Batman: Damned

In this three-issue prestige series from Dark Dragon Books, writer Brian Azzarello (with Olav Beemer) and artist Lee Bermejo strip Batman down to his most vulnerable, exploring a gritty, supernatural-tinged mystery that pushes the Dark Knight to his psychological limits. Published in 2020, the story follows a wounded and haunted Bruce Wayne as he investigates a death that may or may not have been his doing, with Bermejo’s painterly, shadow-drenched art lending a visceral, almost hallucinatory quality to the narrative. A bold, mature-readers take on the mythos, Batman: Damned is notable for its unflinching character study and its willingness to blur the line between reality and nightmare.