Seduction of the Innocent?!?

[chocochuy]

Greetings, Mortals!

The newest issue of "Batman : The Dark Knight" has been released and, well, there was a page that left me speechless. Once again Batman is a victim of the seduction of the not-so-innocent. Enjoy...if ya can.

I think context may not be needed at all. I will simply say that Batman was left weakened after fighting Clayface and the White Rabbit decided to take advantage of the situation.



Sadly I will have to quote Frank Miller by saying : "They kept the masks on, it's better that way". Well, I suppose our good pal Bruce still hasn't learned to deal with female villains and their endless resources.

Comments

[aeka]

I stopped at steroid Joker saying:

"Ha! Heh…y'know, I've missed you and your silly costume. You may be predictable and possess the imagination of an onion, but you're my onion and that's what counts! "

Followed by:

"On the contrary, my dear onion, I feel fine. And quite stable, considering I'm as habitually unstable as a rabid honey badger surfing on a jelly volcano."

And I thought MY jokes were bad...

[chocochuy]

Agreed, I am not against the idea of Joker feeling something special for Batman since they have been doing this danse macabre for ages but I think the writer needed to be more classy.

It's intriguing considering that the Steroid Joker was * SPOILERS * really Clayface (Basil Karlo, I suppose), who is known for been an actor * SPOILERS * and one would expect better things from him. Then again, this DCnU just reads like the 90s in so many levels.

[shadowpsykie]

soo... they pulled a Arkham city?

[darkknightjrk]

Well, I doubt this was intentional--it was written before the game came out, more than likely--but the premise of the story does have a bit in common with Arkham Asylum.

I heard from a friend of a friend...

[blue_bolt]

In regards to it not being intentional, the game was finished well before the comic was. And I have it on (mostly) good authority that there were enough people who were in the know about the Arkham City plot (not that they'd played the game, but that they knew how the storyline before release) that it COULD have influenced the Clayface pretends the be the Joker twist.

What I like is how Batman caught on right away with Clayface here. In the game he was fooled pretty in a fight with Clayface who he hit repeatedly. Clearly being poisoned with Joker's blood that has been poisoned with Titan doesn't do wonders for your deductive abilities (or is that inductive reasoning?). Then again, in the game Joker actually instructed Clayface on how to act as him. In the comic Joker's been "retired" for a little while so Batman probably was suspicious based on that. Plus Bane already dosed Joker and co. up before, White Rabbit doing it would have made him suspect that there was a 2nd trick in the mix.

[darkknightjrk]

Hey, how long has it been since he played a role like that? He was probably a bit rusty.