Batman: Broken City

Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, the acclaimed team behind 100 Bullets, reunited at DC for this taut, noir-inflected Batman story. Published in 2020 as a single prestige-format issue, Broken City drops the Dark Knight into a grim, rain-slicked mystery that plays to the duo's strengths in hardboiled crime fiction. It's a standalone, mature-readers tale that distills the character's detective roots into a sharp, atmospheric one-shot.