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Batman Confidential, Vol. 5: Dead To Rights (2010)

by Andrew Kreisberg(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1401229255 (ISBN13: 9781401229252)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

DC Comics

review 1: It seems ever since The Killing Joke came out, there has been plenty of stories that like to go back and explore the beginnings of the Joker and many of them also drawn a parallel of the Joker pushing Batman become better at what he does. Dead to Rights does a great job of showing how manipulative and devious the Joker can be. It gives an interpretation of how Gotham responded to this new form of villain instead of mobsters. As a side note, Scott McDaniel is one of my favorite comic artists and he doesn't fail in this book.
review 2: Library copy. I'll probably finish this book today. But so far, I'm not enjoying the ride. I'm not familiar with the writer and I think this may have been his first work ever, it certainly reads like it. I do like the art work as I... more normally like titles drawn by Scott McDaniel. *So we get another Joker story and that's fine by me as most competent creators can tell a good story featuring Batman and the Joker. The problem with this effort--and I'm surprised the editor never demanded revisions--are the absurd leaps of logic in the story telling. If this is supposed to be the first time Batman and the Joker meet then that should have been made clearer, but there are scenes that contradict that opinion. When Batman quickly stopped the Riddler in a scene for the firts time it donned on me perhaps this is a Year One-like tale. spoilers below*From the start: imagine the Joker gets arrested and placed inside a jail cell. Not alone. Apparently he's not stripped down to boxers and a wife beater and is able to waltz inside a jail, armed with who knows what, and then causes himself physical harm so he coughs up a cynanide capsule that, for some reason, never dissolved in his stomach. He then attaches the capsule to his handy-dandy flower spray affixed on his purple suit and then kills the 4 or so other thugs inside the jail. A police detective beats the Joker inside the jail cell because the Joker has been pushing his buttons and then there's concern he overstepped the Joker's rights. The Joker unsuspectedly swipes his cell phone and obtains the det's home phone number. The Joker demands to make his One phone call and he gets it. He gets off the phone and then tells the detective he told his wife to hang herself because, you know, the Joker is so persuasive that when he tells a complete stranger to jump off a bridge, over a phone, they do it. She does indeed hang herself. So now the plot is fairly obvious: The Joker has made the detective's life hell and he himself will go down the road and wind up a bad person. Time for more disbelief...at least in so much as a comic book can afford.Next, it's time for the Joker to get transferred from the jail and he swipes a Correction Officer's pen and asks if he can have a window seat inside the transport van. Granted his wish, the Joker, through the metal grating window, stabs the CO with a pen in the (sic) back of his head while he was sitting in the passenger seat and he says he punctured his jugular.(WTH?)Somehow this transitioned in the Joker convincing the driver to pull over and get tied up as the Joker is now the driver of the van until Batman arrives on the scene to stop him and send him to jail again. Not Arkham. Finally, we cut to some court scenes and the Joker makes a few kills at different times because, again, he doesn't get patted down by the police or ordered to be kept locked away in a cell and able to participate via a camera-to-courtroom type way. The first time Joker kills inside the courtroom is when he kills a Judge by thumb-flicking a peanut into the Judge's water and I guess he dies from an allergic peanut reaction. I guess. Who knows maybe the peanut got exposed to cynanide again, somehow? The next time he kills the Joker is sitting at his table wearing a straight-jacket alongside his lawyer and a bananna peel falls from his pant leg and a woman in high heels on the D.A.'s side slips on the bananna peel (because they're so so slippery) and breaks her crown from falling backwards onto a table. It's at this point that the Joker is considered a real, you know, THREAT in the courtroom and they strap him down on a stretcher with a metal facemask like Hannibal Lecter. I'm only 1.5 thru the book thus far.Absoltuely not recommended. less

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