Why is The Batman's Grave?
[CW: discussion of sexual coercion, fascism, and police brutality.] All images used from The Batman's Grave , copyright DC Comics. First released from 2019-20, The Batman's Grave is a hard comic to talk about, and it's entirely because of the context behind its publication. The 12-issue series was spearheaded by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, a writer/artist duo known for kickstarting Wildstorm's The Authority. That book, with its lean, mean 12 issues of weird superheroes fighting global threats while nudge-nudge wink-wink commenting on the political ramifications of a superhero power fantasy was the harbinger of how most superhero comics are made today. Every work by the creators since then (especially Bryan Hitch, whose work with the ever-abysmal Mark Millar consists of The Authority 's view of the world being taken to its most ghoulish, authoritarian extremes) has been chasing its success in some way. That The Batman's Grave was touted as Ellis and Hitch wor