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WARNING : This article contains SPOILERS FOR BATMAN # 97
If there ’s one guy who ’s sick of of hearing " the blind as a squash racket " metaphor , it ’s probablyBatman . But Bruce Wayne , overwhelmed by the Joker ’s latest move against him duringJoker War , takes a page out of the fly mammalian ’s book and removes his eyesight when his polluted imaginativeness and commonwealth of intellect prove unreliable . circumvent by Joker ’s seemingly undead forces , Bruce display the kind of focus and dedication we ’ve come in to expect from Batman , ensuring that his battle with the Joker and his forces are far from over .
In this volume , Bruce Wayne is not doing well . After getting drug with a unexampled mental strain ofJoker Venomcreated by Punchline during Joker ’s initial attack , Bruce wakes up in the caller of Harley Quinn . Joker ’s ex - girlfriendinforms him that Gotham is now under the command of the Joker . Armed withBruce ’s money and also Batman ’s armoury , Joker ’s army of Clowns have killed , foray , and destroy much of Gotham while Bruce has been unconscious . To make matters worse , Bruce learn that the Joker has plans to recreatethe event that served as Batman ’s origin storywith dozens of Gotham citizens , consummate with the viewing of the Mask of Zorro at the Monarch theater of operations . Despite still recovering from the drugs , Batman snuff it to the theater where he discovers the decaying corpses of all the Joker victims he ’s failed to economise over the years among the audience . On the big screen , the Joker tunes in , gleefully monologuing while the interview reanimates to finalize their issues with their absent Redeemer .
Batman # 97by James Tynion IV , Jorge Jimenez , Tomeu Morey and other henchman continues this bloodcurdling scene , which feels more like a horror movie as Batman fights the overzealous and violent undead horde while Joker explain the logic behind his forthcoming plan . WithPunchline ’s toxin continuing to distort and eddy world , Bruce endeavor to cut Joker while also talk in his headphone to Alfred Pennyworth , his former confidant and Samuel Butler who has been deadfor a while now .
Still under the toxin ’s influence , Bruce realizes that his eyes can not be intrust . Blinding himself with scraps from his cape , Batman shifts the mood from zombi movie to kung fu motion picture as he proclaims , " A good Bat know how to defend blind . " Jorge Jimenez ’s art shines in a montage of Bruce pose reversal after black eye but it ’s no avail , they just keep coming . Of course , this is all according to Batman ’s program as he makes it to the pith of the room where he successfully detonates an EMP that incapacitate the nanobots responsible for this remorseful reunion , thus leaving Batman able-bodied to savor a abbreviated minute of silence .
Although he achieved a pocket-sized victory , he is still suffering from the consequence of the Joker toxin and sputter to impart the smoldering and destroyed remains of the field . see hallucinations of him and his parents on that fatal nighttime , he decrease unconscious once again at the feet ofHarley Quinn .
Tynion and Jimenez continue to makeJoker Wara successful balancing act of highlights , tension , dramatic play , and anarchy that promisesto get darker as the story go on . If this is whatBatmancan do high on Joker ’s drugs , imagine what ’ll happen when he return clear - minded and ready to take back his city from Joker and his USA .
