Joker’s warring on Gotham because he’s the Joker! He’s also got Bruce Wayne’s money this time! Derpy derp derp derppppp!
I’ve reviewed the main Joker War storyline elsewhere so this is a review of the tie-ins only. And they are as awful, maybe more so, as the rest of this pitiful “saga” was.
Nothing that happens in any of the tie-ins add to the main storyline and are completely irrelevant (like most tie-ins, to be fair). Joker visits Batgirl for another tedious rehash of Killing Joke; Harley hallucinates while losing blood; Batwoman, Red Hood and Catwoman fight Joker goons; Joker visits Bane in Arkham; and there’s still more pointless rubbish involving Lucius Fox and his fam, Spoiler, Orphan, Poison Ivy, and the dismal new character Clownhunter.
What makes the tie-ins worse than the main storyline are the additions of Joker’s Daughter (shudder) and the moronic storyline of Nightwing being brainwashed by a magic stone that Joker’s picked up somewhere?! Grayson’s wearing a crap new outfit to match the crap new storyline and he’s calling himself Dickyboy. Wow. Take a bow, DC, that’s a new low.
This is such an unimaginative storyline. All Joker’s doing is causing chaos in Gotham. That’s it. There’s no depth, there’s no real stakes and nothing happens that anyone who’s been reading Batman for any length of time doesn’t expect to happen. Boring, uncreative, stupid, predictable, and completely missable, The Joker War Saga is definitely the worst Batman event in years and one of the worst ever.
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