Matt Reeves' long-awaited The Batman starring Robert Pattinson is just about to open on Friday, March 4, and is getting 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:pretty stellar early reviews.

If the m🐻oviegoing public agrees with the early critics, we might be getting a couple of creative hands that will be charting the course of the live-action Batman for many more years to come.

Which makes the Batman comic book stories that inspire Reeves and Pattinson all the more relevant for 🎀the foreseeable future.

Reeves, The Batman's director and co-writer that he says inspired his version of DC's Dark Knight. We tend to believe him because two of them made Newsaram's own list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Batman stories of all time, but we think all four are g🐻reat pi🎉cks.

Here's what titles Reeve𓆉s says inspired The Batm🤪an:

• by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
• by Darwyn Cooke
• by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli
• by Loeb and Sale

꧑And in an intervi🐽ew with , Robert Pattison has named his favorite Batman stories as well:

• by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean
• by Dennis O'Neil, Edward Hannigan, and John Beatty
• by Mike W. Barr, O'Neil, Jerry Bingham, Tom Grindberg, and Norm Breyfogle
• by O'Neil and Dick Giordano
• by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo

"In the movies, Batman's always been portrayed as quite practical, matter-of-fact, in the reasons why he becomes Batman, but in the comics, a lot of them are about quite esoteric subjects,♕" Pattinson says. "A lot of them he's hallucinating and completely dissociating. That has not really been done so much in the movies." 

DC is offering the first three stories Reeves cited𒆙 as a scheduled for release T✨uesday, March 1, but the individual story-arcs are available now in hardcover, softcover, single issues, and even digitally.

At the 2020 DC Fandome, Reeves specifically remarked 🍰how Cooke's Batman Ego features Bruce Wayne "confronting the beast" that is Batman. 

"There's a lot in what it's trying to do in the story abo♈ut him confronting the shadow side of himself and the degree to which you have self-knowledge," Reeves explained.

And while it isn't named specifically, Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's '' Batman story also seems to be an inspiration for The Batman. In the trailers, the streets of Gotham City are flooded, with the film's main villain Riddler apparently the prime suspect. That's very similar to the 2013' 'Zero Year' in which the Riddler blows up a reservoir to flood the city - while a hurrica🤡ne is also assaulting Gotham.

In the bigger picture, 'Zero Year' also details Batman's growth from a simple vigilante to a hero to the entire city - while also depiᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚcting how the Riddler grew to become the supervဣillain we now know.

And if you wind up enjoying The Batman when you get to see it in March, its screenwriter actually wrote a Batman comic book himself. No, not director/co-writer Matt Reeves, but the film's other writer Mattson Tomlin. Tomlin wrote the   limited series drawn by Andrea Sorrentino, the collected edition of whiܫch went on sale on Februa🔴ry 22.

The Batman film openꦏs on March 4 in most major territories.

Keep track of all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new Batman comics, graphic novels, and reprints in 2022 and beyond.