Batman #90

[brerrabbit]

Comments

[tcampbell1000]

I liked this loads better than the story a few years later wherein Daniel Captio supposedly trained both Batman and the Joker...but I suspect both ideas are unlikely to get follow-up. Partly that's because the "super-consultants" are dead (and the Joker would never allow anyone to live who claimed credit for his genius). But mostly it's because "The Joker became an icon of dark, violent madness once some guy with a PhD told him how" just isn't as compelling a story as the version that leaves out the last 50% of that sentence. And the same holds for the Riddler, Batman, Catwoman, and the Penguin.

(Is this some kind of metaphor for Bill Finger? One guy has the ideas that turn a rough sketch into something unforgettable, but he gets little attention and is quickly discarded?)

That said, this was an interesting interlude and an effective way to get to Tynion's real plot twist: the Joker stealing all Bruce Wayne's money.