Books like Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Ten years after hanging up the cape, a fifty-five-year-old Bruce Wayne returns to a Gotham overrun by gangs and television pundits, in the story that remade Batman as a grim, ageing vigilante.
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Batman: The Killing Joke
The Joker escapes Arkham to prove that one bad day can drive anyone insane, and sets out to demonstrate it on Commissioner Gordon, while flashbacks offer a possible version of how the Joker began.
Batman: Year One
Bruce Wayne's first year in the cowl runs alongside Jim Gordon's first year as an honest cop in a rotten Gotham police department, in a spare, street-level retelling of how it began.
Batman: Three Jokers
Batman, Batgirl and Red Hood discover that the Joker has been three different men all along, and hunting them forces each of them to reopen the worst thing the Joker ever did to them.
V for Vendetta
In a fascist post-nuclear Britain a man in a Guy Fawkes mask calling himself V blows up Parliament on the fifth of November and begins, methodically, to unmake the state that made him.
Steelheart
Ten years after a burst in the sky gave ordinary people superpowers and made them tyrants, David, who saw Steelheart, the invincible ruler of Newcago, bleed on the day he killed David's father, sets out to join the Reckoners, who assassinate Epics.
Batman: The Long Halloween
Early in his career, Batman, Captain Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent hunt a killer called Holiday, who strikes Gotham's crime families on one holiday each month for a year.
Chain-Gang All-Stars
In a near-future America, incarcerated fighters earn their freedom through televised death-matches, and two star lovers consider how long they can keep winning.
Vicious
Victor and Eli, brilliant, arrogant college roommates, discover that a near-death experience can give a person extraordinary abilities, and ten years later Victor breaks out of prison determined to find his old friend, who is now hunting everyone else with powers.
The Darkest Minds
After a disease kills most of America's children and leaves the survivors with dangerous powers, sixteen-year-old Ruby, who has spent six years in a brutal government camp hiding how powerful she is, escapes and joins a group of kids on the run.
Shatter Me
Juliette Ferrars has not touched anyone in 264 days, because her touch can kill, and the Reestablishment, which rules a ruined world, has locked her away, until it decides she could be useful as a weapon.
A Clockwork Orange
A teenage thug in a future England narrates his ultraviolent nights in a private Russian-English slang, then gets reconditioned by the state until even his taste for Beethoven hurts.
The Sheep Look Up
Over a single year in a near-future United States choked by pollution, where water has to be filtered, the air calls for masks and crops are failing, dozens of lives cross around Austin Train, an environmental prophet who has gone into hiding.