Finished reading Batman: The War of Jokes and Riddles, continuing writing Tom King’s run on the series as he dived into an event early in Batman’s career that has haunt him since. The book opens in the early years of Batman’s career as a superhero as the Joker has been leaving a trail of dead bodies all over the city. With the GCPD unable to find any patter in Joker’s crimes to be able to apprehended him they turn to the Riddler for help which they have been doing for sometime however this time Riddler decides to escape capture and plans to meet with the Joker face to face. When the two villains met the Joker decides to shot Riddler pint blank before being chased out by Batman who fails to capture the two as the escaped. Later on when Joker hears the news of Riddler’s recovery he decides to call up Carmine Falcone to kill Riddler only for his men to fail leading to the Joker to take over Falcones operations and beings to build a team of super villains and as Riddler also does this Gotham becomes a war zone over the two factions. Overall this was a good book as it goes into a previously unknown part of Batman’s history as the villains take centre stage in the story as Batman is seemingly one step behind Riddler and Joker with him being unable to stop the war in conventional ways. The addition of the Kite Man centric story within the book is a great way a view on the villains prospective of the war while also giving the characters an interesting backstory that makes him one of the most human characters within the book which is very surprising. The art throughout the book is amazing as there’s a great amount of detail on characters emotions with how everyone interacts with other another to how the Joker looks with a frown instead of a big smile. However what let’s the book down is that the story doesn’t stick the landing as it’s very hard to feel and relate to Batman when it’s revealed what happened which is disappointing when the book also contains some amazing moments. 7/10.
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