Caped Crusaders greatest hits:Your favorite Batman story

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What is your favorite batman story and writer? Batman is such an awesome superhero, the best superhero, because he uses his brains and unpredictability to remain entertaining for over seventy years, most of the other superheroes are so predictable: Spiderman is just going to swing in and tie his opponents in web while saying some "witty" one liner, Wolverine is just going to flip out and stab the bad guy, and the Incredible Hulk gets big and green and ugly while somehow keeping his pants. Not with Batman, you never know what he's gonna do next to the badguy, but one thing you can be sure of, it will be ingenious and entertaining.

i dont actually have a favourite bat story. maybe the killing joke by allan moore even if it did paralyse babs. her character turned out fine anyway. i havent read enough(good) bat stories. oh and i think neil gaimans whatever happened to the caped crusader was good. i like it when batman teams up with the question(oneil/cowan run) or the jla. i forget what run of the jla but the line up was plastic man, WW, supes, martian manhunter, wally west, aquaman and GA sort of.

Can movies be counted as stories? Because Batman Returns by Tim Burton is my favorite Batman movie.

Sure movies and tv shows can be counted as well. I got into batman watching the old cartoon show and movies from the 90s, and didn't start reading the comicbooks till I was in my late teens. Also, of the two Tim Burton Batman movies, I think Batman Returns is better than the first one. The relationship between Batman and Catwoman was so delightfully twisted and kinky, and Danny Devito was pretty cool as the Penguin(even if it wasn't accurate to the comic books) where as Batman 89 didn't really capture that twisted connection that Batman and the Joker had, and so much of Batman 1 was wasted trying to establish and introduce the character rather than cool fight scenes and witty dialogue.

I liked the first two movies from the eighties. Also, the Batman series that was once on teletoon and Batman Begins. I wasn't as fond of The Dark Knight as everyone else because I think they got the Joker all wrong. Heath Ledger's a good actor, yeah, but that Joker just wasn't the Joker to me. Jack Nicholson did the best Joker, I think.

I'm not well-versed on Batman stuff though.

Mad Love, natch.

My daughter was once in a fast-food place and a man in the queue racially abused the Chinese woman serving food, telling her she was stealing "our" jobs, probably infectious and should go back to China. My daughter told him to shut up and passed a few judgements of her own about his upbringing and intelligence, although he was big and quite scary looking. He left without waiting for his food. She was so angry that she had forgotten that she was dressed as Batman for a school fancy dress day.

No Man's Land.

Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns brought me back to the character in my late teens--great story and art work.


However, Bruce Timm's animated Batman will always define the character for me.

I loved the Justice League episode Injustice For All. Batman gets capture by Lex Luthor's Injustice Gang and, while tied up, manages to manipulate the gang into tearing itself apart using only psychology...

How's that for a superpower?

I like the episode where Batman is in London.