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A review by roxanamalinachirila
The Joker: Endgame by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV
3.0
This review - now.
...and while the idea of the Joker spreading all sorts of stories about his past is a lot of fun, I'm not so sure about the execution, because of the issues I mentioned 25 minutes ago. It's interesting to see all sorts of mythical/sci fi interpretations of the Joker's origins, but they didn't really fit seamlessly in the Batman universe.
With a story like "The Sandman", there would be a chance for any one of them to be true, but can I really believe that the Joker is a robot, or the devil, or a vengeful spirit here? Not really.
This review - 26 minutes ago.
-besides, how many flashbacks can you have?! The entire story jumps around through the timeline more than a Doctor in a broken TARDIS, more than Stark Trek: The Original Series, more than you can believe. I guess some of that is because it wants to engage at the beginning of every issue, to ensure that people buy the comics, but in a single volume it gets a bit annoying.
Moreover, the side stories feel disconnected from the plot. I initially wasn't even sure I was reading an arc, rather than a collection of separate issues. And don't even get me started on-
This review - 15 minutes ago.
I really was expecting more from this volume. Not that it disappointed in its entirety; it didn't. Some of it was good, some was less good. Some ideas would have made good horror stories, I think, but I felt it just didn't all add up very well. What happened to the man whom the Joker called his best friend? Why isn't he used again after that first issue? What happened to the fear gas which makes Batman have nightmares? Does it just go away? It feels like it was there, then it wasn't there, then whatever, what fear gas?
Maybe I did wrong in buying this volume as a stand-alone. Maybe it didn't work for me because I was expecting it to be something it's not.
...and while the idea of the Joker spreading all sorts of stories about his past is a lot of fun, I'm not so sure about the execution, because of the issues I mentioned 25 minutes ago. It's interesting to see all sorts of mythical/sci fi interpretations of the Joker's origins, but they didn't really fit seamlessly in the Batman universe.
With a story like "The Sandman", there would be a chance for any one of them to be true, but can I really believe that the Joker is a robot, or the devil, or a vengeful spirit here? Not really.
This review - 26 minutes ago.
-besides, how many flashbacks can you have?! The entire story jumps around through the timeline more than a Doctor in a broken TARDIS, more than Stark Trek: The Original Series, more than you can believe. I guess some of that is because it wants to engage at the beginning of every issue, to ensure that people buy the comics, but in a single volume it gets a bit annoying.
Moreover, the side stories feel disconnected from the plot. I initially wasn't even sure I was reading an arc, rather than a collection of separate issues. And don't even get me started on-
This review - 15 minutes ago.
I really was expecting more from this volume. Not that it disappointed in its entirety; it didn't. Some of it was good, some was less good. Some ideas would have made good horror stories, I think, but I felt it just didn't all add up very well. What happened to the man whom the Joker called his best friend? Why isn't he used again after that first issue? What happened to the fear gas which makes Batman have nightmares? Does it just go away? It feels like it was there, then it wasn't there, then whatever, what fear gas?
Maybe I did wrong in buying this volume as a stand-alone. Maybe it didn't work for me because I was expecting it to be something it's not.