It appears they are doing that with New 52. The first runs have been collected via Batman Vol. 1: Court of Owls (Batman #1-7), Batman: Night of Owls, (Batman #8-9 + assorted Bat family titles) and Batman Vol. 2: City of Owls (Batman #8-12 + Annual #1).

Batman #13-17 will be collected in Batman Vol 3: Death of the Family and its accompanying stories in Joker: Death of the Family.

I would love to get [this] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401237770/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2HTHRVKNRES31&coliid=IXR9DATVWB1TI) or any other comic on my wishlist. I just got into them and I'm dying for more.

Kenzo Tenma

Thank you for the contest!

Yes, Batman Vol: 1 Court of Owls contains the first 7 issues in the new Batman Run. It contains everything leading up to The Night of the Owls. If you jumped in at The Night of the Owls then I can imagine you're pretty lost. It would be like walking into a movie theater with 35min left in the film. The Bat-family does pop up here and there throughout the series but this is good old fashion Batman & Alfred centric comic book.

Batman 2 : City of Owls will be the second part. A.K.A Night of the Owls and on or issues 8 through 12 as well as the annual issue involving Mr. Freeze. It's not coming out till March of next year though. Batman 8-12 and Annual #1 should be really easy to find at your LCB if you don't want to wait.

These are two great 'new 52' GN's.

• Batman court of owls
  
  
• Batman city of owls
  

Get the volumes to catch up and then either buy the ones not released in volumes yet digitally or try to find them on ebay to catch up.

Vol. 1 (Issues 1-7)

Vol. 2 (Issue 8-12)

I hope I was somewhat of a help.

My favorite comic book memory is actually kind of depressing...

I got started reading comics about a year ago, a few weeks before my best friend died. And for some reason, after that I kept reading Deadpool: Wade Wilsons War over and over. That stupid Merc with a mouth helped get me through a really rough time. So for that I'll always have some love for that book. :D

Batman

You could start at the New 52, which is the reboot that happened in 2011. The reboot is a good starting point because there's not much necessary background information needed. Volume 1 and Volume 2 are out, and Volume 3 will be out in less than two weeks. After this, you could wait for Volume 4 to come out in May or start buying the individual issues that come out.

http://www.amazon.com/Batman-Vol-The-Court-Owls/dp/1401235425/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376068525&sr=8-1&keywords=Batman+Vol.+1

http://www.amazon.com/Batman-Vol-The-City-Owls/dp/1401237770/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376068531&sr=8-1&keywords=Batman+Vol.+2

Get those two. You can start the new arc at Batman #21.

It really isn't necessary to read all the periphery books from the Batman family of titles. They serve to broaden the scope of Night of the Owls. However, the only issues that really "need" to be read are Batman, Nightwing and Detective Comics - and 'tec isn't even that necessary.


As it is, the whole Night of the Owls story is going to be collected in a trade, along with Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Batman.

Admittedly, I torrented something called 'Night of the Owls' but it felt severely disjointed from all the crossovers included. I'm desperately trying to get into the current run of comics having been out of the loop for some time.

So if I buy this, this is purely Batman, no Nightwing crossover etc? But what is this Is this the next part? If so, how many parts are there?

21 I believe is the start of the run titled Zero Year, so they are the same thing. I'd start with 1 so you're not jumping into it in the middle. Here are some links for you.

1-6

7-12

supplemental material for the above

13-17

supplemental material for 13-17

The supplemental material isn't required to get what's going on (I'm not really worrying about it, I've only read 1-12 to this point and am waiting for 13-17 to come out in one volume), but it does help give you a greater understanding of the full story, from what I've heard.

edit: not sure why ppl are downvoting? If there's any inaccuracy in this please comment by all means.