As someone who has come to love Scott Snyder as a writer, I
was seriously excited to find out that for his second arc on his Batman run he
would finally be re-tackling the Joker.
This promises to be brilliant, as Snyder has previously stated he has an
immense love for the character, stating that “Joker is my favourite villain of
all time.” The storyline will once again
feature the fantastic, moody artwork of Greg Capullo, and the artist himself
has shown his excitement for finally drawing the Clown Prince of Crime. “Talk about a dream come true! For
me, the Joker is the ultimate rogue and the villain I most wanted to draw.”
This has all the workings to be another fantastic story arc
by Snyder, who has yet been able to write a story I could fault. We've already seen briefly what Snyder could
do with the Joker in just a few issues of his run on Detective Comics last year,
(which produced one of the most frightening Joker’s I’ve read on paper in the
past few years) and if Snyder’s saying Joker will be at his most fearsome in
this next arc, I may have to brace myself for what’s about to come.
This new arc in Snyder’s run on Batman will also cross over
into the various Bat-titles at DC, just like the previous storyline did with “The
Night of the Owls”. It will be very
interesting to see the consequences of Joker’s actions and how they affect the
Bat family, and I think it’s guaranteed we’re in for a fair share of shocks and
surprises, with the way Capullo and Snyder are discussing the book, I think I
might actually be afraid to pick up #13.
As someone who has mostly drifted in and out of the New 52
in the past year I must say titles like Batman, and the upcoming Justice League
of America series may just be what I need to reinvest some time and love into
the medium again. Snyder is always a
writer you can rely on to tell a fantastic story without neglecting the
characters we all know and love, and I haven’t managed to fault him on any of
his works so far! This surely promises
to be one hell of romp, and I think I’d be slightly insane if I chose to pass
on reading this arc.
Batman: Death of the Family begins with #13 of Batman, which
hits comic book stores everywhere next Wednesday.
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