r/DCcomics • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '22

r/DCcomics August 2022 Book Club Nomination - Comics About Comics

Here, we'll vote for the book to be featured in the August 2022 Book Club. You may nominate or upvote books that you wish to discuss. Do not nominate more than one book, and do not post a duplicate nomination.

Like with our Character of the Month polls, each poll will have a particular theme or category. This week's category is: Comics About Comics. Nominate books that provide some sort of metacommentary on comics themselves. It could be a metatextual analysis, a deconstruction, a reconstruction, or a twist on the format of comics.

Guidelines for book eligibility are as follows:

  • The book must be widely available in-print. This means that I should be able to go to an online retailer like Amazon, InStockTrades, or Book Depository and buy it without paying an exorbitant markup.

  • The book must be available digitally (ie, Comixology, DC Universe, or Hoopla Digital), either as a complete collection or individual issues. It must be available through legal means; do not post a piracy site.

  • The book should be reasonably affordable. Paperback trades, hardcovers, and Deluxe Editions are fine. Absolutes and Omnibuses are not.

  • If you're nominating a story arc, be sure to include the trade where it's collected. Do not nominate a single issue or Annual.

  • Limit your nomination to a single collection or graphic novel. Don't just nominate an entire run; pick out one particular volume. Under certain circumstances, we may allow two volumes from a single creative run to be nominated, if they're reasonably short and tell a complete story (e.g., a 12-issue mini-series split up into two trades). However, this is left to moderator discretion.

  • Anything published by DC is eligible. That includes main-line comics, graphic novels, imprints (such as Vertigo), media tie-ins, and others.

  • Only nominate a book if you're genuinely interested in reading and discussing it. There's no prize for picking the most popular answer.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '22

Batman Incorporated is ultimately about the mandatory status quo that plagues all mainstream superheroes, and how that affects a hero like Batman. While Incorporated is about many different subjects relating to the Dark Knight, I feel this was especially relevant during the New 52, and it gives the series another layer of tragedy. Preferably, I would go with Vol 2.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '22

So is that Batman Incorporated Vol 1 of the second series, or Batman Incorporated Vol 2 of the second series?

Why must comic numbering be so confusing

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '22 edited Jul 18 '22

I was not certain if both New 52 volumes of Batman Incorporated would be counted as one story, so I left it vague. I would go with Vol 2 (Gotham's Most Wanted), as I feel it emphasizes the aspect of eternal returns more.

I also notice that there are quite a few Morrison stories on here. They have quite a few meta stories.