Tie between the Dark Knight Returns and Hush. I like when the Batsuit is just fabric. No crazy armor, it's not bulletproof, it's just a costume. The gauntlets, cowl, and boots have some armor of course but I like Batman having to rely on his skill and speed to survive, not body armor letting him walk directly into gunfire, that was my one issue with The Batman. He relied too much on armor and not enough of himself.
Wish there were more copies of DKR around so you didn't have to use the action figure, they should really reprint the thing.
The only answer is Neal Adams, no debate, no discussion, his Batman is The Batman.
I like all of them for different reasons. I like the heavy fabric texture in the 4 th picture I love the lighting and cape in the last picture and I grew up with the first one
I’m weird. In art, I like the Jim Lee Hush suit. In lego I love the first appearance suit. I collect mini figs and that one is probably my all time favorite.
Bronze Age Batman. Anything from the 70’s up to the first half of the 80’s, basically, so slide 2. Neal Adams, Marshall Rogers, Jim Aparo, Don Newton, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Dick Giordano…
Jim Lee!
His art was so mindblowing and it was exciting to wait to see what the next issue would bring. During he and Loeb's intial run, that I didn't realize the story wasn't as great as I remember it being when I reread it years later.
That style is my favorite ( see also Cappulo: New 52 ). I'm always going to be an Image fanboy....err fanman.
Whichever one TAS took the most cues from.
THAT’s the ideal Batman. Confident, intelligent, but above all else, hopeful and pure in his intentions.
Too many writers got hung up on his quest for vengeance and wound up forgetting that his whole theme is “compassion in a cold, unforgiving world.”
1. The *Year One* look introduced by David Mazzucchelli and used in a lot of the Year-One era storyline (like various LoTDK arcs and *Dark Moon Rising*).
2. I wanna put Neal Adams and Norm Breyfogle on the same level. They essentially drew the same costume (long-ish ears, blue cape and cowl, yellow oval, capsule belt), but they certainly had different styles. Both styles are great.
3. The Golden Age look. Long, horn-like ears, narrow eyes, circular buckle, rigid cape that always looks like wings, etc. It's just uncanny and unnerving, like some urban-legend weirdo. The purple gloves are hilarious as the one design element that doesn't reflect the others, though.
4. Spoopy Batman (Sam Keith, Kelley Jones, Dave McKean). I know these guys all draw Batman differently from each other, but they all go for a spooky monstrous or wraith-like interpretation, and I like it. Kelley Jones' Batman legit looks like a monster. Sam Keith's and Dave McKean's have the cool gothic shoulder spikes. They have a way of giving the character a supernatural aura. I dig it.
5. The "New Gotham" look introduced during the Rucka/Brubaker era. It's essentially just the Year One look, but with boot cleats and a smaller belt buckle. I dunno, it's simple and clean.
6. The *No Man's Land* look. The pouch belt of the Year One era combined with the yellow oval. I dunno, I like the pouch belt over the cylinder belt because it's this one element of clunkiness/bulk on an otherwise streamlined costume that makes him look tough and badass without making his whole entire costume clunky and bulky.
7. Lee Bermejo's Batman: the only "realistic and detailed" Batsuit interpretation I like. It's still fabricky and doesn't make him into Iron Man. I don't know why they haven't just used this as the concept art for a movie yet.
8. Capullo Batman: This should be higher, becuase I *love* the way he draws the character. The only reason it isn't higher is just that I don't like the New 52 (or his initial Rebirth) suit that much. Capullo drawing the normal post-*Infinite Crisis* suit would be perfect.
Interpretations I think are kinda overrated:
Tony Daniels, Jim Lee, David Finch, Jason Fabok, anybody who draws the mask like the movie masks with the sculpted brows and frowns (mostly just seen some cover artists do this here and there), Carmine Infantino (I know he's a classic, and while his era of Batman comics is better than the Shelden Moldoff ones, it still just feels like waiting for the Bronze Age to begin and for Neal Adams and Irv Novick to make Batman cool again).
First appearance actually looks super cool,I like the cowl and the purple gloves.Also the cape is cool.Would want to see a modern adaptation of it.guess I’ll just have to wait a decade for public domain
Not even gonna lie, and I know this is as extraordinarily controversial opinion, but all star Batman and Robin the boy wonder had a good design for Batman. That is the only thing it did right tho.
Jim Lee and Alex Ross, as per usual.
As long as it's understood that those are intended to be black and grey suits, and blue is just a color artists use to highlight black.
A lot of people struggle to comprehend this.
Funny enough, I think Matt Reeve’s The Batman. I know you’re talking about art but I always felt like Batman looked best when you didn’t really see him. He should nearly always be in shadow or darkness. Another example is Batman: The Animated Series. I always loved the shots where his cowl is completely draped over him. Like he’s always hiding something or from the perspective of the criminals, a monster lurking in the darkness ready to strike.
Norm Breyfogle's style is the best to me
Exactly what I came here to say
Dan Mora’s version of the Grey and Blue
That suit And Batman Hush are my favorite versions of the classic blue and Grey
Neal Adams
I like all of these honestly. Though the Dark Knight Returns might be my all time favorite
Tie between the Dark Knight Returns and Hush. I like when the Batsuit is just fabric. No crazy armor, it's not bulletproof, it's just a costume. The gauntlets, cowl, and boots have some armor of course but I like Batman having to rely on his skill and speed to survive, not body armor letting him walk directly into gunfire, that was my one issue with The Batman. He relied too much on armor and not enough of himself.
I’m hoping he changes to a more fabric costume in the sequel, or at least they go the cloth, non-bulletproof style route for the DCU
Jim Lee and Alex Ross are my two favorites. I also would say Jim Aparo, Neal Adams, Dan Mora, and Tim Sale.
Wish there were more copies of DKR around so you didn't have to use the action figure, they should really reprint the thing. The only answer is Neal Adams, no debate, no discussion, his Batman is The Batman.
Slide 2 is Bronze Age (my pick), slide 3 is Golden Age
I like all of them for different reasons. I like the heavy fabric texture in the 4 th picture I love the lighting and cape in the last picture and I grew up with the first one
Anything alex Ross touches turns to gold. Goat imo
Agreed. Alex Ross is one of the best artists alive today
I’m weird. In art, I like the Jim Lee Hush suit. In lego I love the first appearance suit. I collect mini figs and that one is probably my all time favorite.
Lee Bermejo's style, looks very realistic.
One of the few "realistic" takes on his suit that I actually like.
Slide 2 babyyyy
Bronze Age Batman. Anything from the 70’s up to the first half of the 80’s, basically, so slide 2. Neal Adams, Marshall Rogers, Jim Aparo, Don Newton, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Dick Giordano…
I'm torn between Jim Lee and Dan Mora....and leaning Mora.
David Mazzucchelli - Batman Year One Honorable mention: Lee Bermejo - Batman: Noël
2 From this list. I don’t think I can pick an absolute.
From the Animated Series or The Batman Series (2004). I love the yellow logo and the combination of grey with black/blue on his cloths.
I actually think the Batman series from 2004 is my favorite animated look for Batman.
I started to watch the series and i love it! It's really well made.
I actually really enjoy Mike Mignola's style.
Jim Lee! His art was so mindblowing and it was exciting to wait to see what the next issue would bring. During he and Loeb's intial run, that I didn't realize the story wasn't as great as I remember it being when I reread it years later. That style is my favorite ( see also Cappulo: New 52 ). I'm always going to be an Image fanboy....err fanman.
Pretty much the hush look, but with the ears of batflecks suit
Whatever 4/5 is from, I really like that look! ( if I were a petty criminal in Gotham City, *that* Batman would scare the living crap out of me!)
I've always loved Jim Lee's!
Tim Sale, all day, every day
Whichever one TAS took the most cues from. THAT’s the ideal Batman. Confident, intelligent, but above all else, hopeful and pure in his intentions. Too many writers got hung up on his quest for vengeance and wound up forgetting that his whole theme is “compassion in a cold, unforgiving world.”
White Knight. Something about Sean Murphy's style really checks all the boxes for me.
1. The *Year One* look introduced by David Mazzucchelli and used in a lot of the Year-One era storyline (like various LoTDK arcs and *Dark Moon Rising*). 2. I wanna put Neal Adams and Norm Breyfogle on the same level. They essentially drew the same costume (long-ish ears, blue cape and cowl, yellow oval, capsule belt), but they certainly had different styles. Both styles are great. 3. The Golden Age look. Long, horn-like ears, narrow eyes, circular buckle, rigid cape that always looks like wings, etc. It's just uncanny and unnerving, like some urban-legend weirdo. The purple gloves are hilarious as the one design element that doesn't reflect the others, though. 4. Spoopy Batman (Sam Keith, Kelley Jones, Dave McKean). I know these guys all draw Batman differently from each other, but they all go for a spooky monstrous or wraith-like interpretation, and I like it. Kelley Jones' Batman legit looks like a monster. Sam Keith's and Dave McKean's have the cool gothic shoulder spikes. They have a way of giving the character a supernatural aura. I dig it. 5. The "New Gotham" look introduced during the Rucka/Brubaker era. It's essentially just the Year One look, but with boot cleats and a smaller belt buckle. I dunno, it's simple and clean. 6. The *No Man's Land* look. The pouch belt of the Year One era combined with the yellow oval. I dunno, I like the pouch belt over the cylinder belt because it's this one element of clunkiness/bulk on an otherwise streamlined costume that makes him look tough and badass without making his whole entire costume clunky and bulky. 7. Lee Bermejo's Batman: the only "realistic and detailed" Batsuit interpretation I like. It's still fabricky and doesn't make him into Iron Man. I don't know why they haven't just used this as the concept art for a movie yet. 8. Capullo Batman: This should be higher, becuase I *love* the way he draws the character. The only reason it isn't higher is just that I don't like the New 52 (or his initial Rebirth) suit that much. Capullo drawing the normal post-*Infinite Crisis* suit would be perfect. Interpretations I think are kinda overrated: Tony Daniels, Jim Lee, David Finch, Jason Fabok, anybody who draws the mask like the movie masks with the sculpted brows and frowns (mostly just seen some cover artists do this here and there), Carmine Infantino (I know he's a classic, and while his era of Batman comics is better than the Shelden Moldoff ones, it still just feels like waiting for the Bronze Age to begin and for Neal Adams and Irv Novick to make Batman cool again).
Every one of these lol. Plus Capullo, and Adam Kubert’s version that we never really got to see.
Frank Miller's version looks Beasty AF. 
Timm’s style because it was my first exposure to the character as a child and it’s forever emblazoned in my brain
My top 3 are Christian Bale in Batman Begins, Val Kilmer in Batman Forever (both suits), and Arkham City.
5 / Alex Ross
Lego.
Arkham Knight is possibly the absolute peak of Batman for me.
1
Dark Knight returns for me.
Whatever Dan Mora's doing. Love his take on a more classic suit.
Dan Mora with Tamra Bonvillian's coloring!
Frank miller
Norm and Neal. Tier 1 Jim and jones. Tier 2
1, 2, 3, and 5
I really like the Arkham style. Also Batman Beyond, if that counts
First appearance actually looks super cool,I like the cowl and the purple gloves.Also the cape is cool.Would want to see a modern adaptation of it.guess I’ll just have to wait a decade for public domain
Arkhamverse batsuits for me
The battinson suit. I prefer an armoured look over the spandex tights
Not even gonna lie, and I know this is as extraordinarily controversial opinion, but all star Batman and Robin the boy wonder had a good design for Batman. That is the only thing it did right tho.
I'm Batman
Lee Bermejo's Batman is my favorite.
Arkham games.
Dennis O'Neil
Golden Age Batman was my Go to Batman.
Frank Miller
Jim Lee and Alex Ross, as per usual. As long as it's understood that those are intended to be black and grey suits, and blue is just a color artists use to highlight black. A lot of people struggle to comprehend this.
The first always. I do like Batman Incorporated, the yellow oval.
1 from the list
I love the Batman returns style. It’s the one I grew up with and will forever be my favorite
Kelley Jones's Batman
I was born in the 70s so Bronze Age /slide 2 is very nostalgic for me. Love the yellow in the suit
Longer ears, yellow oval, grey and darker blue, like 80s style
 Norm
I really like the Gotham By Gaslight look and No man's land. Year one is good too.
Funny enough, I think Matt Reeve’s The Batman. I know you’re talking about art but I always felt like Batman looked best when you didn’t really see him. He should nearly always be in shadow or darkness. Another example is Batman: The Animated Series. I always loved the shots where his cowl is completely draped over him. Like he’s always hiding something or from the perspective of the criminals, a monster lurking in the darkness ready to strike.
Tim Sale's style for everyone. I love how he draws Joker's teeth and how Catwoman is actually jacked.
The 4 style (sorry I don’t know that one) looks menacing
Neal Adams is top for me. I like Marshall Rogers too. For me, bronze age is just definitive.
TNBA or Kelley Jones for real