This summer Batman: Year One, the best Batman comic, gets even better

polygon.com:

For the comics art connoisseur, there’s only one Batman comic coming out this summer: the Batman: Year One Artist’s Edition.

For almost 40 years, Year One has been the definitive origin story for Batman, serving as a grimy, grounded foundation for the likes of Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan, Zack Snyder, and Matt Reeves, not to mention the makers of the Arkham games, Gotham the TV series, and, thanks to Batman: The Animated Series, the entire DC Animated Universe of the ’90s and ’00s.

And IDW’s Artist’s Edition, produced in partnership with DC Comics and Penguin Random House, promises to shed light on the making of the most influential Batman comic ever drawn, by reproducing David Mazzucchelli’s original page art in its original 14-by-21-inch size.

You’ve almost certainly heard of Year One’s writer, comic book titan Frank Miller, creator of Sin City, 300, and The Dark Knight Returns. Mazzucchelli, despite co-authoring the first stop in modern Batman canon, is less of a household name — though you might be familiar with his stylistically inventive, Eisner-winning 2009 graphic novel Asterios Polyp.

Miller was (and still is) best known for drawing his own stories when it came time to put Year One into production, but coming off of The Dark Knight Returns, he was apparently (reasonably) burned out on writing and drawing another novel-length story. Tapping the equally up-and-coming Mazzucchelli, who’d worked with Miller on Daredevil, is part of what made Year One a triumph not repeated since.

That’s a testament to Mazzucchelli’s talent, but also to his career choices. Year One was very nearly his last work in superhero comics, with his path quickly thereafter diverging so strongly into independent comics and academia that a friend of mine who had Professor Mazzucchelli’s class at the School of Visual Arts flatly refused to believe that we could have been talking about the same guy. The superhero world is extraordinarily lucky to have had him.

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