If you only read one series...

I'm not going to mention Dark Knight, Watchmen or even V. All those should be required reading ANYWAYS.

In all honesty, the best story I've read in years was Identity Crisis. It's not so much a super hero story as a story that just happens to have super heroes in it. Then again, it was written by a best selling author (who is taking over JLA and has me so excited I could explode).

Spoiler:

The race in the Batmobile back to the Drake house, and the full page of Batman holding Tim is easily one of the best moments in comics I have ever read. Period. It takes a hell of alot for printed words to actually instill a sense of panic.

It out in TPB, and I strongly suggest everyone to pick it up.

Another great mini-series was Batman:Hush. I forgot just how good it was until I reread the whole thing from beginning to end yesterday. Needed something to do on a long car trip and before I knew it, it was a coupole hours and 12 issues later. The best Bat-story since Dark Knight (well, it's tied with Killing Joke. Another one everyone should read right now.)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Acro-nym

Identity Crisis would have been better if the heroes fighting Deathstroke hadn't been written as incompetent.

Except that they wern't written as incompetent. They were written as being caught off gaurd by the best tactician on the planet. It's ok when Batman does it, but if Deathstroke does it it's stupid?

If they were incompetent, they wouldn't have would up beating him, would they?

There's nowhere I can't reach.