Bane and his daughter Vengeance. Joker's back is against the wall. And Gordon still finds time to smoke a pipe. How can he not take out the Joker with all that the clown prince has done? As Batman says in the new film The Batman"."You're a good man." Read Full Review

Tynion IV creates a tense and action filled narrative in the penultimate chapter of this series. Read Full Review

Jim Gordon not having any lines in this issue is surprising, but by the end of the issue, every major player is in one place for what's sure to be a bloody and explosive conclusion. Read Full Review

We only have one more issue left of this series so what do we do here....... Well, we see Vengeance go all slasher movie on the Sampson Family. Yeah, maybe some more exposition would have been nice but we get all our key players where they need to be by the end of the issue and have a blood-soaked blast getting there. Yeah, action is the name of the game this issue and I had a fun time reading this and staring at the amazing art. Read Full Review

THE JOKER #13 rapidly hits its climax only to putter out when everything was getting good. Read Full Review

Tynion sets up a nice cliffhanger bringing Gordon back into the fold, but his absence was definitely felt this issue making for one of the few misfires in this series so far. Read Full Review

In the beginning, The Joker series promised much with a Jim Gordon-centric narrative of a broken-down ex-cop on the hunt to kill Joker once and for all. In this penultimate issue, the moody, noir-inspired detective story has been stripped away for your standard, run-of-the-mill action comic. It's not bad, but The Joker has lost what made it exceptional. Read Full Review

While this latest issue doesn't lean into the series' strengths, there's still plenty to like here. Read Full Review

This issue takes a lot of what I was enjoying about this series and makes it so over the top it's no longer fun. It tries too hard to paint the Sampson family in a threatening light, and highlight their cannibalistic lifestyles. Equally it goes too far with the violence and instead of giving us an engaging standoff between the Sampsons and Vengeance turns it into more of a bloodbath than anything. If you want an issue that's jam packed with violence this is the issue for you, if you were hoping for something else you'll be disappointed. Read Full Review

its fine. Lets hope the final issue makes this worth it.

A disappointingly abrupt switch from 12 issues of "Jim Gordon in an intrigue thriller directed by Scorsese" to an issue of "female Bane punches cannibals to death". I love over-the-top silliness in superhero comics, but it's the wrong tone for this comic and the camp and excess isn't even particularly fun

As far as I'm concerned, this was a bunch of wheel-spinning bullshit. We get a whole issue about the Sawyers, where I just wish I was watching the one and a half good Texas Chainsaw movies instead of reading about a weird homage to them that somehow misses the point. I just do not care. I was also reminded heavily of better versions of one villain trying to eat another. I'd rather rewatch Hannibal smile gleefully as Mason Verger's weirdo chef explains how he's gonna cook him. This whole issue is just the epitome of, "I've seen this done better elsewhere," only for it to end and for me to realize, oh, there was no plot this issue. No wonder there's a surprise 15th issue. And the backup is so fucking stupid. None of what happened in that makes any sense, I'm so incredibly sick of Punchline. Just go away. more

Repugnant!

Bad. Bad bad bad.