I have read posts saying (not explicitly) that some comic books are basic comics u have to read if u are a fan of that character or unless looks like ALL the fans of that character have read them.

In Bat's case there's many that I have read but others that I refuse to read like:

• The Killing Joke: HATE tragedies, more the big ones like this one
• Batman RIP: Dude I don't want see a lot of guys in spandex or black suits crying in a funeral
• A dead in the family: I don't want see a poor bird dying (Well Jason was a Robin, right?

Other cases is impossible for me like

• Cataclysm/Aftershock/No Man's Land: I don't find them ANYWHERE :'(
• The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul: I have it but something I don't have is much TIME
• The Dark Knight Returns: I don't feel ready to read an elseworld that big (unless the things I have heard about it are big)

I'm going to read Year One, yeah pretty crazy thinking that I stared reading comics half-year ago and I'm a big Batman fan that's the place I should have started , but I'm weird. Oh and the only reason I'm going to read it is because I'm going to see the movie and I don't want make the mistake of saw the movie/read the book if I can avoid it I'm going to do it.

My point is: is it a huge mistake? a crime for a fan? an unaccomplished obligation? a really bad thing?

PS: I stared with cartoons, I read almostALL the comics characters wikipedia's pages then when I learned their history (ALL the important parts and ALL Batman history and time line) I stared reading comics

Less Words: I start in comics with a previous general knowledge, specialized in Batman and family

PS 2: Sorry if there's some incoherence I'm learning english (Viva México amigos)

@RedOwl_1 said:

• Batman RIP: Dude I don't want see a lot of guys in spandex or black suits crying in a funeral

What? What? What?

There's no dudes in spandex crying at a funeral in RIP.

@CitizenBane said:

@RedOwl_1 said:

• Batman RIP: Dude I don't want see a lot of guys in spandex or black suits crying in a funeral

What? What? What?

LOL.

"The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul: I have it but something I don't have is much TIME"

Maybe you should just read the stories and not assume things about the titles.
BB

@Billy Batson said:

Maybe you should just read the stories and not assume things about the titles.
BB

yeah but I really get a bad first impression of mmm.. I don't remember it very good but I think was between Batman #687 and Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

@RainEffect said:

@RedOwl_1:

"The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul: I have it but something I don't have is much TIME"

Excuse me whilst I go and headbutt a brick wall.

Don't get so angry, is digital. I don't have ANY PHYSICAL comic :( (very sad) they don't sell them in the place I live (sadder thing)