This isn't super different from Batman, Vol. 2: The Joker War, but I really appreciated that this showed more perspectives and gave a fuller view to the war. I wish we would get that more for large-scale comic events, because it added so much more depth to the story.

I haven't read any Batman in like a decade, so this was excellent to get up to speed with the narrative and where the story flows now. Thinking about Batman as pretty predictable, always retelling his origin, the noble knight- I thought that Joker, Harley and eventually, The Clown Hunter, brought voice to this feeling that making concessions for the most evil (Joker/clowns) comes with a cost. They only parts I paged through were some of the crossovers with different members of the bat family; I

This collects the main Joker War storyline from Batman plus all the tie-ins from all the other Batman Family comics. All of the tie-ins are interspersed in the midst of the main storyline. I actually found this to be disruptive. I think reading the main storyline straight through and then going back to read the tie-ins to fill in the gaps works much better.I gave the main story 4 stars but this collection only 3 because of how disruptive the way this is collected is. If you want to read every bi...

As a lover of all things Joker, I'm surprised it took me this long to give this collection a read. Crossing multiple comics, it's an epic filled with lots of villains and lots of death. It's a story about the inseparable nature of Batman and Joker, the limits of their rules, and what happens when good and bad people's roles are reversed. As Joker says, "Trauma is a weapon," so get ready for one of the darkest tales of the Jokerverse. Highly recommend.

So far, so good JT4. This collection packages the Joker war issues of Batman with several tie-ins. Overall, the core Batman issues are the best part but as someone who is planning on getting a little deeper into DC’s current lineup I enjoyed seeing what else was taking place alongside the event. Jimenez does it again with some great art and I’m really enjoying the overall look and feel of this run so far.

"Sorry, 'Boy Blue.' The odds just changed." -- Alexis 'Punchline' Kaye, Joker's new gal Friday sidekick, as the demented criminal clown army assembles behind her for an expected skirmish"Yeah . . . they sure have." -- Dick 'Nightwing' Grayson, as various members of the 'Bat' family (Batgirl, Robin, Red Hood, and Spoiler) heroically also arrive on the scene to even the oddsThis was not really a great Batman graphic novel, but I can't quite mercilessly skewer it to death. The so-called 'saga' did

“Same as always. They war… and we watch. Nothing changes. Something has to change.”—Lucius FoxThere is much bluster in this, but it all adds up to nothing very important in the end. Much of it didn’t make sense, in big details and small. If some of this is explained in other issues (Detective Comics, for example), then those issues are lacking here — setting up the possibility of a Joker War omnibus, no doubt.Joker has taken over Bruce Wayne’s wealth and companies, and he strikingly does very li...

When I read the first few chapters I was getting the terrible feeling of confusion and annoyance that I felt while reading the terrible "Dark Knight Metal" trades a couple of years ago. If you want my reviews of those book they are listed in my Goodreads reading history list; even though looking back I think that I was too generous with my ratings.So, why give this book 4 out of 5 stars? Because as the story progresses the book pulls the plot together after the disjointed beginning chapters and

DC Comics is desperate to bankrupt themselves and alienate anyone who loves comics.When I say this book is awful, I don't mean it as a dig to any of the writers or artists on this book. I'm sure somewhere between most to all of them love comics, and deserve better than this steaming pile of shit collection.The layout editor failed to use gutters. A pretty basic staple of books. So the images and text bleed into the spine and are, therefore, unreadable. If you happen to know whether Ben Abernathy...

Take a great storyline of the war between Batman and Joker, give it some above average artwork and a decent script. Mix it all up until it becomes an incoherent mess with no rhyme or reason and voila! You've got Joker War Saga! Color me disappointed.

"The Joker War" is an average, surface level, non-stop-action Batman and Joker event, that goes through the same tired old motions adn themes of the Bat/Joker stories. It's slightly dull, makes very little sense, and it feels rushed. To make matters worse, it shoe-horns Harley Quinn as the new bat-sidekick in a very contrived and repetitive manner (HQ saves Batman twice in much the same way - Batman is knocked out; opens his eyes and behold, HQ saved him god knows how...).It's not awfull, mind,

3.5I would recommend reading this over the volume 2 batman Joker war. This has all the issues and this is how I read them. I will say it's more of a completest saga and fills in some blanks and side stories. Not all the stories are worthwhile and that Nightwing story is just over the top. The Joker War was an underwhelming story with such a strong build-up. Tynion struggles to provide any true power shift and it lacks any true repercussions for the central characters. It does pave the way for th...

You can read my review of Joker War under Batman vol 2 where the main story is collected in isolation. To sum it up in one sentence: lot of potential but ultimately a big disappointment.I got this book because it felt like the main plot had gaps and I thought the tie-ins therefore might improve this event. They did not. I was disappointed with the event, I actively disliked a lot of these tie-ins and was unbothered by most of the other. Catwoman was pretty great though!Here’s my thoughts on them...

It's just another Batman/Joker story. It’s a bit hard to follow because it collects all the side stories from Batgirl and several other minor superheros. It kept my interest, but barely. Also, like other reviews have stated the binding is a bit of a pain because some of the dialog is in the binding and you cannot read it.

My thanks go out to the creative teams involved in compiling the puzzle pieces that revealed the gruesome result of this project. Mostly because everyone knows how quickly my blood pressure climbs when I see that asterisk encouraging you to pick up ANOTHER comic volume to continue a storyline. And with how many lines one needs to track down for the entire Saga?Yeah, forget it.Of course, the various feeders leave gaps in the story - even with DC's work in getting the timeline "just so." It leaves...

Joker’s warring on Gotham because he’s the Joker! He’s also got Bruce Wayne’s money this time! Derpy derp derp derppppp! I’ve reviewed the main Joker War storyline elsewhere so this is a review of the tie-ins only. And they are as awful, maybe more so, as the rest of this pitiful “saga” was. Nothing that happens in any of the tie-ins add to the main storyline and are completely irrelevant (like most tie-ins, to be fair). Joker visits Batgirl for another tedious rehash of Killing Joke; Harley hal...

Fucking amazing

Ugh, trying not to turn into a jaded old man, but this was such a slog. There were aspects of the story that were either missing or happened before the saga began, so while you didn't have to read the previous storyline, it probably would have helped (Alfred is dead? Grayson is brainwashed?). Regardless, I am struggling to enjoy these epic crossover storylines. Apparently, the Joker is able to "legally" take over Gotham, but no one knows it's the Joker until clowns start running through the stre...

This whole review is spoilers, so beware.I liked the Joker War very much but appreciate how choppy this collection reads, so it's a 3.5 total inflated to 4-star review.I put a lot of work into reading this (I literally printed out a cheat sheet and had four books laid out). I caught up in Nightwing, reading up to issue #74 in Nightwing, Vol. 11: The Joker War & caught up in Detective Comics, reading up until #1024 in Batman: Detective Comics Vol. 5: The Joker War and that really helped. I'd say

- I'll give 'em one thing, boy are they persistent. Every character's random appearance in here was led up to this by previous issues and scenes, but this is what sort of bothers me. Take Nightwing, for example. He had a shocking traumatizing thing happen to him, but it turned out only to be to spur on Batman towards the plot of THIS plot. So it makes it seem like everything that happened individually wasn't important. - I'm so tired of DC pushing Harly into everything, that I don't even want to...