Batman #17: Death In The Family Finale

[superfangirl1]

The Joker has Batman strapped to an electric chair at the head of a table. On each side of the table sits the members of the family, each with their faces rapped in bloody bandages. The Joker tells Batman that they’ve each been anointed with gasoline and that there’s flint under his chair. So if he tries to bail out, they’ll all die in a fire. He reveals the cover from the dinner, and inside are the faces of each member of the family. Of course this really sets Batman off, but being Batman he has a way out because he’s smarter than the Joker.

It turns out the whole faces being ripped off thing was another Joker prank, and Batman is reunited with the family right before The Joker douses all of them with his gas, which causes the members of the family to start fighting it out with each other as Batman chases the Joker down.








Bruce informs Alfred that after he took in Dick as robin. He visit arkham asylum as Bruce wayne and bribe his way into joker cell. He then look joker in the eyes and show him the joker playing card he found in the bat-cave. The Joker was non-responsive and ignore him the whole time.

Comments

[jlroberson]

But he butchered scores of people in this instance to get to Batman AND the rest of them. I assume they count?

[mrstatham]

Naturally they do, but as the comic equivalent of videogame NPCs, then, well, as horrible as it sounds, naturally they aren't going to matter as much to us as the lead characters. Even Barbara's mother, I'm presuming, got out of this one intact, but otherwise, it's a standard Joker spree; It still gets Batman aggravated because he allowed Joker to do his thing again, but I think it could basically make it more insulting (albeit more of a relief) that Joker has done all of this to get them at that dinner table just to prove a point. In some ways, that could really hammer the guilt button for Bruce and the family.