10 Smartest Decisions In DC Superhero History
2. Everything Is Canon - Grant Morrison's Batman
I KNOW THIS LIST HAS HAD A LOT OF BATMAN but just... hear me out, ok. I like me some Batman. Not too much Batman. Just... the right amount of Batman. (As a treat.)
In my mind, "just the right amount of Batman" is Grant Morrison's Batman, which kicked off in 2006 and concluded without the fanfare it deserved in 2013. The writer restored Bruce Wayne to - in their own words - the "hairy chested love god" seen in the O'Neil-Adams run from the seventies, but with one important distinction: everything was canon.
Morrison's love of comics developed pre-Crisis during the Silver Age, and so it's no surprise that a lot of those elements ended up playing into their run on the Caped Crusader - most noticeably in Batman R.I.P., which reimagined the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh as a failsafe backup personality locked in Bruce's subconscious; something he could revert to in the event he was ever placed under intense psychological attack.
Morrison's Bats kicked off what would eventually prove to be one of the character's most creative periods, introducing Bruce Wayne's child with Talia al Ghul, Damian Wayne, and then Batman Reborn following Bruce's death at the hands of Darkseid in Final Crisis.