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Batman: Joker's Last Laugh (Batman)
The Joker concocts a scheme to carry on his legacy by transforming his fellow villains into "jokerized" versions of themselves in this exciting tale!
Deep in the heart of the Slab, the maximum security prison for super-powered criminals, the Joker learns that he is dying. Using the venom that transformed him into a pasty-faced sociopath, the Joker decides to share it with
...morePaperback, 168 pages
Published
May 20th 2008
by DC Comics
(first published 2003)
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This tale focuses upon Joker in a high security prison with a plan to escape but as Batman predicts there is something even more dastardly involved. We get to see most of the Batman Family as well as some appearances by JLA members. The stakes are raised even more as it becomes apparent that Joker thinks he is dying and wants to have one good laugh that will hurt a ton of people in the process.
See Nightwing lose control while fighting the Joker. See Joker manipulate and control other supervillai...more
See Nightwing lose control while fighting the Joker. See Joker manipulate and control other supervillai...more
Batman: The Joker's Lasts Laugh is a 6-issue miniseries that ran in 2001-2002, written by comic vets Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty and drawn by a host of artists. The premise: The Joker, while incarcerated is told he has an inopperable brain tumor and that his time is short. Driven mad by the thought of dying against his will (can he really be driven any more mad?) the Joker easily breaks out prison, bringing with him a cadre of other baddies - and just for kicks - "jokerizes" them all with his p...more
The thing about this book is that it is woefully incomplete. Heck, it's missing the FIRST PART OF THE STORY! Joker: Last Laugh was a huge DC-wide crossover, but this collection includes only the six issue miniseries. Dixon was also writing Birds of Prey, Robin, Nightwing, and the occasional JLA, all of which tie into Last Laugh and serve to make the story more enjoyable. He also wrote a Secret Files & Origins issue that served as the beginning of the story, which was also omitted.
So when re...more
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My first digital comics read on my new tablet is this six part series from DC. The series writers were Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty. There were numerous artists on the series: Pete Woods; Andrew Pepoy; Marcos Martin; Mark Farmer; Alvaro Lopez; Walter McDaniel; Andy Kuhn; Ron Randall; Rick Burchett; Mark Lipka; Dan Davis.
While incarcerated at the Slabside Penitentiary, the Joker is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour. He reacts by inciting a riot and using the prison's own defences to "jokeriz...more
While incarcerated at the Slabside Penitentiary, the Joker is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour. He reacts by inciting a riot and using the prison's own defences to "jokeriz...more
While the art was good, the story was absurd. Joker is diagnosed with a brain tumor so he decides to stage a prison riot--in part by changing the genetics of all the mutant villains so they are "jokerized"--and unleashes havoc across the U.S. We barely see Batman as this is mostly about Oracle wanting to kill Joker and Nightwing trying to calm her down. There are various subplots and a couple neat things, but all in all there was just too much going on for a decent story to be wrung from this m...more
This barely has much to do with Batman, it's more about Oracle and her feelings towards the Joker and her feelings towards Nightwing/Dick. Joker gets cancer and goes on a bender, breaking out of prison and then it just gets ridiculous from there. Too many characters, too much stupidity and over the top stuff. When a Comic is too hard to believe, you know there's a problem. I could barely keep track of all the mutant bad guys and it also didn't help that in every different artist's work, Oracle/B...more
Though I'm a little unclear on the science of how a whole prison cell can get "Jokerized," I suspend my disbelief. I need to brush up on current superheroes, too. The story often had an asterix saying something like, "see Robin #178." Lots of backstory. But I enjoyed it all the same. I defy you to show me a cooler superhero than Batman. Oh, you think you know one. But you don't. Batman will beat you up if you keep talking like that. So just agree with me now before it's too late.
i'm going to pretend this one didn't happen.
too stupid, even for joker. whoever wrote this thing must have been smoking crack. if it were possible to rate it any lower, i would have as it sets any possible legitimacy for comics back at least a couple of decades. i'd be more forgiving if this was a one-shot that turned out to be a dream, but the fact that editors at dc actually okayed this as a considerable story arc is unforgivable.
too stupid, even for joker. whoever wrote this thing must have been smoking crack. if it were possible to rate it any lower, i would have as it sets any possible legitimacy for comics back at least a couple of decades. i'd be more forgiving if this was a one-shot that turned out to be a dream, but the fact that editors at dc actually okayed this as a considerable story arc is unforgivable.
I was anticipating this, but it was sub par, especially in comparison with your average Batman comic. There were some good moments, but overall the plot was too weak and the characters too pasted in for this to rank any higher.
It wasn't terrible but it didn't read like your typical batman graphic novel. Probably because it isn't, but as much as I like the Joker it didn't save this story from feeling like a drag to get through.
I kind of love the idea that the only thing keeping the Joker from destroying the whole planet is that he didn't want the fun to end. Giving him a terminal brain tumor was an excellent choice.
With sooo many villains thrown in the mix (plus altered visually due to story elements) it would have been nice to have a glossary or who's who to consult.
Dumb story + Terrible art = Stupid comic. Finishing this turd has made me a stronger person. Or maybe a dumber person.. I still don't know which.
Too many storylines and characters and the Joker just didn't feel too much like the Joker. It was all very supernatural. Not one of my favorites.
All flashy, colourful pictures of lasers and explosions, no story to back up the premise, strong though it may be. Not really my kind of Batman.
Story's pretty lame. Art would be better served by higher-quality coloring. It's hard to believe a book that was this big of an event for DC got such crappy finishing.
This was very entertaining for about one issue worth of comic. If Joker was going out, is this REALLY as bad as he could do? Meh.
Un poco dificil de entender si no llevas el seguimiento
Al guasón le han confirmado una enfermedad, un cáncer en su cerebro y tiene poco tiempo de vida.
Es la peor historia del Guason que he leido en mi vida.
Lots of shoot-em-up; not much else. Nice artwork.
Robin wins.
Gah the art actually got worse than it already was at the begining, then character designs and styles changed and the plot was hard to follow and damn I've never had a harder time with a Batman/Joker story!
The story doesn't have a lot of substance but there is good humor and for Joker fans it's a must. Seeing all the "jokerized" villains is really cool, but there isn't a whole lot more to this than just Joker and his cronies vs. Bats and the JLA.. Gave 4 stars but more around a 3.5...
It was O.k. I liked the idea and artwork but sometimes I had to force myself to read it which shouldn't happen with comics
Weak is the best word that I can use to describe this half-hearted attempt at a Joker story.
the bit was a bit lol-worthy but i enjoyed it. not enough Batman in it though.
it was altire, i found it confusing tho
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Charles "Chuck" Dixon is an American comic book writer, perhaps best-known for long runs on Batman titles in the 1990s.
His earliest comics work was writing Evangeline first for Comico Comics in 1984 (then later for First Comics, who published the on-going series), on which he worked with his then-wife, the artist Judith Hunt. His big break came one year later, when editor Larry Hama hired him to w...more
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His earliest comics work was writing Evangeline first for Comico Comics in 1984 (then later for First Comics, who published the on-going series), on which he worked with his then-wife, the artist Judith Hunt. His big break came one year later, when editor Larry Hama hired him to w...more
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