The Best Batman Comics You'll Ever Read

Gee, an Elseworld's book pitting Batman (in a true Bat form) against Dracula? This is a no-brainer. This one, unlike that time Batman dressed up like a pirate, isn't just a nifty idea with no real pay-off. Siding with rogue vampires against a Drac who wants to turn Gotham City into an even scarier place by creating an army of homeless vampires? You've rarely been so awesome, Batman, and that's saying something. Also, what is it with Batman villains and armies of homeless people?

Grant Morrison may be the smartest comic writer active today. However, I don't always like his stuff. Whether he's spread too thin or I'm too stupid to get it, his work on the Batman franchise over the past few years hasn't tickled me like it should. That said, go out and read his classic Arkham Asylum. I'll continue to work on trying to follow Batman R.I.P..

It doesn't get much sweeter in the super team-up department than writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale. I could eat their stuff up all day long and still never get enough. The Long Halloween is one of their very best efforts. Find the Absolute edition, get it and thank me later.

Go on and read Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. Good. Now, if you want to keep that majestic feeling about how good comics can be, ignore all rumors about how this has a sequel. Resist the urge to purchase and/or read the impostor The Dark Knight Strikes Again, which we know is an impostor because Frank Miller would never make anything that bad.