Is it just me? I see the "professional" reviews and for the most part, they loved the Joker War.

But all I saw was a bunch of nothing. It's another all-out Gotham war. But Tynion's plot makes no sense. He restores the status quo (we don't know how much money Bruce has, but we all know in the end, he'll be or become a billionaire again. We know Alfred is returning).

Punchline knows who Batman is. Instead of getting the last word and telling the world that, she plays "victim" to the Joker. Harley ties Joker up with a bomb and Bats walks away, but we're told the Joker escaped, not shown how he did it.

The Joker sits around a diner with his hoodie up and no notices him? He jokerizes a sap and tells him that his body will be found and taken as the Joker. Like anyone would buy that. We have fingerprints and DNA and dental x-rays and the ability to search for scars. Tynion, stop moving your plots forward by making everyone so dumb.

What we don't see is how the Bat family rallies around Bruce, how they love and respect him and each other, how they support him and his goals and how he has influenced them to make sacrifices with their lives. We haven't seen anyone mourn Alfred, not really. Instead we get another empty spectacle where no one acts human and the logical consequences of the plot are not played out or explored. Just more blather about how Gotham is different and Bats is a Joke from the Joker and "no, I'm not" from Bruce.

Hopefully, Fifth-gen or whatever DC has coming next will smooth the edges. Tynion has also introduced the next "Bats is an incompetent vigilante, I'll take over and show him how it's done" guy. Like we haven't seen that before with the Reaper, with Az-Bats. Just more retreads of old plots.

The art was nice.

Just echh. Or I could be wrong.

I really didn't like it. The only redeeming thing about it was the epilogue that showed the aftermath, weeks later, with the Joker.

And maybe I didn't pay much attention to the story, but what's changed about Gotham? What's different?

And do we need to see Harley Quinn in the Batman titles? Doesn't she have her own book where she can be obnoxious for her fans?

I dare DC Comics to kill off the Joker for a few years like Marvel did with Wolverine.

Joker is over used and badly used more often then not.

so, is Catwoman in it?
is Bruce s status with Selina changed or affected?

She stood in the shadows of the street violence for about 3 panels only. It was implied she stole back the Wayne money that was taken by the Underbroker or Designer or whatever his name is. The cover is sadly misleading as she sadly did not lend a hand fighting the Jokers Army. There was no footnote - so someone will have to recap or review the last Catwoman ish.



While stabbing him, Joker imagined Batman moving forward in a better Gotham with Catwoman in his warm kissing embrace. This infers that things are still copacetic between the lovers, post-jilting, given Joker is pretty darn good at reading Bruce. But who knows, maybe he'd rather be hugging Wonder Woman after the new uppercase-challenged Clownhunter questioned Batman.

nb. Here is the source of the new banner submission [from this... inadequate finale for many of the reasons rightly reviewed at the top of this thread]:
https://abload.de/img/160198012027142jqd.jpg

Preview links:
https://www.comixology.com/Batman-2016-100/digital-comic/893261

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I miss Dad & Dan.

Her heist was over in Catwoman 25.

This was a klunky crossover. The Nightwing, Batgirl and Catwoman stuff were taking place in the story, but I wouldn't try to figure out how to put them all in order.

Jeff
www.dogfoodforchairs.com

So we are now back to just one original Joker then?

And bats broke their connection, so now willing to let Joker die now?

Harley's book's been cancelled