ajtye 's review for:

Batman, Vol. 3: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV

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A Joker story that delivers all the goods you’d hope for, whilst pushing the character harder and more meaningfully than ever. Court of Owls benefited greatly from Snyder’s love of loose ends - those dangling shreds of story that complicate the narrative and dig under your skin. No wonder he delivers an incredible Joker treatise, then - a character larger than life, larger than man, larger than you can hope to pin down. The thing a lot of people skim over is that the Joker may love chaos, but in a deeply emotional way. He may in fact be the most sentimental and volatile of all Batman’s rogues. But you can never peel back all the layers to the truth - only view them out of focus, or the magic is gone, the punchline is ruined. This is the fine line you have to toe. This is the fine line Snyder loves to tightrope walk on.