After twelvemonth of buildup and delay , the second masterwork ofDC Rebirthhas at last emerged . Batman : Three Jokers # 1is the nextsales - chart - shattering prestigiousness DC seriesfrom theBatmanpublisher , in the same vein   as the much - heraldedDoomsday Clockthat finish up last year .

Only this meter around , theJokerof the future is really the Jokers of the past . Three Jokersis as much of a derivative work ofThe Killing JokeasDoomsday Clockwas ofWatchmen . The result is something that feel like a cover song – an earnest tribute , with raw elements that live up to , and others that do n’t quite work .

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Batman : Three jokester # 1is compose by Geoff Johns , illustrated by Jason Fabok , and   color by Brad Anderson .   The   primal premise ofThree Jokerswas set up as a reveal in 2015’sDarkseid War , aJustice Leaguestoryline   with the same   creative squad , and then fully realized in the 2016 one - shotDC macrocosm : Rebirth . Rebirthwasdesigned as the antithesis to theNew 52relaunch from   2011 , a reboot that   looked less like   2011 and more like Marvel in the nineties ( including   creator   credits ) .

Rebirthoffered an open allegory for why   its predecessor did n’t work : it blamedWatchmen , the seminal 1986 body of work by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons that propose costumed supermen might have serious excited issues . Watchmenwas   thoughtful , fledged , and hugely successful . When the Big Two   comic companies attempt to capture its charms , they interpret " paying attention " as " joyless " and " fledged " as " flaming . “DCRebirthconfesses   this as the failing ofNew 52by makingWatchmenreality - warper Dr. Manhattan the in - history perpetrator for the New 52 change . The one - shot describes this as Manhattan stealing the joyfulness from the universe , while introducing the pre - reboot rendering of Wally West as a symbolic representation of promise betoken his revamps would be systematically done for . ( Critic David Uzumeri refers to this exercise of blunt , all - encompassing   metaphor as " Johnsian literalism " , after Geoff . )

Johns followed up   withDoomsday Clock , in which Superman confronts Manhattan for his multiverse - meddling . Clockwas a punctilious reassembly of Moore / Gibbons ' work with creative person Gary Frank : the ticking clock of the   nine - instrument panel grid , the pastiches of   Charlton Comics   characters , the meaningful juxtapositions of narration and visuals . Like the moving picture adjustment , Johns ' variation has   no pursuit in added subtlety ,   mould   celebrity president Robert Redford as a golf - addicted Trump parallel .

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This was n’t the first fourth dimension that Johns set out to elaborate on Moore ’s work . In the 2000s ,   Geoff   was deep into his tally onGreen Lanternand introduced the Red Lantern Corps . Atrocitus , the leader , had appeared once in 1986 ’s " Tygers " , a short GL tale by Moore and artist Kevin O’Neill . " Tygers " is filled with one - off demonic noncitizen that Johns worked into the backbone of theBlackest Nightevent . Moore ’s response   was fit for a Red Lantern . In an consultation with the defunctMania , he referred toBlackest Nightas " kind of desperate and humiliating " . TheKilling Jokeauthor accused the industry of   " going through [ his ] trashcan like racoon in the dead of the Nox . " That was over a decade ago : beforeBefore Watchmen ,   beforeDoomsday Clock , and recollective beforeThree Jokers .

IfDoomsday Clockwas Johns’sWatchmen , thenThree JokersisTheKilling Joke , Moore ’s graphic novel with artist Brian Bolland and colorist John Higgins .   The   Joker ’s attack on Batgirl is one of the three traumatic outcome that define the book , each check off an earned run average of the Joker ’s 80 - year story and thus one of the trio of Joker theatrical role that have been work together in secret all along . The line of descent of the Joker as the Red Hood , also established byKilling Joke , is also reproduced here . ( More symbolically , Jokersopens   with a shooter of the Batmobile ’s headlights in the rainwater , the same   wayJokebegan and end . )

SinceDoomsday Clock ,   Johns ' expanding on Moore ’s work has pushed beyond brainchild into technical   mimicry . Johns particularly delights in " cinematic " sequences where the book ’s viewpoint lingers on one smear across multiple panels , something Moore most famously used inWatchmen’sopening varlet . The overlap scene   cuts are well - consider ; at one point Gordon watches Batgirl leave , but the   legend is Batman in the next prospect say " You do n’t   need to do this , Barbara " , inculpate Gordon ’s thoughts . But if you lack out on these touch , Johns makes certain you   catch the significance ; on the very next page ; Batman talk over Gordon ’s expression and   ask if he acknowledge Batgirl ’s identity . Three Jokershas gauze-like depths .

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As for Fabok ’s art style , his detailed , realistic tone works perfectly with Johns ’s scripting . In the same way hisDarkseid Warachieved the feat of nominate   antecedently abstract beings like the Anti - monitoring gadget look real and forcible , Fabok brings the appropriate proportion to these   characters and their violence . Anderson ’s evocative color   is n’t foreign and lurid like   Higgins ' forJoke , but attain a similar consequence diegetically thanks to vats of   chemicals . The visuals earn the ledger ’s prestigiousness .

Why is all that context so of import toThree Jokers ?   Without it ,   the book is fairly incomprehensible . denotation to Moore ’s work and style are largegly whatThree Jokershas going for it . Beyond them , it ’s a moderately standard Batman story , with a   central   conceit that does n’t really   make sense . Are these think to interpret the Golden Age , Silver Age , and Modern Age depicting of the Joker ? They ’re all manslayer , with only venial difference foretell out in the story . The Neal Adams - style   " antic " Joker is treated like a forgotten relic , but has n’t he been work with the others up to now ? Why play back the Hawaiian shirt ? Does the Joker just wish to put on old   wearing apparel he wear when he flash people to wear around the mansion ?

Best not to cogitate about it . Batman : Three turkey # 1is a   cautiously - gather replication ofKilling Jokethat falls asunder on its initial impact . There is still a story to come , but given that Moore and Bolland have expressed letdown with the original , view it less than a career high spot , Johns may desire to think about finding some new   screen textile .

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