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Batman: Going Sane
by Eddie Campbell, Bart Sears, Daren White, Steve Mitchell, Joe Staton, J.M. DeMatteis
Two interesting Joker stories here, the first has the Joker believing that he killed Batman, so believing that he's accomplished his greatest goal, he basically becomes a normal guy, meets a girl, gets a job, plans to get married. Of course, Batman's not dead, just recovering in the home of a lovely young female doctor upstate, and she convinces him that he's not going insane and is doing the right thing, so Batman returns, Joker's personality re-emerges, and they fight again. It's a neat idea, but comes off a little stiffly.
Campbell's story (there's a co-writer, but I can't recall the name and I'm too lazy to look now) is a little tighter. Joker's planted three bombs. As the hospital emergency room - big props to the writing team to making the ER dialogue read very authentic to my untrained eye - copes with victims of the first bomb, Batman disables the second but winds up dosing Joker with his own toxins. So Batman brings Joker to the hospital for anti-toxin in order to find out where the third bomb is. Nice bit of detective work by Bats (although it's fairly predictable where the third bomb is), and some sharp banter in the hospital. The POV character of a young female doctor, just out of grad school, works very well. Sears' art isn't completely terrible either, a stunning surprise.
Campbell's story (there's a co-writer, but I can't recall the name and I'm too lazy to look now) is a little tighter. Joker's planted three bombs. As the hospital emergency room - big props to the writing team to making the ER dialogue read very authentic to my untrained eye - copes with victims of the first bomb, Batman disables the second but winds up dosing Joker with his own toxins. So Batman brings Joker to the hospital for anti-toxin in order to find out where the third bomb is. Nice bit of detective work by Bats (although it's fairly predictable where the third bomb is), and some sharp banter in the hospital. The POV character of a young female doctor, just out of grad school, works very well. Sears' art isn't completely terrible either, a stunning surprise.