10 Reasons Why New 52 Batman Was The Best Ever
Reinvention isn't always a bad thing.
All comic readers, from casual newcomer to lifelong fan, acknowledge the immortal worthiness of the very best of Batman— “The Dark Knight Returns,” “Year One,” “The Killing Joke,” “Arkham Asylum,” “The Long Halloween.”
These are the classics. No other stories can hope to touch them. The point is, everyone has already read the best Batman stories of all time, and everyone’s already talked them to death.
And so it is that the New 52 “Batman” series, written by Scott Snyder and drawn by Greg Capullo, is better than any of those stories above. Yes, I said. it.
Better.
The team’s bestselling and argument-inspiring run of 52 issues (#0 to #51) is nearing its end.
Let’s look back on the ways New 52 Batman has been the best the world has ever seen...
10. The Consistent Creative Team
Think how rare it is for one writer and one artist, each so well suited for the other, to have so much uninterrupted time to explore a single character. After the final issue's release later this month, the “Batman” series as we know it will have lasted for 52 issues (#0 to #51).
In a comic landscape where writers usually have short runs on characters, and fill-in art is a fact of life, the sheer consistency of this series makes it stand apart.
In contrast to other contemporary series, “Batman” seems elemental and hard as a diamond. It’s like it has its own gravitational pull, a unique weightiness. Out of 52 issues over five years, Greg Capullo drew 47 and Scott Snyder wrote them all. That is a thing of rare beauty in this world.