As a teenage comic book fan coming of age as superheroes were breaking into the mainstream, I always approached any conversation about Batman with a hipster’s sense of ownership. Like any comics nerd ...

One year, four stories, and twelve issues later, Batman’s most haunting storyline in years has reached its end. The lauded miniseries Batman: Dark Patterns concluded with its twelfth issue, and the ...

Batman: Dark Patterns is exactly what it sounds like: an incredibly dark, realistic, detective story featuring the Caped Crusader. It’s gritty, realistic, and impeccably written by Dan Watters and ...

“I love the strangeness of Batman,” Watters said in a statement. “A man dressed as a huge, gothic bat, solving crimes in a hostile city of black magicians, mad scientists, and superstitious, cowardly ...