Moench and Jones' Batman Run

[Bigby Wolf]

I was reading over at Buzzscope in an article, Comics you should own, and it featured the run of Doug Moench and Kelley Jones on Batman. I am really interested in getting this run and since none of it is collected in trade and most of the issues are pretty damn cheap, I think almost the entire run will cost around $35-40. The article was great and the stories sound great and some of the posters over there gave it some great praise. So before dropping the doe I thought I would get some more opinions over here. How was the writing by Doug Moench, and how does it stand up to todays writing?

[Blake Petit]

Moench had a really strong run, as I recall. He, Chuck Dixon and Alan Grant helmed the bat-titles at the time I started reading them, and I pretty much enjoyed them all.

[Sloat]

Moench/Jones/Beatty's is a run that I swear by. I have the entire thing.

[Magnus2k]

When was this run now?

[Gabriel Sosa]

Ok If I am not mistaken Doug Moench started his run on Batman with Batman#481 (Early July 1992, if I am not mistaken) a story about Maxie Zeus and a new villain named The Harpy, that issue was drawn by Jim Aparo and it was my first Batman issue. And, man, Jim Aparo, R.I.P., was a master at drawing. Moench wrote a really psychological Batman, being tired and defeated all of the time, well that was a set up for Knightfall, but his stories were very well written.
Kelly Jones starting drawing covers for the Bat Titles during the Knightfall era starting with Batman#491(April 1993), but he continued to do the covers for Batman, I think it was right after the Prodigal storyline was done, Kelley Jones and Scott Beatty became the artist and inker of Batman with Doug Moench still writing, their first issue together was the first part of Troika, Batman #515 (January 1995) (once again I might be incorrect) their run started pretty strong in my opinion, Jones art was very unusual, but it suited the kind of stories Moench had in store, some stories with killer croc, the scarecrow, two-face, dead-man, man-bat, the spectre, the joker and etrigan, I did stop buying it during the joker - etrigan storyline. But it was a very solid run for the most part, they had new villains, I specially enjoyed a story involving the ogre and the ape, it was marvelous.