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Also, I still wonder how Joker could ever really pose a match for the greatest martial artist on Earth ~ that's never been convincingly done for me. Joker isn't a fighter, so I don't see how he'd ever be a threat to Batman unarmed.
The way I've always understood this is that Batman operates in a very similar way to Wildstorm-Batman, a.k.a. Midnighter, in that a big part of his fighting ability comes from his dead-on predictions of what his opponent is going to do. The Joker, being completely insane, is completely unpredictable. He has no physical superiority over Batman, obviously, but Batman has to fight him blind, so to speak. I mean, most Batman-Joker standoffs usually still end with Batman slamming Joker into the ground anyway, but Joker does have an edge of sorts.
On a more general note, I did love #663, but at times I thought he was resting on his Arkham laurels a little bit. I guess they're sort of assuming that with the huge audience, most of the people reading this run haven't read Arkham, but for those of us who have, it felt a little like he was retreading old ground. That being said, I love Harley Quinn stories, and the last four pages of the book were pretty knock-out phenomenal. The red-black reveal, the portrayal of Batman's fear of "the one-man holocaust", the whole thing.
One thing: the Joker's line "why be an orphan boy when you can be a superhero"; does he know Batman's parents were killed when he was a boy? Is that something that's already in Batman continuity, or is Grant hinting at something new? Overall, I hope that this new superpersona continues to be used and explored in the rest of GM's run. |
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