Batman TPBs: The First Few Years

[Mat001]

Originally Posted by CBF

I am not too familiar with "War Games," but by not including "Prodigal" I was attempting to avoid the Azrael storyline, even though there's probably some of it included within my list anyway. My favorite character is Dick Grayson, but I felt that that seemed like a storyline to adheer to the fans' outcry of Dick not picking up the mantle when Bane broke Bruce's back in "Knightfall." And yes, TKJ was one of my fav stories, just being a classic. And had Barbara not been shot and paralyzed becoming Oracle, who knows what other path she could have taken? Maybe a political role like her (adoptive) father?

Azreal is in "Knightfall" and "No Man's Land". "Prodigal" only has Jean Paul for one page, while the rest is just Dick and Tim with a little of Bruce. Yes, technically it was done for the fans and it was also done to show why Dick wasn't ready to be Batman yet. As well as set up for the new artists as Mike Manley and Brett Bevlins were ending their run to be replaced by Kelly Jones and Barry Kitson respectively. It's not a bad story overall and helped to set the stage for Nightwing's solo series.

[Darth Pipes]

Been reading a bunch of Batman trade paperbacks lately. The Killing Joke, Hush, Hush Returns, Knightfall II...nothing is better than a Batman story arc.