Batman: R.I.P. by Grant Morrison
Could this be the Batman’s last stand?
Gotham’s guardian has defeated countless criminals. But this time they’re targeting not his body, but his mind. Under the tutelage of the Black Glove, a mysterious mastermind with ties to Batman’s earliest days as a crimefighter, a gruesome army of super-villains—including The Joker himself—has set out to shatter Batman’s psyche once and for all. Will he be able to put the pieces back together, or has the Caped Crusader’s career come to an end?
Grant Morrison, the acclaimed author of comics masterpieces like The Invisibles, New X-Men and All Star Superman, joins artists Tony S. Daniel and Lee Garbet to take you on a mind-bending, bestselling journey into the heart of Batman’s darkness!
Blackest Night by Geoff Johns
In Blackest Night, superstar writer Geoff Johns (Infinite Crisis, Green Lantern, The Flash) and artists Ivan Reis, Oclair Albert and Joe Prado exhume the greatest secrets of the DC Universe in this graphic novel collection of the smash hit comic series!
Across thousands of worlds, the dead have risen. They are the Black Lanterns, fallen heroes and villains called to extinguish all light—and life—in the universe.
As the greatest Green Lantern to ever wield the emerald ring, it is Hal Jordan’s duty to lead the living against this army of the dead. All seven corps of the emotional spectrum must end their war against each other and unite against the bearers of the black power ring—or bear witness to the end of all creation. Issues #0-8.
Project Superpowers by Alex Ross
From comics great Alex Ross comes Project Superpowers, an exciting graphic novel saga that resurrects the lost superheroes of the Golden Age of Comics and solves the mystery of their disappearance after WWII.
Bruce Carter is old and near death when the American Spirit—a manifestation of heroes long dead—magically transports him to the European front. There, as The Fighting Yank, he relives the role he played fighting Hitler and the Axis scourge…and comes to terms with the great wrong he committed against his costumed allies. Now he must make amends…before time runs out.
Includes Fighting Yank’s War Journal and Golden Age Character Reference Art, both by Alex Ross, plus sketches, alternate covers, concept art, and more. Softcover.
Batman: Vampire: Tales of the Multiverse by Doug Moench
As a strange red rain falls upon Gotham, the city is caught in a vortex of decay, for those who feed on blood and despair are about to suck the last life from her dying veins. Only one soul stands against the menace—but Batman is undergoing his own transformation….
“Vampires are real…but not all of them are evil.”
In his dreams comes a figure—an ethereal woman who gives him a gift he will need to fight the chaos. To Batman, all criminals are vampires, cloaked in night to prey on the innocent. But the master of this nightmare is no ordinary villain—it is the Lord of the Undead—who’s more dangerous than he’s ever been. To combat Dracula’s unholy brethren, the Dark Knight must give up everything he holds dear, including life itself….
