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cara_selene's review against another edition
4.0
As this was my first delve into the world of Bat-prose, I didn't exactly go into this expecting marvelous writing Maybe it was that low expectation that caused me to really enjoy it... Or maybe it's the fact that half the novel has the Joker running around in a Bat-suit! I found it hilarious.
My main issue was that the pacing kept getting ruined by the chapters alternating newspaper articles with the actual story. In my opinion, this was unnecessary and unfortunate as it detracted from what could have been more pages of the Joker's Bat-clad rampage through Gotham, or perhaps given Bruce more depth (in which he was sorely lacking).
I did find the ending a little anti-climactic, I wasn't particularly impressed with some of the final action scenes. But it was a fun and lighthearted read that appealed to theBatJoker fan in me.
My main issue was that the pacing kept getting ruined by the chapters alternating newspaper articles with the actual story. In my opinion, this was unnecessary and unfortunate as it detracted from what could have been more pages of the Joker's Bat-clad rampage through Gotham, or perhaps given Bruce more depth (in which he was sorely lacking).
I did find the ending a little anti-climactic, I wasn't particularly impressed with some of the final action scenes. But it was a fun and lighthearted read that appealed to the
rhganci's review against another edition
3.0
This book had a lot about it that I liked…a whole lot. It was much better than White Eyes, and Irvine’s characterization of the Joker was dead on. Enfer was a really great bad guy, a sort of sociopathic Guy Montag around whom Irvine built a motif that closely resembled aspects of Fahrenheit 451, such as the Krawlors (alluding perhaps to the Mechanical Hound) and some glancing references to a hose spraying flammable liquid that echoed (loudly, in my mind) Bradbury’s first pages. It was a very smartly written crime novel, and felt, like Batman Begins, more like a mystery/thriller than a comic book property, in part to the present-tense narrative and the 4 well distinguished PoVs. The newspaper sectionals were great for driving the story forward, providing a kind of removed appraisal of what happens in Gotham City (the inclusion of Vicki Vale was well-placed). What did bother me was the lack of continuity with Jonathan Crane, who (if this is a Batman story placed in the same arc as Batman Begins and the forthcoming The Dark Knight), should not be director of Arkham any longer, but rather at the very least, AWOL, or, at most, the Scarecrow. Perhaps TDK will address this, or perhaps I’ve forgotten a mention of this situation in White Eyes, but that juncture made it difficult for me to mentally put this in with the current movie franchise. Aside from that fanboy piece of nitpicking, it was a very good novel.
markclarno's review
3.0
Graphic Audio is so good. The joker is hysterical. LOL 10 times very loud and hard in the first couple of hours.
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