Writer: Jeph LoebPlot: The Joker takes on the Falcones, the Maronis, and Batman, while the Hangman's rope finds another victim.
It's a scary thing when you start to make sense of the Joker's jokes, and laugh at them in the process. Sometimes, they're just off the wall, but usually, they've got a deadly bite. In his perhaps not so great Cagney impersonation, the Joker turns vengeance into a really confusing incestual joke.
It seems as though the Clown Prince is no stranger to people in wheelchairs. When I saw Sofia launched down the stairway, I immediately thought of what the he did to Babs in The Killing Joke. Theoretically, Sofia should've died from that fall. She was pushed in a wheelchair, achieved air superiority for a time, and landed on her head, which already contained several metal spike supports. She's not only still conscious, but apparently, she has the ability to form complete sentences without flinching.
The silhouette on the bottom of page 19, where Batman clutches at a recently unconscious Joker, reminds me quite a bit of a scene in The Dark Knight Returns, around the Tunnel Of Love.
Janice Porter has been sleeping around with Two-Face for the past few months, so could her shock at Gustavson's death be genuine? He can't be keeping her completely in the dark.
