After issue 48 ended with a literal bang (and Batman down), this one escalates immediately into a cinematic showdown between Selina Kyle and The Joker. But writer Tom King quickly changes the confrontation’s nature and tone to deliver maximum emotion and suspense in clever ways that pages upon pages of furious fisticuffs never could, capably …
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Regarding BATMAN (2016) #48
“The Best Man” begins! Deep inside one of Gotham City’s most beautiful cathedrals, The Joker cruelly kicks a young couple’s wedding into a sickening spiral of slaughter. He knows his disgusting deed will bring Batman, and it’s one of the nastiest and grandest plans The Clown Prince of Crime has ever perpetrated. Because, you see, …
Regarding BATMAN (2016) #47
“You were happy… and the world wasn’t.” When a broken Booster Gold speaks those words to Batman in the finale of “The Gift,” it’s both a confession of his catastrophic attempt at a wedding present and also — possibly — an unintended bit of foreshadowing. Can Bruce Wayne truly remain our silent guardian, our watchful …