"story". There's only one. Mr. Freeze as he was presented in TAS is a one hit wonder character. Good for one story with zero room for exploration. Literally all of his other episodes after "Heart of Ice" have been laughably bad.
Disagree on the bases his episode in batman beyond was fantastic as well.
Batman Beyond 2.0. I forget the issues, but in the first trade there's an arc focusing on Man-Bat. It's very good and incredibly dark and depressing.Edit: Oh, and Man-Bat, but nobody likes Man-Bat.
Bane has had... 3 stories, I would say. Knightfall Volume 1, Secret Six, and the recent I Am Gotham/Suicide/Bane trio. All others are fundamentally just "Knightfall but different," like Batman: Europa turned out to be. God what a disappointment that was.
Freeze is a little narrower. He was the baddy in the first arc of Gotham Central, which is definitely worth reading.
The sad truth is that Mr. Freeze doesn't have any good comics. All attempts are just aping and inevitably fucking up "Heart of Ice." You just don't hear people complain about it because No, its not Heart of Ice but its not Batman & Robin either has become an ironclad defense for lazy Freeze stories that do juuust enough to ape the Dini origin.
Well....Heart of Ice was probably aping this Batman and Outsiders story. The whole dying wife in a cryogenic freeze tank thing....yeah it started here
Don't know why you put Bruce and Selina in spoilers, but I finished reading Batman: Heart of Hush.Very fond of Heart of Hush- it has one of my all-time favouritepanels.Bruce and Selina
Well, that's rather the point. Everyone in the Batman books, including the heroes, suffers from some sort of trauma and/or mental illness.Half of his rogues gallery is insane.
The only thing I can think of is the first half of Robin: Year One. The latter half features Two-Face as the villain.I forgot, is there any notable comic with The Mad Hatter in it?
.Kite-Man? Is this literally a dude who flies on a kite?
For Mr. Freeze, Scott Snyder has a single issue comic that does a cool take on him, can't remember issue though sorry...
Well, that's rather the point. Everyone in the Batman books, including the heroes, suffers from some sort of trauma and/or mental illness.
The only thing I can think of is the first half of Robin: Year One. The latter half features Two-Face as the villain.
It's no Batman villain, but is there a definitive 'best story or book' for Mysterio?
Well, the words crazy and insane definitely have negative connotations, but I mean mental illness and the fallout from trauma in general. Bruce, Dick, Barbara, Jason, Cass, Tim, Damian, Selina, etc. all have had incredibly traumatic events in their lives that have sometimes led to things like depression, suicidal thoughts, PTSD, etc. The difference is that they still try to help others instead of hurting them.I don't think any of the heroes are crazy.
I will vouch for this.Since all of the big villains are taken, i'll throw in James Gordon Jr.
Black Mirror is his best appearance, and also one of the best all around Batman stories.
You should probably warn everyone to wear protective gloves when reading that one.Kite-Man: the recently released Batman #27.
And yes, I'm serious.