Batman: Earth One Vol. 1

This is the most grounded Batman story I have ever read, Geoff Johns has created one of the greatest early stories of Batman's career.  This book retells the origin of Batman the death of Bruce Wayne's parents who each from the two most influential families of Gotham.  The big bad of this story is the Oswald Cobblepot the mayor of Gotham City.  As it turns out Cobblepot was trying to orchestrate the death of the Waynes so he could become mayor but instead a common mugger beat him to it.  Other characters who appear in this story are Jim Gordon, Barbara Gordon, Alfred & Harvey Bullock.   The characterization for all of these characters is simply amazing & spot on.  This is also the most intense version of Alfred to grace the page a war veteran who seems to have trained Bruce Wayne to some extent, he looks like Sam Elliot I know that Jeremy Irons was in Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice which is awesome on its own but it would be just awesome to see Sam Elliot appear as Alfred after reading this book.  So far this is better than Superman: Earth One & I am looking forward to reading the rest of Earth One titles.