Batman: Gotham Nights #6

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Comments

[mysteryguy]

Ok, he got me. The Joker totally made me laugh in that last panel, even though I saw it coming. Thanks for sharing.

[donnblake]

The suggestion that the police need an excuse to hold the Joker is interesting... did he start this storyline having been declared cured and released from institutionalization?

[deepspaceartist]

Yeah, at this point the Joker ever not being in Arkham (or some other facility) is pretty much all the reason Batman or any other hero needs to put him back there. He's got so many unfinished sentences under his belt already that law enforcement really doesn't need a new crime to arrest him.

[jlbarnett]

it's one of the reasons that proactive heroes could work better than the ever did in the comic Dark Ages but was never touched on. Virtually every established villain is an escapee of some sort

[crinos]

Yeah this is pretty much a total shut out for the Joker.

As we discover the one enemy Batman can't defeat: Late stage Capitalism, and Joker can weaponize it for his schemes.

[zachbeacon]

It really is the most "Mark Russell" thing I've seen since the Flintstones.

I do like that he doesn't ignore the criticism that Bruce Wayne should be able to do more good in an afternoon than Batman does in a lifetime. He's trying here. Unfortunately his efforts are being obstructed by other rich a-holes.

Depressing that this is the kind of story that can only be told about America. I'm still confused about the Mexican remake of Breaking Bad I heard about a while ago. How does that plot even work there?

[crinos]

See though, I feel like the second this happens because of the Rich A holes, Bruce would be like "Alright fuck it, I'm calling Barbara." And then Oracle proceeds to just go apeshit on these guys electronically.

(Of course babs isn't oracle anymore, but still. I feel like this would be right up her alley).

[cainofdreaming]

Well, at least she didn't release any carnivores, is a great relief to the guy who gets trampled by an elephant or a rhino, or chomped in half by a hippo.

Jeez, being a herbivore doesn't mean the species can't be dangerous.

[zachbeacon]

Yeah, big aggressively territorial herbivores tend to be among the MOST dangerous animals in an ecosystem.

[zachbeacon]

How is someone like Joker allowed to have an active social media profile without getting banned for violating the TOS? I'm pretty sure only Nazis are allowed to get away with that.

[thanekos]

The site he has it on is " Lexema ", a name that implies it's another fine subsidiary of LexCorp.

Looking the other way from incitation of criminal activity is probably a little more explicitly part of the culture there.

[zachbeacon]

I get that* but, unlike some tech billionaires I could name, Lex at least pretends not to be publicly evil. Some of the "pranks" posted on his platform (notably the zoo thing) look a lot like domestic terrorism. You'd think that would be bad PR.

*Also Joker says he didn't violate user policy but that's usually what people say in protest when they try to justify violation of user policy.