The Joker

Coming October 9! Press Release: LEGENDARY FILMMAKER JOHN CARPENTER AND BORDERLANDS 2 WRITER ANTHONY BURCH TO CO-WRITE THE JOKER: YEAR OF THE VILLAINOctober One-Shot Featuring Art by Philip Tan and …
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Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok are going to let us all in on a secret, and it’s a doozy.

No, it’s not the Colonel’s secret recipe, nor is it …
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Grant Morrison stirred up a lot of chatter online with his claim, during Kevin Smith’s “Fatman on Batman” podcast, that Batman kills the Joker at the end of the classic …
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David is scared of clowns. He isn’t scared of many things (Robert’s note: he says), but he is scared of those white-faced, big-shoed, grinning weirdoes. Not a deep primal …
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“Batman prepares for everything.” Bat-fans have been saying that for a long time. This idea even became the premise for the JLA “Tower of Babel” storyline, but ever since DC Comics relaunched all their titles with 2011’s soft reboot, Batman has failed to live up to this. New 52 Batman doesn’t seem to be prepared for anything.
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In the “Court of Owls,” Batman spends his life failing to discover a secret society running rampant, not until they’re ready. In “Death of the family,” the Joker runs free for a year, taking control of Arkham Asylum, unfettered until he’s ready to defeat every Bat-Family member one by one. However creative and powerful Scott Snyder’s stories might be, is his Batman inept?
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This is the penultimate Batman issue in the Death of the Family storyline, and it is amped up with a climactic battle in the lead story, “Castle of Cards,” …
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