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A review by jacquilynn
The Joker: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder
5.0
I read Batman: death of the family first and a friend said I had to read this one. She was SO right. Two minor complaints- 1. What happens with Barbara's mother (I get my books from the library so if it's addressed in another book I don't have it) 2. I prefered the Prologue in the Batman edition. It introduced the random two headed lion cub, the Joker attacking Gotham PD, and the kidnapping of Alfred which wasn't actually shown in this edition.
This is terrifyingly perfect. The Joker loses what's left of his mind and now worships the "king" who is batman and everyone else is pulling batman down, so he has to get rid of them right? It starts off with Joker stealing his face back, it's referenced but not shown in this one, messing with Catwoman-whose story really doesn't play out in the rest of the book, then Harley who he tries to kill because she isn't good enough. Then on to torment the family by getting to the people they love most. It's deranged even for a Joker plotline he wants to marry Batgirl, have Robin kill "Batman," Nightwing to kill everyone in his past, and Red Hood and Red Robin to kill the other. In the end having everyone kill each other.
It's hard to call the artwork beautiful because of what it looks like (take a look at the Jokers' face you'll understand me), it is incredibly well done. It's not gritty, the colors are all rich. The best way I can describe it is as I'm looking back through the pages the artwork is actually beautiful until the joker shows up and the smoothness of the work becomes manic and disjointed. Especially looking at the first two stories of Catwoman and Harley.
I suppose most people don't like them but I personally have a super issue with bugs(even drawings of them), so I'm a bit hung up on this. As the story progresses and the Jokers' unattached face decomposes a few flies and then more and more surface as the next few stories go on. In Robins' story Joker dumps him into bugs. That with the variant cover art means I am so not sleeping well tonight.
I find it funny that no one in this very heavy novel swears, except little Damien who has a mouth on him. After Damiens' story, the epilogue is probably my favorite part of the entire book. It shows that Alfred is so awesome, and Bruce is a really good dad. What can I say I'm a sucker for a happy ending.
This is terrifyingly perfect. The Joker loses what's left of his mind and now worships the "king" who is batman and everyone else is pulling batman down, so he has to get rid of them right? It starts off with Joker stealing his face back, it's referenced but not shown in this one, messing with Catwoman-whose story really doesn't play out in the rest of the book, then Harley who he tries to kill because she isn't good enough. Then on to torment the family by getting to the people they love most. It's deranged even for a Joker plotline he wants to marry Batgirl, have Robin kill "Batman," Nightwing to kill everyone in his past, and Red Hood and Red Robin to kill the other. In the end having everyone kill each other.
It's hard to call the artwork beautiful because of what it looks like (take a look at the Jokers' face you'll understand me), it is incredibly well done. It's not gritty, the colors are all rich. The best way I can describe it is as I'm looking back through the pages the artwork is actually beautiful until the joker shows up and the smoothness of the work becomes manic and disjointed. Especially looking at the first two stories of Catwoman and Harley.
I suppose most people don't like them but I personally have a super issue with bugs(even drawings of them), so I'm a bit hung up on this. As the story progresses and the Jokers' unattached face decomposes a few flies and then more and more surface as the next few stories go on. In Robins' story Joker dumps him into bugs. That with the variant cover art means I am so not sleeping well tonight.
I find it funny that no one in this very heavy novel swears, except little Damien who has a mouth on him. After Damiens' story, the epilogue is probably my favorite part of the entire book. It shows that Alfred is so awesome, and Bruce is a really good dad. What can I say I'm a sucker for a happy ending.