Disappointing joke… on us, the readers. This collected edition features #13-17 from the comic book “Batman”, along with backup related stories.Creative Team:Writers: Scott Snyder & James Tynion IVIllustrators: Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion & Jock WILL THE BATMAN’S ARCH-VILLAIN PLEASE STAND UP? Maybe it can be shocking to some people to know that The Joker wasn’t always the most popular villain in DC Comics. In fact, The Joker had several years without appearing in Batman & Detective Comi

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When I reviewed the Batman: Court of Owls collection, I noted that while I liked what Scott Snyder did with the character, that I wished he’d turn his attention to some of the classic bat-foes like the Joker.Be careful what you ask for because Snyder just might deliver and creep the living bejesus out of you with it.After a year long absence from Gotham the Joker returns crazier and more homicidal than ever. Just how crazy? Well, his face got sliced off and he now wears it stapled to his head li...

4,5 stars. Just most gory and disturbing Joker's tale I've ever read.

After disappearing for a year, the Joker returns with a vengeance, striking at Batman where it hurts the most: his family! Can Batman stop the Joker from murdering his friends and family without killing him?I got this from Netgalley. Thank you, Netgalley!Here we are again, another phenomenal Batman tale from Scott Snyder. This time, he utilizes an old Bat-foe, The Joker, and sets him against the Bat-family. How does he do?Snyder passes with flying colors. Death of the Family is the best Joker st...

Wow, Snyder was really swinging for the fences on this one wasn’t he? (Harp plays, dream sequence graphics)“Scott, the Joker’s coming back and you’re writing his return!”“Fantastic! I’m gonna write the hell out of this!”“Right, so it’s gotta be big, got that? He’s a Big Deal, he’s our best villain, he’s partly why Batman’s so damn popular, and the fans adore him even though he’s a stone cold psycho”“OK, OK, so we’re talking epic, big entrance, big story, big scenes”“The whole shebang, Scott, thr...

I have to say, I hate the cover of this volume. It is wicked gross. I hate the whole idea of someone ripping their face off. This was a new kind of twisted. It was a very sick story.The story is very well written and well told. Joker is at his utmost crazy in this story. I don't think he can come back from this. The whole bat family shows up in this one and all of them are brutalized by the Joker. Joker psychologically assaults them all leaving deep scars. I must say that I enjoyed the story abo...

I feel like there's a very good chance that Death of the Family will one day be remembered as a classic, one of the great Joker stories. Maybe even one of the great Batman stories. Snyder's Joker is as terrifying as ever, more frightening even than many writers manage. And yet he hasn't lost his twisted sense of humor, or his love of chaos and symbol. Calculating and unpredictable. It's perfect.And Joker's goal, to drive a wedge between Batman and his extended family, makes complete sense. The r...

Let’s review key levels of crazy, shall we?1) Quirky (e.g., likes to put peanut butter on a hamburger)2) Mildly OCD (e.g, can only step onto the first step of a staircase, off of a curb, etc., with one’s left foot, never with the right…not that I know anyone with that problem…ahem)3) Might Need Some Counseling (e.g., talks to an imaginary friend, possibly an anthropomorphic aardvark, while defecating in a public space)4) Batsh@t Insane (e.g., the Joker in this installment of Batman, at least in

Creepy, well-written, amazing...Not sure what I can say that other reviewer's haven't already said?In the future, I think this one will definitely be considered required reading for fans of Batman.Go get it!

see if batman would just shoot his enemies a few times he wouldn’t have to worry about constantly fighting them methinks

I'm coming into this book with a whole lot of expectations. I've heard everybody rave about it, call Scott Snyder the heir apparent to biblical powers, and want to bear his children (or at least his heavy MacBook).Plus I've read the earlier Snyder Batman books and liked them, even if I took an unreasonable dislike to his Iron Man Noir story. I generally respect his work and want to like it.So to say the least, I was ready to be blown away - AND to be punched in the gut by a sweet mess. Hype is s...

This is more of a spectacle story than I was led to believe, as The Joker returns and grievously tortures Batman's allies in an attempt to screw with him. There's lots of blood, and dozens upon dozens of no-name dead victims, teasing toward a "surprise party" that will be the story's endgame. If The Joker doesn't have reality-warping powers, I don't see how he kills the top lieutenants of every crime family in Gotham without a paranoid police department and superhero squad ever hearing about it....

The Joker is one of the most interesting villains I've come across. Any time I read his parts I read them in Mark Hamill's voice. I love how dark and twisted this one was. I mean, how much darker can it get than Joker coming and stealing his face back after he let it be cut off and left it for the GCPD?The story was great and the artwork was amazing. My only complaint is the same as with the Berserk mangas: the stories are so short. But that's to be expected with comics.

rating: 5 starsthis shit is intense. and i fucking love it. this, right here, is one of the many reasons why i read comic books. death of the family got me at the edge of my seat the entire time. it got me so hyped up i was turning the pages like there was no tomorrow. this volume's main focus is batman's relationship with the joker as well as the rest of the bat family.the joker. what a sick fucking bastard.i could talk about him all day. the joker is most fascinating villain i have ever come a...

This was my favorite of the three volumes so far, as we get The Joker to return, and he is as darkly crazy as he has been in the last decade, scary crazy, as we expect, and this is one of the best Joker stories ever, with some surprises in his motivation, but J always has complicated relations with the Manbat. This is, for superhero comics, for the history of Batman, very good stuff.