![]() ![]() Justice League #32 | Bats Out of Hell Part 2 Green Arrow #32 | Gotham Resistance Part 4 Suicide Squad #26 | Gotham Resistance Part 3 Teen Titans #12 | Gotham Resistance Part 1 Where does the The Batman who Laughs 2-7 fit into the timline? It’s not clear to me. So I bought the 4 one-shots and plan to follow the entire arc. I just got The Batman who Laughs 1-7, and as I read the inside jacket realized I was missing a bunch of backstory. Hi there! I’m a lil late to the party, and I wonder if I could get your guidance. Apex Lex throwdown for all the villainous marbles.Ĭollects: The Full Comic Book Herald event reading orderįiled Under: DC Comics, Featured Tagged With: DC Comics, reading orders, the batman who laughs “The Infected” and the “Year of the Villain” intersect in this Batman who Laughs vs. “ The Infected” crossover begins here! The Batman Who Laughs sows discord and distrust throughout the DC Universe by infecting a “secret six” selection of DC heroes! ![]() Note for those reading outside the collected edition, The Grim Knight one-shot was published after Batman Who Laughs #3. I felt like the story would have worked better as an “Elseworlds” tale, but make no mistake, this saga of The Batman Who Laughs murdering multiversal Bruce Waynes and attempting to infect all of Gotham is somehow very much in continuity. Scott Snyder and Jock reunite for a seven issue miniseries of Batman vs. ![]() ![]() The Legion of Doom leader is effectively wielding the Batman Who Laughs like a weapon here, much to the chagrin of the Joker, who is quite rightly bothered by the very existence of this Dark Multiverse creation. But seriously, you’ll be missing out on both a great event, and lots of Batman Who Laughs if you take this approach!įor the whole event, check out Comic Book Herald’s complete guide to Dark Nights Metal.Īt the end of Metal, the Batman Who Laughs is subdued, but in the pages of the Scott Snyder written Justice League we learn that he’s now kept imprisoned by Lex Luthor. I’d recommend reading the entire event, but if you’re in a crunch, then the Batman Who Laughs sequence should flow as the first three main event issues of Metal, The Batman Who Laughs one-shot, and then the remainder of Metal. “It definitely changes the DCU in a lot of ways, it impacts the characters and the dynamic between some of them, moving forward in the next year,” he said, with Batman/Superman artist David Marquez adding, “This isn’t throwaway, like ‘everything is perfect and back to normal,’ illusion of change stuff.An absolute blast, one of my favorite comic book events all time, and the debut of The Batman Who Laughs. In April, Batman/Superman writer Josh Williamson told Heat Vision that the story of the transformed characters is one that will prove to be increasingly important to DC’s comic book superhero line in coming months. If the corruption of Gordon seems like a big step, it’s just the beginning previews and advance solicitation copy for the Batman/Superman series have revealed that three more heroes are expected to join Gordon in his altered state: Shazam!, Hawkman and Supergirl. It was the latter Batman Who Laughs - the one from the alternate dimension - who is responsible for the story’s final twist: After the Batman Who Laughs has been captured and his plan to corrupt the entire city of Gotham foiled, an epilogue to the series reveals that at least one character has, unbeknownst to anyone else, fallen prey to his scheme: Commissioner James Gordon, who stares at the reader with all-black eyes and claims that he’s not only feeling fine, “in fact, never better.” ![]()
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