Manga sales are absolutely demolishing traditional superhero comics’ sales right now so DC, knowing they can’t beat them, is attempting to join them by putting their most famous characters into manga. Even in manga form though, DC’s comics stink! Here’s the pitch for One Operation Joker:
Batman falls into a vat of chemicals and magically transforms into a baby - Joker decides to raise the baby because book.
One Operation Joker (one operation = single parent) turns out to be an extremely mundane and unimaginative manga about being a single dad that only got published because it swapped out the dad for Joker and the baby for Batman!
It’s a “comedy” manga so Joker doesn’t behave like Joker - he’s Joker in name only. A couple of famous Joker scenes from the movies get inserted for some wink wink “yuks” - burning a giant pile of money like in 2008’s The Dark Knight, dancing on the steps like in 2019’s Joker - otherwise this could be any guy struggling with looking after a baby for the first time.
The Batbrat keeps him up at night with crying, Joker doesn’t get the right size diapers, he attempts to enrol him into a daycare, and he finds out he can’t do whatever he wants anymore now that he’s got all of this responsibility - it’s just the most banal crap you’d expect to see in a manga about being a first-time single dad.
Maybe if you thought the one-note manga The Way of the Househusband was the jizz you might get something out of this one but otherwise I wouldn’t bother with this very dull and unfunny Joker manga.
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