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The Joker (2021) (Single Issues) #6

by James Tynion IV

After barely surviving in the jungles of Belize, The Joker flees to Europe! Jim Gordon pursues the madman, but the seeds of doubt begin to sprout...if The Joker didn’t gas Arkham Asylum, who did? And what’s the next move for Vengeance, daughter of Bane? Punchline’s takeover of Blackgate Penitentiary continues as her most insidious goal becomes find a woman she used to call her friend in her college days and make her pay for her betrayal. On the outside, Harper Row tries to pull her brother, Cullen, back from the brink of Jokerized radicalization!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Batman, Comic Book

Comic

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

Prior to his first professional work, Tynion was a student of Scott Snyder's at Sarah Lawrence College. A few years later, he worked as for Vertigo as Fables editor Shelly Bond's intern. In late 2011, with DC deciding to give Batman (written by Snyder) a back up feature, Tynion was brought in by request of Snyder to script the back ups he had plotted. Tynion would later do the same with the Batman Annual #1, which was also co-plotted by Snyder. Beginning in September 2012, with DC's 0 issue month for the New 52, Tynion will be writing Talon, with art by Guillem March. In early 2013 it was announced that he'd take over writing duties for Red Hood and the Outlaws in April.

Tynion is also currently one of the writers in a rotating team in the weekly Batman Eternal series.

Reviews

[Garth · Rating 4 out of 5]

So much better than last issue. Not sure if the Sampson family has appeared before but I love the insinuation of them being the Sawyer family from Texas Chainsaw. Also, I will no longer consider the backup story into the rating. As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t exist. The book begins and ends with Jim and The Clown’s story.

[Gordon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Main story: 4⭐
Punchline backup: 0⭐

[David Dalton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fours stars because of the story & art. Slowly developing. Not a lot of action, but the set up is pretty good. In the end, not much will change. But getting there is half the fun. Ole Jim Gordan has led a pretty messed up life. The Joker appears to be his Moby Dick.

[Annemarie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This started out so good. The pacing of the first part was incredible, and the art was amazing. Certain panels were absolutely haunting and I LOVED it.
Then we got to Jim Gordon, who has more problems than I would have ever expected. I really just want him to get some help. The story does him dirty. While he is an incredibly interesting character, the pacing and storytelling is so off, that his part of this story turns into boring expositions. Nothing happens, we just hear him think/talk all the time. They could have done so much more with his character, or maybe shown some of the things he thinks about, so we can actually see them happen instead of reading about it. Is that too much to ask in a comic? Also why does everyone look 20 years older than in the Batman series?
I loved Punchline's story. I'm probably biased, because I feel like she is an incredibly interesting villain. She is so manipulative and intelligent, and seeing her work is just amazing. I love her, and I love how Harper and her brother are kind of played against each other. This ending just made me want to see what would happen next. The art in Punchlines story is a lot cuter, which makes a nice contrast with how Punchline is a horrid person.

[Kastie Pavlik · Rating 4 out of 5]

We are back on track! Mostly. I didn't know what the deal was with the last issue, but now it's obvious that it was back filler for the Sampson aspect of the story. Maybe it's poor planning or purposeful, but it disrupted the overall story's flow. This issue still seems to be moving pieces into place more than telling a story, but at least we're in the present with Jim and he does actual work on the case. Although, it makes little sense that he's investigating who wants the Joker dead this hard. Who doesn't want the Joker dead? He wants the Joker dead. I'm not sure if they've convoluted the story or if I've forgotten something along the way, but I looked forward to the title until the last one and now it's reading more blah like other DC titles. Punchline "bonus" 🙄. Please just end it. This was better than the last one, but slow burn boring is boooooring. Punchline can rally people just as well as the Joker. There are better ways to show this. We saw it in Joker War. I thought she was going to be a capable female version of the Joker, but this is turning her into a joke. I wish DC had done more with Alice, Religion of Crime version. She was a capable villain.

[Kevin Gallagher, Jr · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Joker #6 returns as a solid issue after last month’s filler. Despite the continued inner monologue of Jim Gordon, there’s a lot of forward progress happening in the main story. As for the backup, Punchline needs something – maybe more pages, moving in a different direction, anything really – to be an interesting story. However, Boo’s art alone continues to make the backup strip worth your time.

Read my full review at Dark Knight News: https://darkknightnews.com/2021/08/15...

[Benja Calderon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Despues del racconto del número anterior, volvemos al presente, donde Jim sigue las pistas del Joker, ahora recorriendo Europa, sin evitar encontrar nuevos problemas, ya sea antiguos villanos gothamitas, ya sea la Interpol

Por otro lado, Harper, decidida en armar el puzzle completo de Punchline, se infiltra en la carcel para ubicar una pieza clave

No sé, si será la tónica, pero hacer una pausa en la serie para retomar, me parece bien refrescante, especialmente si consideramos que la serie misma avanza por capitulos. Tynion no decepciona

[Benja Calderon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tenemos un capitulo bastante jim-centrico, lo que siempre es apreciado
La historia de apoyo... avanza leeeento, pero avanza

Tambien como extra, el Secret Files de Clowhunter rompe un poco el esquema de los que habiamos leido, siendo más bien un primer acercamiento a una historia de él solo, antes que un conocer su origen (ya lo sabemos), indagar más en su psiquis (ya lo hicimos)

Raya para la suma, la serie mantiene su rumbo

[Etienne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Joker/Gordon part is really interesting, don't get why the rating is that low. It's fun, intriguing and give good place to Gordon which is good. The second part/storyline is as useless as ever, but I don't read those for it so I don't mind!

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is very much a tribute to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, what with the use of Hooper County and the Sawyer name. Also like how Jim gets introspective thinking about how he and Barbara used to stay up late watching spy movies.

[Catarina Prata · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even though we are back with the supposed artist, this issue was a bit less of a continuation and more of a monologue kind of thing. Still good.