I love Batman. I love Batman so much that when I finished the first draft to my dissertation - focused on the remediation of style in comics and film - I got a Batman tattoo. When I was a kid, Tim Burton's Batman (1989) and The Animated Series (1992-1995) got me into comics. When I was a teenager and moved away from comics, the Batman titles were the only ones I still kept tabs on...and then I eventually stopped reading them (there were not a lot of comic book stores in Port Washington, Wisconsin). When I got back into comics in college, after some heckling from my friends Neal and Will, I started back up with Batman. I read Batman: The Long Halloween (1996-1997) and Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (1989) before I was handed a copy of Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli's Batman: Year One (1987).
