The Batman's Grave
DC · 2019–2021 · 12 issues
About the series
In The Batman's Grave, Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch strip the Dark Knight down to his essentials for a taut, 12-issue DC mystery. The story follows Bruce Wayne as his detective work on a seemingly impossible murder drags him deeper into a conspiracy that threatens to shatter his world. Hitch's hyper-detailed, cinematic art grounds the action in a gritty, tactile Gotham, while Ellis's lean, propulsive writing focuses on Batman's relentless, almost obsessive logic. It's a modern, self-contained thriller that captures the character's core as a brilliant, damaged man in a war he can never truly win.