No but its good. From just the last few years my order would be

Morrison
Dini
Snyder

[Jack00]

Alright I guess I would of said best Batman on-going. I'm was excluding mini series like TDKR and such when I was comparing Snyder's run to other Batman books.

[Ginkasa]

Its been okay, but not as good as I was hoping for. I think Snyder's Detective Comics was better than Snyder's Batman (if you're separating the two). I've also preferred Morrison's run and probably preferred Dini's DC run also. Again, not to say it hasn't been good.

[Jeff Brady]

Alright I guess I would of said best Batman on-going. I'm was excluding mini series like TDKR and such when I was comparing Snyder's run to other Batman books.

The answer would still be no.

[RoughNTumble]

it's a little early to say that I think

especially since what he's done so far can't touch the best stuff

In fact I wonder if snyder is suited for superheroics at all, given his biggest contributions so far are making gordon's son a serial killer, co-creating the rot with lemire, and haphazardly shoving owls into all corners of the bat-mythos while 9 issues into the story they remain terribly ill-defined.

[SpectralNight]

Long Halloween is the best Batman I have ever read.

This is the best Batman has been in along time for me though.
AND I think the Court of Owls and Talons are the best new Bat-villains of the last decade (at least).
Way better than Hush, or anything in Morrison's runs (which I like too).

[Cryptid]

So far, what I like most about Snyder's rendition of Batman is that he balances somewhere between the effortless classicism of Paul Dini's stories and the paranoid rabbit-hole of Grant Morrison's extended arc, with a premise that forces Bruce to rethink his place in the world without tearing down the walls of reality every few issues. I think Morrison is more ambitious, but Snyder has managed to fold some of that experimental intensity into a more recognizable and user-friendly version of the character.

He's done something similar with Swamp Thing, paring down the eclectic and quirky mythology of Alan Moore's run into something more digestible to the folks who want something more like Green Lantern's tidy color-spectrum and less like the entire occult section of the biggest used book shop in town.

[SpectralNight]

Have you read year one?

Yeah, that might be the best Frank Miller Batman I have read.