Removing the Joker' s insanity was one thing the made this comic great, the second ingredient was removing Batman's conscience and support system.

Now I met Jack Napier, and he could be even more dangerous then the Joker.

Every Batman fan has heard of the Joker and everyone has an option on him. This is truly unlike any Batman story I have ever read. The blurb at the back said that this wasįor once this is not just hype. This is the best comic mini series I have read in a long time. You pretty much end up where you started when it comes to your feeling about Batman, but the journey you take to get there is well worth it. Lastly, I loved the way the entire story came full circle. But it took a lot of the things that we're all thinking in our heads when we're reading about stuff like the way the Batmobile screams down the street in Gotham, and goes: Hey, that's fucking dangerous! You're causing more problems than you're fixing! - then gives a more obvious and, quite frankly, better solution. Now, that's not to say that this comic sucked the joy out of suspending disbelief for our Caped Crusader. I mean, she started off as the loopy sweetheart of Mistah J in a jester costume, and she morphed into a psychotic ninja with big titties, baby shorts, and a baseball bat.Īnd I won't ruin it for those of you who haven't read this, but I thought the explanation surprisingly fun and creative.Īnother thing I enjoyed seeing addressed was the real-life problems with the way Batman operates. Now, I don't want to spoil stuff, but I'd like to point out a few of the things I thought were cool about this one.įirst, and most impressive to me, was the way Murphy reconciled the two versions of Harley Quinn. Which is why it shocked the piss out of me that I loved this. Realistically, he's not going to take down the Justice League with fart bombs and hand buzzers. At the end of the day, he's just a dude with a lipstick fetish that fell in a vat of skin-bleaching acid. To me, his mythos is almost out of control at this point.

I'm not a huge fan of Joker as this human-yet-somehow-superhuman villain.

The gist is that the Joker takes some anti-crazy pills to prove a point, gets sane, and then sets about proving that he could fix Gotham's problems better than Batman.Īnd that was my first reaction, as well, Random Goodreader. I like this kind of stuff because writers can screw with the characters and whatnot.without futzing up everyone's day. If this is any indication of what DC's Black Label will be putting out, I'm all in.īlack Label is apparently a mature audience version of the Elseworlds stories, which means this doesn't take place in the regular DC universe.

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