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Batman (2016) #100

Oct 6, 2020

I think that Tynion would be hard pressed to come up with an ending that’s more anti-climactic than the one he came up with for the Joker War. The arc started with a ton of promise but it just felt like Tynion bit off more than he could chew. So many aspects of this story went unexplored and the aspects that we did get to read about seemed underdeveloped. Tynion had 15 issues to write this arc and some how’s still only managed to give it an ending that felt rushed. Not to mention that this arc felt like a complete waste of the Joker and his only real role throughout the arc is to explain to Batman what is going on because this iteration of Batman is basically an idiot. The ending also leaves us in what feels like a weird déjà vu where Catwoman seems a lot more like a criminal than a member of the bat-family, there’s basically a Harley Quinn 2.0, a new anti-hero that basically seems like a Red Hood knock-off, and Batgirl is now oracle again for some reason. All that being said, I do give Tynion credit for doing a really good job of writing Harley but that doesn’t take away from the fact that this issue was a major let down. After this arc I don’t see myself ever picking up anything written By Tynion unless it’s a Harley Quinn series.

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