10 Greatest Batman Comics Of The 21st Century
9. Batman R.I.P.
Grant Morrison has never been a writer to stray away from bizarre story telling, and Batman R.I.P. is as strange as it got during his long run on Batman. While Batman does not technically die in this book, a version of him does die to give birth to something new.
An organization called the Black Glove targets Batman and all of his allies. During this, Batman is drugged and pushed to his psychological limit. Morrison started showing Batman's preparedness for any situation in comics as early as his 1997 run on JLA, and this is no exception.
Batman had created an entire second personality in his mind, called the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh. This Batman was a purer version that stripped away the Bruce Wayne personality traits and also hallucinated the Silver Age creation Bat-Mite.
With pencils by Tony Daniel and covers by Alex Ross, this run has some striking, iconic imagery. Morrison always wanted to include all of Batman's long history in his stories, and this is the one where he makes the most of his past.