Continuing on this spiral, the case FOR a bigger DC Bat-chronology is same as X-Men publication order.

While it’s hard to recall each narrative with a dozen different books in between, it’s also fun to make continuity progress not having to read the next month’s issue of the same series every day.

Think the true right answer is the first one, read A series.

Batman(3-4 stories early on) & ‘Tec would take about 3 years a piece 1 story daily. Beyond that longest runs are like Nightwing is about 350 across ALL ongoings.

So 1 book, only reading another if an issue ends with To Be Continued in… ?

Tbh if I really truly did this, Mike’s Amazing World seems best, just filter DC monthly & read what fits interest.

More work than following a list & still would miss Bat appearances in like Suicide Squad or Animal Man, but would flow better for a picture into wider DC events as they occur.

Also no Events listed unless Bat-centric - so Crises, Metal, etc. - but not things they have important tangential connection to like Emperor Joker, Flashpoint, Forever Evil…

And if I add that stuff why not do it all - comics for Batman Adventures, Batman ‘66, Batman Beyond…

To be fair, the Batman stuff is fully Bat Family - especially pre New52, seemingly no Justice League for Bruce or Titans appearances for Dick/Tim unless it crosses over with main books.

But ufff, the color coding alone has me fiending to try to work through these.

Found a Daredevil one too 1964-2025, approaching 1200 books.

Only other 2 heroes I maybe want a full continuity are Thor & Fantastic Four.

Anyone else, I can jump around - Superman Triangle Years, Green Lantern Rebirth, Hulk - David, Planet/World War, etc., I wouldn’t read from inception to now.

It’s OnLy about 6500 books + releases since. About half the entire continuity of every X-Men series, which again, my 2-ish per day pace there will take probably another decade still.

In trying to free myself from universe-wide multi-book continuities, realizing I don’t love story arcs, rather one-shots w/callbacks & interrelations over time.

‘70s Bats didn’t do Ra’s in a 6-issue run, he popped up every few months. Sentai has support stories across 50 eps, not a 3ep arc = gone.

Actually found decent Bat Family orders Post Crisis - LotDK/SotB/Nightwing/Robin/Azrael/Catwoman/etc., but nearing a century of the character, it’s pushing 10,000+ issues on par with my X reading.

Rather treat each book separate for couple hundred tops than have to do 2 or more a day for a decade.

Also didn’t realize she’s only like 5 years older than me, put out her first album at 15, and would’ve still been a teenager when “Simple and Clean” hit.

Much as I enjoy long form ongoing narratives, never thought it worked great in movies. Can build on past events but need to stand alone.

Only feel it works great if production plans quick turnaround - Matrix & Pirates worked, sequel within a year. But Spider-Verse & Fast/Furious cliffhangers = bad.

But unsure how I feel about films pace wise vs a tv reboot.

Lot of info to absorb - 1-2 do an accelerated adaptation of 23-ish episodes, then a gap & 3-4 are basically one flow.

I watched in a week, they released over 14 years, 9 alone 3 to 4. I don’t know how you’d enjoy except in quick sequence.

DS2 isn’t hitting me like the first & 200+ side missions is pulling between my narrative/gameplay interest vs completionism.

Love Kojima, but reminds me of my relationship to most Nintendo, rather brute force a couple techniques to mainline than experiment with an overwhelming breadth of mechanics.

Undecided on games.

Finally got a control groove back to Death Stranding, but free of series replay “deadlines”, might better enjoy dipping into 2, <1hr each than grinding one.

Rough, as games I can’t estimate time for progress like other media. Satisfaction could be 20m or 2hr depending on title.

Doing 1 thing too often leads me to just one more “chapter” to finish and get to the next thing quicker, becomes a chore rather than joy.

I’m trying to maintain my balance across different formats, so sticking to 5-6 book chapters/comic issues + 2 tv eps per day, couple movies a week.