Featured Review
Joker
Timothy Buchanan | 09/29 | 1 Comment The villains in this volume each possess a flaw that goes beyond their criminal activity. The Riddler is a cripple; The Penguin is a coward; Two-Face and Killer Croc suffer from obvious physical deformities; Johnny Frost, the narrator, is struggling through a painful divorce; even the Joker himself is seen, in one frame, weeping helplessly in the arms of Harley Quinn. The flawed nature of each character reminds us of a universal truth: we are all broken.
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