Valentine's Day: Batman and Joker go on a date

[cyberghostface]

This is from Detective Comics #1008.

Comments

[alicemacher]

I realize this is a "context is for the weak" situation if ever there were one, but I can't help it... I gotta ask. What horrible thing does the Joker have planned that Batman hopes to prevent by going along with this date?

[cyberghostface]

Everyone else at the carnival has bombs around their necks so Batman's playing along so Joker doesn't detonate them.

[lego_joker]

Okay, setting aside why Bruce doesn't just call in Superman or the Flash to snip all the wires in a heartbeat, how'd Joker pull that off, again? Did he just hold them all at gunpoint and make them put the things on one-by-one?

[magicrubbish]

Heh ! It's a matter of pride . The way Bruce keeps saying "My city." , " Gotham is mine." ,he won't let anyone else save the city , other than him and his overbloated bat family.

[elf]

He may only need to put them on one person - a child - to get everyone else to stand in line and get theirs. (Or a handful of people that he knocked out first: couple of kids, couple of the managers' spouses, etc.)

If he says, "Play along or boom; but if everyone does their parts and BATMAN AND I HAVE AN AWESOME DATE, then they all come off safely at the end of the evening," that could get everyone to put up with it.

Maybe.

And presumably, Batman doesn't have an easy way to contact the League and explain the situation ("all the bombs have to be removed before Joker notices anything") without the risk that Joker would notice fast enough to push a button.

Superman or Flash could do it - probably. If they knew in advance they had to not be seen before they were done. If they can get to everyone. (Is everyone at the carnival? Are some of them locked in a cage underground?) If the bombs aren't rigged to go off if they're removed without a failsafe. And so on.

[liliaeth]

and based on these scans, who is to say that Batman didn't call in the Flash? And that he isn't just keeping Joker occupied, while the Flash or some other ally of Bats is quitely removing the bombs offscreen.

[beeyo]

Man, I love Tomasi's work