Batman: Under the Red Hood

One of the most iconic Batman images for me, and for many others I would expect, is the four volume paperback cover with Batman on the floor cradling a broken and bloodied - and dead - Robin. So when Red Hood showed up it was a little confusing. Sure, there have been resurrections in the DC universe, but I had missed this one entirely.

Under the Red Hood is fantastic. Jason Todd is back (again as we ‘saw' him in Hush) and he is determined to clean up the streets of Gotham in a way that Batman was never capable of doing. He sees Batman's morality as a weakness and while he's working way at Black Mask's hold on Gotham he's actually setting the stage for his ultimate showdown with the man who he thought of as a father.

Gripping, tightly wound and emotional.