'ONE' MORE TIME After imagining Batman's twilight years, Miller reimagined the character's origin, rebooting him with a four-part series that DC published in 1988 as Batman: Year One. It juxtaposes Bruce Wayne's first 12 months as a nocturnal crimefighter with the parallel story of mid-career cop James Gordon (left). Though not yet police commissioner, Gordon is a loner in a largely corrupt department; he initially considers Batman a freakish menace. Miller's tales were among several DC efforts to add new life to the Batman comics in the '80s and '90s — most notoriously, the publisher allowed the Joker to kill a second-generation Robin in 1989 after a poll of readers called for the character to die. The influence of Batman: Year One extends to the present day, as an inspiration for the gritty origin-of-Batman plot of Batman Begins.